Concept of Religion in World Religions and the Corresponding Concept of Religious Freedom

Abstract

The religions do not share a singular concept of religion but rather have their own distinctive understanding of what the world entails. In the light of this, they arguably possess their own concept of religious freedom. This point is illustrated with evidence drawn from Primal Religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. All of these religions seem to provide for religious freedom in different ways and to a different extent, within the framework of their own worldview, which generates the possibility that religious freedom could be secured on either on a religious or secular basis, or on the basis of both.