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1500 BCE – 1000 BCE: The oldest of the Hindu Vedas (scriptures), the Rigveda was composed. [21] [22] [23] This is the first mention of Rudra, a fearsome form of Shiva as the supreme god. 1353 BCE or 1351 BCE: The beginning of the reign of Akhenaten, sometimes credited with starting the earliest known recorded monolatristic religion, in ...
Religion of Humanity: 1798–1857 Nakayama Miki: Tenrikyo: 1798–1887 Ignaz von Döllinger: Old Catholic Church: 1799–1890 Phineas Quimby: New Thought: 1802–1866 Allan Kardec (founder of the religion) Holy Spirit (made the teachings) Spiritism: 1804–1869 Joseph Smith: Mormonism, also known as the Latter Day Saint movement: 1805–1844 ...
Often used in the sense of natural religion or indigenous religion, the religious behaviour of pre-modern tribal societies such as shamanism, animism and ancestor worship (e.g. Australian aboriginal mythology [5]), the term Urreligion has also been used by adherents of various religions to back up the claim that their own religion is somehow ...
The earliest and most basic garment was the ʿezor (/ eɪ ˈ z ɔːr / ay-ZOR, all pronunciations are approximate) [4] or ḥagor (/ h ɑː ˈ ɡ ɔːr / khə-GOR), [5] an apron around the hips or loins, [3] that in primitive times was made from the skins of animals. [1]
either that religion evolved due to natural selection and has selective advantage; or that religion is an evolutionary byproduct of other mental adaptations. Stephen Jay Gould, for example, saw religion as an exaptation or a spandrel, in other words: religion evolved as byproduct of psychological mechanisms that evolved for other reasons.
The history of religion is the written record of human religious feelings, thoughts, and ideas. This period of religious history begins with the invention of writing about 5,200 years ago (3200 BCE). [1]
Sumerian religion was the religion practiced by the people of Sumer, the first literate civilization found in recorded history and based in ancient Mesopotamia, and what is modern day Iraq. The Sumerians widely regarded their divinities as responsible for all matters pertaining to the natural and social orders of their society. [3]: 3–4
Prehistoric religion differs from the religious format known to most twenty-first century commentators, based around orthodox belief and scriptural study. Rather, prehistoric religion, like later hunter-gatherer religion, possibly drew from shamanism and ecstatic experience , [ 3 ] [ 7 ] as well as animism , though analyses indicate animism may ...