Comparative Religions Vocabulary - Statistics

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Called the oldest religion in the world, its beliefs evolved in India with prominent themes including karma (action/intent/consequences) and the proper goals of human life (ethics/duties, prosperity/work, liberation from passions/desires, and the cycle of death and rebirth). H Hinduism
94%
An Abrahamic religion dating from about 610 CE and centered on the teachings of the prophet Muhammad, the successor to earlier prophets such as Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus. I Islam
94%
An Abrahamic religion that originated in the Middle East during the Bronze Age, encompassing the collective spiritual, cultural, and legal traditions of the Jewish people. J Judaism
93%
A group of religions (among them, Christianity, Islam and Judaism) centered on the worship of the God of Abraham (a Hebrew patriarch). A {Abrahamic} religions
92%
An Indian religion or philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, the Enlightened One (6th or 5th century BCE). B Buddhism
92%
One who holds the view or belief that human reason is incapable of providing sufficient rational grounds to justify either the belief that God exists or the belief that God does not exist. A Agnostic
91%
In its broadest sense, a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which, are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, and many other religions. B Bible
91%
The belief that there is only one deity, an all-supreme being. M Monotheism
91%
The central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation from God. Q Quran
91%
An absence of belief in the existence of deities or a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. A Atheism
88%
An Abrahamic religion that began in the 1st century as a Judaic sect with Hellenistic influences and whose central tenet is the belief in Jesus as the Son of God and the Messiah. C Christianity
86%
The compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. T Torah
86%
The belief in, and often worship of, multiple deities or spirits. P Polytheism
81%
An animistic religion from Japan that centers on the worship of the kami, supernatural entities believed to inhabit all things, including forces of nature and prominent landscape locations. S Shintō
79%
In modern scholarly usage, a community that includes Wiccans, Druids, Shamans, Sacred Ecologists, Odinists and Heathens. P Pagan
74%
A Punjabi religion that developed from the spiritual teachings of Guru Nanak (1469–1539). Core beliefs include faith and meditation in the name of the one creator, divine unity and equality of all humankind, engaging in selfless service, striving for justice for the benefit and prosperity of all, and honest conduct and livelihood. S Sikhism
74%
An umbrella term that refers to the West African Vodun religion and various related African diaspora religions. V Voodoo
73%
An ancient Chinese system of thought and behavior developed from the teachings of the philosopher Confucius (551-479 BCE). C Confucianism
69%
Philosophical doctrines and a family of organized religious movements that share concepts and terminology from the philosophy that arose in China c. the 4th to 5th centuries BCE, and that center on the underlying cosmic power that creates the universe, supports culture and the state, saves the good and punishes the wicked. T Taoism
69%
From India, one of the oldest religions still practiced today, based on the three main pillars of non-violence, non-absolutism and asceticism. J Jainism
67%
A religion founded in the 19th century by Baháʼu'lláh (1817-1892) that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people. B {Baháʼí} Faith
63%
The belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. A Animism
58%
The philosophical position and rationalistic theology that generally rejects revelation as a source of divine knowledge and asserts that empirical reason and observation of the natural world are exclusively logical, reliable, and sufficient to determine the existence of a Supreme Being as the creator of the universe. D Deism
44%
A doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance with established religious beliefs. H Heresy
43%
A nineteenth-century social religious movement according to which an individual's awareness persists after death and may be contacted by the living. S Spiritualism
42%
The philosophical religious belief that reality, the universe, and nature are identical to divinity or a supreme entity, popularized in Western culture by Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677). P Pantheism
38%
Various forms and expressions of religion (usually ethnic or regional) outside the official doctrine and practices of organized religions. F {Folk} religion
33%
A foundational work of Taoism written around 400 BCE and traditionally credited to the sage Laozi. T Tao Te Ching
26%
The belief that the divine intersects every part of the universe and also extends beyond space and time. P Panentheism
6%
The belief that God preceded the universe and created it, but is now equivalent with it. P Pandeism
5%
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