In his latest book, Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity, historian and author Manu Pillai explores the intersection of colonialism, religion, and Hindu identity ...
(RNS) — Bridging the East and West, American women have found Hinduism’s powerful divine feminine through the art of sacred ...
In Christian publishing, daily devotionals are a bread-and-butter staple of the market; in the tiny world of North American Hindu publishing, they're virtually nonexistent. It is therefore all the ...
(The Conversation) — A scholar on South Asian affairs traces the growth of Hindu nationalism, started by an atheist anti-colonial revolutionary, to the one adopted under Modi’s government. (The ...
The RSS and the Sangh Parivar claim Vivekananda as an inspiration; Vivekananda is most important in the Sangh’s pantheon of cultural figures. However, Vivekananda had no influence on the RSS in its ...
Various case reports on nasal myiasis written during the 1990s and 2000s state that nasal myiasis, which is known as peenash among South Asian natives, is a form of divine punishment in Hindu ...