The Jewish synagogue affords a parallel to the Christian congregation, but Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Confucianism, Taoism, Shintoism, although they have sacred scriptures, priests, spiritual disciplines, and places of prayer, do not have a congregation as a local household of faith and love.

Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism and Sikhism, etc., place particular emphasis on altruistic morality.

Many religions, whether they believe in the soul's existence in another world like Christianity, Islam and many pagan belief systems, or in reincarnation like many forms of Hinduism and Buddhism, believe that one's status in the afterlife is a reward or punishment for their conduct during life.

The two largest non-Christian religions are Hinduism ( 2 %) and Islam ( 1 %).

The Chicago Metropolitan Area also includes adherents of Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, and the Bahá ' í, among others.

Some also denounce non-Christian religions such as Islam, Wicca, Paganism, New Age groups, Buddhism, Hinduism, and other polytheistic religions.

The holy text spans 1430 pages and contains the actual words spoken by the Sikh Gurus and various other Saints from other religions including Hinduism and Islam.

For example, only kosher foods are permitted by Judaism, halal foods by Islam, and in Hinduism beef is restricted.

The Initial Declaration was signed by 143 respected leaders from all of the world's major faiths, including Baha ' i Faith, Brahmanism, Brahma Kumaris, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Indigenous, Interfaith, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Native American, Neo-Pagan, Sikhism, Taoism, Theosophist, Unitarian Universalist and Zoroastrian.

Of other religions Islam was at 0. 8 per cent, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism and Hinduism were all at around 0. 1 per cent.

Islam came to the Malay Archipelago via Arab and Indian traders in the 13th century, ending the age of Hinduism and Buddhism.

In both countries, Islam, Hinduism and Christianity are represented by important communities.

There are monist pantheists and panentheists in Zoroastrianism, Hinduism ( particularly in Advaita and Vishistadvaita ), Judaism ( monistic panentheism is especially found in Kabbalah and Hasidic philosophy ), and in Islam ( among the Sufis, especially the Bektashi ).

Monotheism is characteristic of Atenism, Bahá ' í Faith, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Ravidassia, Judaism, Sabianism, Sikhism and Zoroastrianism.

Although the Sikhs have many names for God, some derived from Islam and Hinduism, they all refer to the same Supreme Being.

This is more than many well known traditions such as Rastafarian, Bahá ' í and Zoroastrian groups, but fewer than the ' Big Six ' of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism and Buddhism.

It is also fewer than the adherents Jediism, whose campaign made them the fourth largest religion after Christianity, Islam and Hinduism.

New Age practices and philosophies sometimes draw inspiration from major world religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Chinese folk religion, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam ( especially Sufism ), Judaism ( especially Kabbalah ), Sikhism ; with strong influences from East Asian religions, Gnosticism, Neopaganism, New Thought, Spiritualism, Theosophy, Universalism and Western esotericism.

In particular, Hinduism and the Abrahamic religions ( Judaism, Christianity, and Islam ) believe that there is a divine being who is omniscient.

Religious symbols, from left to right: row 1: Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism row 2: Islam, Buddhism, Shinto </ br /> row 3: Sikhism, Bahai, Jainism

Neopaganism in the United States accounts for roughly a third of all contemporary Pagans worldwide, and for some 0. 2 % of US population, figuring as the sixth largest non-Christian denomination in the US, after Judaism ( 1. 4 %), Islam ( 0. 6 %), Buddhism ( 0. 5 %), Hinduism ( 0. 3 %) and Unitarian Universalism ( 0. 3 %).

Polyandry is prohibited by Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam and it is illegal in most countries, including those that permit polygyny.

The five largest religious groups by population, estimated to account for between 5 and 7 billion people, are Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism ( with the relative numbers for Buddhism and Hinduism dependent on the extent of syncretism ) and Chinese folk religion.

Sikhism had many interactions and of influences on and from Sufism as well as Hinduism see Islam and Sikhism and Hinduism and Sikhism.

Indian Hindu artisans from the period of the Chola empire in Tamil Nadu, used bronze to create intricate statues via the lost wax casting method with ornate detailing depicting the Gods of Hinduism mostly, but also the lifestyle of the period.

Decisive in distinguishing Buddhism from what is commonly called Hinduism is the issue of epistemological justification.

In Hinduism, celibacy is usually associated with the sadhus (" holy men "), ascetics who withdraw from worldly ties.

Brahma | Brahmā, the Hinduism | Hindu Deva ( Hinduism ) | deva of creation, emerges from a Nelumbo nucifera | lotus risen from the navel of Vishnu | Viṣņu, who lies with Lakshmi on the serpent Ananta Shesha

The idea of rta laid the cornerstone of dharma's implicit attribution to the " ultimate reality " of the surrounding universe, in classical Vedic Hinduism the following verse from the Rig-Veda is an example where rta is mentioned:

The First Night in Exile-This painting comes from a celebrated series illustrating one of Hinduism ’ s great epics, the Ramayana.

Hinduism is a complex of various belief systems that sees many gods and goddesses as being representative of and / or emanative from a single source, Brahman, understood either as a formless, infinite, impersonal monad in the Advaita tradition or as a dual god in the form of Lakshmi-Vishnu, Radha-Krishna, Shiva-Shakti in Dvaita traditions.

Ancient hymns include the Egyptian Great Hymn to the Aten, composed by Pharaoh Akhenaten ; the Vedas, a collection of hymns in the tradition of Hinduism ; and the Psalms, a collection of songs from Judaism.

The Atharvaveda, a sacred text of Hinduism dating from the Early Iron Age, is the first Indian text dealing with medicine, like the medicine of the Ancient Near East based on concepts of the exorcism of demons and magic.

Hinduism has some common concepts and practices that nowadays some Hindus tend to consider Jainism to have derived its roots from Hinduism.

The key points where the theory of Karma in Jainism differs from the other religions such as theistic traditions of Hinduism, can be stated as follows:

In the Bhakti tradition within Hinduism, it is believed that execution of devotional service to God leads to the development of Love for God ( taiche bhakti-phale krsne prema upajaya ), and as love for God increases in the heart, the more one becomes free from material contamination ( krishna-prema asvada haile, bhava nasa paya ).

In most of Hinduism and transcendentalism, all matter is believed to be an illusion called Maya, blinding us from knowing the truth.

* Mages of Akashic Brotherhood are ascetics, martial artists, and monks, largely drawing from Buddhism, Taoism, Shinto, Hinduism and other such religions.

" After being released from court, he converted to Hinduism in 1996 to become engaged to a daughter of an Indian tea merchant.

The name Muralitharan is derived from murli dhar ( Devnagri: म ु रल ी धर ) meaning " the bearer of the flute ", which is a synonym for Lord Krishna, a deity in Hinduism who is said to play upon his bamboo flute while looking after cattle.

Hinduism in Colombia was mainly introduced with the arrival of Indians.

The following dates briefly outline the arrival of Hinduism.

With the arrival of Hinduism in the archipelago, the Ramayana and Mahabharata epics began to be performed in masked-dance.

Further adherence to Hinduism was superseded by the advent of Islam brought to the archipelago By Indonesian, Malay, and Arab missionaries in the 14th century, as well as the arrival of Christianity with the Spaniards in 1521.