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What exactly is Hinduism?
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Indian Religious world view Dr. Sue Hamilton Omar Campbell What exactly is Hinduism? Hinduism is a major world religion that originated in India in about 1500 CE. At present over 700 million people worldwide are Hindus. As with most religions, Hinduism consists of a lot of characteristics such as beliefs, practices, gods and writings. It would therefore be impossible for me to include everything about it. So in this essay I aim to give the reader an overall understanding of Hinduism. To achieve this I plan to concentrate on three of the most important aspects of Hinduism and show how they all each relate to each other to function as a whole religion for Hindus on a daily basis. These three aspects are the Hindu texts, the caste system, and their worship and rituals. Hindu worship, rituals, and the caste system are outlined within Hindu writings. The most important of these is the...
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