Case Hinduism Club will host its first event, “Overview of Hinduism”—a talk by Sadananda Dasa, the MIT Vishnava Hindu Chaplain—Saturday, Feb. 20, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. EST. Prabhu’s talk will cover ...

For almost 45 years the Bharatiya Temple of Metropolitan Detroit, in Troy, has been the center for Hindu culture and worship in Michigan. Founded in 1977, it’s the oldest Hindu temple in the state, ...

Throughout this report, religious switching refers to a change between the religious group in which a person says they were raised (during their childhood) and their religious identity now (in ...

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 ...

Hindus are the world’s fourth-largest religious group, after Christians, Muslims, and the religiously unaffiliated. According to Pew Research Center (Hackett et al., 2025), the number of Hindus ...

Observed with fasting, prayer, and night-long vigils, the festival commemorates ancient stories of Shiva and cosmic creation. A Hindu man dressed as Shiva holds a lit candle in his mouth as he takes ...

In Hinduism, the cow occupies a place that is both practical and symbolic. It is tied to daily life, rural economy, food, ritual and belief. For many Hindus, that is exactly why the cow is treated ...

Under British rule, the notion took hold that the only legitimate priests in Hinduism are upper-caste sacred-thread Sanskrit-knowing Brahmins. This is absolutely not true. Hinduism has many groups and ...

For almost 45 years the Bharatiya Temple of Metropolitan Detroit, in Troy, has been the center for Hindu culture and worship in Michigan. Founded in 1977, it’s the oldest Hindu temple in the state, ...