From
their beliefs about the cosmos and human nature, people may derive morality, ethics, religious laws or
a preferred lifestyle.
The
practice of a religión may include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration, sacrifices, festivals and other aspects of human culture.
Many
religions have narratives, symbols, and sacred histories that
aim to explain the meaning of life and/or
to explain the origin of life or
the Universe.
According to some estimates, there are roughly
four thousand two hundred religions in the world.
The chinese folk religion
Has
a variety of sources, localized worship forms, founder backgrounds, ritual and philosophical traditions.
Primarily
consists in the worship of the shen which can be nature deities, city deities or tutelary deities of
other human agglomerations, national deities, cultural heroes and demigods, ancestors and progenitors, and deities of the kinship.
Despite their great diversity, all the expressions of Chinese folk
religion have a common core that can be summarized as four spiritual,
cosmological.
Most of the temples of the Chinese folk
religion emphasize the formula "if there is an entreaty, there will be a response".
Hinduism
Hinduism is a categorization of distinct intellectual or philosophical
points of view, rather than a rigid, common set of beliefs.
Is
the dominant religion of the Indian
subcontinent,
and consists of many
diverse traditions. It includes Shaivism, Vaishnavism and Shaktism and a
wide spectrum of flaws and prescriptions of
"daily morality" based on karma, dharma, and societal norms.
Has
been called the "oldest religion" in the world
As a
fusion of various Indian cultures and traditions with diverse roots and no single founder.
Buddhist
Is a nontheistic
religion that encompasses a variety of
traditions, beliefs and practices largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha
Buddhist
schools vary on the exact nature of the path
to liberation, the importance and canonicity of various teachings and scriptures, and especially their respective
practices.
The foundations of Buddhist tradition
and practice are the Three Jewels: the Buddha, the Dharma (the teachings), and the Sangha (the community).
The
ultimate goal of Buddhism is the attainment of the sublime state of Nirvana, by practicing the Noble
Eightfold Path (also known as the Middle Way).
Islam
Islam is the second-largest
religion and the fastest-growing
religion in the world.
An adherent of Islam is called a Muslim.
Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable and
that the purpose of existence is
to worship God (Alá).
Also believe that Islam is the complete and
universal version of a primordial faith that
was revealed many times before through prophets including Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus.
They maintain that the previous
messages and revelations have been partially misinterpreted or altered over
time, but consider the Arabic
Qur'an to be both the unaltered and the final revelation of God.
Christianity
Is the world's
largest religion, with about 2.4 billion adherents,
known as Christians
The foundations of Christian
theology are expressed in ecumenical creeds. These professions of
faith state that Jesus suffered, died, was buried, and was resurrected from
the dead in order to grant eternal life to those who believe in him and trust
in him for the remission of their sins.
Worldwide, the three largest groups
of Christianity are the Catholic Church, the Eastern
Orthodox Church,
and the various denominations of Protestantism.
