VEDIC RELIGION

VEDIC RELIGION
   the religion of the ancient ARYAN invaders of India which is found in the G VEDA and other early Indian literature. It is similar to ancient Greek RELIGION being rich in MYTH and RITUAL involving GODS, SACRIFICE and heroic deeds. Life affirming and worldly and very different from later HINDUISM. Later Vedic religion tends towards MONOTHEISM and eventually develops through a series of textual reinterpretations through such works as the UPANISHADS into classical Hinduism which ignores and even reverses many earlier concerns.

Concise dictionary of Religion. 2012.

Игры ⚽ Поможем решить контрольную работу

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Vedic religion — may refer to:*the historical Vedic religion Vedic Hinduism (practices dating to the Vedic period) **Vedic mythology *Shrauta, surviving conservative traditions within HinduismIn wider meanings of the term Vedic *Vedanta *Hinduism in generalee… …   Wikipedia

  • Vedic religion — or Vedism Ancient religion of India that was contemporary with the composition of the Vedas and was the precursor of Hinduism. The religion of the Indo European speaking peoples who entered India с 1500 BCE from the region of present day Iran, it …   Universalium

  • Vedic religion — …   Useful english dictionary

  • Historical Vedic religion — This article discusses the historical religious practices in the Vedic time period; see Hinduism and Indian religions for details of continued religious practices. See Śrauta for the continuing practice of performance of rituals by an oral… …   Wikipedia

  • Vedic — may refer to:* the Vedas, the oldest preserved Indo Aryan texts ** Vedic Sanskrit, the language of these texts ** Vedic period, during which these texts were produced ** the Historical Vedic religion, of which the Vedas record the liturgy **… …   Wikipedia

  • Vedic mythology — refers to the mythological aspects of the historical Vedic religion and Vedic literature.It has directly contributed to the evolution and development of later Hinduism and Hindu mythology. The four Vedic Samhitas are part of the Hindu Śruti .… …   Wikipedia

  • Vedic period — The Vedic Period (or Vedic Age) is the period in the history of India during which the Vedas, the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism, were being composed. Scholars place the Vedic period in the second and first millennia BCE continuing up to the 6th …   Wikipedia

  • Vedic civilization/EB 1911 — TOC (Encyclopedia Britannica 1911, s.v. Sanskrit) [http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=User:Tim Starling/ScanSet TIFF demo vol=24 page=ED4A170] [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/scans/EB1911 tiff/VOL24%20SAINTE… …   Wikipedia

  • Vedic priesthood — Priests of the Vedic religion were officiants of the yajna service. As persons trained for the ritual and proficient in its practice, they were called ṛtvij ( regularly sacrificing ). As members of a social class, they were generically known as… …   Wikipedia

  • religion — religionless, adj. /ri lij euhn/, n. 1. a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, esp. when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and… …   Universalium

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”