[Buddha-l] Religion and political affliliation

[jkirk]

Thanks for the stats on Hindus in the USA.

My comment about pluralism referred to Hinduism in the USA, not
to Hinduism in general.  Here, if any practicing Hindus are
asked, they'll tend to say they practice the sanaatan dharma, an
'omnium gatherum' concept that helps to ward off what to them are
probably boring questions or ones that strike them as annoyingly
snoopy.

Joanna 
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[mailto:buddha-l-bounces at mailman.swcp.com] On Behalf Of Curt
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Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Religion and political affliliation

According to the ARIS study there were 766,000 Hindus in the US
in 2001. 
Here is a link to the 47 page pdf for the 2001 American Religious
Identification Study at CUNY:
http://tinyurl.com/ay8k3u

This is higher than the numbers for several important Christian
sects, including Seventh Day Adventists,  Eastern Orthodox, and
Mennonites. It is over three times the number for the sect that
my maternal grandparents belonged to: Christian Science. It is
also over 100,000 more than the number of UU's. In 2001 there
were 100,000 more Hindus than there were members of the
Assemblies of God (Sarah Palin's church) in 1990.

Hinduism, by the way, is an exceedingly pluralist religion.


http://www.hinduamericanfoundation.org/hintro_pluralism.htm


http://www.dharmacentral.com/articles/plural.htm


http://www.vivekananda.btinternet.co.uk/


http://www.auroville.org/journals&media/avtoday/august_04/sri_vis
ion.htm

Curt
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jkirk wrote:
> What happened to the Hindus, who're missing from the list? They
could 
> hardly be considered "pluralistic" here in the USA, where it's 
> Sanatandharma all the way.
> JK
>