Has anyone noticed the correlation between where a religion originated and the practices of it?

Question

Example:
To survive in a place like much of the middle east requires an adherence to a set routine, Law, Tradition, Obedience. The religion of that area reflects that.

Egypt, its religion was set around a cycle which mimiced the Nile.

The Celtic Religions have a Solar wheel of the year.

Answer 1

Yes.

Answer 2

Why, yes, I have.

Religions came about as a way to explain the world, how people fit into it, how to survive in it, why there is death, what happens after we die, etc.

And those circumstances were different for different peoples.

If you lived in an environment that allowed for very little wiggle room for survival, then your idea of God would be different than the idea of God that the people living in a very temperate climate that had lots of uncultivated food available.

Harsher. More interested in rules.


Plus, most Gods started out as Gods of place - the spirits of the local water supply, the weather of the region, the local flora and fauna, etc, and those also were quite different from place to place. In a benign environment, those Gods are more likely to be benign.

That's the short answer.l The long one is something I've been working on for a long time, and haven't finished yet.

Answer 3

You're going to have to go deeper for me. Christianity, Islam and Judaism all originated in the Middle East... Hinduism a little further east and Buddism in the Far East.

I'm not seeing any correlation between practice and goegraphic origin.

Answer 4

Funny how that happens. It's almost as is if there is a syncretic nature to culture and religion.

Answer 5

I don't understand the question. So, I guess the answer is no.