- "This period of religious history begins with the invention of writing about 5,200 years ago (3200 BCE)."
The study of the origin, development, and spread of religious beliefs and practices.
- "The prehistory of religion involves the study of religious beliefs that existed prior to the advent of written records."
- "Writing played a major role in standardizing religious texts regardless of time or location, and making easier the memorization of prayers and divine rules."
- "A small part of the Christian Bible involves the collation of oral texts handed down over the centuries."
- "The concept of 'religion' was formed in the 16th and 17th centuries."
- "Sacred texts like the Bible, the Quran, and others did not have a word or even a concept of religion in the original languages and neither did the people or the cultures in which these sacred texts were written."
- "The word religion as used in the 21st century does not have an obvious pre-colonial translation into non-European languages."
- "The anthropologist Daniel Dubuisson writes that 'what the West and the history of religions in its wake have objectified under the name 'religion' is ... something quite unique, which could be appropriate only to itself and its own history'."
- "The history of other cultures' interaction with the 'religious' category is therefore their interaction with an idea that first developed in Europe under the influence of Christianity."
- "This period of religious history begins with the invention of writing about 5,200 years ago (3200 BCE)."
- "Writing played a major role in standardizing religious texts regardless of time or location, and making easier the memorization of prayers and divine rules."
- "A small part of the Christian Bible involves the collation of oral texts handed down over the centuries."
- "The concept of 'religion' was formed in the 16th and 17th centuries."
- "Sacred texts like the Bible, the Quran, and others did not have a word or even a concept of religion in the original languages and neither did the people or the cultures in which these sacred texts were written."
- "The word religion as used in the 21st century does not have an obvious pre-colonial translation into non-European languages."
- "The anthropologist Daniel Dubuisson writes that 'what the West and the history of religions in its wake have objectified under the name 'religion' is... something quite unique, which could be appropriate only to itself and its own history'."
- "The history of other cultures' interaction with the 'religious' category is therefore their interaction with an idea that first developed in Europe under the influence of Christianity."
- "This period of religious history begins with the invention of writing about 5,200 years ago (3200 BCE)."
- "Writing played a major role in standardizing religious texts regardless of time or location, and making easier the memorization of prayers and divine rules."
- "A small part of the Christian Bible involves the collation of oral texts handed down over the centuries."