Religious text Hinduism is estimated to have been composed between 1700–1100 BCE, which not only denotes it as one of the oldest known religious texts, but also one of the oldest written religious text which is still actively used in religious practice to this day, though no actual evidence of this text exists prior to the 13th century AD. There are many possible dates given to the first writings which can be connected to Talmudic and Biblical traditions, the earliest of which is found in scribal documentation of the 8th century BCE, followed by administrative documentation from temples of the 5th and
Religion in China reconstruction of lineage churches and their ancestral temples, as well as of cults and temples of natural gods and national heroes within broader Chinese traditional religion, as part of the renewal of Confucianism. Other forms of revival are folk religious movements of salvation with a Confucian focus, or Confucian churches, for example the "Yidan xuetang" (一耽学堂) of Beijing, the "Mengmutang" (孟母堂) of Shanghai, Confucian Shenism (儒宗神教 "Rúzōng Shénjiào") or the phoenix churches, the Confucian Fellowship (儒教道坛 "Rújiào Dàotán") of northern Fujian, and ancestral temples of the Kong (Confucius') lineage operating as churches for Confucian teaching. Also the Hong Kong Confucian