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The history of religion refers to the written record of human religious feelings, thoughts, and ideas. This period of religious history begins with the invention of writing about 5,200 years ago (3200 BCE). The prehistory of religion involves the study of religious beliefs that existed prior to the advent of written records. One can also study comparative religious chronology through a timeline of religion. Writing played a major role in standardizing religious texts regardless of time or location, and making easier the memorization of prayers and divine rules. A small part of the Christian Bible involves the collation of oral texts handed down over the centuries.The concept of "religion" was formed in the 16th and 17th centuries. Sacred texts like the Bible, the Quran, and others did not have a word or even a concept of religion in the original languages and neither did the people or the cultures in which these sacred texts were written.The word religion as used in the 21st century does not have an obvious pre-colonial translation into non-European languages. The anthropologist Daniel Dubuisson writes that "what the West and the history of religions in its wake have objectified under the name 'religion' is ... something quite unique, which could be appropriate only to itself and its own history". The history of other cultures' interaction with the "religious" category is therefore their interaction with an idea that first developed in Europe under the influence of Christianity. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Works about history of religions 17
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How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures
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The Case for God
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Shamans
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Une autre histoire des religions
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The Battle for God
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Orthodox Encyclopedia
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The Triumph of the Moon
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Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible
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A History of God
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The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles
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The Darkened Room
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Origins of Modern English Society, 1780-1880
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Jesus Barabbas
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A Literary History of Religious Thought in France
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Història i novena de Nostra Senyora de Meritxell
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The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries
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The Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- And Twentieth- Century Canada
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