Hinduism in America

2020-08-06 Religion

Author : Jeffery D. Long
Release : 2020-08-06
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book Hinduism in America written by Jeffery D. Long. This book was released on 2020-08-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the story of two worlds that converge: one of Hindu immigrants to America who want to preserve their traditions and pass them on to their children in a new and foreign land, and one of American spiritual seekers who find that the traditions of India fulfil their most deeply held aspirations. Learn about the theoretical approaches to Hinduism in America, the question of orientalism and 'the invention of Hinduism'. Read about: · how concepts like karma, rebirth, meditation and yoga have infiltrated and influenced the American consciousness · Hindu temples in the United States and Canada · how Hinduism has influenced vegetarianism · the emergence of an increasingly assertive socially and politically active American Hinduism. The book contains 30 images, chapter summaries, a glossary, study questions and suggestions for further reading.

Dharma in America

2019-11-18 Religion

Author : Pankaj Jain
Release : 2019-11-18
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book Dharma in America written by Pankaj Jain. This book was released on 2019-11-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America now is home to approximately five million Hindus and Jains. Their contribution to the economic and intellectual growth of the country is unquestionable. Dharma in America aims to explore the role of Hindu and Jain Americans in diverse fields such as: education and civic engagements medicine and healthcare music. Providing a concise history of Hindus and Jains in the Americas over the last two centuries, Dharma in America also gives some insights into the ongoing issues and challenges these important ethnic and religious groups face in America today.

Homegrown Gurus

2013-11-01 Religion

Author : Ann Gleig
Release : 2013-11-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 914/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Homegrown Gurus written by Ann Gleig. This book was released on 2013-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring homegrown movements and figures, proclaims American Hinduism as a distinct religious tradition. Today, a new stage in the development of Hinduism in America is taking shape. After a century of experimentation during which Americans welcomed Indian gurus who adjusted their teachings to accommodate the New World context, American Hinduism can now rightly be called its own tradition rather than an imported religion. Accordingly, this spiritual path is now headed by leaders born in North America. Homegrown Gurus explores this phenomenon in essays about these figures and their networks. A variety of teachers and movements are considered, including Ram Dass, Siddha Yoga, and Amrit Desai and Kripalu Yoga, among others. Two contradictory trends quickly become apparent: an increasing Westernization of Hindu practices and values alongside a renewed interest in traditional forms of Hinduism. These opposed sensibilitiesinnovation and preservation, radicalism and recoveryare characteristic of postmodernity and denote a new chapter in the American assimilation of Hinduism.

Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu

2017 History

Author : Michael J. Altman
Release : 2017
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 929/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu written by Michael J. Altman. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu is a groundbreaking analysis of American representations of religion in India before the turn of the twentieth century. Before Americans wrote about "Hinduism," they wrote about "heathenism," "the religion of the Hindoos," and "Brahmanism." Americans used the heathen, Hindoo, and Hindu as an other against which they represented themselves. The questions of American identity, classification, representation and the definition of "religion" that animated descriptions of heathens, Hindoos, and Hindus in the past still animate American debates today.

Hinduism in America

2022 Religion

Author : Michael J. Altman
Release : 2022
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 874/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Hinduism in America written by Michael J. Altman. This book was released on 2022. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hinduism in America: An Introduction is a concise introduction to the long history of religion in the encounter between America and India. It is not a book that will tell you what Hinduism is, rather it is an introduction to the variety of ways Hinduism has been represented, constructed, and practiced in the United States. Americans have been interested in the religions of India since the colonial period and, by the late nineteenth century, the first Hindu teachers arrived in the United States. Throughout the twentieth century, interest in Hinduism and yoga grew, even as anti-Asian and anti-immigrant politics and policies in America intensified. When the Cold War led to changes in U.S. immigration policy in 1965, new immigrant communities arrived in the United States and built new Hindu institutions. Hinduism in America is an accessible introduction to these developments of Hinduism in the United States. Each chapter in Hinduism in America uses a key theoretical term in the study of religion to frame explore a variety of historical topics including: American missionary encounters with India representations of Hindu religions in American literature world religions and Hinduism vedanta yoga Hinduism in the American counterculture of the 1960s immigrant Hindu communities in the United States. Hinduism in America provides an overview of the multifaceted history of Hinduism in America. Ideal for students and scholars approaching the topic for the first time, the book includes sections in each chapter that provide useful theoretical terms for understanding that multifaceted history"--

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