Lectionary Calendar
Friday, May 10th, 2024
the Sixth Week after Easter
the Sixth Week after Easter
Attention!
Take your personal ministry to the Next Level by helping StudyLight build churches and supporting pastors in Uganda.
Click here to join the effort!
Click here to join the effort!
Bible Encyclopedias
Hinduism
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Search for…
or Resource Toolbox
Additional Links
The name given to certain forms of religion among the Hindus, the characteristics of which are the worship of divinities exalted above the rest, and the highly concrete and intensely personal conception of these, which comes out in sundry accounts respecting them of a biographical nature which divinities are identified either with Çiva or Vishnu, and their religions called Çivaite or Vishnuite, while their respective followers are styled Çaivas or Vishnavas.
Copyright Statement
Public Domain.
Public Domain.
Bibliography Information
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Hinduism'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/h/hinduism.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Hinduism'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/h/hinduism.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
