Early World Religions

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This paper argues that the emergence of early world religions in the East have influenced the preservation of traditional societies among the nations and the region, while the development and predominance of Christianity in the West led to society's development to being industrialized and modernized.

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"With the creation of sedentary societies after the prehistoric period, human society had also cultivated specific economic, political and cultural structures that define specific characteristics of a human society. Economic structures include the creation of an agricultural economy, where plant cultivation and animal farming created a living for people. With an agricultural economy, political organization was also created, wherein class divisions emerge from division of labor and ownership of means of production. Culturally, human societies have created rituals, traditions, and beliefs which they developed and passed on throughout history to continue the heritage that are distinctly theirs. Religious philosophy is one such example of a product of culture: as a human experience, religion serves as humanity's "connection" with their reality and an acknowledgment of the metaphysical."

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