Hinduism

Karamchand Gandhi left his mark on the history of india . Gandhi was also nicknamed the Mahatma which means the great soul in Hindi or Bapu which means father. The thought of Gandhi is divided into seven categories: 1) faith(Gandhi was born Hindu and Hinduism practiced all his life, which inspired many of its principles) 2) the truth (Gandhi dedicated his life to the discovery of truth or Satya. He tried to reach it by learning from his own mistakes and by doing experiments on himself) 3) simplicity

1991. Today India is one of the major emerging powers of China beside Russia and Brazil. She is currently the fourth largest economy in purchasing power parity, behind China. There 's many religions in India. The main religions in India are Hinduism (79.8%) and Islam (13.7%). There are also Jains (0.5%), Sikhs (2.1%), Zoroastrians (Parsis), Buddhists (0.8%), Jews and Christians (2.5%) The culture of India is very complex because it is a mix of many different cultures, different religions

avec le brahman qui est l’univers en dehors de nous. Brahmanisme UNIL 2007/2008 Bibliographie Ouvrages techniques Eliade Mircea, Couliano Ioan P., Dictionnaire des religions, Paris : Pocket, 2005. Kumar Singh Nagendra, Encyclopaedia of Hinduism, Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd, 2002. Ouvrages divers Biardeau Madeleine, L'hindouisme : anthropologie d'une civilisation. Paris : Flammarion, 2004. Coomaraswamy Ananda K., Hindouisme et Bouddhisme, Paris : Gallimard, 1949. Demetrian Serge, Le

1948, they won their independence. Two principal language are spoken in this country : cingalais, the most spoken, and tamoul. There are many religions. The first it is Buddhism, it is the most important with 77% of the population. The other are Hinduism, Muslims and Christianism. It is a Democratic Socialist Republic. Her capital, and a great town to visit is Sri Jayawardenapura. Then let us talk about many visits you can do. First for archeologic visits, you can go to Anuradhapura, Dambulla

thousand one hundred ninety four) the third largest in the European Union, the fifth largest in the Commonwealth and the twenty-first largest in the world. Religion In the United Kingdom, christianity is the largest religion, followed by Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism and then Judaism in terms of number of adherents. History The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy consisting of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It is governed by a parliamentary system with its seat

system describes the social stratification and restrictions. In fact India is confronted with both a democratic model and a caste system which is evolving progressively in the Indian modern society. Generally the caste system has been identified with Hinduism religion. The caste system is composed of many social hereditary, hierarchic, endogamic traditions. In the Indian system there are four orders or “varnas” classified in accordance with religion: Brahmins (teachers, priests); the Kshatriyas (kings

Africans, to be cut off from the community of the ancestors in death is the nearest equivalent of hell. 13. - There is a close relationship between birth and death. African beliefs in reincarnation differ from those of major Asian religions (especially Hinduism) 14. - Africans are "world-affirming," and welcome reincarnation. The world is a light, warm, and living place to which the dead are only too glad to return from the darkness and coldness of the grave. The dead return to their communities 15. -

environment (e.g.) the fauna and flora, how it reinforces opposition to its actions, Case of effective contribution of religious groups to the protection of the environment Case Study: Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, and traditional African religions. 1. Religion though private and precious: it should not be shy of getting involved in issues as the protection of nature. 2. Violence is often glorified: But this does not prevent the various

the spread of education and especially the education of women seemed to threaten the structure of Hindu society. The increasing number of Christian missionaries arriving in India confirmed suspicions that the British were trying to destroy not only Hinduism but Islam and Buddhism as well.- Events in the Mutiny After the initial shock at Meerut, the Mutiny spread rapidly through Bengal, Oudh and the North-West Provinces. Also encouraging to the Indians was the obvious unpreparedness of the British:

that this work will not focus on a specific country in Asia but try to grasp the general approaches to business ethics based on thinkers or ideas that influenced the ethics and values of the people. These ideas can, to give some examples, origin in Hinduism, Confucianism or Buddhism (Crane, Matten 2007, p. 33) or to name thinkers Watsuji Tetsuro or Confucius (Koehn 1999, p. 73). CRANE and MATTEN (Crane, Matten 01.01.2005, p. 30–32) identify six key questions of business ethics, which they refer to