Word: hinduism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Toynbee, all the "higher religions," i.e., Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, are simply separate ways to the City of God. Toynbee sees the prophets of other religions as precursors of Christ, and their sufferings "Stations of the Cross in anticipation of the Crucifixion." But he does not explicitly accept Christ's divinity. Toynbee also sees Christianity as the "climax of a continuous upward movement of spiritual progress" and thinks that "a 20th century historian might venture to predict that Christianity's transfiguring effect on the World up to date would be outshone by its continuing operation in the future...
...Sravana Belgola, in the state of Mysore, stands a stone statue, 57 ft. high, of a stiffly poised man with a quiet, half-smiling face. The statue's name is Gomateswara, and he is a patron saint of India's Jain religion, an ancient offshoot of Hinduism. Half the population of India were once Jains, but their numbers have now shrunk to a bare 1,500,000. They dwindled possibly because of the ritual difficulties of their religion, which favors a strict asceticism and holds, among other tenets, that a believer must not harm any living thing, even...
Jung himself is inclined to agree with both his admirers and his critics. His own conception of religion is so eclectic, that it embraces everything from Catholicism to Hinduism, Taoism and Zen Buddhism, and finds truth of some sort in nearly every form of dogma and ritual. "His principal weakness, aside from overeating," a close associate recently remarked, "is his habit of seeing all points of view and agreeing with practically everybody." "The idea an an all powerful being," says Jung himself, "is present everywhere, if not consciously recognized, then unconsciously accepted...I consider it wiser to recognize the idea...
Pull Up Your Socks. The strictness of the fast was an impressive profession of faith in Islam, the world's great third-force religion, a monotheist faith akin to Christianity and Judaism,* dedicated to stamping out polytheist religions, e.g., Buddhism and Hinduism, as pagan and "immoral...
...cohabitation" which caused Shaw to beat a hasty retreat. "Good God," he exclaimed, "this is worse than all the vows of all the churches on earth! I had rather be legally married to you ten times over!" She was converted to Theosophy (a watered-down Western copy of Hinduism) while reviewing a book by its founder, Mme. Blavatsky, went to India where she dressed in the native sari, became the leader of the world wide Theosophist movement (present member ship: 150,000). In 1909 she adopted a twelveyear- old Indian orphan boy, Jiddu Krishnamurti, whom she declared...