Religion in the middle east

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Middle East region is a religion that includes Western Asia and Northern Africa. The term is referred to be Eurocentric and used as a synonym for Near East, in disagreement to Far East. Religion on the other hand can be referred to as a crucial set of beliefs and practices which are agreed upon by a number of sects or persons. When one looks at religion in the middles east, one realizes that the middle is much diverse. It is believed that many of the religions originated from the Middle East, Islamic religion is known to be the largest as it is the overwhelming with the majority of people. Although Islamic region overpowers other religions, Christianity and Judaism are also crucial since they have some followers. There are also other minority religions like Gnosticism, Yazidism, mandean, and bahai among others. This paper seeks to look at religion in the Middle East as well the goddess religion in the Middle East.
Middle East religion has been one of the alarming issues that people don`t understand well up to date. It is believed that most researchers have accepted the fact that modern humans invented in Africa about 200,000 to 250, 000 years ago. From this era till 8000 BCE, our ancestors organized themselves into hunter-gatherer societies. At this point, humans had developed awareness that their life ware predetermined and they thought that they would al die. Due to this trepidation, they decided to develop primitive religious belief.
Since their societies involved hunters and gatherers, those who relied mainly on hunting, developed hunting gods and on the other hand, those who relied on gathering created vegetative goddesses. This arouses the importance of fertility in crops, wild animals, domestic and animals, where they found them fundamental in their daily lives. During this era, the female life-giving principle was considered godly and it was believed that some goddess status still survive even in the modern days (Klotz, 1995).
The origin of goddess worship could be retrieved from archeological era, this is because most of the several carvings in the European culture stressed on the female carvings. In this era, female figures were found in several things which were curved which illustrated the beginning of the goddess worship. It was still noticed that male sculptures were not found and therefore most people said that female statues must have been the oldest European cultures, reason why goddess culture established most in the Middle East.
The Middle east religion was believed to have a culture that existed .for tens of thousands of years, and they all lived in peace where they were united by archeological believe that their society was matrilineal and children took their mothers names, time was experienced as a repetitive cycle and it as also based as on lunar calendar and this are some of the believes that united them under a single culture (James, 1960).
Though people in the Mi...