Talk:Eastern religions

message: I have been adding summary style sections and rewriting sections as summaries. I have been improving the sourcing and trying to improve the writing overall. If anyone has any comments, criticisms or suggestions, they would be quite welcome. Vassyana 16:11, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have been working here and on the Gurus article, which I think is getting pretty comprehensive. I think rather than making a Guru section here, we could just link to Gurus. What do people here think? Actually, is there anyone here? Rumiton 15:07, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello Rumiton, the section on Guru's in this article already links to Guru, so I've removed the duplicate link. I don't think we should get into too much detail here, but there should at least be a simple summary? Regards, Gouranga(UK) 16:02, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

text: Ah, there is someone here. Yes, I noticed the other link afterwards. Thanks for the deletion. I guess the difficult thing will be summarizing a large body of information in a fair way. Care to make a start? Rumiton 16:26, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Working towards improvement

message: Where are the reliable sources that use the term dharmic religions in the context of this article? Dharmic religions is a now deleted obscure neologism and should not be used throughout Wikipedia. a good alternative is Indian religions. Andries 15:55, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Dharmic religion already disambiguates to Indian religions and Indian philosophy ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 20:32, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I know. I think should be bypassed. Andries 20:34, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Reliable sources for the term [[dharmic religions]]?

message: "The use of this classification is waning due to Islam's place among the Abrahamic religions and Islamic academic abandonment of archaic Orientalism."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Editor2020 (talk • contribs) 20:06, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Offensive statement in the lead. 

message: This article does not reflect the way the term "Eastern religion" is actually used. In common usage, the "Eastern" religions are those that originated in India and China and are currently the dominant religions of Asia. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are considered Western religions because they originated in the western part of Asia and are currently the dominant religions of Europe and the Americas.
All of today's major world religions originated in Asia, so classifying all Asian religions as "Eastern" isn't very useful. Pterodactyler 15:22, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Eastern religion usage

message: Why are you classifying religions that originated in South Asia as Eastern Religions? It doesn't make sense now does it.109.152.102.205 (talk) 22:44, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Well it does, to an extent. One has to remember the phrase "Eastern religions" is inherently eurocentric, it means religions found East of Europe, or East of what Europe was familiar with. So, Christianity and Judaism and Islam are religions with which Europe has a long familiarity. Islam was mainly in the East (but also in the South, and once upon a time in the West.) So "Eastern religion" really means "further East than Islam", so ends up meaning the religions found in South and East and Southeast Asia, Islam excluded. Besides, the largest of the East Asian religions (Buddhism) originates in South Asia, although there are other East Asian religions of native provenance (Taoism, Shintoism). To conclude, the terminology makes sense if one understands its historical origins, even if starting from a blank slate today one might choose different terminology. --SJK (talk) 00:11, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong 

message: Confucianism does not belong here, as it is NOT a religion. It is as an ideology that is  humanistic and non-theistic, and does not involve a belief in the supernatural, a defining characteristic of any religious belief system. Otherwise we conflate all ideology and philosophical currents/traditions with religions? 24.5.69.164 (talk) 19:47, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
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message: This should have  and  banners. 65.93.15.213 (talk) 04:02, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bannering 

message: In Western religions page it talks about Secularization. Since country in the East experienced the same we should give it a mention. Doremon764 (talk) 02:21, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Secularism 

message: Should we write a paragraph for each of these Religions? Doremon764 (talk) 06:02, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion