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Hinduism
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[German Version] I. History – II. Religious Doctrine – III. Society – IV. Hinduism and Christianity
I. History
1. Historical outline Hinduism, from Persian
hindu (“one who lives by the Indus River”), is a collective term for those religious communities and their systems that formed on the south Asian subcontinent (India: I) or spread there, whose social organization is characterized by particular rules of lineage and marriage (the so-called caste system, see III, 2 below; Caste: I), who primarily uphold Vedic-Brahm…
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Religion Past and Present