Julia Roberts: “I’m definitely a practicing Hindu”

Julia Roberts with Swami Dharam Dev on the outskirts of New Delhi while filming “Eat Pray Love”.

Perhaps Julia Roberts' new movie title should include few more words: Eat, Pray, Love, Chant, Pose.
In her September Elle magazine cover story, Roberts announces that since her film-making sojourn in India, she and her family now worship as Hindus and go together to a temple to “chant and pray and celebrate. I'm definitely a practicing Hindu.”
Roberts, who was brought up Christian, has already named her production company Red Om Films, drawing on the mystical syllable Hindus say encompasses the universe.
Her children already have Hindu names, according to a 2009 Associated Press story relying on The Times of India newspaper. It quoted a Hindu priest, Swami Dharam Dev, as saying, “I have named her twins Hazel and Phinnaeus as Laxmi and Ganesh, while Henry will be called Krishna Balram.”
Apparently you don't convert to Hinduism the way people adopt Judeo Christian faiths.
Suhag Shukla, managing director of the Hindu American Foundation, explains: “As a non-proselytising, pluralistic faith, Hinduism does not seek converts nor does anyone need to 'convert' formally to become a practicing Hindu. [There are] countless examples of prominent people in the West who have drawn inspiration from Hindu philosophy, converted formally or for all intents and purposes could be considered practicing Hindus.”

Source: USA Today