Religion/Spirituality and its role in shaping

the culture (India)

OBJECTIVESO DEFINTIONO HISTORYO HOLY PLACES FOR DIFFERENT

RELIGIONSO FESTIVALS FOR DIFFERENT

RELIGIONSO DIETS AND RELIGIONSO RELIGIONS AND ITS ROLE

DEFINITIONO RELIGION: RECOLLECTION & PRACTICE OF THE RULES OF LIFE SET BY MASTERS OF THAT SPECIFIC RELIGIONEXAMPLES: HINDU CATHOLIC MUSLIM SIKH

O SPIRITUALITY: ITS IMATERIAL REALITY WHERE A PERSON SEEK A NATURE HIS ESSANCE.EXAMPLES: MEDITATION ASTROLOGY CHARITY

SYMBOL

HISTORY1. HINDU:

LARGEST RELIGION NAMED FROM RIVER CALLED ‘SINDHU’ REFERS TO A PERSON FROM THE LAND OF THE

RIVER SINDHU

2. ISLAM: LARGEST MINORITY RELIGION IN INDIA BELIEF IN ONE GOD ‘MUHAMMAD’

3. CHRITIAN: THIRD LARGEST RELIRION IN INDIA BELIEF IN JEJUS COMRISES A MAJORITY IN NORTHEAST PART OF

INDIA

4. SIKH: BEGAN IN SIXTEENTH CENTUARY IN NORTH INDIA

WITH THE TEACHING OF NANAK & NINE SUCCESSIVE HUMAN GURUS.

PUNJAB IS THE SPIRITUAL HOME OF SIKHS & IT IS ONLY STATE IN INDIA WHERE SIKHS FORM A MAJORITY.

5. BUDDHIST: MAJORITY POPULATION IS IN NORTHEN PART OF

INDIA.

6. JEWIS: THERE IS A VERY SMALL COMMUNITY OF INDIAN

JEWS. THERE WERE MORE JEWISH IN INDIA HISTORICALLY,

IN SOUTHEN AND WEST PART OF INDIA.

HOLY PLACES FOR DIFFERENT RELIGIONS

TEMPLE (HINDU) MASJID (MUSLIM)

CHURCH (CHRISTIAN)

GURUDWARA (SIKH)

TEMPLE (BUDDHISM)

FESTIVALS FOR DIFFERENT RELIGIONS

HINDU:

1. MAKARSANKRANTI: FESTIVAL OF KITE FLYING

2. HOLI: FESTIVAL OF COLOUR

3. JANMASTAMI: FESTIVAL OF FASTING,

TEMPLE CELEBRATION, PLAYS AND FOLK THEATERS

4. DIWALI: HINDU NEW YEAR

5. ONAM: HARVEST FESTIVAL

MUSLIM:

1. BAKR-ID:2. RAMZAN: A MONTH LONG PERIOD OF

FASTING

CHRISTAIN:1. CHRISTMAS: NEW YEAR

SIKH:1. BAISAKHI:

DIETS AND RELIGION

IN INDIA MOST OF THE PEOPLE ARE VEGETERIAN EXCEPT SOME RELIGIONS

DIFFERENT RELIGION ASPECTS REGRADING FOODS WHICH ARE AS FOLLOW:

1.HINDU:o HINDUSIM TEACHES & SCRIPTURES ENCOURAGE A

VEGETRAIN DIET.o HINDUS ALMOST UNIVERSALLY AVOID BEEF SINCE

THEY CONSIDER THE COW SACRED ( LORD KRISHNA’S FAVORITE ANIMAL)

o MAHATMA GANDHI SAYS “ THE GREATNESS OF A NATION & ITS MORAL PROGRESS CAN BE MEASURED BY THE WAY IN WHICH ITS ANIMALS ARE TREATED.”

o YAJUR VEDA SAYS “ YOU MUST NOT USE YOUR GOD GIVEN BODY FOR KILLING GOD’S CREATURES WHEATHER THEY BE HUMAN, ANIMALS OR WHATEVER.

2. JAINISM:o JAIN TRADITION RESPECT: ‘AHINSA’(NON-VIOLANCE), ‘ASTEYA’ (RESPECT FOR OTHER’S RIGHT) ‘APARIGRAHA’ (NON-ACQUISION) ‘SATYA’ (TRUTH)

3. ISLAM: FOLLOWING QURAN AND HADITH OF PROPHET

MOHAMMAD. ISLAMIC PEOPLE CAN EAT MEAT THEY CONSUME MEAT WHICH IS PRODUCED BY NON

CRUEL WAY MEANS ‘HALAL’.

RELIGION AND ITS ROLE

O RELIGION PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN SHAPING THE CULUTER.

O IT TEACHES THE VAULE OF OUR CUTURE

O HAVE FAITH IN OUR CUTUREO IT TEACH HOW TO BELIEF IN GODO IT MAKE US GOOD PERSONO IT TEACH US HOW TO GIVE RESPECT

TO OTHERSO IT SHOW WHO WE ARE AS INDIVIDUAL

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O Radhakrishnan, S. (n.d.). Indian religious thought. Retrieved from http://books.google.ca/books?id=qBJLCudRPrwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=indian

O http://swc.osu.edu/about-us/spirituality/

THANK YOUKOMAL PATELHIRAL PATEL