From the Seattle Times:
Open the bedside table in a motel. CNN reports copies of the sacred Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita, are turning up with the Bible and the Book of Mormon. Karen Isaksen Leonard, an anthropology professor at the University of California, Irvine, explained to me that Hindus are trying to join Muslims in a continuing effort to mainstream into American life through education and, increasingly, political activism.
 
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