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Yankee Hindutva: Religiosity Measures and Hindu Nationalism
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“Yankee Hindutva
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: Religiosity Measures and Hindu Nationalism”
Authors: Shyam Sriram (
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Ph. D. Candidate, Dept. of Political Science,
Georgia State University
Satish Joshi
Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Political Science
Georgia State University
Abstract
As political scientists have witnessed the staggering rise in Hindu nationalist sentiment in India, so too has there been a perceived increase in Hindu nationalism among many Indian-Americans. With that said, however, little research had been attempted in order to gauge the religious and political views of Indian-Americans in order to measure and test their religious commitment – or religiosity – towards Hinduism and Hindu nationalism. Two joint issues have complicated this research question – the basic problem in defining Hinduism and the corresponding dilemma of operationalizing Hinduism and Hindu nationalism for purposes of public opinion research. Although questions about religion and religious commitment abound within existing surveys, such questions have been decidedly Judeo-Christian in nature and are not applicable towards Eastern religions. We propose a new model for measuring attitudes towards Hinduism and concurrently, Hindu nationalism. Although the scope of your work is theoretical in nature, we believe that scholars will be able to use our measures in order to accurately gauge the views of Indian-Americans towards Hinduism and subsequently, the rise of Hindu nationalism.
Paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Washington, D.C. Copyrighted to American Political Science Association.
Introduction and Research Question
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Thanks and gratitude to Vijay Prashad for allowing me to title this paper based on one of his book chapter
titles in “The Karma of Brown Folk.”
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2004 Annual Conference of the Society of Indian Philosophy and Religion, Buffalo.
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“Yankee Hindutva
: Religiosity Measures and Hindu Nationalism”
Authors: Shyam Sriram (
)
Ph. D. Candidate, Dept. of Political Science,
Georgia State University
Satish Joshi
Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Political Science
Georgia State University
Abstract
As political scientists have witnessed the staggering rise in Hindu nationalist sentiment in
India, so too has there been a perceived increase in Hindu nationalism among many
Indian-Americans. With that said, however, little research had been attempted in order to
gauge the religious and political views of Indian-Americans in order to measure and test
their religious commitment – or religiosity – towards Hinduism and Hindu nationalism.
Two joint issues have complicated this research question – the basic problem in defining
Hinduism and the corresponding dilemma of operationalizing Hinduism and Hindu
nationalism for purposes of public opinion research. Although questions about religion
and religious commitment abound within existing surveys, such questions have been
decidedly Judeo-Christian in nature and are not applicable towards Eastern religions. We
propose a new model for measuring attitudes towards Hinduism and concurrently, Hindu
nationalism. Although the scope of your work is theoretical in nature, we believe that
scholars will be able to use our measures in order to accurately gauge the views of
Indian-Americans towards Hinduism and subsequently, the rise of Hindu nationalism.
Paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Washington, D.C. Copyrighted to American Political Science Association.
Introduction and Research Question
1
Thanks and gratitude to Vijay Prashad for allowing me to title this paper based on one of his book chapter
titles in “The Karma of Brown Folk.”
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2004 Annual Conference of the Society of Indian
Philosophy and Religion, Buffalo.
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