Mike Scott
Mike Scott is an author at Religion News Service.
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Life and death along the Ganges
By Mike Scott — January 11, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service VARANASI, India _ The cremation of a human corpse takes three hours on the banks of the Ganges River. In a Hindu practice that would shock the sensibilities of most Americans, grieving families from across India bring the bodies of their loved ones to be incinerated on wooden pyres in […]
Life and death along the Ganges
By Mike Scott — January 11, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service CHANDIGARH, India _ When Louisiana Gov.-elect Bobby Jindal converted to Catholicism during high school and college, he took a momentous step away from his inherited faith of Hinduism, the prevalent religion of his parents’ generation and Indian homeland. But among Jindal’s relatives and among Hindus in India generally, his decision […]
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