Talk:Hinduism in the United States

0.5% of the US population?
"Hinduism is a minority religion in the United States, American Hindus accounting for an estimated 0.5% of total US population."

The source cited for the opening statement to this article is a 404 link now, but 0.5% seems a little high.

Untitled
The Krishnology subject portion in scholarship section is about research and work in the UK. Please follow links provided in section to see what I mean. Since this is about the US, I think that can go or changed to reflect that.. I will remove shortly. --Pranathi 23:30, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

History
I haven't seen it stated anywhere that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi teaches Hinduism or that his students are Hindus.

--Sueyen 19:59, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Iraivan
Hello; I suggest that we include Iraivan temple in this article. It is the first all-stone, hand carved hindu temple in America. The fact that it has been able to raise $10 million so far from Americans, Indians, Malaysians and specially by disaporic Sri Lankans living in the US is noteworthy. See Iraivan on Google. Natha 21:40, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Population number
Why have two different census counts, one from 2001, and one from 2004? Why not just put the more recent number in the beginning? Ykerzner (talk) 03:30, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Hindu Temples
Whoever thought the first Hindu Temple was on the East Coast, really needs to start doing some research.

Hinduism on the East Coast is nothing compared to the ancient traditions and knowledge preserved in the California brought from India. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Indianamerican (talk • contribs) 22:40, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Congressional Prayer Interruption
I can't remember the date or who did it, but I remember seeing a CSPAN clip on youtube about a Hindu priest who was opening up a prayer but was interrupted twice by Christian hecklers. Not sure if it was from the peanut gallery or the floor itself, but if someone could research that better that would be good. 161.185.151.150 (talk) 19:45, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

If it's not substantiated, it should be removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.104.113.31 (talk) 07:01, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Are you sure Hindus are less affluent than the Jews?
The article says Hindus are the second most affluent religion in the US, after the Jews.

This is a chart showing the incomes of the different religions: http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1002/almighty-dollar/flat.html

Surely people with incomes of $75,000 - $99,000 would be considered to be affluent as well, no? Hindus also have quite a significantly lower percentage (9%) of their population living in poverty, unlike the Jews (14%). But anyway, I would consider 65% of Hindus to be considered affluent, and 58% of Jews to be affluent. They might have a little more people earning $100,000+ a year, but Hindus also have like two times more people earning between $75,000 and $99,000 a year, so overall Hindus are more affluent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.5.148 (talk) 22:05, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

adding to the history section of this article
what would you think if I added some information about the people in the 1960's who were influential in spreading the teachings of Hinduism throughout the counter culture. I want to talk briefly about Ram Dass, George Harrison,and Alan Ginsberg. What do you think?Banana suicide 28 (talk) 22:06, 20 February 2014 (UTC)Banana_suicide_28

Why is this page missing its anti hindu section? Talk section so lets talk
wiki Christianity in india has information on church attacks,abuse,violance, yet when this page on hinduism in america shows no such information on temple attacks,racism, verbal attacks, abuse within the floor of The United States Senate over a hindu opening prayer, abuse aimed at the first hindu congress woman, so whats going on?

Here are highly public events which should be used on this page


 * First American congress Hindu attacked For taking oath on the hindu Bhagavad Gita & not the bible
 * American Temple attacks agianst hindus
 * Degrading remarks on hindus aired on live T.V in America By example (Pat Robertson & Tony Brown)
 * Anti hindu remarks from the American Family Association and other groups
 * perceived biases against Hindus and Jews in college campuses like The american Stanford University.
 * attacks inflicted on hindus in america which has led to death
 * Racial Profiling
 * Denver Post
 * False criminal charges against elderly Bhutanese refugee and Hindu priest In america
 * Defamation of Hinduism in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle
 * American Christian Pastor Tony Miano Digusting Comments after the nepal earth quake about how hindus should not rebuild their temples and shrines.
 * Los Angeles Times writer, Paul Watson equates Hinduism with just the worship of cows and snakes.
 * Morphed images of shiva depicting Obama on the cover of New York Times, Newsweek
 * In 2007 US denied the R-1 religious worker visa to hindu priest because of US regulations weighed in favour of Judeo-Christian terminology. (made headlines in 2007)

Just feel it is something which needs to be done to give fair and neutral view92.236.96.38 (talk) 22:19, 2 May 2015 (UTC)Rabbitears

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No of converted Americans
The intro says: "Additionally, America has no number of converts to Hinduism". This is incorrect. There are many Americans who have converted to Hinduism. Can anybody confirm and make a correction? Polytope 4D (talk) 07:03, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Asian Religions in America
— Assignment last updated by Ziegenbalg66 (talk) 00:35, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

Adding to section on discrimination
This page is lacking in detail describing the discrimination that American Hindu’s and Immigrant Hindu’s face while in America. There is a brief list with little detail that could easily be interpreted as vandalism rather than discrimination. I plan to elaborate on these events as well as include different occasions relating to discrimination on Hindu American’s or the religion. I will include a section that discusses different religious holidays that are not acknowledged in the school systems for a Hindu Student’s, one such holiday is Diwali also written as Deepawali, which has just recently been given clearance by the New York City school district to be observed as a religious holiday. I also plan to include Representative Pudma Kuppa as an important figure in American Hinduism. Points will be included about discrimination she has faced as well as some of her work as an activist.

IdekoTo (talk) 05:29, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

Re-evaluating source material
This quote, "Hindu-Americans hold the highest levels of educational attainment among all religious communities in the United States. This is mostly due to strong US immigration policies that favor educated and highly skilled migrants" comes from a news article that does not properly list sources of this statement. Such a claim requires more statistical data to remain objective. IdekoTo (talk) 03:19, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

Including a discussion of the limitations of the Pew Research study
The study claims that "88% of Hindus believe in God" but I don't know if the possibility of confusion on what's meant by "God" should be mentioned. I briefly looked over the study and didn't find any discussion of the limitations so I don't know if I can include it because it would then be my own analysis. 240claytongearhart (talk) 02:39, 7 July 2023 (UTC)