What is the oldest known religion in the world?

Answer 1

Hinduism is generally considered to be the oldest religion *still being practiced today*. 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. Hinduism has the oldest recorded roots in Dravidianism. Dravidianism was estimated to have been practised around 6000 to 3000BCE and as such predates Sumerian, Egyptian and Babylonian cultures.

Animism, with its origin probably dating back to the Paleolithic age is not a religion in the usual Western sense, it does contain the foundations on which religions are built.

Answer 2

Druidism.
The shining ones, the Holly ones, from which the word "holy" actually comes.
Around 3,500 BCE to 4,000 BCE in Ireland.

They were the first to conceive of the concepts we now accept as fundamental to all religions and the first export of Ireland was religion.

If not for the "divine holy ones", the cuilleain, the human race would never have survived.

PS The Rig veda, the most holy prayers of Hinduism are believed to have come from the same druids and a derivation of the word "druid" is referenced several times throughout the vedas.

Answer 3

Hinduism

Answer 4

The oldest religion in the world is free thinker. hehehehe

Answer 5

Sanatana means that which has no beginning or end and therefore, Sanatana Dharma is by definition is eternal religion. It is based on the Vedas, which literally means knowledge. Veda also called as Sruti(that which is heard) is coming down since time immemorial through the chain of disciplic succession from guru to disciple. Vedas or Sruti were handed down through aural reception and the same thing was written down around 5000 years back.

With the teachings of God to Abraham and Moses, Judaism began around 4,500 years back.

Buddhism began with the birth of Lord Buddha around 2500 years ago.

With the birth of Jesus Christ around 2000 years,Christianity began.

With the birth of Prophet Mohammed(pbuh) around 1300 years back the Holy Al' Quran came in to existence.

Sanatana Dharma or the eternal religion based on the Vedas, eternal but in written format-5000 years back
Judaism as is seen today - 4500 years back
Buddhism with the advent of Lord Buddha - 2500 years
Jainism around the same period as that of Buddhism
Christianity with the birth of Lord Jesus Christ- 2000 years
Islam with the birth of ProphetMohammed(pbuh) - 1300 years

Consider the following for your judgment and decide it for yourself
Introduction to Bhagavad-gita-As-It-Is, by A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acharya of ISKCON.

Yet man professes to belong to a particular type of faith with reference to particular time and circumstance and thus claims to be a Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist or any other sect. Such designations are non-sanatana-dharma. A Hindu may change his faith to become a Muslim, or a Muslim may change his faith to become a Hindu, or a Christian may change his faith and so on. But in all circumstances the change of religious faith does not effect the eternal occupation of rendering service to others. The Hindu, Muslim or Christian in all circumstances is servant of someone. Thus, to profess a particular type of sect is not to profess one’s sanatana-dharma. The rendering of service is sanatana-dharma.

Factually we are related to the Supreme Lord in service. The Supreme Lord is the supreme enjoyer, and we living entities are His servitors. We are created for His enjoyment, and if we participate in that eternal enjoyment with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, we become happy. We cannot become happy otherwise. It is not possible to be happy independently, just as no one part of the body can be happy without cooperating with the stomach. It is not possible for the living entity to be happy without rendering transcendental loving service unto the Supreme Lord.

Answer 6

Buddhism would be the oldest organized religion, although as stated above people have probably always looked for a higher power and questioned where we came from.

Answer 7

worshiping one god Allah that was Adams religion and he was the first man on earth... so that would be the oldest religion.

Answer 8

Here is it

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=3FE89A86-E7F2-99DF-366D045A5BF3EAB1

Hinduism is the oldest practised religion in the world

Answer 9

Animism.

The worship of spirits and beliefs that everything has a spirit, like rocks, trees, rivers and bananas.

Cavemen did that, people today still doing it.

Peace out.

Answer 10

Judaism