This report includes sections on school prayer, the pledge of allegiance, religion in school curricula, and the religious liberty rights of students and teachers. Thereafter it became the dominant religion on the Indian subcontinent. Religious liberty is more a question of the right to public association, public expression, and public activity than it is about private opinions or personal decisions. Most of the world religions place an individual on their own, striving for spiritual perfection. The vast majority of Hindus live in India; most others live in Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia (Hackett 2015). About this report. Hinduism is one of the most geographically concentrated of the major world religions—of the world's 1.12 billion Hindus, 1.07 billion live in India and Nepal. Study of the variety of religious traditions around the world makes it abundantly clear that different people operate under different assumptions about the way the world works. Meaning of Religion: Religion is concerned with the shared beliefs and practices of human beings. Globalization refers to the historical process by which all the world's people increasingly come to live in a single social unit. 2.3 Science and religion in Hinduism. Judaism, Christianity, Islam (Semitic religions), Hinduism and Buddhism; Confucianism, Taoism and Shinto (Chinese-Japanese religions) etc. For decades, Martin Marty has been watching developments that are now the stuff of daily headlines: the rise of religious fundamentalism across the world, the decline of the Protestant majority in American culture, … Learn more» Buddhism religion became clear, and this prepared the way for more modern developments that paved way for Pentecostalism, Spiritism sects, etc. GLOBALIZATION AND RELIGION GLOBALIZATION AND RELIGION . KRISTA TIPPETT, HOST: I’m Krista Tippett, today a conversation about religion in America, with one of the great public theologians of our time, Martin Marty. November 2, 2006. This analysis, updated on Oct. 3, 2019, was originally published in 2007 as part of a larger series that explored different aspects of the complex and fluid relationship between government and religion. The sheer number of practitioners, however, makes Hinduism the world's third largest religion. In New Age a person is working at their own divinity. Yet, comparisons between religious America and secular Europe, or the evidence seen in the enormous variety of religious revivals, religious conflicts, and religious interventions in politics around the world, all make clear that within the same secular immanent frame one can encounter very diverse religious dynamics. In Buddhism it is an individual quest at being free from desire. It implicates religion and religions in several ways. From religious or theological perspectives, globalization calls forth religious response and interpretation. Many modern students of religion agree. 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