Talk:Religion in Asia

Religious pluralism and harmony in asia

In most of asian continent multiple religions have co-existed peacefully for centuries together that includes South asia,south east asia,and chinese sub continental areas.If some part of middele east and central asia excluded; most part of Asian continent has age old tradition of religious pluralism and harmony.

Want to add a new section in the article as above,(Hope this will out grow and we can make an indipendant article Religious pluralism and harmony in asia in near future.)

We get more than 1100 search results to this term on english wikipedia itself. Please join with me in improving and giving references to above paragraph. - Mahitgar (talk) 07:08, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

The information has been added in the article. Thanks. --Abhijeet Safai (talk) 07:50, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Islam being largest

Islam is by a significant gap, the largest religion in Asia, this should be mentioned in the start as it is an important stat. It was always mentioned before yet someone has removed it. This is confirmed by latest PEW statistics and all other data, so it shouldn't be removed for bigoted reasons or to accommodate online hinduvta trolls. It is extremely misleading that visitors should have to go more than halfway down the page before reading about Islam and the fact that it's the largest religion in Asia. Ideally, the abrahamic religions should have been mentioned first as they are the largest group in Asia. Just because dharmic and chinese religions are older doesn't mean they should cover half the beginning of the page and completely overlook the largest group in Asia (Abrahamic religions). By that logic neopagan and aboriginal religions should be mentioned first in Europe and North America.

  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.190.66.162 (talk) 07:31, 5 July 2019 (UTC) 

No, there is no "significant gap" between Islam and Hinduism, both have about 1.1 Bio adherents in Asia. Unbiased is to mention both or none. --Nillurcheier (talk) 13:03, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Eastern religions into Religion in Asia

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was the articles should not be merged. C933103 (talk) 12:37, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

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overlapping content -- AquaDTRS (talk) 05:36, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose - "Religion in Asia" is too broad, and the topics too disconnected. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 06:47, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

• I should clarify that Sections 1 and 2 of both articles are almost identical in structure, they list the Indian and East Asian religions and then lead on to their main articles. If there is reason to keep both article titles, one section could be merged into the other so that the content wouldn't overlap. But it appears here that Eastern religions is a subset of Religion in Asia, and a distinction can still be made if the former existed as a section in the latter. -- AquaDTRS (talk) 17:25, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose As stated by Joshua Jonathan (talk · contribs) "Religion in Asia" is too broad and merely refers to all the religions practiced in Asia (including the Western/Abrahamic religions of West and Central Asia). "Eastern religions" refers to a specific family of religions which share a common root tracing back to the belief systems of ancient India and China and primarily practiced in East, South and Southeast Asia. (Sapah3 (talk) 11:34, 27 July 2020 (UTC))

• Strongly Oppose Asian religions include both the Abrahamic religions (One-God religions) and the Eastern religions (Multiple-God religions). How can you mix up two fundamentally different topics? Kenwick (talk) 14:30, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

We should have another referendum some point since the 2 account above were mal (malipuative/malicious intent)

I also apose a merger, but just saying this discussion was rigged Doremon764 (talk) 22:43, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose – Firstly, as said above, "Eastern religions" is generally used only for the religions originating in South Asia or East Asia (and perhaps some others in the more eastern part of Asia, like Tengrism). It does not include the Abrahamic religions or Zoroastrianism. Secondly, and more importantly, this article is not just about the religions themselves, but also their history and sociology in Asia specifically. Just as we have Religion in Africa, for example, which is not just about African religions but also the history and practice of other religions (most notably Islam and Christianity) in Africa. If there were an article called "Asian religions", perhaps "Eastern religions" could be merged into it if that would not make it too large, but that is not the case. Gazelle55 (talk) 19:26, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Editing error in Religious distribution for East Asia

There seems to be an editing error in the Editing error in Religious distribution table for East Asia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.195.186.145 (talk) 09:06, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

What is the error? Gazelle55 (talk) 19:17, 24 February 2021 (UTC)