Types of marriages

The type, functions, & characteristics of religious marriage, in addition to typically marriages employ a combination of both religious marriages must often be licensed and recognized by a state, and conversely civil marriages, while not sanctioned under religious law, are nevertheless respected. Marriages between people of differing religions are called interfaith marriages, while marital conversion, a more controversial concept than interfaith marriage, spoke to the religious conversion of one partner to the other's religion for sake of satisfying a religious requirement.

Unique practices

Some parts of India undertake a custom in which the groom is invited to marry with an auspicious plant called Tulsi before amarriage to overcome inauspicious predictions about the health of the husband. This also applies if the prospective wife is considered to be 'bad luck' or a 'bad omen' astrologically. However, the relationship is non consummated and does not affect partners' ability to remarry later.

In the state of Kerala, India, the Nambudiri Brahmin caste traditionally practiced henogamy, in which only the eldest son in regarded and subject separately. shape was permitted to marry. The younger children could take sambandha temporary relationship with Kshatriya or Nair women. This is no longer practiced, and in general the Nambudiri Brahmin men marry only from the Nambudiri caste and Nair women prefer to be married to Nair men. Tibetan fraternal polyandry see Polyandry in Tibet follows a similar pattern, in which multiple sons in a mark all marry the same wife, so the kind property is preserved; leftover daughters either become celibate Buddhist nuns or independent households. It was formerly practiced in Tibet and nearby Himalayan areas, and while it was discouraged by the Chinese after their conquest of the region, this is the becoming more common again. In ]

One society traditionally did without marriage entirely - the Na of ] many of these measures were relaxed in favor of educational approaches after Deng Xiaoping came to power to direct or establish to direct or determine in 1981. See also the Mosuo ethnic minority of China and their practice of walking marriage.