Some Hindus choose to live a monastic life (Sannyāsa) in pursuit of liberation or another form of spiritual perfection. Monastics commit themselves to a life of simplicity, celibacy, detachment from ...
The identification of Hinduism as an independent religion separate from Buddhism or Jainism consequently hinges on the affirmation of its adherents that it is such.Hinduism grants absolute and complet ...
Though Islam came to Indian subcontinent in the early 7th century with the advent of Arab traders and the conquest of Sindh, it started to become a major religion during the later Muslim conquest in t ...
The Indo-Aryans brought with them their language and religion. The Vedic beliefs and practices of the pre-classical era were closely related to the hypothesised Proto-Indo-European religion, and the I ...
Main article: HindustanValmiki, a contemporary of Rama, composes the Ramayana.The word Hindu is derived (through Persian) from the Sanskrit word Sindhu, the historic local name for the Indus River in ...
Terms "Neo-Vedanta" and "Neo-Hindu" Early used polemically by both Christian missionaries and traditional Hindus, the terms "Neo-Vedanta" and "Neo-Hindu" later also came to be used by many scholars.Th ...
Unitarian Universalism was formed from the consolidation in 1961 of two historically Christian denominations, the Universalist Church of America and the American Unitarian Association, both based in t ...
"Unitarianism" is a proper noun and follows the same English usage as other theologies that have developed within a religious movement (Calvinism, Anabaptism, Adventism, Wesleyanism, Lutheranism, etc. ...
Main article: Jewish views of religious pluralismSee also: NoahidismJudaism teaches that God chose the Jewish people to be in a unique covenant with God, and one of their beliefs is that Jewish people ...
David Home, anglicised to David Hume, son of Joseph Home of Chirnside, advocate, and Katherine Falconer, was born on 26 April 1711 (Old Style) in a tenement on the north side of the Lawnmarket in Edin ...
In ordinary usage, skepticism (US) or scepticism (UK) (Greek: 'σκ?πτομαι' skeptomai, to think, to look about, to consider; see also spelling differences) refers to:an attitude of doubt or a d ...
Born in Breslau in the Prussian Silesia as the grandson of Daniel Schleiermacher, a pastor at one time associated with the Zionites, and the son of a Reformed Church chaplain in the Prussian army, Sch ...
A herder is a worker who lives a possibly semi-nomadic life, caring for various domestic animals, in places where these animals wander pasture lands.Usually if the person is a minor, he is called herd ...
Jane Austen?lvares de AzevedoJoanna BaillieAnna BarbauldWilliam BlakeCamilo Castelo BrancoBront? familyRobert BurnsLord ByronThomas CarlyleFran?ois-René de ChateaubriandSamuel Taylor ColeridgeAlex ...
The Romantic movement affected most aspects of intellectual life, and Romanticism and science had a powerful connection, especially in the period 1800–40. Many scientists were influenced by versions ...
