Hinduism Western History

The word Hindu has evolved from being the word the Persians used for the Indus River in 500 BC to the accepted name for the primary religion of India this name was originally given by foreign rulers and ultimately used by Europeans in the 1500's as the official name of the religion. History plays an important part of Hinduism because new developments reinterpret an update past practices rather than end them. The Hindu religion is broke down into three periods the Vedic period, the Upanishadic period, the classical period, and the devotional period.

Hinduism is known as the world's oldest religion. According to ISKCON Educational Services (2004), it is hard to construct a timeline because Hinduism has no identifiable human founder or specific origin in history. It is so old that its past goes into pre-history. It is extremely diverse with the Hindu people being more interested in the meaning of events than in providing first hand records. There is also no clear-cut divide between history and myth.

Religions take a hold on societies in different ways. Christianity started as a revitalization movement against the Roman hierarchy, and was comprised of mostly woman and the poor. The Roman Empire took up most of the Mediterranean and North Africa. With the death of Jesus, around 33 CE, came a new, unique, religion that was a spin off of Judaism but they believed that Jesus was the foretold Messiah. Although they were persecuted, Christianity took hold in the ancient world because it offered salvation, was fair to all, and preached love and peace.

The world’s oldest religion is Hinduism, it is considered a way of life. The Indus valley is where Hinduism originated. It is located near the river indus. Hinduism is a religion that has no one founder or single governing body. This is part of what makes it different form other religions. Some refer to Hinduism as a family of religions rather than a single

In Chapter ten the history of Hinduism is discussed in America and India. Instead of illustrating the religious doctrines of Hinduism. The author lists statistics about the livelihoods of Asian Indians. For example, there are eighteen different official languages in India. As the author emphasizes that doctrines have nothing to do with Hinduism, but the actions that individuals commit. The orthodoxy is a set of responsibilities that Hindus must carry out. If they wish to be reincarnated into a higher caste. In addition, the origin of Hinduism is mentioned within the chapter. That Hinduism is the only major religion that does not have a founder and has no beginning as there is not a specific known date of when it originated. Moreover, Hinduism is the oldest major religion and is the only polytheistic faith among the five popular creeds.

Hinduism is generally regarded as the world's oldest organized religion. It consists of thousands of different religious groups that have evolved in India since 1500 BCE. Because of the wide variety of Hindu traditions, freedom of belief and

Christians being dedicated to their God organized and grew more as persecutions of their fellow followers began. However, missionaries were the next big part of the spread of Christianity. Between 312 B.C.E – 337 B.C.E with Constantine’s help Christianity began spreading throughout the empire. A couple of years after Christianity was at an all-time high and only rose and spread more. Jesus’s crucifixion was the turning point that help start the rise and spread of Christianity throughout the western civilization.

The rise of Christianity is closely linked with the Roman Empire. Over the three centuries after Jesus was crucified, many factors led to the rapid spread of the Christian faith in Rome such as Roman roads, having one common language, and Rome’s large population.

Hinduism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity developed among different groups in the world. Hinduism developed in the 19th century in Indonesia by the people of Hindu (Woodhead, Partridge & Kawanami, 2016). Islam was born off the people of Umma who were tied together by the Islamic religion. Christians trace its root in the Jewish community in Middle East who follow the teachings of Jesus Christ the son of their most supreme being God and Buddhism was founded by Siddhartha Gautama in India (Woodhead, Partridge & Kawanami, 2016).

Unlike other religions to follow, Hinduism was not spread much past India, where it originated. Buddhism however, was spread to other Asian countries. It reached China in the 4th century, following with Japan in the 6th century; the

Over the course of the last few months, there has been a great deal taught on the three key questions. For each of the religions we’ve spoken of, there is a very detailed and specific path of answering these questions for each of the Eastern and Western traditions. We looked into Hinduism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Of these, there are only four that actually recognize a God. In Hinduism, the one is Brahman. For Judaism it is Yahweh, Christians look to God or Jesus for their lessons and praise them, and the Islamic praise Allah. In contrast, Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism are all more philosophies than religions. None of these three praise a God, but they all stick to a different set of focused rules/ ideas to either become successful or to reach enlightenment. In this, I will further emphasis the three key questions based around the Western tradition of Hinduism and the Eastern tradition of Judaism. For each of these religions, there are a lot of differences between them, even things as simple as where they come from and what they worship.

India has been an important part of three major world religions- hinduism, buddhism, and islam. Buddhism began in india and spread to other places in Asia. Islam came into India from West Asia. The origins of Hinduism are less clear, but are certainly related to the arrival of the Indo-European Aryans from West Asia.The Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam affected India because they were coming into india and then they were spreading everywhere in india and they they went to new

Hinduism is a vast and popular religion followed by more than roughly 13-14% of the

The Hindu belief is that gods or divinities can take many forms, but all form one universal spirit called Brahman.

The world has many different religions. Asia has had many religions spring up. Out of these Buddhism and Hinduism are the most popular beliefs in the general population. Hinduism is the oldest known religion and is very rich with literally hundreds of gods, symbolistic rituals and beliefs. It is believed to have been established around 1500 B.C. but one person never founded Hinduism as it evolved over a long period of time. Buddhism on the other hand has a definite founder, Siddhartha Gautama who is otherwise known as the Buddha or Enlightened One who lived from 565 to 483 B.C. Both these religions originated in India. Siddhartha Gautama was a Hindu who found Hindu theology lacking and after years of searching for truth created a religion now known as Buddhism. Because of these basic similarities, the two religions have much in common, but in the same light they differ immensely.