Word: hinduism
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...history's crossroads for more than 2,000 years, India is the birthplace of three major religions?Buddhism, Hinduism and Sikhism?while Christianity and Islam arrived with empires that ruled the country for centuries. All left their monumental marks, from temples to palaces. The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, a private NGO based in New Delhi, counts 70,000 historic monuments across the country, and R.P. Pereira in the New Delhi office of UNESCO?whose World Heritage Committee meets this week in Durban, South Africa, to review global conservation efforts?calls India "the world's biggest heritage...
...film, says Antell, means to “highlight some of the newer minority religions in the U.S.,” and therefore does not feature members of the Jewish or Christian faiths. Rather, the film explores the Eastern traditions of Hinduism, Islam, and Zen Buddhism, and the ways in which the three featured women use religious activism to help women grow as spiritual beings, family members and community members, noting that these roles should not be mutually exclusive...
...says she “started the Pluralism Project in order to extend [her] work and research on contemporary forms of religion into the United States, rather than just in India for Hinduism and Islam.” Recently, her studies have included understanding the lives and cultures of “the second generation of the post-1965 immigration, who came to college at Harvard [in the early 1990s...
...film, says Antell, means to “highlight some of the newer minority religions in the U.S.,” and therefore does not feature members of the Jewish or Christian faiths. Rather, the film explores the Eastern traditions of Hinduism, Islam, and Zen Buddhism, and the ways in which the three featured women use religious activism to help women grow as spiritual beings, family members and community members, noting that these roles should not be mutually exclusive...
...says she “started the Pluralism Project in order to extend [her] work and research on contemporary forms of religion into the United States, rather than just in India for Hinduism and Islam.” Recently, her studies have included understanding the lives and cultures of “the second generation of the post-1965 immigration, who came to college at Harvard [in the early 1990s...