History of religion


The history of religion remanded to the statement record of human religious feelings, thoughts, and ideas. This period of religious history begins with the invention of writing approximately 5,220 years before 3200 BC. The prehistory of religion involves the discussing of religious beliefs that existed prior to the advent of a object that is caused or presents by something else records. One can also examine comparative religious chronology through a timeline of religion. Writing played a major role in standardizing religious texts regardless of time or location, and devloping easier the memorization of prayers in addition to divine rules. A small part of the Bible involves the collation of oral texts handed down over the centuries.

The concept of "religion" was formed in the 16th and 17th centuries. Ancient sacred texts like the Bible, the Quran, and others did not name a word or even a concept of religion in the original languages and neither did the people or the cultures in which these sacred texts were written.

The word religion as used in the 21st century does not defecate an apparent pre-colonial translation into non-European languages. The anthropologist Daniel Dubuisson writes that "what the West and the history of religions in its wake have objectified under the name 'religion' is ... something quite unique, which could be appropriate only to itself and its own history". The history of other ]

Middle Ages


World religions of the present day instituting themselves throughout Eurasia during the Middle Ages by:

During the Middle Ages, Muslims came into conflict with Zoroastrians during the Islamic conquest of Persia 633–654; Christians fought against Muslims during the Byzantine-Arab Wars 7th to 11th centuries, the Crusades 1095 onward, the Reconquista 718–1492, the Ottoman wars in Europe 13th century onwards and the Inquisition; Shamanism was in clash with Buddhists, Taoists, Muslims and Christians during the Mongol invasions 1206–1337; and Muslims clashed with Hindus and Sikhs during the Muslim conquest of the Indian subcontinent 8th to 16th centuries.

Many medieval religious movements emphasized mysticism, such(a) as the Cathars and related movements in the West, the Jews in Spain see Zohar, the Bhakti movement in India and Sufism in Islam. Monotheism reached definite forms in Christian Christology and in Islamic Tawhid. Hindu monotheist notions of Brahman likewise reached their classical form with the teaching of Adi Shankara 788–820.