Does change in religion automatically lead to change in Culture?

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Re: Does change in religion automatically lead to change in Culture?

@Jolie

There is so much to culture than food and wedding customs.

In the word of Sir Edward Burnett Tyler, culture is a an integration of different systems. It is a ‘complex whole’ influenced by various factors, and all cultures constantly experiment change and import ideas from different cultures (for example: the parliamentary system of governance in Pakistan). And when you talk about culture, one must differentiate whether the focus is on visual behaviour and lifestyle, values or intellectual make up. Some features of culture are more explicit hence easier to observe, while others are implicit and as much an individual and psychological construct as it a social construct.

But hidden psyche sometimes appears when the person is in action. How he follow the daily life customs says how much a society has been affected by introduction of new religion. Like there has been many changes as to lanaguage, food, clothing, arts including architecture, etc, but when you closely look into wedding and even death customs, you will find that similar in people following different religions but living in same region. Thus though burial customs are different in Hindus and Muslims of sub-continent, but teeja, chothi, dasween, which are Indian cultural things got an Islamic touch with Muslims and most of them don’t know that whether they are following religion or region’s culture while practicing these customs. Interestingly, Rasm e Qul, is phul from Hinduism.