Like language, religion has also divided the people of South Asia. The major religions in the subcontinent are Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, Buddhism, and Christianity. The chart below shows the different religions in South Asia and the percent of the more than 1.29 billion people who practice each of them.

Religion is constantly influencing society and geography. This sidebar is a short summary of the three major religions of South Asia: Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam. These three religions are all in the top four religions in the world.

South Asia is the birthplace of four of the world’s religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism. Three that come from West Asia: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism arrived later. Zoroastrianism, the major religion in ancient Persia (now Iran) until it became Muslim, also survives in India.

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.

Adherents in 2020

The total population of Christians in Punjab according to 2011 census is about 3.5 lakhs. By 2018, he had 1.2 lakh followers and his followers were growing double every year by his own admission. By 2020, he would have about 3-4 lakh members. This itself doubles the number of Christians in Punjab.

Buddhism and Confucianism are the most influential religions in the lives of the South Korean people. Buddhism, which arrived in Korea in 372AD, has tens of thousands of temples built across the country….Growth: Number of temples by denomination.

1.3%

Sikhism is the most practiced faith in Punjab, practiced by 16 million people representing 57.69% of the population of Punjab population….Religions in Punjab.

Scheduled Caste

Among these mainly Abrahamic religions, the most numerous is Christianity (Ethiopian Orthodoxy, Pentay, Roman Catholic) totaling at 62.8%, followed by Islam at 33.9% . There is also a longstanding but small Jewish community….Adherents.

Judaism was practiced in Ethiopia long before Christianity arrived and the Ethiopian Orthodox Bible contains numerous Jewish Aramaic words.

“According to Ethiopian tradition, Christianity first came to the Aksum Empire in the fourth century A.D. when a Greek-speaking missionary named Frumentius converted King Ezana.

“Ethiopian” was a Greek term for black-skinned peoples generally, often applied to Kush (which was well known to the Hebrews and often mentioned in the Hebrew Bible). The first writer to call it Ethiopia was Philostorgius around 440.

Moses and his Ethiopian wife Zipporah (Dutch: Mozes en zijn Ethiopische vrouw Seporah), c. 1645–1650, is a painting by Jacob Jordaens, a Flemish Baroque painter….

2,000 years

In Matthew 19:12, Christ describes three types of people as unfit for marriage, namely those who have been castrated (which all exegetes take as indicating eunuchs); those born incapable (con- genital eunuchs) and those who, by their own free choice and for the glory of God’s Kingdom, abstain from marrying (voluntary …

However a eunuch is born when there is nondisjunction of the sex chromosomes during gamete formation as a result of which eunuchs have XXY as their sex chromosomes. Thus they are neither completely males nor females. Typically, castration impairs a person; rendering often a male, into an eunuch.

However, in general hijras are born male, only a few having been born with intersex variations. Some Hijras undergo an initiation rite into the hijra community called nirvaan, which involves the removal of the penis, scrotum and testicles.

Eunuchs of the Chosun Dynasty lived with privileges: Korean eunuchs were conferred with official ranks and were legally allowed to marry, a practice that was officially banned in the Chinese Empire. In addition, married couples were also entitled to have children by adopting castrated boys or normal girls.

Eunuchs can now choose a gender of their liking and some can even give birth to babies, thanks to a special procedure developed at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. At least 18 of the treated patients have also given birth to babies,” said Dr DK Gupta, head of the department of paediatric surgeries.

The earliest records for intentional castration to produce eunuchs are from the Sumerian city of Lagash in the 21st century BC. Eunuchs would usually be servants or slaves who had been castrated to make them reliable servants of a royal court where physical access to the ruler could wield great influence.

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