Hinduism Paper

Hum 130

Axia College University of

Phoenix

Hinduism derived in the Indian subcontinent where other religions like Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism was developed in a unified religious system. Unlike these other religions, Hinduism was categorized as if they were a single tradition. The name Hinduism was applied to the people who at the time, was living by the Indus River, by the foreigners who then introduced the name in a category for the British census-taking in the nineteenth century. Hinduism is one of the oldest living religions in the world today, and was not founded by one individual person. It grew over the following 4000 years beside the cultural and religious movements of the Indian subcontinent.

Brahmanism was the first phase of Hinduism that was the religion...