(RNS) Fifty years after they began arriving from India, the first generation of Indian-Americans is retiring and finding itself in a quandary. Alth...

Temple attendance is an awful criterion to apply to Hindus, since their tradition does not emphasize congregational activity and many Hindus prefer to do their spiritual practices on home altars and meditation cushions.

Click through the slideshow to see most and least Hindu cities in America: A study measuring religious bodies in the United States called the, ...

Stamps commemorating major religious holidays exist for Christmas, Hanukkah and Eid. However, one for Diwali, which is happening now, has yet to come to fruition.

Hinduism can mean incredibly right-wing fundamentalists who use it as an excuse for violence, or it can mean my mother, a self-proclaimed atheist who is one of the most devout Hindus I know.

Others utilize Hindu, specifically Vaishnava, theology to reconfigure Christmas to be a Hindu tradition. ... By including Christ as just another avatara of Vishnu, they indirectly make Christianity just another sect of Hinduism.

While in many ways the advent of Hindu Americans recapitulates the familiar immigrant story, it is also uniquely significant.

PASSAIC, N.J. -- In a cluttered fifth grade classroom in this New York suburb, Niki Shah has spent the summer attempting an almost impossible task: te...