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Religion is a social institution that includes a set of common beliefs and practices held by a group of people, often codified as prayer, ritual, and religious law, it   encompasses ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, mythology, personal faith, and mystic experience, have a prescribed set of beliefs often taking the form of a legal entity, some believe in personal revelation and responsibility, it is faith or a belief system, in God, Jesus Christ, Gautama Buddha, Alah, a higher power,

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Abrahamic Religions 3.4 billion;

Christianity 2.1 billion 1st c. Worldwide except Northwest Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and parts of Central, East, and Southeast Asia.

Islam 1.5 billion 7th c. Middle East, Northern Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, Western Africa, Eastern Africa, Indian subcontinent, Russia, China, Balkans, Malay Archipelago

Judaism 14 million Iron Age Israel, USA, Europe

Bahá'í Faith 7 million 19th c. Dispersed worldwide with no major population centers

Indian religions 1.4 billion

Hinduism 900 million no founder Indian subcontinent, Fiji, Guyana and Mauritius

Buddhism 376 million Iron Age Indian subcontinent, East Asia, Indochina, regions of Russia.

Sikhism 23 million 16th c. India, Pakistan, Africa, Canada, USA, United Kingdom

Jainism 4.2 million Iron Age India, and East Africa

Far Eastern religions 500 million;

Taoism unknown Spring and Autumn Period China and the Chinese diaspora

Confucianism unknown Spring and Autumn Period China, Korea, Vietnam and the Chinese and Vietnamese diasporas

Shinto 4 million no founder Japan

Caodaism 1-2 million 1925 Vietnam

Chondogyo 1.13 million 1812 Korea

Yiguandao 1-2 million c. 1900 Taiwan

Chinese folk religion 394 million no founder China

Ethnic/tribal 400 million

Primal indigenous 300 million no founder India, Asia

African traditional and diasporic 100 million no founder Africa, Americas

Groups estimated to exceed 500,000

Religion is a notion of the transcendent or divine, often, but not always, in the form of theism or belief in the existence of one or more divinities or deities, it is a cultural or behavioural aspect of ritual, liturgy and organized worship, often involving a priesthood, and societal norms of morality or ethos and virtue or arete, it's a set of myths or sacred truths held in reverence or believed by adherents, the presence of a belief in the sacred or the holy, the essence of religious awareness as awe with a unique blend of fear and fascination before the divine, the feeling of absolute dependence, this type of depth dimension in a culture or structure constitutes religion in its historically recognizable form, some atheists, agnostics, deists, and skeptics regard religious belief as superstition, superstition being a deviation of religious feeling and the practices this feeling imposes, ethnic religions may include officially sanctioned and organized civil religions with an organized clergy but,  adherents are generally characterized and defined by ethnicity and assimilation.
 

Theism: 

 Agnosticism · Atheism · Deism
Henotheism · Ignosticism · Misotheism
Monism · Monotheism · Nontheism
Pandeism · Panentheism · Pantheism
Polytheism · Theism · Transcendence
Theology (natural • political • mystical)

Names · "God" · Existence · Gender
Creator · Architect · Demiurge · Sustainer
Lord · Father · Monad · Oneness
Supreme Being · The All · Personal
Unitarianism · Ditheism · Trinity
Omniscience · Omnipotence
Omnipresence · Omnibenevolence
in Bahá'í · in Buddhism · in Christianity
in Hinduism · in Islam · in Judaism
in Sikhism

Faith · Prayer · Belief · Revelation
Fideism · Gnosis · Metaphysics
Mysticism · Hermeticism · Esotericism

Philosophy · Religion · Ontology
God complex · God gene
Problem of evil (Euthyphro dilemma • Theodicy)
Chaos · Cosmos · Cosmic egg

Theism — The belief that gods or deities exist and interact with the universe.
Atheism — A lack of belief that gods exist. 
Deism — The belief that a god or gods exists, but does not interact with the universe.
Agnosticism — The belief that there is no way to know about gods or deities. 
Some classifications group atheism and agnosticism together under the classification of nontheism — absence of clearly identified belief in any deity.

Subcategories of theism are:

polytheism — The belief in and worship of multiple gods or deities. 
monotheism — The belief in and worship of a single god. 
This taxonomy is based on beliefs about the existence of god or gods. Other taxonomies are possible. For example, a different taxonomy is based on beliefs about the nature or characteristics (rather than the existence) of God or the gods. Examples include:

pantheism — The belief that God and the universe are equivalent, or belief that acknowledges other gods.
panentheism — The belief that the universe is part of God
dystheism or maltheism — the belief that God is not, as is often assumed, good, but is actually evil

Animism: The belief that everything has a soul. 
Monolatry: The belief that there may be more than one deity, but only one should be worshipped.
Henotheism: The belief that there may be more than one deity, but one is supreme.
Kathenotheism: The belief that there is more than one deity, but only one deity at a time should be worshipped. Each is supreme in turn.

Some theistic religions are: Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Bahá'í Faith, Sikhism and Islam.
Some atheistic religions are: Confucianism and Buddhism

Polytheism is the belief that there is more than one deity. In practice, polytheism is not just the belief that there are multiple gods; it usually includes belief in the existence of a specific pantheon of distinct deities. Hinduism

Exclusive monotheism: The belief that there is only one deity, and that all other claimed deities are distinct from it and false — either invented, demonic, or simply incorrect. Most Abrahamic religions, and the Hindu denomination of Vaishnavism

Deism is the belief in god or deity based on reason. It typically rejects supernatural events (prophecy, miracles) and divine revelation prominent in organized religion

Atheism denies the existence of God.

Agnosticism is the position that it is not possible to know whether gods exist.