Religion
Religion is a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements. However, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine, sacred things, faith, a supernatural being or supernatural beings or "some sort of ultimacy and transcendence that will provide norms and power for the rest of life". Religious practices may include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration (of deities and/or saints), sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trances, initiations, funerary services, matrimonial …
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Jiva Institute of Vedic Studies · 3 March 2024 English
an important part of modern civilization, but traditionally there are huge contradictions between religion and science. Answer: Can you cite some examples of contradictions? I do not want anything related …
traditionally there are huge contradictions between religion and science. Answer: Can you cite some examples …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 22 January 2024 English
to win the Nobel Prize, reminds us of the values that have to be the foundation of a kingdom, a religion, and our own humanity – truth, peace, compassion, and love …
that have to be the foundation of a kingdom, a religion, and our own humanity – truth, peace, compassion …
Jiva Institute of Vedic Studies · 7 January 2024 English
Question: I’ve undertaken a discussion with Christian theologians. Their understanding of a Personal God, specifically their resistance to a God with form, which is... Read More The post Concepts of …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2024 English
citizens to request information from public authorities.Secularism: The principle of separating religion from state affair.Focus by Dipanjali Singh.PARI Library’s health archive project is part of an initiative …
50. Secularism: The principle of separating religion from state affairs. 51. Theocracy: A form of …
Jiva Institute of Vedic Studies · 26 November 2023 English
Question: The impersonal aspect [of God] (Nirakara, Nirguna) is called Brahman, or ‘unknowable’ by Herbert Spencer, ‘will’ by Schopenhauer, Absolute Noumenon by some ‘substance’... Read More The post Bhakti in …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English
First History Lessons is a series of books published by the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK). Aiming to simplify and explain important historical ideas, the series has been sponsored …
for oil. And sometimes they fight on grounds of religion or language. Sometimes people have even had to …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 September 2023 English
The 2023 edition of the State of Working India report was published by Centre of Sustainable Development, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, in September 2023. It presents household survey conducted in …
94 4.2.1 Trends in women’s employment by caste, religion, and education 96 4.2.2 Correlates of women’s … educational convergence 121 5.1 Caste, gender, religion and regular wage work 122 5.1.1 Who is able to … 1.1 Raw earnings gap across caste, gender and religion 156 6.1.2 Measuring unexplained earnings gaps … 14: Changing sectoral structure of employment - religion 75 Figure 3.15: Changing composition of employment … female workforce participation rates by caste and religion 95 Figure 4.2: Female workforce participation …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 24 August 2023 English
worship in Jharkhand. The trip leads her to examine the uneasy relationship between power, politics of religion and Adivasi identities …
uneasy relationship between power, politics of religion and Adivasi identities …
Jiva Institute of Vedic Studies · 30 July 2023 English
question about ego and spirituality. As we can see, especially in the West, most people approach religion, yoga, or philosophy... Read More The post Approaches to Bhakti and Levels of Bhakti appeared first …
especially in the West, most people approach religion, yoga, or philosophy... <a href="https://www …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 13 July 2023 English
The Linguistic Survey of India (LSI) is an ongoing project of the Government of India that aims to document and study how languages have changed in the country over the …
to region, from caste to caste, and from religion to religion. A number of deities are also worshipped … Saivism, functioned to spread and establish their religion all over Tamil Nadu. They were, to a great extent … medium of literature for the propagation of their religion. Sivagasinthamani is a work of Jains. Kambaramayanam …
