 The terms for major world religions today, including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Shintoism, did not exist until the 19th century.Smith suggests that practitioners of any given faith do not historically come to regard what they do as "religion" until they have developed a degree of cultural self-regard, causing them to see their collective spiritual practices and beliefs as in some way significantly "different" from the "other".Religion in the contemporary sense of the word is for Smith the product of both identity politics and apologetics