China has had a long and troubled relationship with religious belief. When Mao Zedong created the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the country’s resentment of longstanding foreign interference ...
This chart outlines the origins of spiritual awareness (e.g. shamanism & animism), illustrating how these primitive ideologies branched off into more complex belief systems. Eventually they would ...
Based on numbers, the third largest group is the religiously unaffiliated. Four principal religions dominate the world.[/tweetit] These four are followed by approximately 80 percent of the world’s ...
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The new year began for the world’s youngest major religion with the opening of three new “Ideal Orgs”—facilities designed in keeping with Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s vision of churches that ...
When Pope Francis recently made a historic three-day trip to Iraq, the birthplace of Abraham, the forefather of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the pontiff considerably broadened his objective of ...
The American Values Atlas project has determined the metro areas with the largest percentage of Evangelical Christians in America. The Public Religion Research Institute’s American Values Atlas (AVA) ...
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Asalha Puja Day, also called Dharma Day, is a very important holy day for the Theravada Buddhists. This religious festival day is celebrated in the 8th lunar month according to the old Indian calendar ...
Thich Nhat Hanh Ordained as a Zen Buddhist monk at the age of 16 in Vietnam, Thich Nhat Hanh conceived a form of Buddhism based on mindfulness practices that enable followers to overcome their ...
If you could pick just one word to illustrate God what would it be? HuffPo publishes the top 10 definitions of God submitted by its readers. Huffington Post Religion asked their readers to pick just ...
This article is part of a Wikipedia Religious UnReliable Sources series. In today’s digital world, Wikipedia is still the first resource that people turn to, especially when it comes to obtaining ...