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What’s an American Buddhist?

American Buddhism’s numbers are booming. Published just over three years ago, an American Religious Identification Survey survey showed that from the years 1990 to 2000, Buddhism grew 170 percent in North America. By all indications [...]

Posted On : Jun, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

Asian Religions in America as an Ngram: Hinduism, Buddhism, ...

I decided to play around with Google’s Ngram viewer and see what it might tell me about how Americans wrote about Asian religions. Click here for a bigger version of the graph. Here’s what I noticed: 1. The most popular mom [...]

Posted On : Mar, 24 2012 | Comments : 0

Joiners - Religiously Active Americans: Poll

About 40 percent Americans who are active participants in religious groups, are likelier to feel good about their communities than their non-religious peers, suggests Pew Research Center poll, Friday. On average, religiously active citize [...]

Posted On : Dec, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Moderate Islam, Pop Culture, and the 'All-American Muslim' B...

I think Jonah Goldberg is making excellent sense with his assessment of the ‘All-American Muslim’ controversy we discussed yesterday: Pop culture is designed, basically, to create an impression of what is and isn’t mains [...]

Posted On : Dec, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Vedanta and yoga perfect match for American values

There has always been a pervasive but undocumented feeling that Indian philosophy, as manifest in Vedanta on the intellectual plain and yoga on the physical plain, has very significantly influenced the West in general and America in part [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

An American university offering online Ph. D. in Hinduism

Almeda University is now offering online "Doctor of Philosophy in Hinduism". Its announcement says: "Hinduism is a religion of deep history and complex spirituality, with unique philosophical and metaphysical compone [...]