Encyclopedia of Hinduism

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In the last century, native Europeans have
supported an entire array of contemporary Hindu
movements, particularly the INTERNATIONAL SOCI-
ETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS, the SAT YA SAI
BABA movement, various forms of hatha yoga, and
individual teachers of Hindu practices.
See also DIASPORA; SCANDINAVIA.


Further reading: Martin Baumann, Migration, Religion,
Integration: Buddhist, Vietnamese, and Hindu Tamils in
Germany (Marburg: Diagonal-Verlag, 2000); Knut A.
Jacobsen and P. Pratap Kumar, eds., South Asians in
the Diaspora: Histories and Religious Traditions (Leiden:
Brill, 2004).

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