Concept of Religious and Cultural Heritages

Culture is our life-related practice. It is in practice from ancient period as a human culture. People’s belief on god and goddess is religious culture. Culture is a broad term. It is also interrelated to the various human development activities. Based on the past experiences people develop their own belief, value system, attitude, opinion etc. They indicate steps and process of human civilization. Culture influences people of each locality. This makes difference in their behavior, thinking, opinion and social customs. On the basis of cultural influence, people develop their own life-system. It means human civilization is also a part of culture. Culture includes a number of things like traditional practices, religious activities, festivals, folk songs, dresses, dances, cultural activities, means of entertainment etc.

Since ancient time, our ancestor has preserved our religion and cultural activities that is called religion and cultural heritage. Knowledge, spiritual experience, aspiration, values and other culture related things develop our culture. So culture reflects special aspects and phenomena of our society. Gradual development of cultural aspects id the basis of cultural development.

Religion is a social feeling and belief. In other words it can be perceived as the basis of people’s thought, respect, value and belief. Since creation of human beings, it has been practicing in different ways. There is a gradual improvement in it. Religion is a spiritual asset, it motivates people to take a good path in their life. Good work is names as religion. Its opposite activity is evil, which is to make people unhappy. It is also called sad. People have been making religion, rules and regulation since ancient time. It has contributed to make various religious books. We should view values and respects propounded by religious books in the present context. Culture of one society differs from another. We should analyze our culture properly. If there are any unpractical things in our culture we can modify without deteriorating its inherent values. We should try to make it simple and practicable. Social values and respects are legs and hands and belief is the heart of our culture. Culture indicates social specialty. Because of it culture is related to human life system. This system has developed a cultural environment.