Hinduism

There are immense amount of religions in the world. There are also many religions that originated and split from a bigger religion or a concept of a religion. Throughout history, these religions that are similar to each other but different in a slightest way, had some of the biggest conflicts. Christianity and islam, few of the biggest religion that has both continued on for more than a thousand years, but still continues to fight to this very day. Christianity is very similar to Islam, as…

Religion Contradiction: A path towards unity or disunity? According to sunysuffolk.edu, Religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanly to an order of existence. Based on Wikipedia.com it is said that “the Philippines has more than 10 religions existing in the country. 80% of the Filipinos are considered to be Catholic, 4% of the Muslims and 16% are for the other religions”. If you look at it, Catholics are dominating the numbers. It is only…

Caste and Female Autobiographies: The majority of the mainstream society in Maharashtra was residing at villages. The caste system had arranged the people in the typical hierarchy. The caste was equivalent to surnames of the people. All of the people from different caste identity lived together like one big family, particularly at the villages like Jalalpur. (Tilak 68) No doubt, they followed the laws of untouchability. But they did not dominate one another through the caste system. Laxmibai…

1.1: INTRODUCTION Bodo is one of the famous languages of North-East India. It is the major language of the Bodo group of the Indo-Mongoloid family which fall within the Assam-Burmese section and is spoken by Bodo people of North-Eastern India. The Bodo language is amongst the official languages of the Indian state of Assam and it is one of the 22 languages which has been recognized by eighth schedule of the Indian Constitution. 1.2:LINGUISTIC CLASSIFICATION The Bodo language belonging to the…

The Bhagavad-Gita is a rather small section in the overall massive text of the Mahabharata. However, the size of this passage had no effect on its ability to influence. The likes of Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Annie Besant, and Mohandas K. Gandhi were all inspired or influenced by this text. The Bhagavad-Gita wouldn’t be the inspiring text is it today if it hadn’t been influenced by many other religious texts that came before it. The Bhagavad-Gita takes ideas from other religious…

Jeanette Eaton 's book, Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword, was published in 1950 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1951. It shows how non-violence can have positive outcomes, as well as Gandhi 's love for all people, especially those who suffer. Mahatmas Gandhi is known for his movement of non-violence called Satyagraha, which means "true-force." He esteemed the world with his non-violent philosophy. Known as Mahatma to many of his followers, or the "great souled one," Gandhi was an activist in…

Midwestern tribes such as, (), that are indigenous to North America have been utilizing peyote for its spiritual and medicinal purposes for thousands of years. Peyote usage is deeply embedded into the culture and religion of many Midwestern Native American groups, one of the best of these examples coming from the Huichol tribe who live in the Sierra Madre Occidental range in central-western Mexico. Although Huichol is what they are generally referred to as in the general scientific community as…

Japanese worship “toward the beauties of their land” (Hopfe, 205). The origin of the word Shinto comes from sixth century C.E.; there was a need to differentiate Japanese’s religious culture from new traditions, like Buddhism. However, Shinto does not have set beliefs or practices because there is such an extensive variety of views (Hopfe, 205). Shinto is part of the Japanese culture. The traditions and values in the Japanese culture are expressed in the Shinto; it can be found in Japanese…

As a lot of other early agricultural societies, in the beginning, Persian religious beliefs were mostly based on natural elements. But as it developed into complex society, the need for religious that would require from its follower's high morals standards and social harmony. This resulted for Zoroastrianism to appear. Zarathustra, the person who’s teaching became a foundation for Zoroastrianism was indeed a real person. Though, historians argue when he was born. When he turned twenty, he…

Understanding the circumstances going on in this village is important because reoccurring incidents such as this one would lead to the boxer sects’ quick shift in their ideology. 1892, the younger members of the Boxers United in Righteousness came under a new name and proceeded to become significantly more resistant. This newly evolved sect, The Plum Flower Boxers of Hua County, was also very practiced in martial arts. They applied themselves to studying and bettering themselves spiritually and…