Americans turning towards Hinduism?

Americans are becoming more like Hindus and less like traditional Christians, writes a popular magazine in US that has headlined its article - "We are All Hindus Now".

Newsweek, a US weekly magazine by The Washington Post, says that "recent poll data show that conceptually, at least, we are slowly becoming more like Hindus and less like traditional Christians in the ways we think about God, our selves, each other, and eternity."

According to the article by its religion editor Lisa Miller, Americans no longer believe their religion is true and others are false. It cites a 2008 Pew Forum survey that says 65 percent of Americans believe that "many religions can lead to eternal life"â€"including 37 percent of white evangelicals.

It further writes: "So here is another way in which Americans are becoming more Hindu: 24 percent of Americans say they believe in reincarnation, according to a 2008 Harris poll. So agnostic are we about the ultimate fates of our bodies that we're burning themâ€"like Hindusâ€"after death. More than a third of Americans now choose cremation, according to the Cremation Association of North America."

The article quotes a religion professor at Boston University who has long framed the American propensity for "the divine-deli-cafeteria religion" as "very much in the spirit of Hinduism…"

The article ends with: So let us all say "om."