* 1699 – Khalsa: The Sikh Religion was formalised as the Khalsa-the brotherhood of Warrior-Saints-by Guru Gobind Singh in Northern India, in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.

Weber's work in the field of sociology of religion started with the essay The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and continued with the analysis of The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism and Ancient Judaism.

Max Weber published four major texts on religion in a context of economic sociology and his rationalization thesis: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ( 1905 ), The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism ( 1915 ), The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism ( 1915 ), and Ancient Judaism ( 1920 ).

During World War II he was in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve after which he was awarded a two year grant in the Department of Indian Religion and Philosophy, Banaras Hindu University, India, from which he graduated with a master's degree in Indian Religion and Philosophy.

More recently, see Frederick Copleston, Religion and the One: Philosophies East and West ( University of Aberdeen Gifford Lectures 1979-1980 ) and the special section " Fra Oriente e Occidente " in Annuario filosofico No. 6 ( 1990 ), including the articles " Plotino e l ' India " by Aldo Magris and " L ' India e Plotino " by Mario Piantelli.

** Ramdas Lamb, " Rapt in the Name: Ramnamis, Ramnam and Untouchable Religion in Central India "

** Chad Bauman, " Identifying the Satnam: Hindu Satnamis, Indian Christians and Dalit Religion in Colonial Chhattisgarh, India ( 1868 – 1947 ) ( Ph.

* If Cricket is a Religion, Sachin is God by Vijay Santhanam, Shyam Balasubramanian Publisher: HarperCollins India ISBN 978-81-7223-821-6

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The Religion of the Veda: The Ancient Religion of India, from Rig-Veda to Upanishads.

* J. Zavos, Defending Hindu Tradition: Sanatana Dharma as a Symbol of Orthodoxy in Colonial India, Religion ( Academic Press ), Volume 31, Number 2, April 2001, pp. 109 – 123.

" Religion in India | Prevailing Religions of the British Raj | British Indian Empire ," from the Imperial Gazetteer of India, Oxford University Press, 1909

# Coburn, Thomas, B. Scripture " in India: Towards a Typology of the Word in Hindu Life Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol.

* Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Religions of India ( 1878 )

* " Purifying the Earthly Body of God: Religion and Ecology in Hindu India ," Lance E. Nelson, State University of New York Press, 1998.

* I-Tsing, A Record of the Buddhist Religion: As Practised in India and the Malay Archipelago ( A. D. 671-695 ), Translated by J. Takakusu ( 1896 ).

* The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism

In the same year Stephen Prothero, author and chairman of Boston University's Department of Religion, wrote in the Harvard Divinity Bulletin: " I am crazy for people who are crazy for God: people nearly as inscrutable to me as divinity, who leave wives and children to become forest-dwelling monks in Thailand, who wander naked across the belly of India in search of self-realization, who speak in tongues and take up serpents in Appalachia because the Bible says they can.

A Socio-Philo ( sopho ) logical Perspective ", Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion, edited by Tope Omoniyi and Joshua A. Fishman, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 237 – 258.

* Kevin J. Christiano, et al., ( 2nd ed., 2008 ), Sociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

* Max Weber, Sociology of Religion

( ed., 2009 ), The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion.

* American Sociological Association, Section on Sociology of Religion

* Association for the Sociology of Religion ( ASR )

Durkheim's Sociology of Religion: Themes and Theories, The James Clarke & Co ( ISBN 978-0-227-17297-1 ).

A Socio-Philo ( sopho ) logical Perspective ", Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion, edited by Tope Omoniyi and Joshua A. Fishman, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 237 – 258.

She was Chairperson of the British Sociological Association's Study Group for the Sociology of Religion from 1985 to 1990, President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion from 1991 to 1993 ( the first non-American to hold that office ), and President of the Association for the Sociology of Religion from 2001 to 2002.

Special Edition of The Sociology of Religion 64 no.

Freedom, Control and the Sociology of Religion " ( Association for the Sociology of Religion 2002 Presidential Address ).

Sociology of Religion 64, no.

Jains are not a part of the Vedic Religion ( Hinduism ).

* Independent Religion – From the Encyclopædia Britannica Article on Jainism: "... Along with Hinduism and Buddhism, it is one of the three most ancient Indian religious traditions still in existence.

It has been characterized as a religion, a cult, a charismatic movement, a " sect ", " plastic export Hinduism ", a progressive millennialism organization and a " multinational, capitalist, Vedantic Export Religion " in books and the mainstream press, with concerns that the movement was being run to promote the Maharishi's personal interests.

The tribes of the Philippines practiced Mohammedan Religion, Hinduism, Buddhism, Ancestor and Nature worship ; part of the motivation of the Spaniards was to convert the natives to the Roman Catholic religion in order to subdue them without a fight.

The religious affiliation responses were Catholic ( 21. 3 %), No Religion ( 18. 3 %), Hinduism ( 13. 3 %), Anglican ( 7. 4 %) and Islam ( 6. 8 %).

Religion and culture scholar Sean McCloud says that Newsweek reported that " many Indian sages contend that his rather simplified system of meditation is without basis in the Bhagavad-Gita — the epic poem that is Hinduism ’ s most exalted scripture ".

* Emory University class: Introduction to Religion: Judaism and Hinduism

Jainism is not considered as a part of the Vedic Religion ( Hinduism ), even as there is constitutional ambiguity over its status.

Religion symbols, row 1: Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Baha ' i Faith row 2: Islam, Gnosticism, Taoism, Shinto row 3: Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, Jainism, row 4: Ayyavazhi, Wicca, Christian, Slavic neopaganism

The minority religions are Christianity ( between 40 million, 3 %, and 54 million, 4 %), Islam ( 20 – 30 million, 1. 5 %– 2 %), the traditional tribal religions of the non-Han ethnic groups ( Moz, White Stone Religion, Dongbaism, Bön ), Judaism, Hinduism, and a number of new religions and sects ( particularly Xiantiandao and Falun Gong ).

The TM movement has been called a spiritual movement, a new religious movement, a " Neo-Hindu " sect, a religion, a cult, a charismatic movement, " plastic export Hinduism ", a " multinational, capitalist, Vedantic Export Religion ", a millenarian movement, a world affirming movement, a new social movement and a guru-centered movement in books and the mainstream press, with concerns that it was being run to promote the Maharishi's personal interests. Sources also say that TM is not a religion, but a meditation technique ; and that the TM movement is a spiritual organization, and not a religion or a cult.

Although not a detailed study of Protestantism but rather an introduction to Weber's later studies of interaction between various religious ideas and economics ( The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism, and Ancient Judaism ), The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism argues that Puritan ethics and ideas influenced the development of capitalism.

* The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism

Shmuel Eisenstadt argues in the introduction to The Origins and Diversity of Axial Age Civilizations that Max Weber's work in his The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism and Ancient Judaism provided a background for the importance of the period, and notes parallels with Eric Voegelin's Order and History.

Geaves has taught several subjects including Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, the Sociology and Anthropology of Religion, Judaism, Christianity and ancient religions.

* The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism ( translation-1958 )

Born in Rome on June 14, 1955, Massimo Introvigne reported in a partially autobiographical paper presented at the 2008 yearly conference of the American Academy of Religion in Chicago how his interest in non-Christian religions dates back to his reading as a young boy of the novels of Emilio Salgari, Rudyard Kipling, and Luigi Ugolini ( 1891 – 1980, the author of the 1950 Italian novel L ' isola non trovata ), which included references to Hinduism, Islam and other religions not generally well-known at that time in Italy.