Negotiating Contemporary Hindu Beliefs and Practices in the United States

Major religions maintain adherence to the guiding force of a literary canon in shaping morality and ethical behaviour in the believer. Hinduism's various strains of orthodoxy and orthopraxy create a pluralistic confusion for the casual onlooker attempting to systematize a code of conduct for pr...

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Main Author: Chappell, Frank R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox 2018
In: Religions of South Asia
Year: 2018, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 78-99
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B USA / Hinduism / Faith / Folk culture / Orthopraxie
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism
KBQ North America
Further subjects:B Lived Religion
B Hindu Diaspora
B American Hinduism
B anthropology of Hinduism
B culture change
B Identity
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