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A Gateway to Sikhism (352 words) |
 | From the earliest known evidence of human religion by Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis around 100,000 years ago to the present day, religion continues to be a very influential aspect of human lives. |
 | Religion is the universal tool for explaining things which we do not understand through the context the known physical world. |
 | Religion helps us to transmit our values from one generation to another, and influences the way we interact with the natural environment. |
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Major world religions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (566 words) |
 | Major world religions have been distinguished from minor religions using a variety of methods, though any such division naturally reflects a particular bias, since many adherents of a religion are likely to consider their own faith "major". |
 | This listing does not draw distinctions between organized religion, which has a single belief code and religious hierarchies, and informal religions, such as Chinese traditional religions, which are a mix of different folk religious ideas. |
 | Not a single organized religion, this includes traditional African beliefs such as Yoruba as well as diasporic beliefs such as Santeria (which itself draws from Catholicism) and Vodoun. |