which is the oldest religion known in the world?

Answer 1

It depends on whether you mean living or dead religion.

The oldest religious practices were "Animism" which is the worshipping of the spirits of dead animals and people. We have strong evidence from cave drawings that pre-historic people were animists.

The oldest living religion is undoubtedly Hinduism which stretches back many thousands of years before any other living religions.

Answer 2

Oldest Living Religion

Answer 3

Vedic religion now termed as Hinduism is the oldest of all known religions in the world .The Vedas are said to contain all the answers to all your doubts.Matters ranging from the grossest to the subtlest all are covered in it.It is said that it takes 40 yrs to master the 4 vedas as they are so vast just like dictionaries.There is no subject that has not been covered by it.
Which means ancient man also had great knowledge. But that knowledge has now been lost to the common man as it was written in sanskrit language which only a few follow nowadays.The original texts are available only in sanskrit .Yet it is prevalent in some parts of India Where it has been learnt.We also have the interpretations of some parts of the Vedas in some Indian languages. Also sanskrit is the only language which is perfect & systematic , hence most acceptable(without errors) to the modern day machine called 'computer'.

Answer 4

Hinduism is generally considered to be the oldest religion still being practiced today. This ancient religion was born when the Aryan peoples migrated to Northern India and first put their religious tradition into writing. The texts they created are the Vedas, which were written around 1,500 B.C.E. (before common era) and have greatly influenced Indian culture ever since.
Several other religions are almost as old as Hinduism. Judaism traces its roots back to the patriarch Abraham, who lived around 1,800 B.C.E. While the Jewish people are descended from Abraham, it was Moses who first recorded the Torah, the Jewish holy text, in 1,400 B.C.E. Most sources consider the date of the Torah as the beginning of Judaism.

Zoroastrianism is sometimes called the world's oldest prophetic religion. It's certainly one of the earliest religions founded by one person. Scholars are not certain when the founding prophet Zarathustra actually lived. Some believe Zarathustra lived in the 6th century B.C.E., while others trace his writings to the 14th or 13th centuries B.C.E.

India has been a veritable cradle for world religions -- in addition to Hinduism, both Jainism and Buddhism originated in India. The first of Jainism's sacred lords, called a Tirthankara, lived in the 8th century B.C.E. The last of these lords was Mahavir, who lived in the 5th century B.C.E. and was a key figure in spreading the religion. The philosophical teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, known as the Buddha, spread around Asia after his death in 483 B.C.E.

Oddly enough, the two religions that dominate the world today are relative newcomers to the spiritual scene. Christianity began with the teachings of Jesus Christ around 30 C.E., and Islam started in 610 C.E. with the prophet Muhammad's revelation.

Answer 5

I would say Kemeticism, the religion of the Ancient Egyptians. **ADD** " I just get books that tell me that Paganism is a mish mash of a bunch of other religions" This is true. Much of the paganism practiced today, including modern Kemeticism, is not the same paganism of our ancestors. Part of that is because there are theories about what it is the ancestors did, not absolute fact. Especially if you studied something like Druidry which was not known to be a written tradition. And one common trait amongst all religions, including paganism, is that they adapt and assimilate things from other traditions. While Christianity is most widely known for assimilating in order to gain power, they by far weren't the first people to do so...and nor are they the last. The Egyptians' worship was based on where they lived alot of times and if they went to war with each other many times did they assimilate things from each other. When the Romans invaded, they assimilated roman gods and gave their own pantheon Roman names (Asar became Osiris, Aset became Isis, etc). As far as finding a book. Your best bet is to narrow it down to a specific path and start from there. Even "bad" books can provide some insight on a particular tradition, so if you get a hold of a "bad" one don't assume that it's all trash.

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The first evidence of any sort of veneration or recognition of power is when ancient peoples would look toward nature as something incredible, powerful, and unapproachable. However, we don't have any evidence that there was a religion created around this belief. We do have evidence of shrines and household figures that venerated the ultimate female form, such as the Venus of Wilendorf, so I believe that Goddess worship was the first actual religion. In the long run, however, it depends on what you mean by religion...

Answer 8

The oldest religion in the world is the belief that the mother earth gave birth to the Sun. Later man discovered the primordial Tradition that the Father Sun gave life to the Mother earth. Sadly, this advanced understanding of life has gone back to the oldest belief and the result has been the reemergence of the low culture we see reflected in modernity.

Answer 9

The oldest known religion is of pagen origin, dating back to the time man first began to reason. Zoroastriamison is defnitaly the oldest religion we know about where the concept of one God was considered and the one which the bible follows on from.

Zoroaster lived in persia and preachead that there was a constant battle between God (good) and Evil (devil) as the bible does. He defined both God and the Devil as separate entities, but whereas the bible places a home for god in space (Heavan) Zoraster places God in the human mind living with the Devil side by side he also preaches that god is the most powerful of the entities and will win every time but warnes that at times the devil will appear to win. When he started out on his epic journy from mesipatania Abram was undoubtedly a follower of Zoarester and could not posibly have not known about him as Zoroaster was the only one preaching about one God. Unfortunately the storey of Zoroaster and Jesus are identical and where Zoroaster was betrayd by his desiples and bunrt at the stake Jesus was betrayed and crucified

Both prophets spent 40 days in the wilderness determining their future position with god; both prophts bought people back from the dead and cured the sick.. Perhapes Abram saw the signles and was not prepared to change his faith and alligence to God (and Zoroaster) therby getting out while he could.

It is thought that Zoraster lived about four thousand years ago and jesus two thousand years ago. There can be no doubt that the storey of jesus was (as most stories in the bible were) borrowed from that of Zoroaster and up dated by independant scribes remember ther are over fifty six gospels locked away in the vatican with only the politicaly correct allowed in the bible and the accounts of jesus were written hundreds of years after the event was supposed to have happened. A copy of a gospel by Judas has just emerged
Zoroastrianism has been taken over by other religions but this religion like all religions is filled with myth and the true meaning and purpose of religion has been lost

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Answer 10

As far as organizaed religious worship I would say most likely Hinduism is some form, since the civilization in India is regarded as probably the oldest, unbroken line of civilization known.