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This study covers academic research and personal involvement in religious in Africa, Asia and Europe and showed constant change in individual and group understandings of their religion and the gap with theological thinking about what people wanted from their faiths. This work showed that there are no simple religious paradigms whatever the type or intellectual capacity of the individuals and communities involved; they are all complex. Each religious act has a fan ...
Violence for or against those who hold a religious belief has been common enough historically but has now become commoner in Africa, Asia and Europe. The majority of this Violence has been Christian with Islam less prominent but now this preponderance is seemingly reversed. Buddhism, Hinduism and Taism have been much less violent. These is always the difficulty that religion cannot be defined and religious behaviour is never isolatable from economic, social and ...