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Religion/Spirituality and its role in shaping the culture (India)

Religion/Spirituality and its role in shaping the culture (India). OBJECTIVES. DEFINTION HISTORY HOLY PLACES FOR DIFFERENT RELIGIONS FESTIVALS FOR DIFFERENT RELIGIONS DIETS AND RELIGIONS RELIGIONS AND ITS ROLE. DEFINITION. RELIGION:

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Religion/Spirituality and its role in shaping the culture (India)

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  1. Religion/Spirituality and its role in shaping the culture (India)

  2. OBJECTIVES • DEFINTION • HISTORY • HOLY PLACES FOR DIFFERENT RELIGIONS • FESTIVALS FOR DIFFERENT RELIGIONS • DIETS AND RELIGIONS • RELIGIONS AND ITS ROLE

  3. DEFINITION • RELIGION: RECOLLECTION & PRACTICE OF THE RULES OF LIFE SET BY MASTERS OF THAT SPECIFIC RELIGION EXAMPLES: • HINDU • CATHOLIC • MUSLIM • SIKH

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

  5. SYMBOL

  6. HISTORY 1. 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

  7. 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.

  8. HOLY PLACES FOR DIFFERENT RELIGIONS MASJID (MUSLIM) TEMPLE (HINDU)

  9. GURUDWARA (SIKH) CHURCH (CHRISTIAN)

  10. TEMPLE (BUDDHISM)

  11. FESTIVALS FOR DIFFERENT RELIGIONS 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 HINDU:

  12. 1. BAKR-ID: 2. RAMZAN: A MONTH LONG PERIOD OF FASTING CHRISTAIN: 1. CHRISTMAS: NEW YEAR SIKH: 1. BAISAKHI: MUSLIM:

  13. DIETS AND RELIGION IN INDIA MOST OF THE PEOPLE ARE VEGETERIAN EXCEPT SOME RELIGIONS DIFFERENT RELIGION ASPECTS REGRADING FOODS WHICH ARE AS FOLLOW:

  14. 1.HINDU: • HINDUSIM TEACHES & SCRIPTURES ENCOURAGE A VEGETRAIN DIET. • HINDUS ALMOST UNIVERSALLY AVOID BEEF SINCE THEY CONSIDER THE COW SACRED ( LORD KRISHNA’S FAVORITE ANIMAL) • MAHATMA GANDHI SAYS “ THE GREATNESS OF A NATION & ITS MORAL PROGRESS CAN BE MEASURED BY THE WAY IN WHICH ITS ANIMALS ARE TREATED.” • YAJUR VEDA SAYS “ YOU MUST NOT USE YOUR GOD GIVEN BODY FOR KILLING GOD’S CREATURES WHEATHER THEY BE HUMAN, ANIMALS OR WHATEVER.

  15. 2. JAINISM: • 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’.

  16. RELIGION AND ITS ROLE • RELIGION PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN SHAPING THE CULUTER. • IT TEACHES THE VAULE OF OUR CUTURE • HAVE FAITH IN OUR CUTURE • IT TEACH HOW TO BELIEF IN GOD • IT MAKE US GOOD PERSON • IT TEACH US HOW TO GIVE RESPECT TO OTHERS • IT SHOW WHO WE ARE AS INDIVIDUAL

  17. REFRENCE • Chopara, D. (2007). What is spirituality?. Retrieved from http://bigthink.com/videos/what-is-spirituality • Heehs, P. (n.d.). Indian religions: A historical reader of spiritual expression and experience. • (n.d.). Retrieved from http://books.google.ca/books?id=qBJLCudRPrwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=indian religion&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jt8vUf- • Radhakrishnan, S. (n.d.). Indian religious thought. Retrieved from http://books.google.ca/books?id=qBJLCudRPrwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=indian • http://swc.osu.edu/about-us/spirituality/

  18. THANK YOUKOMAL PATELHIRAL PATEL

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