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Pathways of Belief is an educational British television series that shows viewers what people do in certain religions. It aired on BBC2 between 1996 and 2001. It ran for 6 series. [1] The religions covered were Christianity, Sikhism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism.
Series One 1996
Series Two 1997
Series Three 1998
Hindus are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism. Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for people living in the Indian subcontinent.
Monotheism is the belief that God is the only deity, and that the world is a separate reality in which God intervenes, often through supernatural means. A distinction may be made between exclusive monotheism, in which the one God is a singular existence, and both inclusive and pluriform monotheism, in which multiple gods or godly forms are recognized, but each are postulated as extensions of the same God.
Religious conversion is the adoption of a set of beliefs identified with one particular religious denomination to the exclusion of others. Thus "religious conversion" would describe the abandoning of adherence to one denomination and affiliating with another. This might be from one to another denomination within the same religion, for example, from Protestant Christianity to Roman Catholicism or from Sunnī Islam to Shīʿa Islam. In some cases, religious conversion "marks a transformation of religious identity and is symbolized by special rituals".
A martyr is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external party.
Comparative religion is the branch of the study of religions with the systematic comparison of the doctrines and practices, themes and impacts of the world's religions. In general the comparative study of religion yields a deeper understanding of the fundamental philosophical concerns of religion such as ethics, metaphysics and the nature and forms of salvation. It also considers and compares the origins and similarities shared between the various religions of the world. Studying such material facilitates a broadened and more sophisticated understanding of human beliefs and practices regarding the sacred, numinous, spiritual and divine.
Religious nationalism can be understood in a number of ways, such as nationalism as a religion itself, a position articulated by Carlton Hayes in his text Nationalism: A Religion, or as the relationship of nationalism to a particular religious belief, dogma, ideology, or affiliation. This relationship can be broken down into two aspects: the politicisation of religion and the influence of religion on politics.
In the field of comparative religion, many scholars, academics, and religious figures have looked at the relationships between Hinduism and other religions.
British society is one of the most secularised in the world and in many surveys determining religious beliefs of the population agnosticism, nontheism, atheism, secular humanism, and non-affiliation are views shared by a majority of Britons. Historically, it was dominated for over 1,400 years by various forms of Christianity, which replaced preceding Romano-British religions, including Celtic and Anglo-Saxon paganism. Religious affiliations of United Kingdom citizens are recorded by regular surveys, the four major ones being the national decennial census, the Labour Force Survey, the British Social Attitudes survey and the European Social Survey.
As of the year 2024, Christianity had approximately 2.1 billion adherents and is the Largest Religion Temporarily [A study in Singapore Revealed the approximate amount of Christians and Islam will most likely be the 1st Religion by 2030]. According to a estimation in 2021,[Census] Christians made up to 2.14 billion of the worldwide population of about 8 billion people.</ref>–
310,000 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.2% | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | |- | Turkmenistan (details) | style="text-align:right;" | 440,000 | style="text-align:right;" | 8.7% | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | 9% |- | Uganda (details) | style="text-align:right;" | 26,500,000 | style="text-align:right;" 77% | style="text-align:right;" | 39.3% | style="text-align:right;" | 45.2% |- | Ukraine (details) | style="text-align:right;" | 23,700,600 | style="text-align:right;" | 68,5% | style="text-align:right;" | 7.5% | style="text-align:right;" | 68% |- | United Arab Emirates (details) | style="text-align:right;" | 900,000 | style="text-align:right;" | 10% | style="text-align:right;" | 7% | style="text-align:right;" | 2% |- | United Kingdom (details) | style="text-align:right;" | 18,760,500 - 19,000,000 | style="text-align:right;" | 31% - 31% | style="text-align:right;" | 7% | style="text-align:right;" | 31% |- | United States (details) | style="text-align:right;" | 195,000,000 | style="text-align:right;" | 61% (2019)-73% | style="text-align:right;" | 20%-22.7% | style="text-align:right;" | 45%-48.5% |- | Uruguay (details) | style="text-align:right;" | 1,941,000 | style="text-align:right;" | 58.1% | style="text-align:right;" | 47% | style="text-align:right;" | 11% |- | Uzbekistan (details) | style="text-align:right;" | 700,000 | style="text-align:right;" | 2.5% | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | 2.5% |- | Venezuela (details) | style="text-align:right;" | 28,000,000 | style="text-align:right;" | 88.0% | style="text-align:right;" | 71% | style="text-align:right;" | 17% |- | Vietnam (details) | style="text-align:right;" | 6,800,000 | style="text-align:right;" | 7% | style="text-align:right;" | 6.1% | style="text-align:right;" | 1.0% |- | Yemen (details) | style="text-align:right;" | 25,000-41,000 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.01% | style="text-align:right;" | 0.01% | style="text-align:right;" | |- | Zambia (details) | style="text-align:right;" | 12,400,000 | style="text-align:right;" | 92.8% | style="text-align:right;" | 20.2% | style="text-align:right;" | 72.3% |- | Zimbabwe (details) | style="text-align:right;" | 11,650,000 | style="text-align:right;" | 83.1% | style="text-align:right;" | 17% | style="text-align:right;" | 63% |- style="background:#9ff;" !| Europe ! 480,100,000 ! 72.1% ! 35.0% ! 41.2% |- style="background:#9ff;" !| Latin America and the Caribbean ! 510,500,400 ! 86.0% ! 70% ! 20% |- style="background:#9ff;" !| Africa ! 530,100,480 ! 43.1% ! 43.1% ! 41.7% |- style="background:#9ff;" !| Asia ! 220,000,000-220,000,000 ! 7.0%-12.0% ! 3.0%-5.1% ! 4.0%-5% |- style="background:#9ff;" !| North America ! 245,000,000 ! 72% ! 22.0% ! 55.4% |- style="background:#9ff;" !| Oceania ! 21,400,000 ! 73.3% ! 38.9% ! 34.4% |- style="background:#9ff;" !| Middle East-North Africa ! 12,000,000–16,000,000 ! 3.8%-5.0% ! 2.0%-2.6% ! 1.8%-2.3% |- style="background:#9ff;" !| Total ! 2,105,600,000 ! 27.3% ! 16.9% ! 16.5% |}
