A review on processes of the religious idea revolution in the Contemporary Hinduism

Hinduism seems as a flexible and reformative religion from the view of its history and followers. In the contemporary era، due to the European domination over India and encountering with the religious ideas of Islam and Christianity، religious reform was brought out in Hinduism. Additionally، some factors such as class differences، Sati custom، idol worship and superstitions among Hindu people، caused Hindu religious thinkers came to understand the necessity of religious reform. Hindu thinkers’ efforts led to create two reformist and revivalist movements Arya samaj by Swami Dayanande Saraswati and Brahmo Samaj by Ram Mohan Roy. The present article reviews these movements and introduces their founders and studies their changes in brief. The research method is descriptive and based on the library data and the necessity of that is with regard to increasing knowledge in the scope of new studies about the religions.