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Hinduism, can choose to be monotheists, polytheists, pantheists, atheists, agnostics, dualists, monists, or pluralists. They may or may not follow strict standards of moral conduct, spend much time on everyday religious rituals, or attend a temple. Magic, fetishism, animal worship, and belief in demons (.) c

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Buddhism,ad become disenchanted with a religion that emphasized class, sacrifice, and ritual, and some religious leaders surrendered their status in society in favor of the life of the wandering ascetic. Small religious movements formed about these ascetics, whose spiritual qualities appealed to many discont

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Jainism and Sikhism,end its dominant power through prescribed rituals, sacrifices, and yoga exercises, as well as in other ways. Dissatisfied with this trend, several thinkers sought a more coherent and intellectual system of religion than that which was flourishing at the time. Some attempted to undermine the control

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Taoism and Confucianism,Chinese and Christian traditions. Christian apologists, often ill informed and rarely objective, arrived at rash conclusions regarding the religious elements of the Chinese.. Largely unappreciated by these early Western scholars were the many facets of Chinese religious thought and feeling, as expre

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Zoroastrianism,yet still living—faith. During their exile in Babylon in the sixth century .,* the Jewish people came into close contact with a religion known as Zoroastrianism, whose ideas and tenets were to influence greatly not only Judaism, but Christianity and Islam as well.

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Islam,century as a result of the preaching and teaching of the Prophet Muhammad. In spite of the geographic proximity of the Islamic world to Western cultures, and the many ways in which Islam resembles Christianity and Judaism, misunderstandings have persisted on several levels.