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Religion and its historical traditions

With the study of religion taking centre stage in the new AS and A-level specifications, understanding the historical context of religion is of increasing importance. Peter Manning guides you through the origins of the major world religions

The reclining Buddha statue at Wat Pho, Thailand

For each religious faith community, there exists a conviction that it enables access to some kind of wisdom or ‘revealed’ truth about the nature of reality and how we should respond to life. While there is an immense diversity in religious belief and practice across and even within different religions, it is possible to group religions into three broad and distinct categories:

■ primal religious traditions

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