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Illuminated by a skylight at the center of a small factory-turned-Hindu temple in Queens sits a murti of the Divine Mother — ...
Religious leaders chant on stage during a climate repentance ceremony at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago on Aug. 15, 2023.
Manisha Shete, left, a practicing Hindu priest, performs posthumous rituals for her client's mother at a residence in Pune, India, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021.
In Hinduism, the dominant religion among India’s 1.2 billion people, ... Her service was custom-designed based on discussions with the priests and an astrological reading by Harsh Vardhan.
A Hindu sect known as BAPS is accused of underpaying and exploiting its workers in a multi-year construction ... these actions can help maintain the sanctity of religious service across all ...
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, a Hindu, has talked about his faith. But some evangelicals view non-Christian religions with skepticism.
Drawing on prior anti-colonial Hindu revivalist movements from across India, Hindu nationalism ignited in the mid-1920s, disproportionately led by Brahmin Hindus from the western region of ...
ROBBINSVILLE, N.J. — After 12 years of planning and construction, the largest Hindu temple outside of India will open to the public in October. The BAPS Akshardham in Robbinsville, N.J., will be ...
Jesus in Hinduism Shaunaka Rishi Das has been Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies since its inception in 1997. He gives his view on Jesus from a Hindu perspective.