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1 Early Religions An Overview Adapted from online-history.org

2 The religious history of China is complex, and has evolved over the centuries. Deeply interwoven into their beliefs is the worship of their ancestors. The Chinese believed that the spirits of their ancestors were watching over them, and that they could be called upon during difficult times.

3 In 551 B.C.E. a man by the name of Kongzi was born to a poor family in the province of Shandong. Kongzi is known in the western world as Confucius.

4 Confucius saw many problems in the world and wanted to correct them. When his attempts to become an advisor to a number of different government officials failed, he became a teacher.

5 The most important things to Confucius were peace, and order. He felt that everyone had a proper role in society, and that if people were willing to accept their role, and fulfill it, that peace and harmony would abound.

6 In order to help people accept their roles in society, and establish order, Confucius outlined how individuals should treat one another. The most important of these ethics outlined the responsibilities of children to respect and listen to their parents, and other elders.

7 He also laid out ethics for how subjects should follow rulers, for how rulers should treat subjects, how husbands and wives should treat one another, and how friends should treat each other.

8 During his own lifetime Confucius teachings were not widely accepted. However, within a hundred years, they were being used by the emperor to help him rule, and eventually became a widely followed religion. Confucianism would remain a powerful force in Chinese history.

9 A contemporary of Confucius was a teacher named Laozi. Most of what we know about Laozi is so heavily mixed with legend, that it is difficult to know what is true, and what is myth.

10 Laozi taught that a force known as the Dao permeated all living things. He told his followers that the most important thing an individual could do is to reject the world, and their desires for worldly possessions and power, and commune with nature, bringing ones self into a state of oneness with the Dao.

11 Many individuals in China practices both Confucianism and Daoism. Confucianism taught them how to behave towards one another, while Daoism taught them how to behave towards the natural world, and with themselves personally.

12 Zarathustra (in Greek, Zoroaster) was a Persian prophet who lived in the sixth century B.C.E. At the age of 30, he believed he had visions of God (whom he called Ahura Mazda), the creator of all that is good and who alone is worthy of worship.

13 Zoroastrianism, the religion he inspired, was a departure from previous Indo-Persian polytheism. It has been termed the first non-biblical form of monotheism.

14 Zoroastrian theology is strongly dualistic. In his visions, Zarathustra was taken up to heaven, where Ahura Mazda revealed that he had an opponent, Angra Mainyu, the spirit and promoter of evil. Ahura Mazda Angra Mainyu

15 Zarathustra taught that humans are free to choose between right and wrong, truth and lie, and light and dark, and that their acts, words, and thoughts would affect their lives after death.

16 Most religious historians believe that the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim beliefs concerning God and Satan, the soul, heaven and hell, the virgin birth, the slaughter of innocents, the resurrection, and the final judgment were all derived from Zoroastrianism.

17 Early Shinto focused on mythology and nature. There is no real founder, organized teachings, nor ritual use of scripture. Earliest evidence of Shinto practice and ritual is about 2500 years old.

18 The word kami literally means high or superior refers to the spirits that are everywhere. Kami are found in everything. Their emergence is explained in the story of two main deities, Izanagi (brother) and Izanami(sister); the sun goddess, Amaterasu, was born during a cleansing performed by Izanagi and is the most significant deity of Shinto.

19 As Chinese religions made their way to Japan around 250BCE, Shinto embraced aspects of both Taoism and Confucianism. Later, it also adopted many elements of Buddhism.

20 Acts and rituals of purity symbolize the act of purification that led to the birth of key deities in Shinto. People can become impure for a variety of reasons, but must ask a priest to appeal to the kami on their behalf. A person is not always at fault, but must take measures to become ritually clean again.

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