the Protestant missionaries attacked Hinduism’s most flagrant corruptions—caste system and child marriage, enforced widowhood, suttee (a widow’s suicide on the funeral pyre of her husband ...

Hinduism is widely regarded as the oldest religion in the world, with roots that trace back thousands of years. Unlike other major religions, Hinduism has no single founder, no fixed date of ...

(RNS) — Among American Hindus, a survey by the organization Interfaith Shaadi found that 38% marry outside the umbrella of Dharmic faiths — Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism. (RNS ...

Others sit in plain sight, waiting for us to look at them with fresh eyes. Hinduism has always been a living, breathing ...

Perumal Murugan’s Pyre , translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan, is on the International Man Booker Prize long list for 2023. “Meditative, joyous, humbling” — three words Aniruddhan Vasudevan ...

Islam ranks second in the list with 25.8 percent of followers. Hinduism ranks third, with 15.1% of the world’s population identifying as Hindus. However, the fourth name in the list will shock ...

Hinduism is the religion of the majority of people in India and Nepal. It also exists among significant populations outside of the sub continent and has over 900 million adherents worldwide.

About one-in-ten Asian Americans now identify Hinduism as their religion (11%), essentially the same as in 2012 (10%). An additional 6% of all Asian Americans say they feel close to Hinduism aside ...

Robots are being brought into Hinduism’s holiest rituals – and not all worshippers are happy about it. In 2017, a technology firm in India introduced a robotic arm to perform “aarti,” a ...

Karma is a concept with a few definitions, specifically in Hinduism and Buddhism. The common sayings “what goes around comes around” and “what you sow is what you reap” are great examples ...

The 8th century Hindu saint Adi Shankara, who was a follower of Hinduism's Advaita Vedanta tradition, had established four mutts (monasteries) across the country. The titles given to the heads of ...