History of religion | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-17

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00:02:05 1 History of study
00:03:06 2 Overview
00:04:14 3 Origin
00:08:37 3.1 Advantages of religion
00:10:10 4 Axial age
00:11:44 5 Middle Ages
00:13:48 6 Modern period
00:16:09 7 See also
00:16:42 7.1 Shamanism and ancestor worship
00:17:06 7.2 Panentheism
00:17:17 7.3 Polytheism
00:17:53 7.4 Monotheism
00:18:34 7.5 Monism
00:18:51 7.6 Dualism
00:19:03 7.7 New religious movements
00:19:39 8 Citations
00:19:48 9 Sources
00:20:38 10 Further reading
00:24:15 11 External links



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The history of religion refers to the written record of human religious experiences and ideas. This period of religious history begins with the invention of writing about 5,200 years ago (3200 BCE). The prehistory of religion involves the study of religious beliefs that existed prior to the advent of written records. One can also study comparative religious chronology through a timeline of religion.  Writing played a major role in standardizing religious texts regardless of time or location, and making easier the memorization of prayers and divine rules. The case of the Bible involves the collation of multiple oral texts handed down over the centuries.The concept of "religion" was formed in the 16th and 17th centuries, despite the fact that ancient sacred texts like the Bible, the Quran, and others did not have a word or even a concept of religion in the original languages and neither did the people or the cultures in which these sacred texts were written.The word "religion" as used in the 21st century does not have an obvious pre-colonial translation into non-European languages. The anthropologist Daniel Dubuisson writes that "what the West and the history of religions in its wake have objectified under the name 'religion' is ... something quite unique, which could be appropriate only to itself and its own history". The history of other cultures' interaction with the "religious" category is therefore their interaction with an idea that first developed in Europe under the influence of Christianity.