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About Comparative Religion
Comparative religion is a discipline of religious studies concerned with the systematic comparison of the world’s religions’ doctrines and practices, themes, and impacts (including migration). The comparative study of religion, in general, leads to a better understanding of religion’s core philosophical issues, such as ethics, metaphysics, and the nature and forms of salvation.
Understanding human ideas and practices about the sacred, numinous, spiritual, and divine can be widened and refined by studying such material. 1st
A typical geographical classification[2] of the major global religions distinguishes groups such as Middle Eastern religions (including Iranian religions), Indian religions, and East Asian religions in the subject of comparative religion.
The word comparative religion refers to the study of all religious traditions and forms, as opposed to the study or exposition of just one. It is, in the ideal case, the systematic, historically informed examination of commonalities and differences among faiths. Indeed, the concept of an academic study entails a cross-cultural or global view.
Comparison is a fundamental mental process that involves collecting similar items into a common category or pattern while simultaneously observing how the examples differ in respect to one another. Thought and science are built on such links and interconnections. There are just isolated, contextless facts without them. Generalizations, interpretations, and hypotheses are formed on the basis of comparison.