What are the 3 most popular religions?

Major religious groups
  • Christianity (31.2%)
  • Islam (24.1%)
  • No religion (16%)
  • Hinduism (15.1%)
  • Buddhism (6.9%)
  • Folk religions (5.7%)
  • Sikhism (0.3%)
  • Judaism (0.2%)
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What are the top 3 major religions of the United States?

While the American religious landscape is becoming increasingly diverse, data from PRRI's new American Values Atlas reveals that there are still three major religious traditions that dominate in most states: Catholics (22 percent), white evangelical Protestants (18 percent), and the religiously unaffiliated (22 percent ...
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What are the top 5 most popular religions in the world?

Some newer religions are among the most popular faiths, defined as those religions that are most widely practiced worldwide.
  • Christianity (2.1 billion)
  • Islam (1.3 billion)
  • Hinduism (900 million)
  • Chinese traditional religion (394 million)
  • Buddhism 376 million.
  • Primal-indigenous (300 million)
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What are the 3 types of religion?

There are many different religious beliefs and religious systems. Each religion forms its own beliefs and its own broader system of beliefs. These systems can be roughly grouped into three main categories: animism, polytheism, and monotheism. However, not all religions fit neatly into one of these three categories.
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What's the biggest religion in 2022?

Hinduism - 1.16 billion. Buddhism - 507 million. Folk Religions - 430 million. Other Religions - 61 million.
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What are the 5 major religions in order from oldest to youngest?

What are the 5 major religions in order from oldest to youngest? Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Jainism and Confucianism. What is the oldest religion in order?
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What was the first religion?

Hinduism is the world's oldest religion, according to many scholars, with roots and customs dating back more than 4,000 years. Today, with about 900 million followers, Hinduism is the third-largest religion behind Christianity and Islam. Roughly 95 percent of the world's Hindus live in India.
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What are 5 major beliefs of Christianity?

This is a discussion oriented Bible Fellowship. The 5 are: 1) Uniqueness of Jesus (Virgin Birth) --Oct 7; 2) One God (The Trinity) Oct 14; 3) Necessity of the Cross (Salvation) and 4) Resurrection and Second Coming are combinded on Oct 21; 5) Inspiration of Scripture Oct 28.
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What is the #1 religion in the US?

Christianity is by far the largest religion in the United States; more than three-quarters of Americans identify as Christians. A little more than half of us identify as Protestants, about 23 percent as Catholic and about 2 percent as Mormon.
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What's the main religion in America?

The United States remains a predominantly Christian nation, with 78% of all adults identifying with a Christian faith, and more than 9 in 10 of those who have a religious identity identifying as Christians.
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What is Japan's main religion?

Shinto ("the way of the gods") is the indigenous faith of the Japanese people and as old as Japan itself. It remains Japan's major religion alongside Buddhism.
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Who Wrote the Bible?

Even after nearly 2,000 years of its existence, and centuries of investigation by biblical scholars, we still don't know with certainty who wrote its various texts, when they were written or under what circumstances.
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Who is God in the Bible?

God in Christianity is believed to be the eternal, supreme being who created and preserves all things. Christians believe in a monotheistic conception of God, which is both transcendent (wholly independent of, and removed from, the material universe) and immanent (involved in the material universe).
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What is the 2nd oldest religion?

Hinduism (/ˈhɪnduɪzəm/) is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order to which Hindus abide.
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Who is the oldest known God?

Inanna is among the oldest deities whose names are recorded in ancient Sumer.
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Who is the first god in the world?

Brahma the Creator

In the beginning, Brahma sprang from the cosmic golden egg and he then created good & evil and light & dark from his own person. He also created the four types: gods, demons, ancestors, and men (the first being Manu).
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What day is Jesus's birthday?

From Rome, the Christ's Nativity celebration spread to other Christian churches to the west and east, and soon most Christians were celebrating Christ's birth on December 25.
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What are the 12 main religions in the world?

This easy-to-understand reference examines the tenets of each of the world's twelve most popular and influential religions: Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Shinto, Islam, Sikhism, Confucianism, Jainism, Hinduism, Taoism, Baha'i, and Zoroastrianism.
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What was the first religion in the Bible?

The Old Testament is the first section of the Bible, covering the creation of Earth through Noah and the flood, Moses and more, finishing with the Jews being expelled to Babylon. The Bible's Old Testament is very similar to the Hebrew Bible, which has origins in the ancient religion of Judaism.
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Did Jesus have a wife?

"Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was not married, even though no reliable historical evidence exists to support that claim," King said in a press release.
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What are the 75 books removed from the Bible?

This book contains: 1 Esdras, 2 Esdras, The Book of Tobit, The Book of Susanna, Additions to Esther, The Book of Judith, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, The Epistle of Jeremiah, The Prayer of Azariah, Bel and the Dragon, Prayer of Manasses, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Book of Enoch, Book of Jubilees, Gospel of ...
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Who created the God?

We ask, "If all things have a creator, then who created God?" Actually, only created things have a creator, so it's improper to lump God with his creation. God has revealed himself to us in the Bible as having always existed. Atheists counter that there is no reason to assume the universe was created.
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