NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Deborah Oleshansky with Jewish Federation of Nashville joins this edition of Issues of Faith to inform us about Judaism, the world's oldest Abrahamic religion.

Anthropologists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries hypothesized that animism was the earliest religion. But later scholars have called this theory into question. What is animism?

Hinduism is over 4,000 years old, making it one of the world's oldest religions. It is made up of a variety of different religious beliefs and practices. It originated near the Indus River in India.