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Elaborate on various types of religious practices prevalent in Indian society.

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  • Religion and Society

Religious practice is the enacted side of religion: the rites, observances and forms of worship through which believers relate to the sacred. Émile Durkheim saw these rites as what binds a moral community. India's practices range from tribal nature worship to philosophical monism, and they overlap more than census categories suggest.

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