which is the oldest religion?

Answer 1

There have been goddess statues found that have been dated back around 27000 years, so we know that at least a feminine force for childbirth and continuity, fertility and nature cycles were worshipped long before a god concept.
The oldest civilization's religions that we know anything about are the Sumerians, whose religious figures and stories were adopted by many other later religions, including being adopted into many of the stories of early Judaism. Sumeria (Sumer) thrived from at least 4000 BCE, and in fact, the mention of the Behemoth in Job was most likely a carryover of Sumerian mythology, which the Jews later incorporated into their apocryphal as well as rabbinical texts as a beast to be killed in the Messianic age to feed all the righteous at once.
The mention of the Leviathan in Job is a sea creature, and can be compared to the Babylonian creation myth (Babylonians were a long time after the Sumerians) which the Jews were no doubt familiar with, when Marduk the chief god, destroys the monster Tiamat and creates the universe out of it. The association of the name Tiamat to the Bible is found in Genesis 1:2, where is says: "And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep...", where the words 'the deep' in Hebrew was 'Tehom', which could have been reference to Tiamat in the Babylonian creation story superimposed with Judeo thought.
Most all early religions had symbolism representing the victory of order over disorder, or of cosmos over chaos.
Although Hinduism can be definitely tracked back to around 3000 BC, I don't know of many elements of the religion prior to that period that would constitute an organized Hindu religion, because I have not studied it. The Shaman may not be as old as others have said, because their first noted influence was on the Greek theistic culture and the surrounding area of Asia Minor during the Greek Dark Ages, which occurred around 1300 BC - 500 BC.

Answer 2

Hinduism is the oldest still in practice. The oldest human religion is around 35,000 years old and Neanderthals had some form of religion before that.

Edit:
"Paganism" is a general term and is not a specific religion. Originally it meant anything other than your religion, so to the Romans or Greeks, Christianity was pagan/heathen.

Answer 3

In currently practiced major religions (top 10), here is the order of oldest to newest:

1. Hinduism
2. Zoroastrianism
3. Judaism
4. Buddhism
5. Christianity
6. Taoism
7. Jainism
8. Islam
9. Sikhism
10. Neo-Paganism

Answer 4

The oldest organized existing religion is Hinduism.

Answer 5

Islam in the original and the oldest religion which Adam taught to his sons. But when they went to different places in search of green pastures, they seperated and forgot its teachings. So God sent many prophets. Abraham, Ishmael,
Isac, Joseph etc also brought Islam to their people.

It is Islam which is the first and the oldest of all religions. People have a misconception that Islam is 1400 years old and that Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is the founder of this religion. Islam existed since time immemorial, ever since man first set foot on this earth. Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was not the founder of Islam. He was the last and final Messenger of Almighty God

Answer 6

Hinduism is the oldest recorded, but there are surely Pagan religions that predate it.

Answer 7

Sanatana Dharma!

Hinduism is distorted version of Sanatana Dharma, which mean ETERNAL TRUE-NATURE*. It has no beginning and no end, because it is generic and universal in nature of all of us. Another point to be noted is that word "religion" does not exist in Sanatana Dharma. Conversion happens at mental level, which has nothing to do with spirituality.

* Note : True-Nature can not be changed at all. For example fires true-nature is to omit heat and light. If we change the attributes then it will not be called as fire.

Answer 8

"The world's oldest major religion, Hinduism's roots sprang from the traditions of the people who lived in the Indus Valley from about 2500 to 1500 B.C. "

"According to Jewish tradition, the history of Judaism begins with the Covenant between God and Abraham (ca. 2000 BCE), the patriarch and progenitor of the Jewish people. "

"Although older (9th/10th century BCE, see Zoroaster) Zoroastrianism only enters recorded history in the mid-5th century BCE. Herodotus' The Histories (completed c. 440 BCE) includes a description of Greater Iranian society with what may be recognizably Zoroastrian features, including exposure of the dead."

Answer 9

so far the oldest religion is hinduism..
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Answer 10

Hinduism is the oldest existing religion still in its original form. Fire or sun worship would have been the first religions.