Hinduism, the world’s third largest religion, includes diverse religious and philosophical traditions that emerged on the Indian subcontinent between 500 BCE and 300 CE. In Hinduism a person is on their own trying to gain release from karma. Religious liberty is more a question of the right to public association, public expression, and public activity than it is about private opinions or personal decisions. Study of the variety of religious traditions around the world makes it abundantly clear that different people operate under different assumptions about the way the world works. This report includes sections on school prayer, the pledge of allegiance, religion in school curricula, and the religious liberty rights of students and teachers. It implicates religion and religions in several ways. The broad idea that a shared faith serves the needs of a society is known as the functionalist view of religion. In Buddhism it is an individual quest at being free from desire. Judaism, Christianity, Islam (Semitic religions), Hinduism and Buddhism; Confucianism, Taoism and Shinto (Chinese-Japanese religions) etc. This analysis, updated on Oct. 3, 2019, was originally published in 2007 as part of a larger series that explored different aspects of the complex and fluid relationship between government and religion. From religious or theological perspectives, globalization calls forth religious response and interpretation. 2.3 Science and religion in Hinduism. Many modern students of religion agree. Learn more» Buddhism GLOBALIZATION AND RELIGION GLOBALIZATION AND RELIGION . Globalization refers to the historical process by which all the world's people increasingly come to live in a single social unit. Meaning of Religion: Religion is concerned with the shared beliefs and practices of human beings. KRISTA TIPPETT, HOST: I’m Krista Tippett, today a conversation about religion in America, with one of the great public theologians of our time, Martin Marty. Thereafter it became the dominant religion on the Indian subcontinent. In New Age a person is working at their own divinity. religion became clear, and this prepared the way for more modern developments that paved way for Pentecostalism, Spiritism sects, etc. Most of the world religions place an individual on their own, striving for spiritual perfection. November 2, 2006. About this report. The vast majority of Hindus live in India; most others live in Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia (Hackett 2015). However, for those aspiring to leadership in the 21st century, knowledge of the religions of the world from a nonconfessional perspective is not a luxury but a necessity. Hinduism is one of the most geographically concentrated of the major world religions—of the world's 1.12 billion Hindus, 1.07 billion live in India and Nepal. 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