history: My friend keeps saying he is Hindu, but i have no idea what that means.
knowledge: It has historically been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for people indigenous to South Asia.
response: Hindu is a word used as a geographical, cultural and religious identifier for people from South Asia.
history: My friend keeps saying he is Hindu, but i have no idea what that means.
Hindu is a word used as a geographical, cultural and religious identifier for people from South Asia.
I see, that makes sense now. How long has Hinduism been around?
knowledge: Starting with the Persian and Greek references to the land of the Indus in the 1st millennium BCE through the texts of the medieval era, the term Hindu implied a geographic, ethnic or cultural identifier for people living in the Indian subcontinent around or beyond the Sindhu (Indus) river.
response: I'm not 100% sure on that, but I know that from the first millennium BCE until the medieval age, "Hindu" usually referred to people living on the Indian subcontinent near the Sindhu River.
history: My friend keeps saying he is Hindu, but i have no idea what that means.
Hindu is a word used as a geographical, cultural and religious identifier for people from South Asia.
I see, that makes sense now. How long has Hinduism been around?
I'm not 100% sure on that, but I know that from the first millennium BCE until the medieval age, "Hindu" usually referred to people living on the Indian subcontinent near the Sindhu River.
That is a long time ago. Do you know what type of religion it is?
knowledge: Hindu texts present diverse and conflicting views on the position of women, ranging from feminine leadership as the highest goddess, to limiting her role to an obedient daughter, housewife and mother.
response: I don't, but I know there are different views on women in Hinduism, from the notion that women can be leaders up to the highest goddess to the notion that women should only be obedient wives, daughters, and mothers.
history: My friend keeps saying he is Hindu, but i have no idea what that means.
Hindu is a word used as a geographical, cultural and religious identifier for people from South Asia.
I see, that makes sense now. How long has Hinduism been around?
I'm not 100% sure on that, but I know that from the first millennium BCE until the medieval age, "Hindu" usually referred to people living on the Indian subcontinent near the Sindhu River.
That is a long time ago. Do you know what type of religion it is?
I don't, but I know there are different views on women in Hinduism, from the notion that women can be leaders up to the highest goddess to the notion that women should only be obedient wives, daughters, and mothers.
That's interesting. I think women should be independent and do what they like.
knowledge: The woman is celebrated as the most powerful and the empowering force in some Hindu Upanishads, Sastras and Puranas, particularly the Devi Upanishad, Devi Mahatmya and Devi-Bhagavata Purana.
response: Well, in some Hindu groups, women are treated as the most powerful force.