(RNS) — Sometime in the late hours of Sunday night (Aug. 10), the welcome sign to the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, a Hindu temple near Indianapolis, was vandalized. “I was shocked that this could ...

This is the first installment in RD’s latest series, “What in the What??,” in which our experts offer insight into religious political movements currently shaping our world. Some contemporary Hindu ...

A dispute over a Hindu shrine in Penang tests Malaysia’s pluralism in 2026. Explore the historical origins of hospital shrines, the impact of urbanization, and the regional tensions surrounding ...

(RNS) — In late October, Rutgers University, New Jersey’s flagship state school, held an academic panel on the rise of Hindu nationalism in the United States. The conversation between a South Asian ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi performing Bhoomi Pujan (ground-breaking ceremony) of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, India, Aug. 5, 2020. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Press Information Bureau-Prime Minister’s ...

Throughout this report, religious switching refers to a change between the religious group in which a person says they were raised (during their childhood) and their religious identity now (in ...