islam is the most common religion in lebanon.
islam is the most common religion in lebanon.
what is the most common religion in lebanon?
islam
the kurdish people have different religions depending on the country in which they live in or they have cultural and ethnic links to that religion, the most common religion among kurds is sunni islam, practiced by 98% of kurds living in iraqi kurdistan. the kurds of turkey are 30% alevi out of a population of approximately 15-22 million kurds and 68% follow sunni islam. religion has become a fundamental part of what it means to be a kurd. the first known religion of the kurds was zoroastrianism, an ancient iranian religion. as zoroastrianism was fading from the ancient areas of mesopotamia and anatolia yezidism was becoming more accepted as the main religion of the kurds in the shingal area (sinjar) the 12-13th century and more yezidi tribes expanded into south-eastern anatolia. the areas where the kurds consider their homeland have a wide variety of religions including islam, christianity and judaism which have all at one point existed in the kurdish areas. the religion of the kurds has been changing constantly throughout history.
kurdish culture
because this common religion is embedded in chinese social relations, it historically has never had an objectifying name. since the 2000s, chinese scholars have proposed names to identify it more clearly, including "chinese native religion" or "chinese indigenous religion" (民俗宗教 "mínsú zōngjiào"), "chinese ethnic religion" (民族宗教 "mínzú zōngjiào"), or simply "chinese religion" (中華教 "zhōnghuájiào"), "shenism" (神教 "shénjiào") and "shenxianism" (神仙教 "shénxiānjiào", "religion of deities and immortals"). this search for a precise name is meant to solve terminological confusion, since "folk religion" (民间宗教 "mínjiān zōngjiào") or "folk belief" (民间信仰 "mínjiān xìnyǎng") have historically defined the sectarian movements of salvation and not the local cults devoted to deities and progenitors, and it is also meant to identify a "national chinese religion" similarly to hinduism in india and shinto in japan.
religion in china