Culture is defined to be the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular time according to the Cambridge Dictionary (Cambridge Dictionaries 2016). Hinduism is known to be the oldest living religion in the world and unlike most of other religions; Hinduism has no single founder, no single script, and no commonly set of teachings according to BBC.com. Hinduism has many cultural aspects to it such as they belief that existence is a cycle of birth, death and rebirth that is governed by Karma. (BBC.com). Music and dance are also a huge part of their culture. “Buddhist culture is perennial and so is as fresh today as it was in the Buddha's time 2500 years ago. It is also self-sufficient,
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It engendered no social perversity — hate and intolerance were for none, limitless loving-kindness and compassion were for all. According to Daniel Patte, who is the General Editor in the Cambodia University Press 2009, he say that “the relationship between Christianity and culture is a perennial problem. In his book Christ and Culture, H. Richard Niebuhr analyzes the different ways in which this relationship has been conceived. In his book he has five different ways of how it is the first being Christ against Culture, The Christ of Culture, Christ above Culture, Christ and Culture in Paradox and lastly Christ the Transformer of Culture. These five perspectives on the relationship between Christianity and culture are often simultaneously present in a given cultural context and/or a given denomination, causing tensions and confusions and factions.” (Cambodia University Press 2009) Where else in the Islamic culture that there is one God who is the creator of all mankind who is called “Allah” which in Arabic means God. They also believe that the God of all Abrahamic religions is the same
It engendered no social perversity — hate and intolerance were for none, limitless loving-kindness and compassion were for all. According to Daniel Patte, who is the General Editor in the Cambodia University Press 2009, he say that “the relationship between Christianity and culture is a perennial problem. In his book Christ and Culture, H. Richard Niebuhr analyzes the different ways in which this relationship has been conceived. In his book he has five different ways of how it is the first being Christ against Culture, The Christ of Culture, Christ above Culture, Christ and Culture in Paradox and lastly Christ the Transformer of Culture. These five perspectives on the relationship between Christianity and culture are often simultaneously present in a given cultural context and/or a given denomination, causing tensions and confusions and factions.” (Cambodia University Press 2009) Where else in the Islamic culture that there is one God who is the creator of all mankind who is called “Allah” which in Arabic means God. They also believe that the God of all Abrahamic religions is the same