Religion has been a major influence on the societies, cultures, traditions, philosophies, artistic expressions and laws within present-day Europe. The largest religion in Europe is Christianity. However, irreligion and practical secularisation are also prominent in some countries. In Southeastern Europe, three countries have Muslim majorities, with Christianity being the second-largest religion in those countries. Ancient European religions included veneration for deities such as Zeus. Modern revival movements of these religions include Heathenism, Rodnovery, Romuva, Druidry, Wicca, and others. Smaller religions include Indian religions, Judaism, and some East Asian religions, which are found in their largest groups in Britain, France, and Kalmykia.
Chuhra, also known as Bhanghi and Balmiki, is a Dalit caste in India and Pakistan. Populated regions include the Punjab region of India and Pakistan, as well as Uttar Pradesh in India, among other parts of the Indian subcontinent such as southern India. Their traditional occupation is sweeping, a "polluting" occupation that caused them to be considered untouchables in the caste system.
Hinduism and Sikhism are Indian religions. Hinduism has pre-historic origins, while Sikhism was founded in the 15th century by Guru Nanak. Both religions share many philosophical concepts such as karma, dharma, mukti, and maya although both religions have different interpretation of some of these concepts.
Asia is the largest and most populous continent and the birthplace of many religions including Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism and Zoroastrianism. All major religious traditions are practiced in the region and new forms are constantly emerging. Asia is noted for its diversity of culture.
Several different religions are practised in Indonesia. Indonesia is officially a presidential republic and a unitary state without an established state religion. Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population and the first principle of Indonesia's philosophical foundation, Pancasila, requires its citizens to state the belief in "the one and almighty God". Although, as explained by the Constitutional Court, this first sila of Pancasila is an explicit recognition of divine substances and meant as a principle on how to live together in a religiously diverse society. However, blasphemy is a punishable offence and the Indonesian government has a discriminatory attitude towards its numerous tribal religions, atheist and agnostic citizens. In addition, the Aceh province officially applies Sharia law and is notorious for its discriminatory practices towards religious and sexual minorities. There are also Islamic fundamentalist movements in several parts of the country with overwhelming Muslim majorities.
Forced conversion is the adoption of a religion or irreligion under duress. Someone who has been forced to convert to a different religion or irreligion may continue, covertly, to adhere to the beliefs and practices which were originally held, while outwardly behaving as a convert. Crypto-Jews, Crypto-Christians, Crypto-Muslims and Crypto-Pagans are historical examples of the latter.
Growth of religion involves the spread of individual religions and the increase in the numbers of religious adherents around the world. In sociology, desecularization is the proliferation or growth of religion, most commonly after a period of previous secularization. Statistics commonly measure the absolute number of adherents, the percentage of the absolute growth per-year, and the growth of converts in the world.
Religion in India is characterised by a diversity of religious beliefs and practices. Throughout India's history, religion has been an important part of the country's culture and the Indian subcontinent is the birthplace of four of the world's major religions, namely, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, which are collectively known as native Indian Religions or Dharmic Religions and represent around 83% of the total population of India.
Islam is the state religion of Malaysia, as per Article 3 of the Constitution. Meanwhile, other religions can be practised by non-Malay citizens of the country. In addition, per Article 160, one must be Muslim to be considered Malay. As of the 2020 Population and Housing Census, 63.5 percent of the population practices Islam; 18.7 percent Buddhism; 9.1 percent Christianity; 6.1 percent Hinduism; and 2.7 percent other religion or gave no information. The remainder is accounted for by other faiths, including Animism, Folk religion, Sikhism, Baháʼí Faith and other belief systems. The states of Sarawak, Penang and the federal territory of Kuala Lumpur have non-Muslim majorities. Numbers of self-described atheists in Malaysia are few as renouncing Islam is prohibited for Muslims in Malaysia. As such, the actual number of atheists or converts in the country are hard to ascertain out of fear from being ostracised or prosecution. The state has come under criticism from human rights organisations for the government's discrimination against atheists, with some cabinet members saying that "the freedom of religion is not the freedom from religion".
This is a list of British television-related events from 1996.