What are the religions followed by Asian Indians in America?
According a member of the local Asian Indian community, the immigrants who are now coming to the area or have come in recent years are not as religious as the immigrants who came before them. Children are also becoming more secular than their parents. There are, however, still many Asian Indians who do follow their religious traditions from India. Hinduism About 60% of the Asian Indians in this area are Hindu. They worship at the Hindu American Religious Institute (HARI). Many Hindu families also have prayer rooms in their homes where they perform services. Hinduism is the major religion of India, and it is followed by 80% of the people. One of the oldest continuous world religions, it can trace its roots back to the third millennium BCE in the Indus valley. Around 1500 BCE, the nomadic Indo-Aryans brought to India aspects of Hinduism such as the caste system with Brahmins (priests) at the top, elaborate rituals of sacrifice, and the Vedas (coming from the root “to know”), which were l
