{"id":6920,"date":"2008-07-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/07\/04\/for-hindus-in-america-it-s-personal\/"},"modified":"2008-07-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T12:00:00","slug":"for-hindus-in-america-it-s-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/07\/04\/for-hindus-in-america-it-s-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"For Hindus in America, It&#8217;s Personal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\">\n<p class=\"summary\">&#8220;For special religious festivals, we gather at the temple in Flint. However, there&#8217;s no head of the church or official leader as such, just a priest&#8221; the retired engineer said. <\/p>\n<p>Drew E. Hinderer, professor of philosophy and religion at Saginaw Valley State University, explains that &#8220;Performing prayers at home altars enables believers to connect with the Divine on a much more personal level. For Hindus, God reveals Himself in everything.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be Hindu in America is much more an intentional choice than it is in India,&#8221; said Diana Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies and director of The Pluralism Project at Harvard University in an Internet report. &#8220;Even if you&#8217;re first generation, you have to decide to you perpetuate it or it may go away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For special religious festivals, we gather at the temple in Flint. However, there&#8217;s no head of the church or official,&#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-6920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920","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=6920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}