This PSEB 7th Class Social Science Notes Chapter 15 Religious Developments will help you in revision during exams.
PSEB 7th Class Social Science Notes Chapter 15 Religious Developments
→ Main Religions of the World: Hinduism, Buddhism Jainism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Islam, and Sikhism.
→ Islam: This religion was founded by Prophet Hazrat Mohammad.
→ The main scripture of Islam is The Quran’, which includes the directions about different aspects of life.
→ Sikhism: This religion was founded by Sri Guru Nanak Devji. After him, nine Gurujis developed the Sikh Panth.
→ The main scripture of this religion is ‘Sri Guru Granth Sahibji’.
→ Sufism: Sufism is the liberal form of the Islamic religion. The followers of this religion were known as ‘Pirs’.
→ They used black coloured blankets, which were called Sufi, so these Pirs were called Sufis.
→ Bhakti Movement: To do away with the religious and social evils, there was a Bhakti movement, in India during the medieval period.
→ The main feature of this movement was that it was not propagated by anyone great man, but by different holy men in different areas.
→ But still, the principles of the Bhakti movement were the same everywhere.
→ Hinduism: The main classification was Shaiv and Vaishnavs.
→ Shaivism was founded by Shankaracharyaji in the 9th century.
→ The main founders of Vaishnavism were Sri Ramanandji and Chaitanya Mahaprabhuji.