https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to hindu nationalism/hindutva en https://religiondispatches.org/2025/09/23/hindu-nationalism-explained WHAT IN THE WHAT?? 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. Our inaugural expert, Dr. Audrey Truschke, is the author… Tue, 23 Sep 2025 03:59:54 EDT Audrey Truschke b716212e-d8a4-4baf-9be7-fe7173d795bc https://religiondispatches.org/2024/12/20/hindu-nationalism-poses-threat-democracy-and-muslims-both-india-and-us While rising anti-Muslim violence and sentiment in India has been making global news since Hindu nationalist prime minister Narendra Modi’s first election in 2014, many don’t realize that such policies and attitudes also harm American Muslims. Like many other religious… Fri, 20 Dec 2024 01:46:21 EST Yasmine Flodin-Ali a3242a3a-8d21-42ea-a734-20c09667c433 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/03/20/why-immigration-such-key-motivator-nationalist-aggression-and-hostility In recent weeks, as Republicans rejected an immigration bill that met most of their demands for increased border security, pundits noted their willingness to give up enormous policy victories for the sake of keeping the issue alive. The surface explanation… Wed, 20 Mar 2024 04:29:21 EDT Willie Young 9004b90a-a766-4400-8c70-82e3a28ffee0 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/12/12/vivek-ramaswamy-represents-convergence-white-supremacy-and-hindu-supremacy-and-he-may Vivek Ramaswamy’s candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination might seem idiosyncratic and incoherent, but it marks the most recent manifestation of a process long underway: the convergence of Hindu supremacy and White supremacy in the United States. With this convergence… Tue, 12 Dec 2023 01:46:32 EST Usha Kumar 6a5a2814-8ef2-4254-9543-119635a9e401 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/12/20/how-do-we-break-cycle-religious-violence-south-asia Over the last few months, South Asia has been caught in yet another cycle of religious violence. In October, Muslim extremist mobs in Bangladesh inflicted serious violence against the country’s Hindu minority during its most important festival, Durga Puja. The… Mon, 20 Dec 2021 01:00:58 EST Sunita Viswanath d4b9ba32-be53-4557-9c98-a28aadfc39ee https://religiondispatches.org/2021/10/19/north-america-has-hindu-nationalist-problem-and-scholars-are-frontlines-these-right-wing Though you aren’t likely to read about it on the front page of the New York Times or spot it in trending topics on Twitter, for over two decades now North America has had a Hindu Nationalism problem. Scholars in… Tue, 19 Oct 2021 05:11:11 EDT Manan Ahmed, Rohit Chopra, Audrey Truschke 96377973-7c29-4848-bb1a-6211ae86f90c https://religiondispatches.org/2020/12/07/university-vermont-might-be-done-religion-religion-isnt-done-us In case you missed it: Religion has had quite a year. The Muslim Ban celebrated its second (or third) birthday . Reproductive justice once again took a backseat to religious “liberty,” and queer parental rights might well be next. The… Mon, 07 Dec 2020 01:19:07 EST Megan Goodwin 06875b82-a3c9-40b9-97dd-ee1b169cd3ec https://religiondispatches.org/2020/07/23/trumps-failure-protect-religious-minorities-afghan-hindus-and-sikhs-face-uncertain On July 19, 2020, The New York Times reported that India had offered to take in Afghan Hindus and Sikhs in an attempt to address the recent violence against those communities whose numbers have been steadily shrinking in Afghanistan. Despite… Thu, 23 Jul 2020 12:52:46 EDT Tejpaul Singh Bainiwal 351d0230-62db-4f4f-b5fc-3875cb7bb92f https://religiondispatches.org/2019/03/21/white-christian-nationalism-may-not-be-religious-it-christian White Christian nationalism’s foot soldiers don’t necessarily connect their racial resentment with their devotion to the Bible, yet they’re often trying to retake what they presume to be lost: white and Christian dominance. Thu, 21 Mar 2019 04:26:43 EDT Murali Balaji 96a20836-f88f-430a-8c8f-3bd1c78fee43 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/10/17/trump-and-hindu-nationalism-match-made-bollywood Trump declares himself a fan of “Hindu,” as Bollywood dancers enact terrorist attack. Mon, 17 Oct 2016 07:17:54 EDT Andrea R. Jain 3675c4c8-3988-4b2a-adc2-809d6f10b375 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/05/18/predicting-future-religion-thought-experiment Polls are good, but a crystal ball might be better. Mon, 18 May 2015 10:57:10 EDT Ed Simon d5004cb0-1124-4589-869f-888154e0974d https://religiondispatches.org/2014/05/18/indias-elections-and-doniger-affair Friday’s landslide election of a controversial Hindu nationalist in India culminates—or threatens to escalate—an ongoing battle over religion and the right to define the idea of the state. Religion, a national election, and a nearly 70-year history of bitter political… Sun, 18 May 2014 05:48:27 EDT Murali Balaji 5fcd534f-99ae-4639-a688-9e7717f8eb60 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/12/09/political-hinduism-indias-disenchanted-religion What inspired you to write A Restatement of Religion: Swami Vivekananda and the Making of Hindu Nationalism? This book is the third part of what promises to be a quartet of books dealing with questions of restatement of Hinduism from… Mon, 09 Dec 2013 12:44:05 EST Jyotirmaya Sharma 09687e9f-c63b-47be-aa49-134ffa4b7abf https://religiondispatches.org/2011/01/14/yoga-hindu Recent studies of yoga reveal the formative influence of (wait for it) Buddhism, Jainism, Sufism, television, military calisthenics, Swedish gymnastics and the YMCA, as well as of radical Hindu nationalism, upon today’s postural yoga practice. There is no doubt that the Vedas, Upanishads, and folk traditions of India have been formative toward yoga: yoga is almost inseparable from them. Nevertheless to assert that yoga is essentially and primarily a Hindu practice means to ignore millennia of generative influence from other quarters. Worse still, it means to step blindly into a political fight for the heart of India that has simmered for over two hundred years. Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:04:11 EST Roman Palitsky cd9ecc88-6332-466e-b10b-0015cd70a7d7 https://religiondispatches.org/2010/03/09/gandhi-his-grandson-israel-and-jews Gandhi’s grandson says that Israel promotes a “culture of violence”: Shalom Goldman tells the little-known backstory. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:45:30 EST Shalom Goldman d0ed5c97-5e19-41a5-9c28-1c49172b290d https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/19/dont-blame-secularism-reading-blind-spot-when-journalists-dont-get-religion A new book of essays argues that the American media suffers due to secularism and a general ignorance of religion. But is secularism really at the heart of it, or is it a far broader and longer-standing relationship with ignorance of our “enemies” that creates the Blind Spot? Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:12:56 EDT Jeffrey Feldman 22bb6429-e554-4558-b473-bf8ae2b16ab3