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"Tao religion" is often used for Taoism itself, [12] as well as being used for many Tao-based new religious movements. [13] "Far Eastern religion" or "Taoic religion" may refer only to faiths incorporating the concept of Tao, may include Chan and Japanese Buddhism, or may inclusively refer to all Asian religions. [14] [15] [16]
The Tian Tan Buddha statue of Buddha in Hong Kong.. Buddhism is a non-theistic Dharmic religion and philosophy. [8] Buddhism was founded around the 5th century BCE in present-day Nepal by Siddhartha Gautama, known to his followers as the Buddha, with the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path as its central principles.
Sikhism is the fifth largest organized religion in the world, [20] with approximately 30 million adherents. [21] And one of the most steadily growing. [22] It is a monotheistic religion founded by Guru Nanak Dev in the 1500s. The religion professes its roots in the area of Punjab region, in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent.
The Misiones Orientales (lit. ' Eastern Missions ' ) (or Siete Pueblos de las Misiones ( Spanish pronunciation: [miˈsjones oɾjenˈtales] , Sete Povos das Missões ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈsɛtʃi ˈpɔvuz dɐz miˈsõjs] , lit.
State atheism was an official policy in the Soviet Union and other Marxist-Leninist states. The Soviet Union used the term gosateizm, a syllabic abbreviation of "state" (gosudarstvo) and "atheism" (ateizm), to refer to a policy of expropriation of religious property, publication of information against religion and the official promotion of anti-religious materials in the education system.
For approximately a millennium, the Abrahamic religions have been predominant throughout all of the Middle East. [1] [2] [3] The Abrahamic tradition itself and the three best-known Abrahamic religions originate from the Middle East: Judaism and Christianity emerged in the Levant in the 6th century BCE and the 1st century CE, respectively, while Islam emerged in Arabia in the 7th century CE.
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Eastern Orthodox Christianity is the largest religion in Montenegro at 71% of the population, and is the religion of choice for the vast majority of ethnic Montenegrins and Serbs. In addition to Eastern Orthodox Christianity, there is also a sizeable number of adherents to Sunni Islam at 20% of the population, mainly from ethnic Bosniaks and ...