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Hinduism

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A family of South Asian traditions with shared textual, ritual and cosmological reference points rather than a single founder or creed; 'Hinduism' as a unified category is substantially a term of nineteenth-century colonial and Indological classification, and scholars disagree about how far it names one thing before that. Its practice travelled the maritime and overland routes to Southeast Asia in the first millennium CE, where temple architecture, Sanskrit court culture and Puranic narrative were adopted by ruling houses in what earlier scholarship called 'Indianisation' — a framing now widely criticised for implying passive reception rather than active local selection.

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  1. Story
  2. A family of South Asian traditions with shared textual, ritual and cosmological reference points rather than a single founder or creed; 'Hinduism' as a unified category is substantially a term of nineteenth-century colonial and Indological classification, and scholars disagree about how far it names one thing before that. Its practice travelled the maritime and overland routes to Southeast Asia in the first millennium CE, where temple architecture, Sanskrit court culture and Puranic narrative were adopted by ruling houses in what earlier scholarship called 'Indianisation' — a framing now widely criticised for implying passive reception rather than active local selection.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Indian Ocean maritime trade network
  5. Hinduism
  6. Connections
  7. Indian Ocean maritime trade network
  8. Construction of Borobudur under Shailendra patronage
  9. Measured global religious composition, 2010-2020
  10. Islam
  11. Silk Road religious corridor
  12. Aksum
  13. Kilwa Kisiwani
  14. Hinduism
  15. Zoroastrianism
  16. Aksum adopts Christianity under King Ezana
  17. Zoroastrian migrants reach Gujarat — the Parsi settlement
  18. Construction of Borobudur under Shailendra patronage
  19. Construction phases of the Great Mosque at Kilwa Kisiwani
  20. The ruling house of Malacca adopts Islam
  21. Measured global religious composition, 2010-2020
  22. Evidence
  23. Borobudur is a monumental Mahayana Buddhist temple complex in the Kedu Valley of central Java, built in the eighth and ninth centuries under the Syailendra dynasty and inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1991 as reference 592. The inscribed property is three temples together — Borobudur, Pawon and Mendut — and it stands in a landscape that also carries major contemporary Hindu temple construction. V55 verification basis: the UNESCO listing was retrieved in summary; whc.unesco.org itself is unreachable from this session, so the nomination file and criteria were not read.
  24. Between 2010 and 2020 Christians fell 1.8 percentage points to 28.8% of world population (about 2.3 billion, an absolute rise of 122 million) while Muslims rose 1.8 points to 25.6% (an absolute rise of 347 million); Christians remained the largest group and Muslims the fastest-growing.
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