What is the worlds oldest religion still being practiced today?
“Urreligion (“primeval religion”, “proto-religion” or “primitive religion”) is a notion of an “original” or “oldest” form of religious tradition. The term contrasts with organized religion, such as the theocracies of the early urban cultures of the Ancient Near East or current world religions. The term originates in German Romanticism. The Oeconomische Encyclopädie of J. G. Krünitz (1773 – 1858) defines it as “the oldest natural religion of mankind, in particular the religion of Adam and Eve, which according to the dogmatists is supposed to have been revealed” The notion of a monotheistic primeval religion was forwarded by Friedrich Creuzer (1810) and taken up by other authors of the Romantic period, such as J. J. Bachofen, but decidedly opposed by Johann Heinrich Voss. Goethe in a conversation with Eckermann on 11 March 1832 discussed the human Urreligion, which he characterized as “pure nature and [pure] reason, of divine origin”. The final scene of his Faust Part Two has been taken
