The California State University system, America’s largest public higher education system, recently added caste, a birth-based social hierarchy system, to its anti-discrimination policy, allowing ...

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 ...

The University of Houston has reaffirmed its commitment to academic freedom following a student's complaint about a course titled 'Lived Hindu Religion', which he alleged of being "Hinduphobic" and ...

In revisiting the life and teachings of Sree Narayana Guru, Shashi Tharoor explores the possibilities — and limits — of an ...

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 origin, ...

(RNS) — At the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago last week with the theme of defending human rights, several Hindu groups complained that, at an event that celebrates common ground among ...

Dr Hiro Badlani, a retired ophthalmologist from Mumbai, India has written this latest book in a series of his earlier books on the same subject Hinduism. The new hard cover book is especially made for ...

Hinduism gained ground in the region in the early centuries of the Common Era because it provided elites with a fully-fleshed metaphysical package along with literacy. The eight-armed statue of the ...

On this episode of “Religion on Campus,” sisters Lauren Miller and Olivia Miller sit down with the internal vice president of Bruin Hindus, Keshav Shukla, to explore UCLA’s Hindu student organization.

(The Conversation) — Several US universities now recognize caste as part of nondiscrimination policies. Two scholars of South Asian studies explain how caste-based violence isn’t limited to Hinduism, ...