Hinduism
Hinduism
Hinduism is like most of the other Indian religion ways that have been categorized together as if they were a single tradition. The term Hinduism is derived from the name that has been applied by foreigners to people who are living in the region of the Indus River (pg. 71). This was introduced in the nineteenth century under the colonial British rule that was a category for census-taking (pg. 71). There are Indians that are now asserted that the Western analysis of Hinduism that’s been carried on by outsiders who have been biased against the Indian culture, or those who are presumed that all of the religions can be studied according to Western religious categories (pg. 71). The Hindu word “dharma” is often translated into English as “religion”, which refers to a broader complex of the meanings, which in turn encompasses the duty, natural law, social welfare, ethics, health, wealth, power, fulfillment of desires, and the transcendental realization (pg. 71). Looking into Hinduism further, it is not easily separated fully from other dharmic traditions that have been arisen in India that includes Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, because there has been an extensive cross-pollination among them (pg. 71). Hinduism has spiritual expressions that range from extreme asceticism to an extreme sensuality that come from the heights of personal devotion to a deity to the heights of an abstract philosophy (pg.71), from both the metaphysical proclamations of the oneness behind the material world to the worship of images that represent a multiplicity of deities (pg. 71). Some people claim that one is “born a Hindu”, while there are other people that are Hindu that are of a non-Indian descent and some claim that it has its core feature in a belief of an impersonal Supreme. However, there are other important strands that have been long described and worshipped as a personal God. There are many outsiders that criticize Hindus as being
Hinduism is like most of the other Indian religion ways that have been categorized together as if they were a single tradition. The term Hinduism is derived from the name that has been applied by foreigners to people who are living in the region of the Indus River (pg. 71). This was introduced in the nineteenth century under the colonial British rule that was a category for census-taking (pg. 71). There are Indians that are now asserted that the Western analysis of Hinduism that’s been carried on by outsiders who have been biased against the Indian culture, or those who are presumed that all of the religions can be studied according to Western religious categories (pg. 71). The Hindu word “dharma” is often translated into English as “religion”, which refers to a broader complex of the meanings, which in turn encompasses the duty, natural law, social welfare, ethics, health, wealth, power, fulfillment of desires, and the transcendental realization (pg. 71). Looking into Hinduism further, it is not easily separated fully from other dharmic traditions that have been arisen in India that includes Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, because there has been an extensive cross-pollination among them (pg. 71). Hinduism has spiritual expressions that range from extreme asceticism to an extreme sensuality that come from the heights of personal devotion to a deity to the heights of an abstract philosophy (pg.71), from both the metaphysical proclamations of the oneness behind the material world to the worship of images that represent a multiplicity of deities (pg. 71). Some people claim that one is “born a Hindu”, while there are other people that are Hindu that are of a non-Indian descent and some claim that it has its core feature in a belief of an impersonal Supreme. However, there are other important strands that have been long described and worshipped as a personal God. There are many outsiders that criticize Hindus as being