Immortality Views among Different Cultures and Religions The concept of life after death has been around practically as long as life itself. Our beliefs about life after death can have a profound effect on our attitudes toward life. Most individual’s beliefs about life after death are directly related to their cultural or religious affiliations. According to Montagu‚ "Of all the many forms which natural religion has assumed none probably has exerted so deep and far reaching an influence on
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place of temptation in which the human being must overcome in order to reach the spiritual realm and be in eternal existence. This view is known as dualism‚ where nature is unrefined and polluted as in comparison to the spiritual world. Christianity‚ Jainism‚ and Hinduism have this type relationship with the colliding view of the
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Costumes in Post Vedic Period 600 – 323 BC By Toolika Gupta‚ Associate Prof. FD Delhi 1 Social life • Buddhism • Jainism • Forms of political organizations: – Republic – Monarchy • Ashvamedha Yagya • By about 5th century BC there were 16 major states in Northern India‚ but a hundred years later there remained only 4 vital states – the three kingdoms of Kashi‚ Kosala‚ Magadha and the republic of Vrijis. By Toolika Gupta‚ Associate Prof. FD Delhi 2 Social life continued… Of These magadha became
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diversity is not so great as in India. India is a big and poor developing country with different varieties in geographical features‚ resources‚ climate conditions and ancient civilizations including four major religions: Hinduism‚ Buddhism‚ Jainism and Sikhism. There is great cultural diversity throughout the country. The South‚ North‚ and Northeast each has own distinct cultures and almost every state has its own cultural niche. In Indian rural areas‚ there is a high scarcity of drinking water
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difficult to define Hinduism as a religion. Hinduism’s lack of a single deity‚ a unifying religious text‚ and any central beliefs or practices makes it more a ‘way of life’ than an organised religion. It draws from and influences Buddhism‚ Sikhism as well as Jainism. On the other hand‚ secularism has its roots in Christianity and is an outcome of 18th century Enlightenment. The ideal demands a separation of political and religious practices in the public domain. This poses many problems in a society
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than before it was to overcome worldwide greed‚ violence and consumptive lifestyle which are giving very negative impact on the world’s resources. Through ages India has time and again given to the world a new thought. Thus Buddhism‚ Jainism‚ Yogic system‚ Sikhism are part of the great spiritual thought given by India from the time ages.Gandhiji’s writings and teachings of development and sustainable living is a continuation of that long tradition. To my mind Gandhiji’s greatest contribution
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Gujarat Main article: Tourism in Gujarat [pic] [pic] The Palitana temple complex consists of more than 863 temples located on theShatrunjaya hills‚ exquisitely carved in marble. Gujarat‚ the seventh largest state in India‚ located in the western part of India with a coastline of 1600 km (longest in India). It is the tenth most popular state in the country for tourists with annual footfall of 18.9 million tourists.[8] Gujarat offers scenic beauty from Great Rann of Kutch to the hills of Saputara
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Ancient civilizations The following 4 ancient civilizations all have very different types of development whether it be because the difference in geographical‚ economic or social location does not change the fact that these four civilizations have come (and some have not come) to present day extremely different from one another because of their different developmental patterns. Extremely early Egyptians began settling along the Nile during the Neolithic period. The Nile provided necessary resources
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Religion: Hinduism and Islam Every society is based on different religion. Different people follow different types of religion according to their birth or by choice. The major religions of the world are Hinduism‚ Islam‚ Christianity‚ Sikhism‚ Buddhism‚ and Judaism. Each religion is similar and different from one another in terms of festivals‚ practices and beliefs. Apart from Christianity‚ Hinduism and Islam are the two most widely practiced religions in the world today. They have their own traditions
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The Ottoman‚ Safavid‚ and Mughal societies all relied on bureaucracies that drew inspiration from the steppe traditions of Turkish and Mogol people and from the heritage of Islam‚ they adopted similar policies‚ they looked for ways to keep peace in their societies which were made up of different religious and ethnic backgrounds‚ and they were associated with literary and artistic talents. Military and religious factors gave rise to all three of these empires. The Ottoman Empire: The Ottoman
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