Religious Traditions


This can be roughly broken down into Abrahamic religion, Asiatic religion, pagan religion, and secularism.	Sapience Home Site map About Sapience Institutions Religion Abrahamic religion Asiatic religion Pagan religion Secularism

This can be roughly broken down into Abrahamic religion, Asiatic religion, pagan religion, and secularism.

Abrahamic religion

Abrahamic religion refers to those bodies of religious belief that claim descent from Abraham. These include Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These originated in or near Israel, and are now the predominant world religions.

Asiatic religion

Asiatic religions refer to communities of religious belief, principally of China and Asia. These include three major varieties, Indian religion, Persian religion, and Oriental religion.

Pagan religion

Pagan religion includes ancient European, ancient Asian, African, American Indian religion, and Neopagan religion that are not otherwise considered. These are generally but not always polytheistic, and are typically tied or limited to a particular culture or people.

Secularism

Secularism includes atheism, agnosticism, secular humanism, and related belief systems. These are included because they are systems of belief about the subjects that are considered by religions.


History The prehistory of the particular religious traditions of the world is obscure. More developments can be followed in antiquity. The particular religions can be followed through classical and medieval times, and have remained influential in modern times. Their future is obscure.	Links to other sites: Not yet available
Sociology Peoples Various nations are listed under the particular peoples they are most closely associated with. [These include Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Netherlands, Chile, Kazakhstan, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Malawi, Ecuador, Niger, Guatemala, Senegal, Angola, Mali, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Cuba, Greece, Portugal, Belgium Tunisia, Czech Republic, Guinea, Rwanda, Serbia, Chad, Hungary, Belarus Somalia, Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Sweden, Haiti, Burundi, Benin, Austria Azerbaijan, Honduras, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Tajikistan, Israel, El Salvador, Hong Kong Paraguay, Laos, Sierra Leone, Jordan] Western civilization Western civilization was once largely pagan but then became mostly Abrahamic, and is now predominantly secularist. Asiatic religion has minimal influence. Australia has connections to particular religions. Sao Paulo has connections to particular religions. Anglic peoples are most identified with Abrahamic religion, although pagan religion, secularism, and Asiatic religion can be connected. British peoples of the United Kingdom is highly significant. Anglo-Americans can be considered. including the United States, Canada and the British Caribbean are first to be considered. Anglo-Australian peoples will be examined later. New York City can be considered. Latin peoples such as those of Venezuela can be considered. Mexico City can be connected. Italic peoples including those of Italy can be connected. French peoples including those of France can be connected. Hispanic peoples such as those of Peru can be considered. Spain can be considered. Hispanic Mexican American peoples including those of Mexico can be connected. Hispanic Colombian American peoples including those of Colombiacan be considered. Hispanic Argentine American peoples such as those of Argentina can be connected. Lusitanic peoples including those of Brazil can be considered. Germanic peoples such as those of Germany can be connected. Northeast European such as those of Russia, Ukraine, and Poland will be useful. Balkan peoples including those of Romania can be connected. Scandinavian peoples will also be examined. Asiatic peoples are a mixture of Abrahamic, Asiatic, secularist, and pagan. Nations include Syria. Cities include Shanghai. Middle Eastern peoples such as those of Yemen are extremely important, since the Abrahamic religions originated in and are still influential there. Turkey can be connected. Egypt can be connected. Persian peoples such as those of Iran and Afghanistan can be connected. Mesopotamian peoples such as those of Iraq can be connected. North African peoples such as those of Morocco and Algeria can be considered. Arabian peoples such as those of Saudi Arabia can be considered. South Asian peoples including those of Sri Lanka can be connected. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal are important. Cities include Bombay and Delhi. Central Asian peoples such as those of Uzbekistan can be connected. Oriental traditions, including those of Taiwan can be connected. China, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea, can be connected. Cities include Tokyo Seoul. Southeast Asian peoples including Australia are also important. Mainland Southeast Asian peoples including those of Malaysia can be connected. Vietnam can be connected. Thailand can be connected. Burma can be connected. The Southeast Asian Archipelagoes including Indonesia and the Philippines can be connected. African peoples such as those of Madagascar are significant. East African peoples including those of Uganda can be considered. Northern East Africa including peoples of Ethiopia provide examples. Interior East Africa including Sudan also provides examples. Central East Africa including Kenya also provides examples. Tanzania can be considered. West African peoples of Ghana can be connected. Southern Coastal West African peoples such as those of Nigeria can be connected. Southern African peoples including those of Mozambique can be connected. South Africa can be connected. Central African peoples such as those of Congo (DR) can be connected. American Indian peoples American Indian peoples can be examined using pagan religion, Abrahamic religion, Secularism, and Asiatic religion. Venezuela may have connections to particular religions. Middle American Indian peoples such as those found in Mexico are important. Southwestern American Indian peoples such as those of the southwestern United States can be connected. South American Indian peoples such as those found in Peru can be connected. Amazonian peoples such as those of Brazil and Argentina can be considered. Andean peoples such as those of Colombia and Argentina can be connected. Cono/Southern American Indian peoples such as those of Argentina can be considered. North American Indian peoples such as those found in the United States and Canada can be