Eastern Religions – Reforms and Renovations- part 1

Abstract

The author attempts to speak of the different ideological movements in Eastern religions. He then focuses on the two most popular tendencies: conservatism and modernism. He concludes in this first part of the paper that the reform process of Eastern religions had to overcome contradictions expressed in the separation between the subjective and the objective, to “draw believers near" to saints and to "liberate" man, to develop individual initiatives in man adapted to the market economy relations of the present times.