What are some of the oldest religions out there? I mean older then Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?

Question

By that I mean which religions came before those three religions.

One more thing if possible could you leave any links to state your claims? Thanks.

Answer 1

There's lots of them. Mine (Asatru) for example far pre-dates the "big three". The worship of the Aesir and Vanir goes back a lot further than the Viking Age as evidenced by archaeological findings. Some of the Norse Gods (such as Tyr) date back to the Stone Age as do miniature hammers made of amber or flint which points to the worship of Thor even back then. Perhaps the most famous finding is that of the "Venus figures" that date back to the early Stone Age.

Hinduism is also a very old religion. Zoroastrianism is also much older than Judaism; as is Jainism and Buddhism. The African Vodoun religion is estimated to have existed for more than 10000+ years. Kemetic polytheism is also very ancient.

The most ancient of all beliefs is animism and shamanism, although technically they are not religions.

Answer 2

Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism are older than Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Those who believe witchcraft is a religion believe it to be the oldest of them all.

Answer 3

this is continuously silly oversimplification to assert that any significant human gadget is in simple terms a duplicate of pre-modern ones. each and every gadget builds on what got here till now. otherwise we would nonetheless be living bare on the Savanah. Judaism became into by utilising no potential the earliest faith. The earliest info of religion comes on the comparable time because of the fact the earliest Homo Sapiens skeletons. something like 60 thousand years in the past. Judaism is barely approximately 3500 years old. To the degree that Judaism developed from previous religions, it became into frequently a reaction against them. various Greek and Egyptian historians ***** that the Jews became morality the opposite direction up. Chrsitianity is basically a syncretic faith between Judaism and the Helenistic religions. The how -- there became right into a great community of Jews in Alexandria. The king of Alexandria in with regard to the 2nd cent till now Jesus forced the Jews to translate the Bible to Greek. The early followers of Jesus seem to have been a small form of Jews and a important form of Greeks and later Romans. Islam is a syncretic faith between the interior of sight religions of the Arabs, Christianity and Judaism. The how -- long till now the time of Mohammad some Arabs traveled to Jewish factors in Israel and studied with Jewish instructors and asked to be circumcised (as fellow descendants of the little ones of Abraham) on the time of Mohammad there became right into a big form of Arabic speaking Jews and Christians living in Arabia. Mohammad became right into a provider provider and interacted substantaily with all of those human beings. Even as quickly as he based Islam, the Koran mentions short-term alliances between him and Jewish tribes and Christian tribes.

Answer 4

The Quran contains so many legends and theological ideas found in Talmudic literature that we are able to draw a picture of the spiritual life of the Jews with whom Mohammed must have come into contact.

It was the Prophet Mohammed himself who attempted to negate the positive image of the Jew that had been prevalent earlier. According to historian Bernard Lewis, the Prophet Mohammed's original plan had been to induce the Jews to adopt Islam; when Mohammed began his rule at Medina in AD 622 he counted few supporters, so he adopted several Jewish practices-including daily prayer facing toward Jerusalem and the fast of Yom Kippur-in the hope of wooing the Jews. But the Jewish community rejected the Prophet Mohammed's religion, preferring to adhere to its own beliefs, whereupon Mohammed subsequently substituted Mecca for Jerusalem, and dropped many of the Jewish practices.

Jews faced the danger of incurring the wrath of a Muslim, in which case the Muslim could charge, however falsely, that the Jew had cursed Islam, an accusation against which the Jew could not defend himself. Islamic religious law decreed that, although murder of one Muslim by another Muslim was punishable by death, a Muslim who murdered a non-Muslim was given not the death penalty, but only the obligation to pay "blood money" to the family of the slain infidel. Even this punishment was unlikely, however, because the law held the testimony of a Jew or a Christian invalid against a Muslim, and the penalty could only be exacted under improbable conditions--when two Muslims were willing to testify against a brother Muslim for the sake of an infidel.

Answer 5

Hinduism is "the" oldest religion in the world, with Brahma as the creator god.

Then comes Judaism, with YHWH as the creator god.

Then comes Buddhism, it has no creator god. It is more accurate to say that it is a philosophy of life, because what constitutes a group of people as being a religion is the belief in a creator god.

Then comes Christianity, with Jesus as its creator god. There were no more saviors or prophets needed after Jesus, He was the last.

Then the next religion was Islam, as Muhammed as its leader, and Allah as its creator god.

Answer 6

The absolute oldest religions on the planet [that is, having survived in entirety from antiquity] are Judaism and Hinduism. The absolute oldest religion is Shamanism, however, that was not passed down well at all.

Answer 7

Norse Religion

Answer 8

Islam is fairly young as a religion.
Christianity is relatively young.
Judaism is quite old, but I think Zoroastrianism existed before that, and - I wonder about Hinduism?
Then, too, there were animistic religions.
However monotheistic beliefs have been recorded in the most ancient writings.

Answer 9

http://www.metareligion.com/World_Religions/Ancient_religions/ancient_religions.htm

this site has a lot of really cool stuff but this page is actually links to all the articles on ancient religion

http://www.religion-cults.com/ancient.htm

haven't looked at this one personally, but the info said something about "animism" which sounded old or at least interesting.

edit: the second site is actually pretty cool, has some really pretty art and breaks down the religions by continent.

Answer 10

hinduism and buddhism... not bothering to look up the details, sorry, but i know at least one of those is about 5kyr. sorry if i am wrong... just lazy.
edit - err.... aztec religion derives from older, maya and olmec traditions, but really it can only be traced back 2000 yrs or so. asatru/ norse religion only goes back about 1500 years as far as we know, although assumedly its based on older, indoeuropean traditions.