The history of Hinduism covers a wide variety of related religious traditions native to the Indian subcontinent. [1] It overlaps or coincides with the development of religion in the Indian subcontinent since the Iron Age, with some of its traditions tracing back to prehistoric religions such as those of the Bronze Age Indus Valley Civilisation.

2025年1月14日 · Hinduism is a major world religion originating on the Indian subcontinent and comprising several and varied systems of philosophy, belief, and ritual. If the Indus valley civilization (3rd–2nd millennium BCE) was the earliest source of Hindu traditions, then Hinduism is the oldest living religion on Earth.

2017年10月6日 · Most scholars believe Hinduism started somewhere between 2300 B.C. and 1500 B.C. in the Indus Valley, near modern-day Pakistan. But many Hindus argue that their faith is timeless and...

2025年1月14日 · Evidence of Hinduism’s early antecedents is derived from archaeology, comparative philology, and comparative religion. The earliest literary source for the history of Hinduism is the Rigveda, consisting of hymns that were composed chiefly during the last two or three centuries of the 2nd millennium bce.

Although there is an emphasis on personal spirituality, Hinduism's history is closely linked with social and political developments, such as the rise and fall of different kingdoms and empires....

3 天之前 · Across the sweep of Indian religious history, at least five elements have given shape to the Hindu religious tradition: doctrine, practice, society, story, and devotion. These five elements, to adopt a typical Hindu metaphor, are understood as relating to one another as strands in an elaborate braid. Moreover, each strand develops out of a ...

Hinduism is the largest and most practised religion in India. [1] [2] About 80% of the country's population identified as Hindu in the last census.India contains 94% of the global Hindu population. [3] [4] The vast majority of Indian Hindus belong to Shaivite, Vaishnavite and Shakta denominations. [5]India is one of the three countries in the world (Nepal (81%) and Mauritius (48%) being the ...

2023年1月20日 · “Hindu” is a ubiquitous word in modern times, used by scholars and practitioners in dozens of languages to denote members of a religious tradition. But the religious meaning of “hindu” and its common use are quite new. Here I trace the layered history of “hindu,” part of an array of shifting identities in early and medieval India.

2015年8月20日 · Hinduism has two major roots. The more familiar is the religion brought to South Asia in the second millennium bce by speakers of Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family.

Hinduism is one of the world’s oldest religions. Some ideas and practices of Hinduism date back more than 3,000 years. Over the centuries, however, its followers – called Hindus – have developed many new ideas and combined them with the old ones. More than 1 billion people practice Hinduism worldwide.