connected. Eastern North American Indian peoples, Western North American Indian peoples, and Northern North American Indian peoples can be considered. Communities Communities will be listed along with the peoples they belong to. Social structure and change Pagan religion, Abrahamic religion, Secularism, and Asiatic religion can be examined using social structure and change. Social change Particular changes The agricultural revolution can be connected. The agrarian revolution including bronze age movements, early iron age movements, late iron age movements, and modernization can be connected. The industrial revolution including the early industrial revolution, middle industrial revolution, and late industrial revolution can be connected. Social change factors including institutional change, cultural change, demographic change, and natural change may be connected to particular religions. Social change processes including innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be considered. Social types Some correlation betwen particular religions social types has been suggested. Industrial societies can be connected. Agrarian societies can be connected. Horticultural societies can be connected. Hunting and gathering societies can be connected. Social structure including Anthropological structure, cultural structure, institutional structure, and class structure can be connected. Community and regional structure can be connected. Other Institutions Other Religion Particular religions are connected to various forms of organization including unstructured organization, fragmented organization, and structured organization, and to religious practice and belief. Government Particular governments including international, national, and local governments are connected. Government activity including succession, administration, and state relations is important. Government structure including government forms, heads of state, executive systems, legislative systems, judiclal systems, and political parties and interest groups can be considered. Law including international law, Western law, Asiatic law, and tribal law can be connected. Economics Economic systems including firms, networks, economic system types, and system behavior can be connected. Industries including commercial and financial, communications, transportation, social and medical service, building and construction, manufacturing and extraction, and agriculture can be connected. Economic activities including production, distribution, and exchange can be connected. Education Schools including higher education, secondary education, and primary education can be connected. Educational organization including administration, faculty, students, and course material can be connected. Cultural institutions including performance venues, libraries, and museums can be connected. Teaching can be connected. Research can be connected. Families Particular families are connected to particular religions. Kinship can be connected. Parenting can be connected. Marriage can be connected. Culture Behavioral culture Cultural events such as miscellaneous events, disasters, meetings, and holidays are certainly significant. Recreation and entertainment including sports, games, theater, dance, and music is closely connected. Occupations including service occupations, industrial occupations, communications occupations, transportation occupations, building occupations, and food related occupations can be connected. Customs including institutional customs, social interaction customs, dress and adornment customs, living and dwelling customs, and vital customs can be connected. Conceptual culture Philosophy including philosophical schools and doctrines, special topics, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and logic can be connected. Applied science including applied social science, accounting, information science, medical science, navigation, engineering, and measurement can be connected. Mathematics including statistics, geometry, analysis, algebra, and arithmetic can be connected. Literature including literary works, types and genres, forms, and oral tradition can be connected. Graphic arts including animation, photography, printmaking, painting, and drawing can be connected. Language including languages of the world, writing, and lingusitics can be connected. Material culture including transportation technology, food, clothing, buildings, and industrial technology are useful. Miscellaneous artifacts including sculpture, musical instruments, medicines, and toys can be connected. Communication technology including electronic communication, graphic communication, and written communication can be connected. Anthropology Particular groups will be influential in examining these religious traditions. Human geography including Asian geography, European geography, African Geography, North American geography, South American geography, and Oceanic geography will be very influential. Human ecology including the effect of the environment on peoples, relations with other life forms, human effects on the environment may be connected. Physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion can also be connected. Demography including population change, population size and structure, births, deaths, and migration can be connected. Social foundations including social group behavior, social group types, social control, social interaction, and social presentation can be considered. Personal studies Biographical information about religious leaders and adherents may be useful. Psychology including behavioral elements, mind, behavior patterns, developmental psychology, mental distorders, personality and social psychology may be useful. The human body including body systems, body function, life cycle, disease, and form and appearance can be connected. Science Advances in biology including molecular biology, cell biology, organism biology, systematics, ecology, and biohistory further interconnect with religion. Earth science has undermined much belief in most religious traditions. Geohistory, physical geography, atmospheric science, hydrospheric science, and geology can be connected. Astronomy including cosmology, galactic astronomy, and stellar astronomy is somwhat connected, although local astronomy is best connected. Chemistry including chemical systems, chemical change, and chemical substances might be connected. physics seems to be less directly connected. Physics including the structure of matter, modern physics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, and mechanics might be connected.

