The religion has billions of members, about 1/6 of the world's population. It is also because of the Holy Wars or Crusades in which the Christians attempted to take the Holy Land back from the Muslims. 3. Hinduism is the dominant religion, or way of life, in South Asia, most especially India. It includes Shaivism, Vaishnavism and Shaktis and a wide spectrum of laws and prescriptions of "daily morality" based on karma, dharma, and societal norms.
A culture consists of numerous components that vary from one culture group to the next. Religion, language, cuisine, values are a few of so many ways that people can be culturally different. No two cultures are the same. The American and Indian cultures have very vast differentiation between them. While the culture of America is a mixture of different cultures, the Indian culture is unique and has its own values.
Fulfillment Model ……………………………………………………………………………4 III. Acceptance Model ……………………………………………………………………………6 IV. Mutuality Model…………………..………………………………………………………….7 V. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………….9 PREFACE The world consists of 6.96 billion people who practice and share in a multitude of religions. The largest sects of religion are Christianity, Muslim, and Hinduism. These religions have been around for centuries and never caused as much chaos, destruction, and war as they do now.
Definitions and analyses of the culture concept have been numerous since at least 1952 when Kroeber and Kluckhohn (1952) reported the presence of more than 164 definitions. Definitions vary from the general to the specific, depending on the discipline and the level of analysis. The term "culture" is a broad one, and usually includes things such as norms, beliefs, values, traditions, language, clothing, or art of a certain group of people. Cultures are by no means simple to understand and interpret. The concept of culture can be applied to social systems at different levels, not only at the national level but also at the sub-cultural levels of ethnic group, region, gender, generation, religion, profession, and organisation.
Islam vs. Hinduism Islam vs. Hinduism Introduction In the world today, there exists many religions and unlike Christianity, Islam and Hinduism tend to have similar beliefs, characteristics and some differences. Relations between the two religions started when Islam was introduced to the Indian sub-continent in the early seventh century (Hossein Nasr, 2003). Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam make up the world's three largest religions. Hinduism consists of a socio- religious way of Hindu life, while Islam is a monotheistic religion, which shares most of its concepts with Abrahamic religions, unlike Hinduism, which shares common elements with dhārmic religions (Williams, 2000). Islam vs. Hinduism Islam is believed to have originated in the deserts of Arabia because of native traditions.
Hindu and Hinduism are terms that can be difficult to define not only accurately but also universally. These terms can define one’s religious beliefs, one’s place within the caste system, one’s language or one’s region within India. According to the 2001 census, India’s population has reached over one billion and of those counted, Hindus make up over 80% (Narayanan, 2003). The Hindu belief system can be as simple or complex, as its follower chooses to make it because Hinduism itself is very diverse in its components. Hindus believe that their belief system has existed forever and many aspects within their belief system are cyclic in character instead of possessing a beginning, middle and an end, as is common among other belief systems.
In these times of social upheaval and political turmoil, new elite became the carrier of a new cultural and social order. Great religious leaders rose to prominence attracting a mass following, and many sociological, cultural, economic and spiritual changes were made: |In China, many individual thinkers, such as Confucius, Lao-Tse, and Mo Tzu, began to reflect
IS.218 Jahnice Thomas January 8, 2012 Ancient India Hinduism & Buddism We have been studying India .in particular we have compared the two major religions that began there. Hinduism is practiced and is considered to be the most important religion in India. Buddhism is the fourth largest religion in the world that teaches compassion and nonviolence. Hinduism is the most important religion located in India. Hinduism is one of the oldest religions in the world .the caste system evolved from Hinduism.
Since this period, there has been a progressive increase in the number of Muslim immigrants to Canada. Canada is often described as a multicultural nation. But what does that mean? Simply it means that Canadians are not of any one cultural background, race or heritage. Instead, “Canadians today reflect a vast diversity of cultural heritages and racial groups.
Secularisation is believed to be on the rise as scores of people are increasingly claiming to be atheist and agnostic, conversely, it can be argued that this is not the case as many people are turning to mainstream world religions, such as Islam. It is reportedly the fastest growing religion globally, and it is the second most popular religion in the world after Christianity. From a functionalist perspective, religion is seen to be an aspect which is vital in order to keep society ‘functional’. Emile Durkheim (1965), founding father of functionalism claims that religion is like a vital organ of the body, society needs religion in order to function adequately and without it a state of anomie would occur. He argued that religion is a social construction which reinforces the ‘collective conscience’.