It isn't your typical bestseller-an 800-page monograph on the history of Hinduism. But Wendy Doniger's The Hindus: An Alternative History shot to the top of India's nonfiction charts, attracting ...

Just this past June, at a national meeting of various Hindu organizations in India, a popular preacher, Sadhvi Saraswati, suggested that those who consumed beef should be publicly hanged. Later, at ...

Indian Hindus, who at the time would not have defined themselves as Hindus, brought their spiritual practices with them, according to Alexander Rocklin, assistant professor of religious studies at ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ- Scholars, students and community members gathered at Rutgers University on April 30 for a seminar examining Hinduism through academic research, cultural history and campus ...

Hindus are among the least educated of the world’s major religious groups when looked at globally, but this is not true of Hindus everywhere, especially those who are living in economically advanced ...