Four Categories of Religions

   All we know that there is an enormous number of religions throughout the world 🌍 and each and every religions follower claim it to be the sole truth or at least the most evident truth. Have you ever pondered to categorize the types of religions? If not then let's do this job here. I hope you will appreciate and like this beautiful discussion.

Our today's division is on basis of history, dogmas and important concepts in the religions. Exceptions do exist and we will discuss these exceptions also,

Dharamic Religions: 

Notable Dharmic Religions are Hinduism, Bhuddhism, Jainism and Brahminism etc. There are also many other Dharmic Religions whose mention here will prolong the article. Most of the (discussed exclusively, we can indeed say all) Dharmic Religions were originated in subcontinent which encompassed today's India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and parts of Afghanistan and Burma. The important concepts of Dharmic Religions are Karma, Cycles of time, Nirvana, polytheism ( or just veneration to sculptures in car of Buddhism and Jainism), asceticism, a compodium of Scriptures, Avatars and vegetarianism.

Abrahimic/  Revelationary Religions:

Abrahimic religions are the most wide spread and popular religions in the contemporary world. The most famous Abrahimic religions are Christianity, Islam and Judaism. These all religions are strongly monotheistic in their nature. The whole doctrine of these religions revolve around a certain book and certain individual. More or less these religions are more universal in their natures  ad compared to Dharmic religions. The main concept of these religions are Monotheism, holy books, Prophets, Angels, dooms day , life after death and strong unitary moral code etc. 

Indigenous Religions:

Indigenous Religions is a domain for a range of diverse and totally incompatible religions. These religions are diverse in their doctrine. These can be atheistic in nature, monotheistic in a loose way or polytheistic. Indigenous Religions were never involved or interested in conversion. These can be simply termed as cultural components which also contains spiritual aspects. For example African indigenous Religions in which each and every tribe used to have their own moral codes, deities etc. Chinese indigenous Religions or Japanese indigenous Religions like shintoism. The common values in this category are difficult to mention but usually they venerate ancestoral spirits, and have a strong tendency toward black magic etc. 

New Age Religious Movements/ Syncretic Religions:

New Age Religious Movements or syncretic religions are those which are exceptional to all the three above mentioned categories. Usually these movements were formed in reaction to disagreements with these religions. For example one of the oldest religion whom I included in this category is Sikhism, which was formed as a result of mingling between Islam and Hinduism so it contains characters and elements of both these religions. Other examples include the modern religions, like Tenrikyo, Otomoo, Eckankar, Vardankar, Baha'i Faith, Subud etc. The most important concepts of these religions which are common among these include universalism, no emphasize on being the sole truth, usually they accepted monotheism and karma, and pantheism is also very common to these.