Essay On Religious Superstition

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The master theme religious superstition is the belief of employees that a religious event or religious object or religious sacrifice or religious ritual or offerings causes another favorable event at workplace. The participants irrespective of religious faith or denomination were of the view that religious symbols or objects bring in favorable outcomes of events happening at work place. The religious symbols most used were photographs of gods/ goddesses or prominent religious character of major religions. The objects were three dimensional representations of the religious characters or events like Lord Ganesha, Jesus Christ, Cross or Om Symbol etc. Pictorial or symbolic representation of religious characters is believed to bring good fortunes(Lehner, 1969). These symbols are also being viewed as harbingers of happiness(Koehn, 1954) and wealth(Barber, 1964). Especially when there is a large variation regarding the outcomes of an event, than, such religious symbols …show more content…

Animal are offered in India as a thanks giving ritual(Samanta, 1994) as well as to ward of bad luck(Smith and Doniger, 1989). Participant also felt to sacrifice animals to ward off bad luck at their work places.Some participants also indulged in fasting on auspicious days to bring in good luck for them at work. Some religious based auspicious days were make important deals. The impact of social significance of auspicious days is paramount in the society(Mehta, 1997). An interesting research was the increase in buying behavior during auspicious days (Rengasamy et al., 2003)and even health care sector also reports the demand for increase (Lo, 2003). Even employees where ever possible tries to schedule major business events based on religious based auspicious events. Employees spoke of different themes of religious superstition. Illustrative quotes are shown in Table

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