COMPARE AND CONTRAST HINDU DEITIES AND

CATHOLIC SAINTS

Compare and contrast Hindu deities and catholic saints



Compare and contrast catholic saints and Hindu deities

Introduction

Religions and beliefs are of great importance for anthropological research on the development of humankind and its history, as they represent the human reaction to an extra human, holy, transcendent, or divine object. Almost no other terms of the mental and intellectual human life seem to have such a big and colorful variety as “belief” or “religion.” The popularity and complexity of goddess (es) traditions in South Asia have led to studies with different approaches and perspectives on the relationship between religion, society and gender. While the earlier works using archeological and literary evidence tended to look at the worship of goddess (es) as an uneven but continuous and developing history there has been an apparent growth of studies on studies on goddess traditions focusing on specific regions and social communities. (Huston, 2000)

Compare and Contrast Catholic Saints and Hindu Deities

Tolerance is typical of Hinduism. If there is, an anti-dogmatic religion is Hinduism. In fact accepts plurality of ways to discover and reach not so much faith in a deity but rather to accept a universal order and cyclic rules the world and society (Hick, 2005)

In Asia, the Hindu traditions are well known; the religion of the Vedas and the Upanishads grounded in very old scriptures (e.g., the Bhagavad Gita or “Song of God”). The beginning of these traditions is about 4,000 years BCE in India. The Hindu traditions have a polytheistic basis, with Shiva and Vishnu as the central deities, but only one eternal aim: the unification of the individual soul, atman, with the highest spirit, Brahman. After several lives, the soul can enter the Brahman, leaving the system of reincarnation (samsara), if the karma, the balance of all individual actions, is good enough. Five elements consider central for Hindu beliefs: (1) dharma (ethics and duties), (2) samsara (cycle of reincarnation), (3) karma (action and resulting reaction), (4) moksha (liberation from the cycle of rebirth), and (5) yogas (paths and practices). The caste system is very rigid. Marriage is only possible within one caste. People outside the caste system, Parjanya or Antyaja (or now Dalits), the “untouchables,” have almost no chance to progress in social life. (D'Amato, 2006)

Hinduism believes to be the oldest extant today; religion is one of the most often used as a philosophical point of view or description. Hindu point of view is often consider to have been to India about 1500 BC the Aryans, and their predecessors, Dravidians, brought the form of worship gods and stories and myths with them to a number of gods and goddesses ideas. In the Vedic period, from 1500--900, is the idea of Brahman, or "super spiritual" to the. Hinduism is a complex concept, in large part depends on its followers to do. This is very likely in India, Hinduism, or in any widely used to find and compare customs and beliefs are two real ...