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The Brahmo Samaj was the first of the 19th century reform movements. Its founder, Ram Mohan Roy (1772–1833), strived toward a universalistic interpretation of Hinduism. [36] He rejected Hindu mythology, but also the Christian trinity. [37] He found that Unitarianism came closest to true Christianity, [37] and had a strong sympathy for the ...
Many of the early Hindu emissaries to the United States drew on ideological confluences between Christian and Hindu universalism. [37] Hindu temples in the United States tend to house more than one deity corresponding with a different tradition, unlike those in India which tend to house deities from a single tradition. [38]
Critics argue that many of these Christian founders actually supported the separation of church and state and would not support the notion that they were trying to found a Christian nation. [170] [171] [172] In Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, a Supreme Court decision in 1892, Justice David Josiah Brewer wrote that America was "a ...
Because of the wide range of traditions and ideas covered by the term Hinduism, arriving at a comprehensive definition is difficult. [39] The religion "defies our desire to define and categorize it". [67] Hinduism has been variously defined as a religion, a religious tradition, a set of religious beliefs, and "a way of life".
Hinduism Invades America is an early twentieth-century scholarly work on the introduction of Hinduism in America, which was authored by Wendell Thomas in 1930. [1] [2 ...
Authors on Hinduism and its history have used various periodisations, elaborating on influential periodisations like Mill's, and also describing some of the constituting traditions preceding the Hindu-synthesis. [45] [14] [46] [47] An elaborate periodisation may be as follows: [14] Pre-history and Indus Valley Civilisation (until c. 1750 BCE);
In 2003, the Hindu American Foundation—a national institution protecting rights of the Hindu community of US—was founded. According to the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies newsletter published March 2017, based on data from 2010, Hindus were the largest minority religion in 92 counties out of the 3143 counties in ...
The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) is an American Muslim public service and policy organization headquartered in Los Angeles and with offices in Washington, D.C. MPAC was founded in 1988. The mission of MPAC "encompasses promoting an American Muslim identity, fostering an effective grassroots organization, and training a future generation ...