Asia being the biggest continent in the world is the birthplace to a huge number of religions.Since there has been so many different cultural and ethnic diversity, it is obvious that with every culture there is a different religion attached to it. Islam is the biggest religion practiced in th...
II . Religions in the Middle East The Middle East is very diverse when it comes to religions, many of which originated there. Islam in its many forms is by far the largest religion in the Middle East, but other faiths, such as Judaism and Christianity, are also important. Now I‘...
The Ethnic Groups and Religions in the Middle East . The Ethnic Groups in the Middle East When it comes to countries, we need to talk about people living in these countries. First, I want to let you know what an ethnic group means.An ethnic group (or ethnicity) is a group of people ...
What is Messianism? Messianismis the idea that someone will lead a people or religion out of persecution and can pertain to any group. This concept originated in Zoroastrianism in ancient Persia, but Messianism has become important to several major world religions practiced today. For some religion...
The worlds Turkic peoples, numbering perhaps 130 million people in all, are the diverse descendants of large groups of tribes people thought to have originated in Central Asia. Presently, the largest group of Turkic people is living in Turkey. Additionally, other Turkic people live in the ...
Islam - The third of the monotheistic Abrahamic faiths, Islam originated with the teachings of Muhammad in the 7th century. Muslims believe Muhammad is the final of all religious prophets (beginning with Abraham) and that the Qu'ran, which is the Islamic scripture, was revealed to him by God...
Rite of Passage Are the sets of rituals that happen when people move from one stage of life to another, such as from unborn to born, child to adult, single to married and from alive to dead. Some examples include; funeral rites, baptisms, 18th or 21st birthday parties. ...
Jing’an was able to cast his interactions with his literati friends in terms of a tradition that originated in the Eastern Jin. Zhi Dun was part of the famous group of intellectuals that met in Kuaiji and centered on the powerful Prime Minister Xie An 謝安 (320–385), whose family includ...
Buddhism spread from India to Sri Lanka, Tibet (and thence to China and Japan), but is strongest in South-East Asian countries like Thailand, Burma, and Cambodia. Jainism Jainismalso originated in India around the same time as Buddhism. Unlike the latter it never spread so there are no Jai...
numberingperhaps130millionpeopleinall, arethediversedescendantsoflargegroupsoftribespeoplethoughttohave originatedinCentralAsia. Presently,thelargestgroupofTurkicpeopleislivinginTurkey.Additionally, otherTurkicpeopleliveintheXinjiangregionofChina,Iran&Afghanistan,and Russia Nowlet’smovetothethirdmajorethnicgroup-...