Religious institution: Types, maintenance and followers

• In general, religion is a social arrangement designed to provide a shared, collective way of dealing with the unknown and un-knowable aspects of human life, with the mysteries of life, death, and existence, and the difficult dilemmas that arise in the process of making moral decisions.
• As such, religion not only provides responses to enduring human problems and questions but also forms a basis for social cohesion and solidarity.

Function of religion

• Religion gives an individual peace of mind and serves as a means of social control, performs welfare and recreational functions, maintains and regulates the value system of the society and integrates and promotes group solidarity.

Different types of religion and its followers in Nepal

• In Nepal there are several types of religion such as Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Jain, Islamic and Sikhs.
• Hinduism and Buddhism are followed mainly by majority of the Nepalese people.
• Hinduism is dominated in the Indo-Aryan communities of Terai and mid-hills while the Buddhism is followed mainly by the Tibeto-Mangolied group of people in hills and high hills of Nepal.
• The various religions sites of the both religion Hinduism and Buddhism have efficiency united with different linguistic, racial and cultural groups into a common fabric.
• Besides these two religions follower of Muslim and Christians are also found but in minority.
• Muslims are scattered in central to western Terai and some in Kathmandu valley. But the followers of Christian are found to be scattered only in urban areas.