Hinduism - Criticism

Hinduism - Criticism: Encyclopedia - Criticism of Hinduism

Please remove this notice after the article has been expanded. Details are on this talk page or at Wikipedia:Requests for expansion. Hinduism is one of the most ancient world religions, tracing its origins back over 5,000 years. Today there are more than 900 million Hindu people worldwide, but mainly in Bharat (India), and the nations of the Indian subcontinent. As the Hindu religion was born in India, its criticism is irreversibly link ...

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Criticism of Hinduism - Social oppression

Criticism of Hinduism - Varna System

Criticism of Hinduism - Status of Women

Criticism of Hinduism - Hindu Response and reform

Criticism of Hinduism - Hindu fundamentalism

Criticism of Hinduism - Hindu response

Hinduism - Criticism: Encyclopedia II - Criticism of Hinduism - Social oppression Criticism of Hinduism - Varna System. The division of society into four heirachial classes has resulted in much social oppression of the lowest caste, the Shudras. Critics also decry the socio-political fragmentation caused by the caste system. For example, there are over 80 subcastes of brahmins, and the Jat Hindu communities of Punjab and Haryana are considered a separa ...

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Hinduism - Core Concepts

Hinduism - Origins and society

Hinduism - Hindu philosophy: the six Vedic schools of thought

Hinduism - Alternative cultures of worship

Hinduism - Important symbolism and themes in Hinduism

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Hinduism is criticized based on current or past regressive social customs such as Dowry, Sati and casteism. Many also criticize it by linking it with Hindutva (the theory of Hindu nationalism). From the worldview of the three other Abrahamic religions, Hinduism is criticized as being polytheistic and for promoting idolatry - both of which they consider evil. The Hindu counter-argument is that Hinduism is not polytheistic (monism or monistic theism is more apt), though it may present an appearance of polytheism to external obser ...

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Hinduism - Criticism: Hinduism Relationship with Islam and Christianity

Hinduism, Islam and Christianity: Hinduism Relationship with Islam and Christianity

The propagators of both Christianity and Islam have been doing a great service to Hinduism for the last several centuries, with their vehement criticism born out of their profound ignorance of Hinduism and their condescending sympathy for the natives. When they set foot on the Indian soil in the medieval period, they made every possible effort to declare Hinduism as a Satanic cult and a religion of the Brahmins in an attempt to draw converts from lower castes, ignoring its philosophical depths and its true character. Unknowingly, they helped Hinduism by forcing the Hindus of medieval and British India to become more defensive, resolute and determined to safeguard their own religion.

Hinduism - Criticism: Varttika in the Hindu Scriptures

A Varttika is a work where a critical study is made of that which is said and left unsaid or imperfectly said in a Bhashya, and the ways of making it perfect by supplying the omissions therein, are given. Examples are the Varttikas of Katyayana on Paninis Sutras, of Suresvara on Sankaras Upanishad-Bhashyas, and of Kumarila Bhatta on the Sabara-Bhashya on the Karma-Mimamsa.

Excerpt from All About Hinduism by Sri Swami Sivananda

Hinduism - Criticism: New Age vs. Vedic tradition

A critical in-depth analysis of the differences and similarities between the New Age movement and the Vedic traditions by Henry Makow PhD

Hinduism - Criticism: Encyclopedia - Guru

A guru (गुरू Sanskrit) is a teacher in Hinduism, Buddhism or Sikhism. Based on a long line of philosophical understanding as to the importance of knowledge, the guru is seen in these religions as a sacred conduit, or a way to self-realization. In India and among people of Hindu, Buddhist, or Sikh belief, the title retains a hallowed meaning. Guru also refers in Sanskrit to Brihaspati, a Hindu figure analogous to the Roman planet/god Jupiter. In Vedic astrology, Jupiter/Guru/Brihaspati is believed to ...

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Guru - Bibliography

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Hinduism - Criticism: Encyclopedia - Ananda Marga

Ananda Marga is a social and spiritual organization founded in Jamalpur, state of Bihar, India in 1955 by Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar (1921-1990), known by his spiritual name of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti. Ananda Marga identifies its mission as to help individuals achieve complete self-realization and to build a social structure in which the physical, mental and spiritual needs of all people can be fulfilled. Ananda Marga - History. In the 1970's Ananda Marga was banned by the Indian government of Indira Gan ...

