List of converts to Hinduism from Christianity

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This is a list of converts to Hinduism from Christianity.

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Name Nationality Notes Refs Image
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

  1. ↑ Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art And the Prospect of India – Hermione De Almeida
  2. ↑ Jazz Musician Alice Coltrane dead at 69 News Australia – January 15, 2007
  3. ↑ Alice Coltrane; Musician, Spiritual Guru Washington Post – January 15, 2007
  4. ↑ "Da Capo companion to twentieth-century popular music", by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, p. 195, publisher = Da Capo Press
  5. ↑ Reflections on Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan 2009
  6. ↑ "Padma Awards 2015". Press Information Bureau. Archived from the original on 26 January 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  7. ↑ Religion and ethnicity The Hindu – May 27, 2003
  8. ↑ Acclaimed American Author Christopher Isherwood Adherents
  9. ↑ Actress accuses her father Times of India – April 25, 2005
  10. 1 2 asianetnews (April 18, 2011). "Lissy Priyadarshan-ON Record (Ep 2, Part 2)" – via YouTube.
  11. ↑ Ltd, Asianet News Network Pvt. "Asianet News".
  12. ↑ Time to Mutate TIME – April 29, 1966
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ 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
  15. ↑ 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.
  16. ↑ 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 ...
  17. ↑ Shinn ISKCON Communications Journal-1994, 2.1
  18. ↑ Hare Krishna leader visits local followers Daily Collegian, Penn State University, August 5, 1981
  19. ↑ Defying the Hindutva canon The Hindu – January 30, 2004
  20. ↑ Lady Ramanathan Passes away The Hindu – January 31, 1953
  21. ↑ 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.
  22. ↑ "YouTube".
  23. ↑ Morton, Timothy, Marilyn Butler, and James Chandler. Shelley and the Revolution in Taste : The Body and the Natural World. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995.
  24. ↑ Blake, Heidi (August 5, 2010). "Julia Roberts: I'm a Hindu". Daily Telegraph. London.
  25. ↑ 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.
  26. 1 2 "BTSwami.com".
  27. ↑ Biography on Romapada's website
  28. ↑ "Exclusive- Nayanthara is now a Hindu".
  29. ↑ Raj Nanda (December 21, 2012). "Ambarish das - Memories of Srila Prabhupada" – via YouTube.
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