Hindus

Hindus (Hindustani: [ˈɦɪndu] (listen)) are persons who regard themselves as culturally, ethnically, or religiously adhering to aspects of Hinduism. Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for people living in the Indian subcontinent.The historical meaning of the term Hindu has evolved with time. Starting with the Persian and Greek references to the land of the Indus in the 1st millennium BCE through the texts of the medieval era, the term Hindu implied a geographic, ethnic or cultural identifier for people living in the Indian subcontinent around or beyond the Sindhu (Indus) river. …

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Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung · 17 April 2024 German

Wenn vom 19. April bis 1. Juni dieses Jahres in Indien die größten Wahlen der Welt abgehalten werden, dürfen zwei ungleiche Kontrahenten zum dritten Mal in Folge gegeneinander antreten. Premierminister …

Angesichts der Tatsache, dass rund 80 Prozent der Inder Hindus sind, wird es einer größtenteils auf Minderheiten


MHI: Mariwala Health Initiative · 16 April 2024 English

Meghalaya’s matrilineal homes To her chagrin, she learned that she would have no room for transgender women and never quite be accepted in the city as a contain many unheard …

character of the movement meant fear to protect Hindus from the NRC exercise. This and insecurity was


Pew Research Center · 5 April 2024 English

In the United States, 21% of adults overall say they fast for certain periods during holy times.

on the fasting habits of smaller groups, such as Hindus, Buddhists or Orthodox Christians. How we did this READS | JUL 6, 2021 Most Indians, including most Hindus, do not practice yoga SHORT READS | OCT 3, 2019


DeZIM: Deutsche Zentrum für Integration und Migrationsforschung · 5 April 2024 German

Antiasiatischer Rassismus und Corona in Deutschland

religiousness and social incorpo- ration: Tamil Hindus from Sri Lanka in Germany. In: Journal of Contemporary gods in public: new festival traditions of Tamil Hindus in Germany. In: Jacobsen, Knut A. (Hg.): South


JLI: Joint Learning Initiative on Faith & Local Communities · 3 April 2024 English

R E L I G I O N S f o r P E A C E | W O R L D F A I T H S D …

Council, which represents other Protestants, Muslims, Hindus, etc. Despite lagging efforts around the globe


Amnesty International · 29 March 2024 English

Amnesty International welcomes the call by the UN Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes (Special Rapporteur …

– consisting mainly of Muslim and lower caste Hindus living in informal settlements13 – into further


IUCN: International Union for Conservation of Nature · 28 March 2024 English

Indonesia is about 87% Muslim and 11% Christian. Roughly 242 million Muslims and 29 million Christians live in Indonesia.

Christians (84%) say they would be willing to accept Hindus as neighbors, compared with two-thirds of Muslims


MHI: Mariwala Health Initiative · 28 March 2024 English

Meghalaya’s matrilineal homes To her chagrin, she learned that she would have no room for transgender women and never quite be accepted in the city as a contain many unheard …

character of the movement meant fear to protect Hindus from the NRC exercise. This and insecurity was


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 27 March 2024 English

This article calls for a greater integration of moral psychology and political economy. While these disciplines were initially deeply intertwined, cross-disciplinary exchange became rare throughout the 20th century. More recently, …

opportunities for mutually benefical trade between medieval Hindus and Muslims – again, a form of market incentive


PRRI: Public Religion Research Institute · 27 March 2024 English

10 RELIGIOUS CHANGE IN AMERICA Religious Switching in America: Winners and Losers in the American Religious Marketplace Overview of Religious Switchers In 2016, PRRI published data that examined the rate …

Jewish Americans (2%), Muslims (1%), Buddhists (1%), Hindus (<1%), and Unitarian Universalists (<1%). Americans


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