List of converts to Hinduism from Christianity
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This is a list of converts to Hinduism from Christianity.
Name | Nationality | Notes | Refs | Image |
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Job Charnock | British | trade agent who has been controversially described as the founder of Calcutta | [1] | |
Alice Coltrane | American | raised Baptist but became a follower of Satya Sai Baba; jazz pianist, organist, harpist and composer[2][3] | [4] | |
George Sudarshan | Indian | physicist, professor and winner of Dirac Prize and Padma Bhusan | [5] | |
David Frawley[6] | American | acharya and author on Hinduism, yoga, and Ayurveda | [7] | |
George Harrison | British | musician, member of The Beatles famously associated with A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and ISKCON | ||
Kirtanananda Swami | American | son of a Baptist minister; Hare Krishna guru; co-founder of the New Vrindaban Hare Krishna community | ||
Christopher Isherwood | British | novelist | [8] | |
Jomol | Indian | actress | [9] | |
Lizy | Indian | actress | [10][10][11] | |
Timothy Leary | American | Harvard professor, writer and psychologist | [12] | |
Satsvarupa dasa Goswami | American | senior disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada | [13][14][15][16][17][18] | |
Savitri Devi Mukherji | French | writer, animal rights, deep ecology and Nazism activist, syncretist of Hinduism and Nazism | ||
Sister Nivedita | Irish | social worker, author, and teacher | [19] | |
Leelawathy Ramanathan | Australian | writer and Hindu activist who converted upon marrying Ponnambalam Ramanathan | [20] | |
John Levy | British | philosopher and translator of books on Advaita Vedanta | [21] | |
Annie | Indian | actress | [22] | |
Joseph Ritson | British | antiquarian and traveller | [23] | |
Julia Roberts | American | actress | [24] | |
Satyananda Stokes | British | farmer | [25] | |
Bhakti Tirtha Swami | American | guru and disciple of Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada[26] | [26] | |
Romapada Swami | American | Vaishnavia sannyasi and initiating guru | [27] | |
Shaunaka Rishi Das | Irish | Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies | ||
Nayantara | Indian | actress and model | [28] | |
Alfred Ford | American | heir to the Ford family fortune | [29] |
References
- ↑ Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art And the Prospect of India – Hermione De Almeida
- ↑ Jazz Musician Alice Coltrane dead at 69 News Australia – January 15, 2007
- ↑ Alice Coltrane; Musician, Spiritual Guru Washington Post – January 15, 2007
- ↑ "Da Capo companion to twentieth-century popular music", by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, p. 195, publisher = Da Capo Press
- ↑ Reflections on Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan 2009
- ↑ "Padma Awards 2015". Press Information Bureau. Archived from the original on 26 January 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
- ↑ Religion and ethnicity The Hindu – May 27, 2003
- ↑ Acclaimed American Author Christopher Isherwood Adherents
- ↑ Actress accuses her father Times of India – April 25, 2005
- 1 2 asianetnews (April 18, 2011). "Lissy Priyadarshan-ON Record (Ep 2, Part 2)" – via YouTube.
- ↑ Ltd, Asianet News Network Pvt. "Asianet News".
- ↑ Time to Mutate TIME – April 29, 1966
- ↑ Smith, Huston; Harry Oldmeadow (2004). Journeys East: 20th century Western encounters with Eastern religious traditions. Bloomington, Ind: World Wisdom. p. 272. ISBN 0-941532-57-7.
Before his death Prabhupada appointed eleven American devotees as gurus.
- ↑ Rochford, E. Burke (1985). Hare Krishna in America. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press. p. 222. ISBN 0-8135-1114-3.
In the months preceding his death Srila Prabhupada appointed eleven of his closest disciples to act as initiating gurus for ISKCON
- ↑ Ron Rhodes (2001). Challenge of the Cults and New Religions. Zondervan. p. 179. ISBN 0-310-23217-1.
Before Prabhupada died in 1977, he selected senior devotees who would continue to direct the organization.
- ↑ Rodney Stark (1985). Religious movements. Paragon House Publishers. p. 100. ISBN 0-913757-43-8.
Satsvarupa dasa Goswami, one of the eleven initiating gurus Bhaktivedanta appointed to succeed him ...
- ↑ Shinn ISKCON Communications Journal-1994, 2.1
- ↑ Hare Krishna leader visits local followers Daily Collegian, Penn State University, August 5, 1981
- ↑ Defying the Hindutva canon The Hindu – January 30, 2004
- ↑ Lady Ramanathan Passes away The Hindu – January 31, 1953
- ↑ Sedgwick, Mark. Against The Modern World: Traditionalism And The Secret Intellectual History Of The Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2004. 93. Print.
- ↑ "YouTube".
- ↑ Morton, Timothy, Marilyn Butler, and James Chandler. Shelley and the Revolution in Taste : The Body and the Natural World. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995.
- ↑ Blake, Heidi (August 5, 2010). "Julia Roberts: I'm a Hindu". Daily Telegraph. London.
- ↑ Clymer, Kenton J. (January 1, 1990). "Samuel Evans Stokes, Mahatma Gandhi, and Indian Nationalism". Pacific Historical Review. 59 (1): 51–76. doi:10.2307/3640095. JSTOR 3640095.
- 1 2 "BTSwami.com".
- ↑ Biography on Romapada's website
- ↑ "Exclusive- Nayanthara is now a Hindu".
- ↑ Raj Nanda (December 21, 2012). "Ambarish das - Memories of Srila Prabhupada" – via YouTube.
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