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This paper examines most of the world's religions and discusses them in the following contexts: founder and history; gods; views on creation; views on death and the afterlife; and major holidays, festivals, and rites.
The religions discussed are Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Taoism, Shinto, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Baha'ism, Hinduism, and Wicca.

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"Like Christianity is to Judaism, Buddhism formed basically as an offshoot of Hinduism. The historical Buddha, known as Gautama Buddha, was a high caste Hindu named Siddhartha who underwent a period of fasting and meditation with monks. Afterwards, he rejected some of the main tenets of Hinduism and preached a Middle Path or Middle Way between worldliness and extreme asceticism. A group of followers helped to organize the Buddha's teachings into a formal religion, much as the Christian apostles and later theologians codified Christianity. Therefore, Gautama Buddha was not so much the founder of the religion as its key prophet and figurehead."

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