Curated category
Religious identity
- Jehovah's WitnessesIn 1870, Charles Taze Russell formed a Bible study group in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This small gathering would eventually grow into a global movement known…
- HindusThe word Hindu first appeared in the 5th-century BCE DNa inscription of Darius I as a Persian geographical term for people living beyond the Indus River.
- MuslimsThe word muslim or moslem is the active participle of the same verb from which islām derives, based on the triliteral S-L-M meaning to be whole or intact.
- BuddhistsThe English word Buddhist emerged in the early 19th century, formed from Buddha and the suffix -ist. Its earliest recorded usage in English dates to 1810.
- JewsThe Merneptah Stele, dated to approximately 1200 BCE, bears the earliest known inscription mentioning a people called Israel.
- ChristiansThe word Christian derives from the Koine Greek term Christianos, a translation of the Biblical Hebrew mashiach. This Greek title means anointed one and…