Releegion

Releegion - whan uisit interchyngeabt wae faith ar belief seestem — bih fur ordinar definit  beliefs adae wae ra  supernaitural, saucrit, ar divine; an ra moral codets, practicets, vailets, institutionts an reetuals associate wae  sic beliefs. In thir  braid sense  fowk hae definit hit  ra  hail tot o tollts giit tae expoond bodyts rael  wae  ra.  Inae ra coorse o ra tilcom ae releegion, hit hae taen mony formts inae sindry ra cultoorts an ra bodyets. Antrin ra tidts, ra wird "releegion"  uised for tae designate whit wad bih mair guid describit  "organized releegion" – they bih, an organisation o fowk uphaudin ra daeunts o  releegion, aften tak the form o ra legal entity. Inae thare bih mony  releegions inae ra warld ra  dae.
Thir ideas anent the basic structur o the warld canna be studied uisin juist the scienteific method.

Releegions ettles tae repone tae speirins lik "Whaur did the warld come frae?" an "Whit happens tae us efter we dee?" Whan answers tae thir speirins is fand, fowk sterts new releegions or eiks thair beliefs tae auld anes. Monie releegions believes in supernaitural beins sic as speerits, deils, angels, gods or God, that can influence fowk an the warld. Fowk that writes anent or teaches a releegion says thay gat thair ideas frae a supernaitural bein.

Monie releegions is gey auld, but some fowk shapes new anes whan thay dinna lik the ideas o the auld anes. Things conseidert important bi releegions is cryed saucrit or halie. Monie o thaim haes saucrit beuks (the Bible bein an exemplar) that tells o thair ain main beliefs an stories.

Mony releegions believes that fowk will gae tae Heiven foriver efter thay dee, gin thay'r guid, or Hell gin thay are ill. 

Releegions aften encourages fowk tae be guid, but thay aften causes problems an aw, acause a releegion's speirins is that important tae its follaers, an it's difficult tae ken whit answers is richt.

Historically, whan fowk dinna accept ideas aboot ithers' releegions, or ithers micht cause problems for thair ain, confrontations an fechts arises atween thaim.

Monie releegions haes biggins for thair follaers tae meet. Dependin on the releegion, thay micht be cryed kirks, chaipels, temples, mosques, shrines, or seenagogues. Monie o the warld's auldest biggins is releegious.

Table
Seembol  Religion  Number  Grouping  Invented Sourcecenter|40x40px  Christianity 2.2    Levant  World Christian Database  Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary Centre for the Study of Global Christianitycenter|40x40px  Islam 1.6    n/a  2010 World Muslim Population pdf Dr. Houssain Kettani January 2010center|40x40px  Buddhism 1.0    n/a "World  ". CIA World Factbook, 2010Fischer-Schreiber, Ingrid, et al. The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy & Religion: Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Zen. Shambhala: Boston (English: pub. 1994; orig. German: 1986); pg. 50.a BBC News articlecenter|40x40px  Hinduism 0.5  n/a  India Clarke, Peter B. (editor), The Religions of the World: Understanding the Living Faiths, Marshall Editions Limited: USA (1993); pg. 125  Folk religion 0.4  n/a  n/a  The number of people who consider themselves party to a "folk tradition" is impossible to determine.center|40x40px  Shinto  n/a  n/a  Japan  center|40x40px  Sikhism  27-65  n/a  n/a  Indian Registrar General & Census Commissioner. "Religious Composition". Census of India, 2001center|40x40px  Judaism     n/a center|40x40px  Jainism     n/a Figures for the population of Jains differ from just over six million to twelve million due to difficulties of Jain identity, with Jains in some areas counted as a Hindu sect. Many Jains do not return Jainism as their religion on census forms for various reasons such as certain Jain castes considering themselves both Hindu and Jain. Following a major advertising campaign urging Jains to register as such, the 1981 Census of India returned 3.19 million Jains. This was estimated at the time to still be half the true number. The 2001 Census of India had 8.4 million Jains.center|40x40px  Bahaism     Iran, 19t century  center|40x40px  Cao Dai     n/a  center|40x40px  Chendoism     n/a  Self-reported figures from 1999; North Korea only (South Korean followers are minimal according to self-reported figures). In The A to Z of New Religious Movements by George D. Chryssides. ISBN 0-8108-5588-7center|40x40px  Eckankar 0,5 - 3  n/a  n/a  Petersen, William J. Those Curious New Cults in the 80s. New Canaan, Connecticut: Keats Publishing; pg. 286.Godwin, John. Occult America; Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.; pg. 114.center|40x40px  Tenrikyo     Japan 19t century center|40x40px  Wicca     n/a  Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa (Detroit: Thompson Gale, 2004) p. 82center|40x40px  Rastafarianism     n/a  Chanting Down Babylon p. 1center|40x40px  Sekanova     n/a   center|40x40px  Kirk of World Messianity     n/a  Clarke, Peter B. (editor), The Religions of the World: Understanding the Living Faiths, Marshall Editions Limited: USA (1993); pg. 208. "Sekai Kyuseikyo has about one million members, a growing number of them in the west and the third world, especially Brazil and Thailand. "

Medium-sized religions

Seembol  Religion  Number  Cultur  Invented Sourcecenter|40x40px  Unitarian Universalism     n/a  N/A Scientology 500,000  n/a  n/a  Major religions ranked by size   retrieved 11 November 2012 centre|frameless|59x59px Tengriism 500,000  Neopaganism   1990  Tengrismus:Auf der Suche nach den geistigen Wurzeln Zentralasiens/Marlene Laruelle (ingilizce) Marlene Laruelle/ Tengricilik: Orta Asya ruhani köklerinin arayışında. PDFcenter|40x40pxZoroastrianism190.000Persiann/ahttp://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/zoroastrian/ataglance/glance.shtmlhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/middle_east_zoroastrians_in_iran/html/7.stmZerdüştlükhttp://www.sacred-texts.com/zor/sbe04/sbe0404.htmhttp://www.avesta.org/http://www.zoroastrianism.com/http://www.sacred-texts.com/zor/centre|frameless|54x54px Satanism 30,000 - 100,000  n/a  1966  The Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity - Page 5, Per Faxneld, Jesper Aa. Petersen - 2013center|40x40px  Raelism 80,000 - 85,000  UFO religion  Fraunce, 1974  Rael Press retrieved 12 November 2012Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America: African diaspora traditions and other American innovations, Eugene V. Gallagher, W. Michael Ashcraft - 2006center|40x40px  Druidism 50,000  Neopaganism  England, 18t century  The Everything Paganism Book, Selene Silverwind - 2011

 Leet o releegions o the warld 
 Bahá'í Faith
 Buddhism
 Christianity
 Catholicism
 Kirk o Scotland
 Baptists
 Hinduism
 Islam
 Jainism
 Judaism
 Latter Day Saunt muivement
 Scientology
 Shinto
 Sikhism
 Sufism
 Taoism
 Unitarian Universalism
 Voodoo
 Wicca
 Yoga
 Zoroastrianism

Notes

References

 Fremmit airtins 
 ReligionFacts.com 

 American Religion Data Archive
 History of Religion 

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