Releegion

Releegion - whan uisit interchyngeabt wae faith ar belief seestem — bih fur ordinar definit beliefs adae wae ra supernaitural, saucrit, ar divine; an ra moral codets, practicets, vailets, institutionts an reetuals associate wae sic beliefs. In thir braid sense fowk hae definit hit ra hail tot o tollts giit tae expoond bodyts rael wae ra. Inae ra coorse o ra tilcom ae releegion, hit hae taen mony formts inae sindry ra cultoorts an ra bodyets. Antrin ra tidts, ra wird "releegion" uised for tae designate whit wad bih mair guid describit "organized releegion" – they bih, an organisation o fowk uphaudin ra daeunts o releegion, aften tak the form o ra legal entity. Inae thare bih mony releegions inae ra warld ra dae.

Various Releegious seembols, includin (first raw) Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Baha'i, (seicont raw) Islamic, tribal, Taoist, Shinto (third raw) Buddhist, Sikh, Hindu, Jain, (fowert raw) Ayyavali, Triple Goddess, Maltese cross, pre-Christian Slavonic

Thir ideas anent the basic structur o the warld canna be studied uisin juist the scienteific method.

Releegions ettles tae repone tae speirins lik "Whaur did the warld come frae?" an "Whit happens tae us efter we dee?" Whan answers tae thir speirins is fand, fowk sterts new releegions or eiks thair beliefs tae auld anes. Monie releegions believes in supernaitural beins sic as speerits, deils, angels, gods or God, that can influence fowk an the warld. Fowk that writes anent or teaches a releegion says thay gat thair ideas frae a supernaitural bein.

Monie releegions is gey auld, but some fowk shapes new anes whan thay dinna lik the ideas o the auld anes. Things conseidert important bi releegions is cryed saucrit or halie. Monie o thaim haes saucrit beuks (the Bible bein an exemplar) that tells o thair ain main beliefs an stories.

Mony releegions believes that fowk will gae tae Heiven foriver efter thay dee, gin thay'r guid, or Hell gin thay are ill.

Releegions aften encourages fowk tae be guid, but thay aften causes problems an aw, acause a releegion's speirins is that important tae its follaers, an it's difficult tae ken whit answers is richt.

Historically, whan fowk dinna accept ideas aboot ithers' releegions, or ithers micht cause problems for thair ain, confrontations an fechts arises atween thaim.

Monie releegions haes biggins for thair follaers tae meet. Dependin on the releegion, thay micht be cryed kirks, chaipels, temples, mosques, shrines, or seenagogues. Monie o the warld's auldest biggins is releegious.

Table

Seembol	Religion	Number	Grouping	Invented	Source
	Christianity	2.2	01 !Abrahamic	Levant	[1]
	Islam	1.6	02 !Abrahamic	n/a	[2][3][4]
	Buddhism	1.0	07 !n/a	n/a	[5][6][7]
	Hinduism	0.5	n/a	India	[8]
	Folk religion	0.4	n/a	n/a	[nb 1]
	Shinto	n/a	n/a	Japan	[9]
	Sikhism	27-65	n/a	n/a	[5][10]
	Judaism	10 !14–18	03 !n/a	n/a	[5]
	Jainism	11 !8–12	09 !n/a	n/a	[nb 2]
	Bahaism	12 !7.6–7.9	04 !n/a	Iran, 19t century	[11][12]
	Cao Dai	13 !2–6	19 !n/a	n/a	[13][14]
	Chendoism	14 !3	18 !n/a	n/a	[15]
	Eckankar	0,5 - 3	n/a	n/a	[16][17]
	Tenrikyo	15 !2	15 !n/a	Japan 19t century
	Wicca	16 !1-3	10 !n/a	n/a	[18][19]
	Rastafarianism	19 !1	12 !n/a	n/a	[20][21]
	Sekanova	18 !1	17 !n/a	n/a	[22]
	Kirk of World Messianity	17 !1	16 !n/a	n/a	[23]

Medium-sized religions

Seembol	Religion	Number	Cultur	Invented	Source
	Unitarian Universalism	20 !0.63	11 !n/a	n/a	[24]
N/A	Scientology	500,000	n/a	n/a	[25][25]
	Tengriism	500,000	Neopaganism	1990	[26]
	Zoroastrianism	190.000	Persian	n/a	[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]
	Satanism	30,000 - 100,000	n/a	1966	[35]
	Raelism	80,000 - 85,000	UFO religion	Fraunce, 1974	[36][37]
	Druidism	50,000	Neopaganism	England, 18t century	[38]

Leet o releegions o the warld

• Bahá'í Faith
• Buddhism
• Christianity
  • Catholicism
  • Kirk o Scotland
  • Baptists
• Hinduism
• Islam
• Jainism
• Judaism
• Latter Day Saunt muivement
• Scientology
• Shinto
• Sikhism
• Sufism
• Taoism
• Unitarian Universalism
• Voodoo
• Wicca
• Yoga
• Zoroastrianism

Notes

1. The number of people who consider themselves party to a "folk tradition" is impossible to determine.
2. Figures for the population of Jains differ from just over six million to twelve million due to difficulties of Jain identity, with Jains in some areas counted as a Hindu sect. Many Jains do not return Jainism as their religion on census forms for various reasons such as certain Jain castes considering themselves both Hindu and Jain. Following a major advertising campaign urging Jains to register as such, the 1981 Census of India returned 3.19 million Jains. This was estimated at the time to still be half the true number. The 2001 Census of India had 8.4 million Jains.