Hinduism, while superficially polytheistic, regards the various deities as manifestations of a higher force.
It would be a pity if Hinduism's greatest festival were remembered mainly for that.
Of the non-Christian religions, the biggest is Buddhism (2.5% of the population), Islam (2.2%) and Hinduism (1.3%).
At the same time, Hinduism and Islam, religions tied to recent immigrants, according to Pew, have made small but significant gains.
Malaysia is broadly 60% Muslim and 40% other faiths (which include Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and others).
In Hinduism each wick of the candle represents one of the five elements: wind, earth, fire, sky and water.
In Judaism it's called a chuppah, and in Hinduism it's termed a mandap.
Hinduism is witnessing the biggest growth, with its numbers almost doubling between 2006 and 2011, from 148, 130 to 275, 534 followers.
Only in the 16th century, when the Portuguese were already in Indonesian waters, did Islam replace Hinduism as the main religion in Java.
So the author has his father, a Polish Jew turned British Anglican, posthumously converted to Hinduism, and burned by the local Indian community.
"Karma was used to justify untouchability in classical Hinduism, " says Sharma.
In Hindu mythology (Hinduism is an ancient religion practiced in the country of India), there is an insightful legend involving Lord Shiva and his son, Karthikeya.
Macomb wove in the traditions of candles and fire that are meaningful in both Catholicism and Hinduism to create a sublime moment in the Menon's wedding.
One of the leading figures in world Hinduism, His Holiness Swami Radhanath, who is at the festival, said he hoped it would promote religious understanding and tolerance.
There, the head of an Orthodox Christian Seminary said secularism could not take on militant Hinduism because the value Indians put on religion could not be ignored.
On the other hand, Mr Singh is a Sikh, and Sikhs occupy a special position in the subcontinent, because their religion draws on both Islam and Hinduism.
They pose no real danger to Hindus, much less Hinduism.
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Every 12 years, when the moon and stars are aligned, this becomes the most auspicious spot in Hinduism, and there is a six-week-long festival, or mela, for the millions of pilgrims.
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The deity's figure is identified with the rice spirit that had been worshipped by the original people of Bali, before Indian traders brought the Hinduism that became widespread in the 7th century.
More than 90% of the population practices Balinese Hinduism (the rest of Indonesia is Muslim) and everywhere you look, women are making offerings of rice and brightly coloured flowers, blessing the things they interact with.
His cramped office at Google.org boasts psychedelic posters, medical texts and awards from aid groups, along with a statue of the elephant-god Ganesh, in Hinduism the Remover of Obstacles (with a rotund belly to match Brilliant's own).
The men, from the Bajrang Dal, an organization affiliated with the BJP, were angry about one of Husain's paintings, Sita Rescued, in which the mythological figure of Sita, faithful wife of Hinduism's most noble ruler, Rama, is depicted in the nude.
The Bombay (Mumbai) meeting is likely to see the anti-globalisation activists focusing on Hinduism's centuries-old social hierarchy, or the caste system, which relegates nearly one-sixth of India's one billion population to the status of low castes known as Dalits, or the oppressed.
Delving into the relationship between caste and entrepreneurship, the researchers have found that scheduled castes and tribes, the most disadvantaged groups in Hinduism's hierarchy, owned very little businesses despite a decade of sprightly economic growth and a long history of affirmative action.
Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith.
"It honors a landmark 1893 speech given in Chicago by Swami Vivekananda, who introduced Hinduism to the U.S. So we will be working with various Indian museums over the next four years in the preservation, exhibition and promotion of India's cultural heritage, " he said.
Many of those countries were part of the Ottoman Empire (between the 13th and 16th centuries) and were thus strongly influenced by the Mughals, originally from India, who brought with them a pervasive Muslim influence, tempered by the artistic traditions of Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism.
It is a wonderful spectacle, a great demonstration of the variety and vigour of Hinduism, an occasion to preach politics and conduct business, but there would be no Kumbh Mela were it not for the faith that draws millions of pilgrims to the Sangam in Allahabad.
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