History

The prehistory of the particular religious traditions of the world is obscure. More developments can be followed in antiquity. The particular religions can be followed through classical and medieval times, and have remained influential in modern times. Their future is obscure.

Links to other sites: Not yet available

Sociology

Peoples

Various nations are listed under the particular peoples they are most closely associated with. [These include Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Netherlands, Chile, Kazakhstan, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Malawi, Ecuador, Niger, Guatemala, Senegal, Angola, Mali, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Cuba, Greece, Portugal, Belgium Tunisia, Czech Republic, Guinea, Rwanda, Serbia, Chad, Hungary, Belarus Somalia, Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Sweden, Haiti, Burundi, Benin, Austria Azerbaijan, Honduras, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Tajikistan, Israel, El Salvador, Hong Kong Paraguay, Laos, Sierra Leone, Jordan]

Western civilization

Western civilization was once largely pagan but then became mostly Abrahamic, and is now predominantly secularist. Asiatic religion has minimal influence. Australia has connections to particular religions. Sao Paulo has connections to particular religions.

Anglic peoples are most identified with Abrahamic religion, although pagan religion, secularism, and Asiatic religion can be connected.

British peoples of the United Kingdom is highly significant. Anglo-Americans can be considered. including the United States, Canada and the British Caribbean are first to be considered. Anglo-Australian peoples will be examined later. New York City can be considered.

Latin peoples such as those of Venezuela can be considered. Mexico City can be connected. Italic peoples including those of Italy can be connected. French peoples including those of France can be connected. Hispanic peoples such as those of Peru can be considered. Spain can be considered. Hispanic Mexican American peoples including those of Mexico can be connected. Hispanic Colombian American peoples including those of Colombiacan be considered. Hispanic Argentine American peoples such as those of Argentina can be connected. Lusitanic peoples including those of Brazil can be considered.

Germanic peoples such as those of Germany can be connected. Northeast European such as those of Russia, Ukraine, and Poland will be useful.

Balkan peoples including those of Romania can be connected. Scandinavian peoples will also be examined.

Asiatic peoples are a mixture of Abrahamic, Asiatic, secularist, and pagan. Nations include Syria. Cities include Shanghai.

Middle Eastern peoples such as those of Yemen are extremely important, since the Abrahamic religions originated in and are still influential there. Turkey can be connected. Egypt can be connected. Persian peoples such as those of Iran and Afghanistan can be connected. Mesopotamian peoples such as those of Iraq can be connected. North African peoples such as those of Morocco and Algeria can be considered. Arabian peoples such as those of Saudi Arabia can be considered.

South Asian peoples including those of Sri Lanka can be connected. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal are important. Cities include Bombay and Delhi.

Central Asian peoples such as those of Uzbekistan can be connected.

Oriental traditions, including those of Taiwan can be connected. China, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea, can be connected. Cities include Tokyo Seoul.

Southeast Asian peoples including Australia are also important. Mainland Southeast Asian peoples including those of Malaysia can be connected. Vietnam can be connected. Thailand can be connected. Burma can be connected. The Southeast Asian Archipelagoes including Indonesia and the Philippines can be connected.

African peoples such as those of Madagascar are significant.

East African peoples including those of Uganda can be considered. Northern East Africa including peoples of Ethiopia provide examples. Interior East Africa including Sudan also provides examples. Central East Africa including Kenya also provides examples. Tanzania can be considered.

West African peoples of Ghana can be connected. Southern Coastal West African peoples such as those of Nigeria can be connected.

Southern African peoples including those of Mozambique can be connected. South Africa can be connected.

Central African peoples such as those of Congo (DR) can be connected.

American Indian peoples

American Indian peoples can be examined using pagan religion, Abrahamic religion, Secularism, and Asiatic religion. Venezuela may have connections to particular religions.

Middle American Indian peoples such as those found in Mexico are important. Southwestern American Indian peoples such as those of the southwestern United States can be connected. South American Indian peoples such as those found in Peru can be connected. Amazonian peoples such as those of Brazil and Argentina can be considered. Andean peoples such as those of Colombia and Argentina can be connected. Cono/Southern American Indian peoples such as those of Argentina can be considered. North American Indian peoples such as those found in the United States and Canada can be connected. Eastern North American Indian peoples, Western North American Indian peoples, and Northern North American Indian peoples can be considered.

