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

Among other practices and philosophies, Hinduism includes a wide spectrum of laws and prescriptions of " daily morality " based on karma, dharma, and societal norms.

Hinduism includes the Agamic religion, involving Shaivism, Vaishnavism, Shaktism, historical groups such as the Ganapatyas, Kaumaras, Sauras, Bhairavas, Kapalikas, Kalamukhas, Pashupatas, and the historical Vedic religion including the Śrautas.

Monistic theism, which includes the concept of a personal god as a universal, omnipotent Supreme Being who is both immanent and transcendent, is prevalent within many other schools of Hinduism as well.

Kaharingan, an animist folk religion of the Iban branch of the Dayak people, accepted as a form of Hinduism by the Indonesian government, includes the belief of a supreme deity as well as the rooster and cockfight in relation to that of the spiritual and religious and some with the belief that humans become the fighting cocks of god, with the Iban further believing the rooster and cockfight was introduced to them by god.

Balinese Hinduism also includes the religious belief of Tabuh Rah, a religious cockfight where a rooster is used in religious custom by allowing him to fight against another rooster in the religious and spiritual cockfight of the Balinese Hinduism spiritual appeasement exercise of Tabuh Rah.

Hinduism includes a range of viewpoints about the origin of life, creationism and evolution.

The religious belief of Tabuh Rah, a form of animal sacrifice of Balinese Hinduism includes a religious cockfight where a rooster is used in religious custom by allowing him to fight against another rooster in a religious and spiritual cockfight, a spiritual appeasement exercise of Tabuh Rah.

It is basically similar to traditional Hinduism, but also includes elements of Buddhism and aminism and a supreme being called Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa.

Its Modern Library section includes contemporary articles ( 1970 – present ) offering arguments that all religions are false ( particularly Christianity, Mormonism, Islam, Judaism, and Hinduism ), arguments against the existence of God, critiques of arguments for the existence of God, and arguments for metaphysical naturalism.

Most Tenggerese are officially Buddhist, but their religion includes many elements of Hinduism including the worship of Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma.

In Hinduism, Devadasi tradition ( द े वद ा स ी / ದ ೇ ವದ ಾ ಸ ಿ; " servant of god ") is a religious tradition in which girls are " married " and dedicated to a deity ( deva or devi ) or to a Hindu temple and includes performance aspects such as those that take place in the temple as well as in the courtly and mujuvani or home context.

In Hinduism, the devadasi tradition ( ದ ೇ ವದ ಾ ಸ ಿ; “ servant of god ”) is a religious tradition in which girls are “ married ” and dedicated to a deity ( deva or devi ) or to a temple and includes performance aspects such as those that take place in the temple as well as in the courtly and mujuvani or home context.

Specifically, Indology includes the study of Sanskrit literature and Hinduism along with the other Indian religions, Jainism, Buddhism and Pāli literature, and Sikhism.

Balinese Hinduism also includes the religious belief of Tabuh Rah, a religious cockfight where a rooster is used in religious custom by allowing him to fight against another rooster in the religious cockfight of the Balinese Hinduism spiritual appeasement exercise of Tabuh Rah, a form of animal sacrifice.

His other edited volume, Sacred Sound: Experiencing Music in World Religions ( Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006 ), includes chapters on Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism by distinguished scholars, as well as a CD of forty selections of chant and music performed by the authors (".... highly recommended.

In his innovative book comparing the mystical literature and practice of Hinduism and Islam, he includes this theme of the diversity of mystical phenomena.

Moving on towards the Monotheistic era of Hinduism when such ideals such as Shaivism and Vaishnavism, a specific deity for feministic worship was bought about under the Shaktism branch.

With the rise of Shaivism and Vaishnavism in the early centuries of the Common era, Hinduism is generally monistic and henotheistic: there is practically a consensus that there is a supreme, absolute, and omnipresent divine entity.

Hinduism is divided into numerous denominations, primarily Shaivism, Shaktism, Vaishnavism, Smarta and much smaller groups like the conservative Shrauta.

In the first half of the first millennium, the Kashmir region became an important center of Hinduism and later of Buddhism ; later still, in the ninth century, Kashmir Shaivism arose.

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* Hinduism, especially Shaivism, the form of Hinduism focussed on the worship of Shiva and the lingam as the symbol of Shiva, but also Vaishnavism, the form of Hinduism focussed on the worship of Vishnu ;

Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Shaktism, and the Ganapatya sects of Hinduism states that Vishnu, Shiva, Devi, and Ganesha respectively equate to Brahman, and that all other deities are aspects of their chosen deity.

Sanskrit was adopted as a scholarly language, and Hinduism, especially Shaivism, became the state religion.

Within Hinduism, it is not uncommon to encounter assertions that the Shaiva and Vaishnava schools of Hinduism lead to moksha, or spiritual liberation, whereas Shaktism leads only to siddhis ( occult powers ) and bhukti ( material enjoyments ) – or, at best, to Shaivism.

Aum Namah Shivaya ( Sanskrit ) is a popular mantra in Hinduism and particularly in Shaivism.

Shaivism, also Saivism, is a branch of Hinduism whose followers worship Siva as the Supreme God.

Many consider Shaivism to be the oldest branch of Hinduism.

Bhaskara was a notable writer on the Kashmir Shaivism sect of Hinduism.

Shaivism ( devotional worship of Lord Shiva ) was the dominant branch practiced by the Tamil peoples thus most of the traditional Hindu temple architecture and philosophy of Sri Lanka drew heavily from this particular strand of Hinduism.

Many denominations of Hinduism, such as Vaishnavism and some schools of Saivism, teach that occasionally, a god comes to Earth as a human being to help humans in their struggle toward enlightenment and salvation ( moksha ).

Contemporary Hinduism has four major divisions: Saivism, Shaktism, Smartism, and Vaishnavism.

The concept of avatar within Hinduism is most often associated with Vishnu, the preserver or sustainer aspect of God within the Hindu Trinity or Trimurti or the one and only supreme God for followers of Vaishnavism.

Although it is usual to speak of Vishnu as the source of the avatars, within the Vaishnavism branch of Hinduism Narayana, Vasudeva, and Krishna are also seen as names denoting divine aspects which descend as avatars.

Within monotheistic Hinduism, it is the love felt by the worshipper towards the personal God, a concept expressed in Hindu theology as Iṣṭa-devatā ( also as Svayam Bhagavan in Gaudiya Vaishnavism ).

Jagannath is non-sectarian and has not been associated with any particular denomination of Hinduism in entirety, though there are several common aspects with Vaishnavism, Saivism, Shaktism, Smartism, as well as with Buddhism and Jainism.

The town hosts hundreds of temples dedicated to the worship of Radha and Krishna and is considered sacred by a number of religious traditions such as Gaudiya Vaishnavism, Vaishnavism, and Hinduism in general.

Studies of Shivait, Shaktism and Vaishnavism sects of Hinduism formed a part of the curriculum for those interested.

Hinduism → Vaishnavism

Hinduism → Vaishnavism → Swaminarayanism

Hinduism, and especially Vaishnavism, has many forms of Vishnu