RELIGION
The belief in and worship a superior existing controlling power, force, being or doctrine, especially a personal God or gods.
“Although” The exact time when humans first became religious remains unknown, However religion traces its roots to the Neolithic revolution that began 11,000 years ago in the Near East but may have occurred independently in several other locations around the world. The invention of agriculture transformed many human societies from a hunter gatherer lifestyle to a sedentary lifestyle as research in evolutionary archaeology shows credible evidence of religious-cum-ritualistic behavior from the Middle Paleolithic era (estimated 45–200 thousand years ago), Not disputing the first and foremost of these is a belief in the Vedas – four texts compiled between the 15th and 5th centuries BCE on the Indian subcontinent, and the faith's oldest scriptures – which make Hinduism without doubt the oldest religion in existence.
EARLIEST RELIGION AS KNOWN TO MANKIND
The word Hindu is an exonym, and while Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world, many practitioners refer to their religion as Sanātana Dharma ''the Eternal Dharma'', a modern usage, which refers to the idea that its origins lie beyond human history, as revealed in the Hindu texts.
Another endonym is Vaidika dharma, the dharma related to the Vedas.
Hinduism is a diverse system of thought marked by a range of philosophies and shared concepts, rituals, cosmological systems, pilgrimage sites, and shared textual sources that discuss theology, metaphysics, mythology, Vedic yajna, yoga, agamic rituals, and temple building, among other topics.
DIVISIONS OF RELIGION
Considering various 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.
Making the world's twelve most popular and influential religions: Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Shinto, Islam, Sikhism, Confucianism, Jainism, Hinduism, Taoism, Baha'i, and Zoroastrianism.
ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY
Christianity originated with the ministry of Jesus, a Jewish teacher and healer who proclaimed the imminent “Kingdom of God” and was crucified in Jerusalem in the Roman province of Judea, His followers believed that according to the Gospels, he was the Son of God and that he died for the forgiveness of sins and was raised from the dead and exalted by God, and will return soon at the inception of God's kingdom.
DIVISIONS AND BRANCHES OF CHRISTIANITY
The first Christian organization was the Catholic Church, which eventually broke into different denominations especially in the 1500s as a result of Martin Luther and John Calvin. Christianity is DIVIDED between Eastern and Western theology. In these two divisions there are six branches Catholicism, Protestantism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, Oriental Orthodoxy, and Assyrians. Restorationism is sometimes considered the seventh branch.
The major Protestant denominational families are:
Adventists
Baptists
Congregationalists
Lutherans
Methodists
Pentecostals
Presbyterians
DOCTRINE
In theology, it’s a generic term for the theoretical component of religious experience. It signifies the process of conceptualizing the primal—often experiential or intuitive—insights of the faith of a religious community in support of rationally understood belief.
Conclusion
Religious believe seem to possess an adequate proportion of the humans rational mindset and predetermines their way of life through knowledge acquired for existence purposes, compared to what we think we know or presume it to be.