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What religions does chinsee people have?
Shenism (also known as Chinese folk religion), Taoism and Buddhism are some of the main Chinese religions.
Who is the main god of confucianism?
Confucianism does not make any claims about God or gods. It resolves that other religions, such as Shenism, Buddhism, or Daoism will make supernatural claims.
What is a confucianist place of worship?
Confucianism is not a religion that involves worship. Most Confucianists also belong to other religions like Shenism, Ancestor Worship, Buddhism, or Daoism, and pray at temples devoted to those faiths.
What is the first oriental religion?
The oldest religious traditions in East Asia are Shenism (which is the term for numerous different polytheistic religions and ancestor worshiping traditions that predominated in China for over 3000 years). The first organized religions in East Asia were Shintoism in Japan in the 600s BCE and Taoism in China in the 500s BCE.
Is there any deity worship in your religion?
It depends entirely on what "your religion" is, although most have some form of deity worship. If you are an adherent of one of the three God religions (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity) the same God is worshiped, so of course, God is worshiped. God is called in Arabic and/or Islam as Allah. There are other monotheistic faiths in addition to the "Big Three", such as Sikhism, Druze, Baha'i, Sabianism, Atenism (now extinct), Deism, several African faiths (such as those of the Himba and Igbo), and Tengriism. There are also numerous henotheistic religions where one god is worshiped as superior to others and polytheistic religions where several deities are worshiped. Such religions include Hinduism, Buddhism, Shenism, Zorastrianism, most forms of Animism, most ancient mythologies, etc. Probably the only religions that do not have deity worship are certain varieties of Shenism that only engage in ancestor-worship or versions of animistic faith that do not anthropomorphize their subjects.
What is the least practiced religion in israel?
There are numerous religions that have no members in Israel, such as Cao Dai, Shamanism, Voodoo, Santeria, Asatru, etc. Of religions that have a very marginal presence in Israel, there are Shintoism, Shenism, Sikhism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Baha'i, each of which represent only a few thousand people at the most. If the question is asking what religion is the least practiced of those that actually exerts an impact on Israeli politics, the answer would be Druze.
How is Hinduism different than indigenous religions?
"Indigenous religion" is a contextual phrase. It does not mean anything without specifying a region to which the religion is indigenous to. As a result, a comparison is rather difficult. In comparison to locally developed faiths that were never evangelized such as African Folk Religions, Shenism, Aboriginal Australian and Polynesian religions, etc. Hinduism is not that much different at a basic level. However, Hinduism has holy texts and unifying themes across larger distances and in disparate populations.
Is Israel the only country that is holy for many religions?
Israel is probably the country with the largest variety of holy sites for different faiths (Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, Islam, Baha'i, Druze, etc.) However, other countries also have holy sites that are multi-religious. India has a number of Sufi Tombs that are holy for both Muslims and Hindus. The Tombs of Ezra and Ezekiel in Iraq are holy for Jews, Muslims, and Mandaeans. The Chinese religions (Shenism, Daoism, etc.) often share holy sites and temples.
When Judaism and Christianity arrived in China what two other religions stayed strong?
------------------- The first reliable evidence of Christian missionary activity in China is found on the famous Nestorian monument - erected in 781 and rediscovered in 1625 - with its lengthy and informative inscriptions in Chinese and Syriac. It states that a certain Alopen arrived in the Tang dynasty's capital of Chang'an (now Xi'an) in 635 during the reign of Emperor Taizong (627-649). This was a period of remarkable cultural openness and religious tolerance. The native religions were Daoism and Confucianism, but foreign creeds such as Christianity, Buddhism, and to a lesser extent Manichaeism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism and Islam were welcomed. By all accounts, Nestorian Christianity thrived in China for a long period, but Daoism and Confucianism, as well as the underlying folk religions, remained strong.
What religion does not claim the middle east as it spiritual home?
A large number of religions do not originate in the Middle East, specifically all of the Dharmic faiths (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, etc.), all of the Sinitic faiths (Confucianism, Shenism, Daoism, Cao Dai, and Ancestor Worship), Shintoism (from Japan), nearly all of the Aminist faiths (African Traditional Religions, Indonesian Traditional Religions, Polynesian Religions, Native American Traditional Religions, etc.), all of European Paganism (Greco-Roman Mythology, Asatru/Norse Mythology, Druids, Wicca, etc.), and there are other minority or modern religions that have no links to the Middle East.
Where and when was Islam a real religion?
It is unclear what a "real religion" is. Religions are not interchangeable in that each one covers different aspects in additional to supernatural claims. Islam has political and legal extensions the go along with its theology, whereas some other religions, like Shenism, Buddhism, and Norse Mythology do not. Islam has always had these extensions and has always had a theological accounting of the world and its purpose. As for when Islam was founded, historically, it began in Mecca and Yethrib (now Medina) in the Arabian Peninsula in the early 7th Century with Mohammed's revelation of the Qur'an. However, Muslims claim that their religion long precedes Mohammed and goes back to the very creation of the Universe.
Do you get a choice in religion in dictatorship?
It entirely depends on the structure of the dictatorship.There are numerous dictatorships with relative freedom of religion. Ancient and Medieval China, for example, were absolute dictatorships, but permitted numerous different faiths (Shenism, Daoism, Mahayana Buddhism, Theravada Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism) to freely worship within their borders. There are other dictatorships which either (1) have a single acceptable religion (such as Catholic Spain of the 1500s), (2) allow some religions but ban others (such as the Rashidun Caliphate of the 600s which accepted Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, but banned Hubalism, Rahmanism, and other henotheisms), (3) actively repress all religions (such as the Soviet Union).
