Hinduism
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Browncast Episode 106: Neha Srivastava, traditionalist Hindu
In Browncast Episode 106, Razib talks to Neha Srivastava, a self-described traditionalist Hindu, about her nonprofit Shaktitva, American and Indian politics, whether she will stay in the US, and what…
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A collective religion in an individualistic age
Razib Khan argues that Kurds embracing Zoroastrianism show why people leaving Islam may reasonably return to ancestral faiths, treats the objection that ancestors weren’t really Hindu as pedantic, and notes…
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Hindus are the most authentic Indians
Raised in America as ‘Indian’ despite Bangladeshi Muslim roots, Razib Khan reflects on Hindu claims that Muslim and Christian holy sites lie elsewhere, and on how India’s native religious traditions…
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The gods of place
Drawing on The Final Pagan Generation and The Souls of China, the author notes that local gods and shrines dominated pre-modern religion in Rome and China, and asks what this…
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The Indian caste of mind
The author says a friend active in Democratic politics asks why India has caste when other regions do not, and concludes from it that Hinduism is a messed-up religion, while…
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South Asian Muslim ancestors were idolaters!
Razib Khan argues that rather than debate whether South Asian Muslims’ ancestors were ‘Hindus’, a term of shifting meaning, Muslims should simply accept they descend from idolaters, whether Buddhist, caste…
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Commentary on Adi Shankara
Razib Khan buys a cheap Kindle book on Adi Shankara, says understanding him goes a long way toward understanding elite Hinduism, while admitting a dim view of religious philosophy.
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Calvinism, atheism, and Hinduism
Prompted by an NPR journalist’s remarks on Hinduism, the author argues that mockery of Hindu gods by some secular South Asian Muslims reflects an Abrahamic view of other gods as…
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How Islam’s greatness redounds to Indian religion
The author argues that the more transformative Islam appears in the genetic and cultural record, the more remarkable it is that India was still about 75 per cent non-Muslim on…
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Browncast Episode 64. We Talk with Meru Media about India, Pakistan, Hinduism, TNT, Aryans..
A Brown Pundits podcast episode in which Mukunda Raghavan of Meru Media, which describes itself as a home for all things Indic, discusses Hindu drinking culture, India, Pakistan, Tamil Brahmins…
