Religious beliefs and practices of rural people: an empirical study on Sujansinghpur village of Bhadrak district, Odisha

Religion and God make the life blood of Hindu social organization. As religion and religiosity are the rudimentary characters of Hindu community, the vitality of studying the religious beliefs and practices of rural people has its own justification. The aim of the study was the rural populace because the rural people are more religious than the urban people. In order to know the perception of rural people towards God and Goddess, the present paper has an attempt to study the religious beliefs and practices of rural people. For this a survey was conducted in Sujansinghpur village comes under Karada Gram Panchayat of Bhadrak district, was covered 50 both male and female respondents. Research design was based on descriptive and qualitative in nature, followed both primary and secondary sources of data. The processing of data was classification and tabulation of data. The study found that as regards to practicing and observing the rituals and ceremonies there is no significant change among rural people.