Krishna Janmashtami, a two-day festival beginning this Friday, is a happy day for 1.2 billion Hindus, 95 percent of whom live ...

For Hindu parents, the exclusion of parents from their children’s curriculum is part of a ‘long-festering’ issue that some ...

Economist Jean Drèze, a Belgian who became an Indian citizen and a close student of India’s interplay of religion and ...

(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.

Lesson 1: Tracking Early Hinduism; The Story of India; In this lesson students explore the early history of Hinduism and create a scrapbook that highlights important gods, holy sites, and ancient ...

He differentiated between Hinduism and Hindutva – Hinduism according to him, was only a part of Hindutva. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was set up in 1925.

Touching feet in Hinduism shows respect, but doing it for these 9 people could bring sin instead of blessings. Find out who ...

Hinduism is historically known for its ability to evolve, and many of these changes are interesting: they mostly represent an evolution to a more dynamic, philosophical mainstream Hinduism away ...

Pitru Paksha is a special period in Hinduism, in which the souls of ancestors come to earth and shower their blessings on ...

Hinduism, most of its adherents believe, is the oldest religion in the world. They are not excessively or even at all bothered by arguments that Hinduism may be an ‘invented religion’, or the ...

RSS’s goal is to consolidate and re-organise Hinduism. This has two aspects: an anti-Muslim militant organisation patterned on Nazi fascism and the imposition of a single set of beliefs that all ...