Burdensome cost of religious ceremonies

Festivals, holidays, weddings, funerals involve a high cost to poor families or communities, they also cause a reduction in working days and loss of productivity.

The disparity between the cost of religious ceremonies and the standard of living of those who pay is most marked in developing countries, such as India. The problem also exists among the working classes and poor of industrialized countries. Religious influence of this kind causes conflict with development programmes.

1. Traditionalism
2. Reduction in symbolic celebrations
3. Misuse of resources in religion
4. Expensive functions
5. Decline in rural customs and traditions

1. Religious opposition to public health practices

1. Waste of human resources
2. Religious and political antagonism
3. Festivals emphasizing division
4. Failure of development programmes
5. Commercialization of religion

1. Underdevelopment of countries
2. Threatened species of Crocidura phaeura
3. Superstition
4. Religious indoctrination
5. Radical religious traditionalism
6. Dependence on taking pilgrimage
7. Dependence on religion
8. Caste system
9. Applied double standards

1. Reducing expense of dying
2. Balancing celebrational expenditures

1. Nonreligious
2. Imbalance
3. Costliness