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  2. ↑ See:
    • Fowler: "probably the oldest religion in the world" (Fowler 1997, tr. 1)
    • Klostermaier: The "oldest living major religion" in the world (Klostermaier 2007, tr. 1)
    • Kurien: "There are almost a billion Hindus living on Earth. They practice the world's oldest religion..."[1]
    • Bakker: "it [Hinduism] is the oldest religion".[2]
    • Noble: "Hinduism, the world's oldest surviving religion, continues to provide the framework for daily life in much of South Asia."[3]

      Smart, on the other hand, calls it also one of the youngest religions: "Hinduism could be seen to be much more recent, though with various ancient roots: in a sense it was formed in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century."[4]

      Animism has also been called "the oldest religion." Leslie Elmer Sponsel: "Animism is by far the oldest religion in the world. Its antiquity seems to go back at least as far as the period of the Neanderthals some 60,000 to 80,000 years ago.[5]

      Australian linguist, R. M. W. Dixon discovered that Aboriginal myths regarding the origin of the Crater Lakes might be dated as accurate back to 10,000 years ago.[6]

      See also:
    • Urreligion, Shamanism, Animism, Ancestor worship for some of the oldest forms of religion
    • Sarnaism and Sanamahism, Indian Tribal religions connected to the earliest migrations into India
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  6. ↑ Among its roots are the Vedic religion of the late Vedic period (Flood 1996, tr. 16) and its emphasis on the status of Brahmans (Samuel 2010, tr. 48–53), but also the religions of the Indus Valley Civilisation (Narayanan 2009, tr. 11; Lockard 2007, tr. 52; Hiltebeitel 2007, tr. 3; Jones & Ryan 2006, tr. xviii) the Sramana or renouncer traditions of north-east India (Flood 1996, tr. 16; Gomez 2013, tr. 42), with possible roots in a non-Vedic Indo-Aryan culture (Bronkhorst 2007), and "popular or local traditions" (Flood 1996, tr. 16).
  1. ↑ sanatana dharma | Hinduism. Encyclopædia Britannica. Truy cập ngày 17 tháng 11 năm 2016. 
  2. ↑ “The Global Religious Landscape – Hinduism”. A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Major Religious Groups. Pew Research Foundation. 18 tháng 12 năm 2012. Truy cập ngày 31 tháng 3 năm 2013.