what religion is the oldest religion?

Answer 1

Nature worship/shamanism would be the oldest form of religion. The worship of the spirits of plants and animals that fed early man and whose abundance he depended upon.
It wasn't until the discovery of agriculture and animal husbandry that man had the free time to think beyond his immediate needs for food and shelter and delve deeper into the realms of mysticism and philosophy. More formalized worship of gods and goddesses, which would evolve into the forms of worship we engage in now, took hundreds of years to develop.

Answer 2

There are some religions that accompanied the birth of civilization (about 5k years) and agriculture (about 10k years). But few if any of those are practiced now, at least in a form we would recognized. Judaism probably borrowed heavily from earlier religions in Mesopotamia, although of course the Hebrews seem to have invented the one god (who then became the "only" god).

There were almost certainly something we might call religious or spiritual practice 30k to 40k years ago, or perhaps even earlier. The evidence for this is found in cave paintings and carved figurines which appear in southwestern Europe around 30,000 years ago.

It should be stated that India also provided a rich source of at least two major early religious practices (Hinduism is thought by some scholars to be a fusion between an indiginous form and an "imported" form brought by northern invaders. That might have pre-dated the Mesopotamian religions by a few hundred years.

Answer 3

It's hard to say, because this largely depends on what you mean by "religion". We've found plenty of ancient artifacts from humans that reflect something symbolic and ritualistic (burying the dead, cave painting, etc.). But it's hard to draw a firm line between what's a ritualized tradition and what's philosophically detailed enough to constitute a whole "religion".

Having said that, religions heavy on "animism" (the belief that most objects have a "soul" of some kind) are certainly among the oldest. As for the oldest organized religion that's still widely practiced today, you could say Hinduism is definitely among the oldest.

Answer 4

probably the one the caused Neanderthals to bury their dead. If your looking for anything more substantial, the first cities in the middle east Tigris/Euphrates valley were built around a temple complex. Of course we know nothing about what these people worshiped or how, but the point is that religion goes back way longer then written records. Even the relatively more modern druidism was never written down.

Answer 5

The oldest religion is the religion of Adam and Eve called taukhid religion or monotheism religion.THey knew well that God was only one ,no ally,no son and no wife and also no parents ,because they saw God in paradise.Abraham prophet had a taukhid religion too although his ancestors including his father was animism who prayed to statues/idols made by themselves.Abraham destroyed all statues except the biggest one.When his fatherasked his explanation he told him that biggest one broke the other statues.The descendants of Adam and Eve made their own religions which were different from the the taukhid religion.

Answer 6

Jews always claim that Judaism was the first religion, but I'm pretty sure that there were more primitive forms of religion long before Judaism. It's definitely not Christianity, that's for sure.

Answer 7

Judaeo-Christianity

John 1:1 In the beginning was God, and the Word was with God and the Word was God

Joh 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Joh 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
Joh 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Answer 8

The oldest account of people who knew God is found in the book of Genesis.

Answer 9

Dravidianism is the basis for Hinduism and began some believe as far back as 3000BCE.

Judaism was about 1300 BCE, Islam was around 600 BCE, Buddhism was about 550 BCE, and Christianity was 33CE.

Answer 10

About 6,000 years ago the first of these, Abel, successfully passed the test, winning God’s judgment of approval. In the brief recorded account of Abel’s life we see that the issue involved was that of pure worship. Both Cain and Abel brought offerings to God, but since their offerings were different we may reasonably infer that there was disagreement between the two brothers as to what was the right way of worship. God settled the dispute by accepting Abel’s offering and rejecting Cain’s. Mere formalism, lip service—indeed, anything short of true faith—are never acceptable to God and prevent one from seeing His righteous requirements. It is only through the recognition of a sacrificial victim in atonement for sin, and proper faith in that sacrificed life, that one can now approach God. Abel, innocent of any wrong, maintained his integrity through right worship; whereas his brother, through false religion, became a murderer.