hinduwoman

Primal,
It has always been a matter of debate what exactly a Hindu's beliefs are. No one is sure, because what many think is contradicted by another.
If religious scholars in West insist that a Hindu can be nothing other than religious then it is their viewpoint. Why are their view to be privelieged over the beliefs of many other Hindus, both cultural and religious?
But my world view is shaped by the mythologies I read, by the discourses on human conduct in the epics and by how people round me behaved. I cannot deny my roots.

Primal

Hinduism is religious because it makes many unprovable claims about a "sacred"; atman and Brahman, which is meant to give life meaning i.e. Moksha. Claims about the supernatural "something "beyond" the natural world as we know it."

It also has the elements of religion: dogma-Upanishads. myth-vedas. rituals-meditations,praying to/loving gods,working in dharma etc.

Christianity,Taoism, Buddhism and Islam are highly debated as well on what they "really" are, especially among the more religious. This doesn't change the fact that they are all religions.