{"id":43541,"date":"2017-03-03T12:15:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T11:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/157939141716"},"modified":"2017-03-03T12:17:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T11:17:41","slug":"the-rise-of-hinduism-in-australia-will-it-continuehinduism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=43541","title":{"rendered":"The rise of Hinduism in Australia, will it continue?Hinduism…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The rise of Hinduism in Australia, will it continue?
\nHinduism emerged in the 2011 Census as the fastest-growing religion in Australia, largely brought about by migration. But what will the new Census reveal?
\nReverend Albert Lange was disillusioned by Christianity before he converted to Hinduism. In 1979 he became Bhakta Dasa.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was an atheist before I found my truth in the Hare Krishna movement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Dasa is now the national communications director for International Society for Krishna Consciousness, ISKCON Australia.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s one of the many Australians who find themselves drawn to the 5000-year old religion of Hinduism.<\/p>\n

Hinduism emerged in the 2011 Census as the fastest-growing religion in Australia – and is expected to have continued in the years since, according to both the Australian Multicultural Foundation and the Hindu Council of Australia.<\/p>\n

Census watchers, meanwhile, predict that despite the growth in the number of Australians nominating Islam as their religion (from 2.2 per cent to 2.6 per cent of the population), Hinduism will overtake it (2.7 per cent).<\/p>\n

The trend is largely explained by migration, with increasing numbers of Indians settling in Australia, particularly in Melbourne. There has been a the four-fold increase in the number of Indian-born residents in the nearly two decades to June 2014.<\/p>\n

But locally-born Australians, too, are gravitating towards the world\u2019s third-largest religion, says Mr Dasa.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Hindu way of life, with vegetarianism, karma and spirituality as its tenets, has never been more popular in the western world,\u201d he said.
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The rise of Hinduism in Australia, will it continue?
\nHinduism emerged in the 2011 Census as the fastest-growing religion in Australia, largely brought about by migration. But what will the new Census reveal? Reverend Albert Lange was disillusioned by Christianity before he converted to Hinduism. In 1979 he became Bhakta Dasa.
\nI was an atheist before I found my truth in the Hare Krishna movement, he said.
\nMr Dasa is now the national communications director for International Society for Krishna Consciousness, ISKCON Australia.
\nHes one of the many Australians who find themselves drawn to the 5000-year old religion of Hinduism.
\nHinduism emerged in the 2011 Census as the fastest-growing religion in Australia – and is expected to have continued in the years since, according to both the Australian Multicultural Foundation and the Hindu Council of Australia.
\nCensus watchers, meanwhile, predict that despite the growth in the number of Australians nominating Islam as their religion (from 2.2 per cent to 2.6 per cent of the population), Hinduism will overtake it (2.7 per cent).
\nThe trend is largely explained by migration, with increasing numbers of Indians settling in Australia, particularly in Melbourne. There has been a the four-fold increase in the number of Indian-born residents in the nearly two decades to June 2014.
\nBut locally-born Australians, too, are gravitating towards the worlds third-largest religion, says Mr Dasa.
\nThe Hindu way of life, with vegetarianism, karma and spirituality as its tenets, has never been more popular in the western world, he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43543,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43541\/revisions\/43543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}