Religions born out of revelations of God through Prophets and doctrines seemed to be concentrated around the middle easter region.
Whereas religions that are born out of incarnations or enlightenment are mostly from south and eastern asia.
Why are religions of each of the regions so distintive?
Is it something to do with the cultural, social background of the people of these regions?
Does that mean religions have a boundary of relevance?
2006-09-05 00:42:12 · 7 answers · asked by Mohan K 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-09-05 00:47:15 · answer #1 · answered by Paul 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not feel that we can segregate religions formed because of people as per regions. I can give you an example of a religion that was formed from an incarnation/personality in eastern/south Asia - Buddhism and Jainism. If you have got your geography right than you would have noted that India was never a part of south Asia some 5000 years back. It was in fact a part of Antarctica/some gondwana island, which broke away and is pushing into Asia still.
Hinduism, Parsis and Zoroastrians are the only religions in the world that were not formed due to a personality.
In Hindu mythology taking the nine avatars of Lord Vishnu (the tenth avatar still to come which would end the world) one could comfortably say that Hinduism has produced many "Jesus Christ's" rather than Christianity which has come into existence because of one "Jesus Christ".
It has been destined that the world would end due to the fighting of people of two religions that were formed by two personalities.
2006-09-05 01:02:35 · answer #2 · answered by Swami Vivekananda 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sociology and religion class stated " you can tell the type of society by it's religion and you can tell the type of society by it's religion ". there are three major ways to develop authority in a society -- religion military and political.when bands of people started moving together they eventually met with other bands forming attachments. thus the two bands shared ideas,rules and mores eventually forming a society. this situation kept growing until eventually nations developed and when the societies natiodiffered in their social belief system or had something the other society needed conflict arose and the weaker society subcomed to the stronger. this contined until the various societies absorbed some of the other society's social belief systems into their own. eventually nations formed and when two differing nations came into conflict war took place. this is a brief overview but gives you an idea as to how societies and nations were formed over a long period of time until nations eventually came into existance.
2006-09-05 00:56:26 · answer #3 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that subject could be argued until it got down to just one person ... I disagree that it's a regional thing so much as one religion spreads to another as people adopt different ways of worship. In the past, where most of our now standardized religions were formed, the only way to pass that knowledge and practice on was by word of mouth.
2006-09-05 00:51:25 · answer #4 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The boundary of relevance is quite small -- about three seconds in time, and four centimeters in space. That's why each of us must invent our own religion and then try to shove it down everybody else's throat. Selah.
2006-09-05 00:47:42 · answer #5 · answered by Ever Learn 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2006-09-05 00:48:19 · answer #6 · answered by optimistic_pessimist1985 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is an interesting observation.
2006-09-05 00:51:48 · answer #7 · answered by kingstubborn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