Religions of the world | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-16

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00:03:06 1 East Asian religions
00:03:30 1.1 Confucianism
00:03:43 1.2 Shinto
00:03:58 1.2.1 Shinto-inspired religions
00:04:28 1.3 Taoism
00:05:22 1.4 Other
00:05:30 1.4.1 Chinese
00:06:06 1.4.2 Japanese
00:06:16 1.4.3 Korean
00:06:42 1.4.4 Manchu
00:06:52 1.4.5 Vietnamese
00:07:11 2 Indic religions
00:07:32 2.1 Nāstik (Heterodox Indian)
00:07:49 2.2 Buddhism
00:11:17 2.2.1 New Buddhist movements
00:11:49 2.2.2 Global variants of Buddhism
00:12:01 2.3 Charvaka (Historical)
00:12:10 2.4 Din-I Ilahi (Historical)
00:12:20 2.5 Hinduism
00:16:12 2.6 Jainism
00:16:44 2.7 Meivazhi
00:16:52 2.8 Sarnaism
00:17:00 2.9 Sikhism
00:18:34 2.10 Nepalese religions
00:18:52 3 Middle Eastern religions
00:19:14 3.1 Bábism
00:19:24 3.2 Bahá'í Faith
00:19:39 3.3 Christianity
00:19:47 3.3.1 Eastern Christianity
00:23:00 3.3.2 Western Christianity
00:27:37 3.3.3 Other
00:29:21 3.4 Druze
00:29:29 3.5 Islam
00:29:37 3.5.1 Khawarij
00:29:55 3.5.2 Shia Islam
00:30:55 3.5.3 Sufism
00:31:44 3.5.4 Sunni Islam
00:32:15 3.5.5 Other
00:33:38 3.6 Judaism
00:33:46 3.6.1 Beta Israel
00:33:54 3.6.2 Black Hebrew Israelites
00:34:02 3.6.3 Karaite Judaism
00:34:11 3.6.4 Kabbalah
00:34:19 3.6.5 Noahidism
00:34:26 3.6.6 Rabbinic Judaism
00:35:02 3.6.7 Samaritans
00:35:10 3.6.8 Historical Judaism
00:35:51 3.7 Mandaeism
00:36:06 3.8 Manichaeism
00:36:15 3.9 Rastafari
00:36:30 3.10 Shabakism
00:36:39 3.11 Yazdânism
00:36:51 3.12 Zoroastrianism
00:37:08 4 Indigenous (ethnic, folk) religions
00:37:38 4.1 African
00:37:49 4.1.1 Traditional African
00:38:58 4.1.2 Diasporic African
00:39:43 4.2 Altaic
00:40:05 4.3 American
00:41:49 4.4 Austroasiatic
00:42:08 4.5 Austronesian
00:42:51 4.6 Chinese
00:43:18 4.7 Japanese
00:43:30 4.8 Korean
00:43:45 4.9 Tai
00:43:58 4.10 Tibetic
00:44:27 4.11 Uralic
00:44:46 4.12 Other Indigenous
00:45:16 5 New religious movements
00:45:35 5.1 Cargo cults
00:45:52 5.2 New ethnic religions
00:46:01 5.2.1 Black
00:46:27 5.2.2 White
00:46:56 5.2.3 Native American
00:47:11 5.2.4 Chicano/Latino
00:47:22 5.3 Modern paganism
00:47:31 5.3.1 Ethnic neopaganism
00:48:55 5.3.2 Syncretic neopaganism
00:50:24 5.4 Entheogenic religions
00:50:51 5.5 New Thought
00:51:16 5.6 Parody religions
00:52:02 5.7 Post-theistic and naturalistic religions
00:53:02 5.8 UFO religions
00:53:26 5.9 Western esotericism
00:54:51 5.10 Other New
00:55:39 6 Historical religions
00:58:36 7 Other categorisations
00:58:46 7.1 By demographics
00:58:58 7.2 By area
00:59:59 8 See also



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While religion is hard to define, one standard model of religion, used in religious studies courses, was proposed by Clifford Geertz, who defined it as a

[…] system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic."
A critique of Geertz's model by Talal Asad categorized religion as "an anthropological category." Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to explain the origin of life or the universe. They tend to derive morality, ethics, religious laws, or a preferred lifestyle from their ideas about the cosmos and human nature. According to some estimates, there are roughly 4,200 religions in the world.The word religion is sometimes used interchangeably with "faith" or "belief system", but religion differs from private belief in that it has a public aspect. Most religions have organized behaviours, including clerical hierarchies, a definition of what constitutes adherence or membership, congregations of laity, regula ...