{"id":10885,"date":"2012-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/03\/17\/new-jersey-balaji-temple-s-hinduism-summit\/"},"modified":"2012-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T12:00:00","slug":"new-jersey-balaji-temple-s-hinduism-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/03\/17\/new-jersey-balaji-temple-s-hinduism-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Balaji Temple&#8217;s Hinduism Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indoamerican-news.com\/?p=5827\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BRIDGEWATER, NEW JERSEY, March 8, 2012 (indoamerican-news.com): Recent surveys showed that a majority of Americans are leaning towards Hindu thought. At the same time, a study indicates that over 1\/3rd of youth from Hindu families in America may be converting out of Hinduism. While the growing interest in Hinduism is a testimony to Hinduism&#8217;s science and universal nature, the counter trend shows ignorance about Hinduism&#8217;s uniqueness among many born Hindus. <\/p>\n<p>The Hinduism Summit (Dharmajagruti Sabha), at the Balaji Temple Community Hall in Bridgewater addressed these trends as well as threats to Hinduism from direct assaults, denigration and &#8216;digestion&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the speakers were: Hindu activist, Jitendra Oulkar (&#8216;Know denigration: preserve Hinduism&#8217;); Shilpa Kudtarkar (&#8216;Spiritual dimension underlying Hindu concepts and issues&#8217;); Rajiv Malhotra (&#8216;Breaking India &#8211; Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines&#8217;); and Bhavna Shinde Hurley, spokesperson of Forum for Hindu Awakening, whose presentation was on &#8216;Understanding, living and preserving Hinduism&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Since the first Hinduism Summit held in July 2009 in Virginia, 12 Hinduism Summits have been held in North America, UK and Australia. For more information, visit www.hinduawakening.org\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source BRIDGEWATER, NEW JERSEY, March 8, 2012 (indoamerican-news.com): Recent surveys showed that a majority of Americans are leaning towards Hindu,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}