Why Hinduism has not been listed among global religions ?
Only Buddist, Christian and Islam are classified as global religions. Hinduism is still a regional religion. The Aryans were not interested to educate others, promote or expand this religion. Instead they divided the religion to many sub divisions and disintegrate it.
Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam are classified as universalizing religions, as opposed to the rest being ethnic religions. Where did you come up with this "global" business?
Well, it IS a global religion. There are Hindus in Trinidad and Tobago, Mauritius, Canada, the United Kingdom, the U.S., Australia, and many other places.
Well, there aren't any significant Hindu populations outside of India, so that would explain why it is still a regional religion. However, it is still a major religion with the third largest number of adherents of any religion.
Are you serious?
Hinduism has no founder, being itself a conglomerate of diverse beliefs and traditions. It is the world?s oldest existent religion, and has approximately a billion adherents, of whom about 905 million live in India and Nepal. Hinduism contains a vast body of scriptures. Divided as revealed and remembered and developed over millennial, these scriptures expound on theology, philosophy and mythology, providing spiritual insights and guidance on the practice of drama (religious living). Among such texts, the Vedas and the Upanishads are the foremost in authority, importance and antiquity. Other major scriptures include the Tantras, the sectarian Agamas, the Pur??as and the epics Mah?bh?rata and R?m?ya?a. The Bhagavad G?t?, a treatise excerpted from the Mah?bh?rata, is sometimes called a summary of the spiritual teachings of the Vedas.
Prominent themes in Hindu beliefs include Dharma (ethics/duties), Sams?ra (The continuing cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth), Karma (action and subsequent reaction), Moksha (liberation from Samara), and the various yogas (paths or practices). Hinduism is a diverse system of thought with beliefs spanning monotheism, polytheism, pantheism, monism and even atheism. It is sometimes considered as henotheistic (devotion to a single ?God? while accepting the existence of other gods), but such a view may be considered an oversimplification of the complexities and variations of belief.
Most Hindus are only in India or their country of origin. But Buddhists are all across the world as are Christians. Over 99% of Hindus tend to be Indian but most Buddhists are Asian or White and same for Christians. 99% of Muslims are Middle Eastern but there are many countries in the Middle East which is why it is considered more global.
First of all get the correct information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_religious_groups
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Hindu word is all about GEOGRAPHY:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu
The word Hindu is the Persian name of the Indus River (Sanskrit Sindhu) in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent. The Persian term was further loaned into Arabic as AL-Hind referring to the land of the people who live across river Indus, and into Greek as Indus, whence ultimately English India. By the 13Th century, Hindust?n emerged as a popular alternative name of India, meaning the "land of Hindus".
Hence "Hinduism" as an "ism" is related to Indus religion, so it is regional. However now-a-days as people are spreading, so this culture is also spreading.
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The basis of Hinduism is the search for truth, spirituality from ancient times. It was never meant to be an organized religion. So, nobody divided it. It was never organized from ancient times.
There are
1) No founder
2) No particular Bible
3) No particular philosophy
4) No particular temple, ritual, worship, etc
5) No process of conversion
6) No belief/ideology is imposed on people
Hence, as a religion it can not be promoted. Few aspects of its experimental spirituality can be promoted, called Yoga. However most of the things in yoga are non-sectarian. So, by promoting yoga, the so called Religion is not promoted.
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You said: "The Aryans were not interested to educate others, promote or expand this religion."
Please expand your knowledge, your statement is absolutely baseless.
Aryans wrote voluminous scriptures in Sanskrit about many many things: Literature, philosophy, yoga, mathematics, politics, medicine, history, alchemy, surgery, astronomy, astrology, etc. etc.
Aryans had the tradition of Gurukulam, these were the schools where students used to study. They promoted free inquiry and education not any sectarian religion.
Why Hinduism has not been listed among global religions ?
