{"id":4806,"date":"2004-11-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/11\/21\/2004-11-21-myth-of-hindu-sameness\/"},"modified":"2004-11-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-21T12:00:00","slug":"2004-11-21-myth-of-hindu-sameness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/11\/21\/2004-11-21-myth-of-hindu-sameness\/","title":{"rendered":"Myth of Hindu Sameness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sulekha.com\/expressions\/column.asp?cid=305972\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>USA, November 21, 2004: This latest essay by Rajiv Malhotra explores the validity of the oft-repeated claim that &#8220;Hinduism is the same as other religions.&#8221; From his earlier writings (Problematizing God&#8217;s Interventions in History: <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sulekha.com\/expressions\/column.asp?cid=303135\">here<\/a>), Malhotra had classified religious movements as History-Centric and non History-Centric. According to Malhotra: &#8220;The former are contingent on canonical beliefs of their sacred history. Non History-Centric religious movements, on the other hand, do have beliefs about history, but their faith is not contingent on history.&#8221; It is Malhotra&#8217;s contention that &#8220;non History-Centric faiths offer the only viable spiritual alternative to the religious conflicts that are inherent among History-Centric religions.&#8221; Note that this thesis was scheduled to be presented by Malhotra at the annual AAR (American Academy of Religion) conference on November 19, 2004. The full article is available at &#8220;source.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceUSA, November 21, 2004: This latest essay by Rajiv Malhotra explores the validity of the oft-repeated claim that &#8220;Hinduism is,&#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-4806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806","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=4806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}