Communities

Communities will be listed along with the peoples they belong to.

Social structure and change

Pagan religion, Abrahamic religion, Secularism, and Asiatic religion can be examined using social structure and change.

Social change

Particular changes

The agricultural revolution can be connected. The agrarian revolution including bronze age movements, early iron age movements, late iron age movements, and modernization can be connected. The industrial revolution including the early industrial revolution, middle industrial revolution, and late industrial revolution can be connected.

Social change factors including institutional change, cultural change, demographic change, and natural change may be connected to particular religions. Social change processes including innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be considered.

Social types

Some correlation betwen particular religions social types has been suggested. Industrial societies can be connected. Agrarian societies can be connected. Horticultural societies can be connected. Hunting and gathering societies can be connected.

Social structure including Anthropological structure, cultural structure, institutional structure, and class structure can be connected. Community and regional structure can be connected.

Other Institutions

Other Religion

Particular religions are connected to various forms of organization including unstructured organization, fragmented organization, and structured organization, and to religious practice and belief.

Government

Particular governments including international, national, and local governments are connected. Government activity including succession, administration, and state relations is important. Government structure including government forms, heads of state, executive systems, legislative systems, judiclal systems, and political parties and interest groups can be considered. Law including international law, Western law, Asiatic law, and tribal law can be connected.

Economics

Economic systems including firms, networks, economic system types, and system behavior can be connected. Industries including commercial and financial, communications, transportation, social and medical service, building and construction, manufacturing and extraction, and agriculture can be connected. Economic activities including production, distribution, and exchange can be connected.

Education

Schools including higher education, secondary education, and primary education can be connected. Educational organization including administration, faculty, students, and course material can be connected. Cultural institutions including performance venues, libraries, and museums can be connected. Teaching can be connected. Research can be connected.

Families

Particular families are connected to particular religions. Kinship can be connected. Parenting can be connected. Marriage can be connected.

Culture

Behavioral culture

Cultural events such as miscellaneous events, disasters, meetings, and holidays are certainly significant. Recreation and entertainment including sports, games, theater, dance, and music is closely connected. Occupations including service occupations, industrial occupations, communications occupations, transportation occupations, building occupations, and food related occupations can be connected. Customs including institutional customs, social interaction customs, dress and adornment customs, living and dwelling customs, and vital customs can be connected.

Conceptual culture

Philosophy including philosophical schools and doctrines, special topics, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and logic can be connected. Applied science including applied social science, accounting, information science, medical science, navigation, engineering, and measurement can be connected. Mathematics including statistics, geometry, analysis, algebra, and arithmetic can be connected. Literature including literary works, types and genres, forms, and oral tradition can be connected. Graphic arts including animation, photography, printmaking, painting, and drawing can be connected. Language including languages of the world, writing, and lingusitics can be connected.

Material culture including transportation technology, food, clothing, buildings, and industrial technology are useful. Miscellaneous artifacts including sculpture, musical instruments, medicines, and toys can be connected. Communication technology including electronic communication, graphic communication, and written communication can be connected.

Anthropology

Particular groups will be influential in examining these religious traditions. Human geography including Asian geography, European geography, African Geography, North American geography, South American geography, and Oceanic geography will be very influential. Human ecology including the effect of the environment on peoples, relations with other life forms, human effects on the environment may be connected. Physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion can also be connected. Demography including population change, population size and structure, births, deaths, and migration can be connected. Social foundations including social group behavior, social group types, social control, social interaction, and social presentation can be considered.

Personal studies

Biographical information about religious leaders and adherents may be useful.

Psychology including behavioral elements, mind, behavior patterns, developmental psychology, mental distorders, personality and social psychology may be useful. The human body including body systems, body function, life cycle, disease, and form and appearance can be connected.

Science

Advances in biology including molecular biology, cell biology, organism biology, systematics, ecology, and biohistory further interconnect with religion. Earth science has undermined much belief in most religious traditions. Geohistory, physical geography, atmospheric science, hydrospheric science, and geology can be connected. Astronomy including cosmology, galactic astronomy, and stellar astronomy is somwhat connected, although local astronomy is best connected. Chemistry including chemical systems, chemical change, and chemical substances might be connected. physics seems to be less directly connected. Physics including the structure of matter, modern physics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, and mechanics might be connected.

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