Survey of religious attitudes: India

[sayak83]

The Pew have published a detailed survey on the religious beliefs in India. Lots of insight. Here is the detailed article. Thanks @Vinayaka for the original thread.
Religion in India: Tolerance and Segregation

 

[joe1776]

The Pew have published a detailed survey on the religious beliefs in India. Lots of insight. Here is the detailed article. Thanks @Vinayaka for the original thread.
Religion in India: Tolerance and Segregation

We humans are making moral progress. Religious intolerance is waning world-wide; and that's a very good sign. But, in our effort to achieve global harmony, religions remain a major obstacle in our path since Religion's one undeniable achievement is it's ability to divide humanity into thousands of sects.

Our group is superior to theirs! This arrogant behavior satisfies our unconscious need to feel superior to others whether the group happens to be a religion, a nation, a race, or a tribe.

 

[stvdv]

The Pew have published a detailed survey on the religious beliefs in India. Lots of insight. Here is the detailed article. Thanks @Vinayaka for the original thread.
Religion in India: Tolerance and Segregation

Very positive information about India and the people living there

Would be interesting to do a similar Pew research in other countries to see if there is a difference due to religion or not

 

[Jeremiah Ames]

We humans are making moral progress. Religious intolerance is waning world-wide; and that's a very good sign. But, in our effort to achieve global harmony, religions remain a major obstacle in our path since Religion's one undeniable achievement is it's ability to divide humanity into thousands of sects.

Our group is superior to theirs! This arrogant behavior satisfies our unconscious need to feel superior to others whether the group happens to be a religion, a nation, a race, or a tribe.

religious intolerance?

i was hoping that we were getting less tolerant of religion

 

[danieldemol]

The Pew have published a detailed survey on the religious beliefs in India. Lots of insight. Here is the detailed article. Thanks @Vinayaka for the original thread.
Religion in India: Tolerance and Segregation

What i wonder about is why these worldwide surveys are coming from Pew. Isn't Pew from the US? Don't Indians have the combination of statistical knowledge and curiosity concerning religion? If so why didn't this study originate in India?

 

[Aupmanyav]

religious intolerance? i was hoping that we were getting less tolerant of religion

Not in India at least. We are by far very religious. But relgions here can include atheism (See my religion on the right).

 

[Aupmanyav]

What i wonder about is why these worldwide surveys are coming from Pew. Isn't Pew from the US? Don't Indians have the combination of statistical knowledge and curiosity concerning religion? If so why didn't this study originate in India?

We have all that. We are a secular nation. The government will not do any such survey. We are not supposed even to ask a person's religion even in Government papers (largely). Indians know what is happening around here, so they do not need any survey. Government does ask for castes, because the Affirmative Action Programs need it. Such aid is available to economically backward Muslims, Christians, Sikhs and Buddhists also as it is available for Hindus.

 

[sayak83]

We humans are making moral progress. Religious intolerance is waning world-wide; and that's a very good sign. But, in our effort to achieve global harmony, religions remain a major obstacle in our path since Religion's one undeniable achievement is it's ability to divide humanity into thousands of sects.

Our group is superior to theirs! This arrogant behavior satisfies our unconscious need to feel superior to others whether the group happens to be a religion, a nation, a race, or a tribe.

Is this connected with what you read from the article?

 

[sayak83]

What i wonder about is why these worldwide surveys are coming from Pew. Isn't Pew from the US? Don't Indians have the combination of statistical knowledge and curiosity concerning religion? If so why didn't this study originate in India?

Official survey departments make extensive surveys, but not on these topics. Non governmental loca survey groups do not have such resources.

 

[Aupmanyav]

To take care of such things we have the National Commission of Minority at the Center and its counter-parts in the all states.
Official Website of National Commission for Minorities, Govt. of India
(Don't be surprised if the site does not work smoothly. That is the state of affairs at most Government sites )

 

[danieldemol]

The government will not do any such survey. We are not supposed even to ask a person's religion even in Government papers (largely).

I get why you wouldn't ask for a person's religion on official government papers, but it sure beats me why they don't conduct anonymous voluntary surveys the likes of what Pew did for the purpose of gathering statistics.

Perhaps it is because as @sayak83 says the NGOs don't have the resources, but India has a larger population than the US. I dont know what the combined wealth of Indians is like compared to the combined wealth of the US, but if it is large enough and Indians have the curiosity about these things one would imagine they are capable of funding indian organisations similar to Pew if they don't trust their government to conduct anonymous surveys.

But now that Pew has done it i guess there is no need to do it again for the time being.
I'm mainly thinking about in the future when it comes time to update these surveys.

In my opinion.

 

[Aupmanyav]

According to the Constitution of India, the government can ask only secular questions in any survey. And our Supreme Court is very strict about it. If there is a communal flareup, not uncommon in India, the media will not mention the names of the religions or how many of each were injured or died. That will be against law.