3.
Buddhism. This religion is founded by Buddha, the great religious
teacher who lived in India about 2500 years ago. The followers of this religion
are called Buddhists. This is the national religion of India and some other
countries of Asia.
4.
Judaism, the religion of the Jews.
5.
Hinduism, the religious system of the Hindus (the largest social and
religious subdivision of the population of India
). 6.
Chinese Folk Religions. Although some particular religious faiths
dominate some areas and countries of the world, nowadays even within the same
society, there is a diversity of beliefs, rituals, and experiences that characterize
its religious life, and people turn to a variety of religions for answers to ultimate
questions of existence.
In modern societies religious behaviour is organized in four basic forms:
the ecclesia, the denomination, the sect, and the cult.
An ecclesia is a religious organization that claims to include most of or all
the members of a society and is recognized as the national or official religion.
Examples of an ecclesia include the Lutheran church in Sweden, the Catholic
church in Spain, Islam in Iran. In a society with an ecclesia the political and
religious institutions often act in harmony and mutually reinforce each other,
though within the modern world, the ecclesia tends to be declining in power.