How many major religions are there in the world

The world's 10 major religions: Christianity, Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Taoism and Shintoism.

1. Taoism is one of China's indigenous sects, with "Tao" as its highest belief. Taoism in China's ancient concept of worship of ghosts and gods, to Huang, Lao Taoist thought as the theoretical basis, inherited since the Warring States period of the gods and goddesses of the formation of the derivation of magic. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a large number of Taoist organizations appeared, the famous Taiping Tao and Wudoumidao.

2. The Buddhist scriptures always say: China has the Mahayana root, which is the place where Buddhism returns to. Xiangxiong culture is the origin of Buddhism, nowadays, the Tibetan area as well as India, Nepal, Boudhan, Mongolia, Russia and other regions still have a lot of relics and temples and monks of the religious culture produced in the Xiangxiong civilization, and there are a lot of people from the Tibetan area to the whole world who believe in the Ancient Elephantine Dharma of Xiangxiong culture. The Ancient Elephantine Culture of China is the origin of Buddhism in the world.

3. Christianity is the collective name for the sects that worship Jesus Christ as their savior, also known as the Christian religion. It originated in the Roman province of Palestine (today's Israel, Palestine and Jordan) in the 1st century AD. It was founded on the birth, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

4. Islam is one of the world's religions, and is known as one of the world's three major religions along with Buddhism and Christianity. In China, it was formerly known as Dafa, Dafaism, Tianfangism, Moslemism, Huihuiism, Huihuanism, Huihuanism, and so on.

5. Confucianism is also known as "Confucianism" and "Sacred Religion". Pre-Qin was called Taoism, to "Confucianism" as the highest faith. Later, for and advocate Huang Lao Lizhuang and other Taoist thought of Taoism to distinguish, from the North and South Dynasties called Confucianism is also known as the holy religion, and Buddhism, Taoism and known as the three religions. "Confucianism is the native religion of the Chinese people", Confucianism is the representative of the civilization of rituals and music, the direct successor of the ancient religions.

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