RELIGION / Hinduism / Rituals & Practice

Paper · Semantic Scholar

Environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, and climate change have become urgent global challenges, prompting renewed attention to the role of cultural and religious frameworks in shaping sustainable human–nature relationships. The study examined Wana Kerthi, a Balinese Hindu principle of forest preservation, as an indigenous eco-theology integrating religious devotion, environmental ethics, and social solidarity…

Reference · Wikidata

secret practice of Hinduism while publicly following rituals of the state religion

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Crypto-Hinduism is the secret adherence to Hinduism while publicly professing to be of another faith; practitioners are referred to as "crypto-Hindus". Crypto-Hinduism was observed during a period of forced religious conversions in South Asia, as well as suspected against Hindus who were forcibly converted to the religion of the invaders or colonizers. Many crypto-Hindus were arrested for practicing Hinduism after p…

Book · DOAB

The Introduction will discuss secondary writings on temples as a place for public worship of the deity which is done through several daily, monthly and annual rituals performed in different spaces in the temple complex. Moving away from the ethnographic and textual studies of Hindu rituals which focus on contemporary ritual praxis, this chapter examines temple rituals in a historical context within the different spa…

Image · DPLA

Issue 44.2 of the Review for Religious, March/April 1985.