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Hinduism - Criticism: Encyclopedia - Creation theology

Creation is a doctrinal position in many religions which maintains that one or a group of gods or deities is responsible for creating the universe. Creationism affirms this belief, but the doctrinal belief is not necessarily synonymous with creationism. Creation theology - Judaism & Christianity. Mainstream Biblical scholarship maintains that the creation story found in Genesis 2 is the earlier of the two Genesis accounts. Filled with ancient and rich mythological imagery, it is believed that th ...

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Hinduism - Criticism: Encyclopedia - Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra, M.D., (born 1947 in New Delhi, India) is a medical doctor and popular contemporary writer in the United States on spirituality, synchronicity, integrative medicine and Ayurveda. He claims Hinduism as his main influence, specifically the teachings of Vedanta and the Bhagavad Gita. Deepak Chopra - Background. Chopra is a trained physician and was board-certified in internal medicine and endocrinology. He graduated from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1968, and after interning at ...

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Hinduism - Criticism: Encyclopedia - Sati practice

The practice of sati (or suttee[1]) was a funeral custom in which the widow immolated herself alive on her husband’s funeral pyre. The term is derived from the original name of a goddess (see article on Dakshayani), who immolated herself, unable to bear the humiliation of her (living) husband. The term may also be used to refer to the widow herself. The term sati is now sometimes interpreted as 'chaste woman'. Including:

Sati practice - Prevalence

Sati practice - Justifications and criticisms

Sati practice - Suppression

Hinduism - Criticism: Encyclopedia - Apostasy

Apostasy (αποστασις, in classical Greek a defection or revolt from a military commander, from απο, apo, "away, apart", στασις, stasis, "standing") is a term generally employed to describe the formal renunciation of one's religion, especially if the motive is deemed unworthy. In a technical sense, as used by sociologists without the sometimes pejorative connotations of the word, the term refers to renunciation and criticism of or opposition to one's former religion. One who commits apostasy is an ...

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Apostasy - Opinions about the reliability of apostates' testimony and their motivations

Apostasy - Bibliography

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Hinduism - Criticism: Encyclopedia - Apostasy in Islam

Apostasy in Islam (ارتداد, Irtidād) is the rejection of Islam by some means. Spoken or written renunciation of Islam is apostasy, however, displayed disloyalty or blasphemous acts can also be deemed apostasy. The concept has parallels in some other religious systems, particularly monotheistic ones such as Christianity. There is no definition and consequent punishment that spans all Islamic views. The concept of how to deal with apostasy in Islamic theocracies is traditionally a matter of hadd under sharia l ...

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Hinduism - Criticism: Encyclopedia - Wendy Doniger

Wendy Doniger (born November 20, 1940) is a controversial scholar of Hinduism. She has been active in international religious studies in the US since 1973. Wendy Doniger - Background. Doniger holds two doctorates, from Harvard and Oxford, in Sanskrit and Indian Studies. From 1978, she has taught at the University of Chicago, where she currently is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School, the Department of South Asian Languages and Ci ...

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Wendy Doniger - Works by Wendy Doniger

Hinduism - Criticism: Encyclopedia - God and gender

This entry discusses how the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam deal with God and gender. It includes both traditional religious views, and modern views of these faiths, especially as to how modern feminism has influenced the theology of these religions. For the discussion of the topic in Hinduism, see Hindu views on God and gender. Monotheists hold a belief in one God as a fundamental religious principle. In Judaism and Islam, God is believed to be sexless, but has been traditionally referr ...

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God and gender - Mormon views

God and gender - Translating the names of God into English

Hinduism - Criticism: Encyclopedia II - Criticism of Hinduism - Hindu renaissance

Hinduism has often proven to have one of the strongest currents of reform and adoption to change than any other world religion. Unlike other systems riveted to a particular set of books or doctrines, Hinduism is constantly evolving. The first reform and synthesis of modern currents of change came when the ancient Vedic religion was synthesized with the religious practices and philosophies of the Dravidian peoples to form the basis of modern Hinduism. India's independence movement, and the victory of freedom in 1947 helped the new democratic Government of India to end social, economic and political discriminati ...

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