Hindu Religious Worker Definitions Page

...various roles of the priest are verified and affirmed in the context of the community where the priest traditionally receives training, engages in the occupation and is recognized as competent...

Community Resources Page

...enable them to maintain a vibrant, active, and secure temple community.

The Caste Conundrum: No universal definition Page

...resulted in an internally inconsistent class of communities, which outside of an administrative designation, shared very little in common socially, economically, educationally, or politically. Then and now, each community designated...

HAF Reporters Guide to Caste Page

...system presumes its pan-Indian existence, a static four or five-fold hierarchy, and that communities belonging to particular castes in one part of India share something in common with similar castes...