Religion: All Others - Clergy and Leaders in Dharmic & East Asian Religions

 

Female Clergy Statistics N/A

Buddhists are between .4% and .7% of all Americans

  • American Buddhists are overwhelming American-born, not parents, with a range of races, ages, education and income levels, 8% of all Hawaiians and 2% of all Californians.

Hindus are less than .7% of all Americans

  • American Hindus are 2% of all Californians and 3% of New Jerseyans, overwhelmingly male, married, first generation GenX or Millennial immigrants, with post-graduate degrees. 

Other world religions claim fewer than .3% total adherents in America.  Given these numbers, we’re not going to review what it will take for women to achieve the Power Percentage in these faiths.  For those interested in worldwide trends in these faiths, consider these recent articles: 

Buddhism in America:

Wikipedia - Buddism in the United States

Women in American Buddism: PBS article
Dugan, Kate (2007). "Buddhist Women and Interfaith Work in the United States". Buddhist-Christian Studies


Hindu:

ReligionNews.com

Note: This article reviews both Hindu priestesses and Muslim female teachers in India, and profiles Hindu priestesses Neela Khadkikar in Pune, Nandini Bhowmik in Kolkata, Hindu Institutes that admit and train women, and Jamida Teacher, who is the secretary general of the Quran Sunnath Society and claims to be India’s first female Muslim imam.

Jainism:




Sikhism:

Sikhism is the world’s fifth largest religion, located mostly in the Punjab region of India. America has approximately 700,000 Sikhs -- .2% of the US population. There are Sikh communities in California, Massachusetts, New York, Detroit, Chicago, and Austin. Sikhs have served in Congress and in American units in both World Wars, and as mayors of Yuba City, CA, Charlottesville, VA, Hoboken, NJ and Kent, WA. Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley was born Sikh, and then converted to Christianity.

Women are active in Sikh religious practices, and Sikhs “define God as gender neutral.”

 



What will it take for women to get into the Power Percentage in Dharmic and Eastern and Asian Religions in the United States?

 
 
 
ReligionLydia Swan