There are about 40,000 followers of Islam in South Korea, most of the Muslims in South Korea are foreign migrant workers from South Asia, West Asia, Indonesia, and Malaysia to work in South Korea, and there are less than 30,000 local Korean Muslims. JF: Well, the thesis that was proposed by Father Troll was that Islam can enter into the modern world if the Koran is reinterpreted by taking the specific legislation, and going back to the principles, and then adapting it to our times, especially with the dignity that we ascribe to women, which has come through Christianity, of course. And again I find myself going round in circles. South Korea’s Hindu believers are mainly Indian and Nepalese migrant workers living in South Korea. The largest mosque in South Korea is the Seoul Central Mosque, and there are also smaller mosques in other cities. There are four main denominations of Christianity in Korea: Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, and Catholic. Christianity is an important religion in regions including Seoul, Incheon, Gyeonggi Province, and Honam.

Traditional Māori religion, that is, the pre-European belief-system of the Māori, differed little from that of their tropical Eastern Polynesian homeland (Hawaiki Nui), conceiving of everything – including natural elements and all living things – as connected by common descent through whakapapa or genealogy. Profound changes occurred in Japanese society in the 20th century (especially after World War II), including rapid industrialisation and urbanisation. Still, these earliest Japanese writings do not refer to a unified “Shinto religion”, but rather to a collection of native beliefs and of mythology. The written historical records of the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki first recorded and codified Shinto practices in the 8th century. According to estimates, as many as 70% of the populace follow Shinto rituals to some degree, worshiping ancestors and spirits at domestic altars and public shrines. Some of these observations include the veneration of elders, a strong commitment to education, and the rituals and rites dedicated to the dead.

But during his research, Davis discovered that the bokor used complex powders, made from dried and ground plants and animals, in their rituals. Since the Japanese language does not distinguish between singular and plural, kami refers to the divinity, or sacred essence, that manifests in multiple forms: rocks, trees, rivers, animals, places, and even people can be said to possess the nature of kami. Even if Jesus said the exact words, “I am God,” many people would not have believed Him or even heard what He had to say. Korean Catholics can still keep the traditional ritual of worshipping ancestors, just like Catholics in the Chinese world; on the contrary, Protestants have completely abandoned the ritual of worshipping ancestors. Koreans don’t like to admit they believe in Confucianism but you can still see some presence of Confucian influence throughout Korean society. Kratos’ deadly Spartan skills will be tested like never before as he battles gods and monsters across Nine Realms to protect his family. Will exercise help my depression? Because one has not been put forth here yet, and because I feel it is an important part of thinking about religion, I will put forth an anthropological definition/anthropological thoughts about religion.

234-235 The largest new religion, Soka Gakkai, a Buddhist sect founded in 1930, gathers around 4 million members. New sects of Shinto, as well as movements claiming a thoroughly independent status, and also new forms of Buddhist lay societies, provided ways of aggregation for people uprooted from traditional families and village institutions. Did you ever wonder why some people seem to be able to sell anything? Kami and people are not separate; they exist within the same world and share its interrelated complexity. Christianity saw a huge increase in the number of people professing it in the 1970s and 1980s. Growth continued in the 1990s, but at a slow pace, with numbers declining since the beginning of the twenty-first century. Protestant missionaries arrived in the Joseon Dynasty in 1880, and they and Catholic missionaries converted a large number of Koreans to Christianity. After the establishment of a communist regime in the north of the Korean peninsula, it is estimated that more than one million South Korean Christians fled to the south of the peninsula to escape the persecution of Christianity in North Korea.