Indian religion


This includes Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism.	Sapience Home Site map About Sapience Institutions Religion Religious Traditions Asiatic religion Buddhism Hinduism Sikhism Jainism

This includes Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism.

Buddhism

c. 560 - c 480 Gautama Buddha lives and preaches in India.
c. 265 - 238 BC. Asoka rules in India and adopts Buddhism, encouraging its spread.

Jainism

c. 599 - c. 525 Mahavira, considered founder of Jainism, lives and preaches in India.


Specific connections to science and personal studies will be explored as this site develops. Anthropology including social foundations, demography, physical anthropology, human ecology, human geography, and particular groups can be connected. This is connected to culture including material culture, conceptual culture, and behavioral culture. This is connected to families, education, economics, and government, and religion. Other areas of religion including belief, practice, organization, and other particular religions can be examined.	Links to other sites: Not yet developed.
Connections to sociology indluding social structure and change, communities, and peoples of the world will also be explored. In general, Western civilization has not contributed a great deal. These are principally associated with Asiatic peoples. African peoples and American Indian peoples have few connections. Particular nations such as the United States, China, India, and Indonesia can be examined. The history of Indian religion is long. It goes without question to antiquity including the 5th millennium BC, the 4th millennium BC, the 3rd millennium BC, the 2nd millennium BC, and the early first millennium BC. It developed and expanded substantially in classical and medieval times. Developments in early classical, late classical, early medieval, and late medieval times will be examined as this site expands. Modern developments in the 16th century, 17th century, 19th century, and 19th century are not yet entirely clear. In the 20th century, developments of the early 20th, early-mid 20th, mid 20th, late-mid 20th, and late 20th century also lack detail. Recent and current events of the early 21st century including the early 2000s and late 2000s can be examined. Its future is obscure.

Specific connections to science and personal studies will be explored as this site develops. Anthropology including social foundations, demography, physical anthropology, human ecology, human geography, and particular groups can be connected. This is connected to culture including material culture, conceptual culture, and behavioral culture.

This is connected to families, education, economics, and government, and religion. Other areas of religion including belief, practice, organization, and other particular religions can be examined.

Links to other sites: Not yet developed.

Connections to sociology indluding social structure and change, communities, and peoples of the world will also be explored. In general, Western civilization has not contributed a great deal. These are principally associated with Asiatic peoples. African peoples and American Indian peoples have few connections. Particular nations such as the United States, China, India, and Indonesia can be examined.

The history of Indian religion is long. It goes without question to antiquity including the 5th millennium BC, the 4th millennium BC, the 3rd millennium BC, the 2nd millennium BC, and the early first millennium BC. It developed and expanded substantially in classical and medieval times. Developments in early classical, late classical, early medieval, and late medieval times will be examined as this site expands. Modern developments in the 16th century, 17th century, 19th century, and 19th century are not yet entirely clear. In the 20th century, developments of the early 20th, early-mid 20th, mid 20th, late-mid 20th, and late 20th century also lack detail. Recent and current events of the early 21st century including the early 2000s and late 2000s can be examined. Its future is obscure.