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Shakti's New Voice
Guru Devotion in a Woman-Led Spiritual Movement
Inbunden, 2017
1356 kr
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Shakti’s New Voice is the first comprehensive study of Anandmurti Gurumaa, a widely popular contemporary female guru from north India known for offering spiritual teachings and music on satellite television and the Internet. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and religious-historical …
Sri Chaitanya’s Life and Teachings
The Golden Avatara of Divine Love
Av Steven Rosen
Inbunden, 2017
1356 kr
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Tucked away in ancient Sanskrit and Bengali texts is a secret teaching, a blissful devotional (bhakti) tradition that involves sacred congregational chanting (kirtana), mindfulness practices (japa, smara?am), and the deepening of one’s relationship with God (rasa). Brought to the world’s stage by …
Sri Chaitanya’s Life and Teachings
The Golden Avatara of Divine Love
Av Steven Rosen
Häftad, 2019
575 kr
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Tucked away in ancient Sanskrit and Bengali texts is a secret teaching, a blissful devotional (bhakti) tradition that involves sacred congregational chanting (kirtana), mindfulness practices (japa, smara?am), and the deepening of one’s relationship with God (rasa). Brought to the world’s stage by …
Digital Hinduism
Dharma and Discourse in the Age of New Media
Inbunden, 2017
1214 kr
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This edited volume seeks to build a scholarly discourse about how Hinduism is being defined, reformed, and rearticulated in the digital era and how these changes are impacting the way Hindus view their own religious identities. It seeks to interrogate how digital Hinduism has been shaped in …
Metaphysics of Paradox
Jainism, Absolute Relativity, and Religious Pluralism
Inbunden, 2018
1285 kr
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This book is an exploration into the paradoxical structure of pluralistic thinking as illuminated by both Western and Eastern insights—especially Jainism. By calling into question the most fundamental assumptions of religious pluralists, the author hopes to contribute to a paradigm shift in …
Beacons of Dharma
Spiritual Exemplars for the Modern Age
Av Christopher Patrick Miller, Michael Reading m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1569 kr
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Today’s globalized society faces some of humanity’s most unprecedented social and environmental challenges. Presenting new and insightful approaches to a range of these challenges, the timely volume before you draws upon individual cases of exemplary leadership from the world’s Dharma …
Thinking with the Yoga Sutra of Patañjali
Translation and Interpretation
Av Christopher Key Chapple, Ana Laura Funes Maderey
Inbunden, 2019
1214 kr
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This book presents contemporary scholarship on the Yoga Sutra. It revisits Patañjali’s philosophy by bringing it into dialogue with contemporary concerns across a variety of topics and perspectives. Questions regarding the role of the body in the practice of classical yoga, the debate between the …
Swami Vivekananda
His Life, Legacy, and Liberative Ethics
Inbunden, 2021
1289 kr
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With historical-critical analysis and dialogical even-handedness, the essays of this book re-assess the life and legacy of Swami Vivekananda, forged at a time of colonial suppression, from the vantage point of socially-engaged religion at a time of global dislocations and international inequities. …
Vedantic Relationality of Rabindranath Tagore
Harmonizing the One and Its Many
Av Ankur Barua
Inbunden, 2018
1285 kr
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This book is a thematic study of the poet-thinker Rabindranath Tagore’s conceptual project of harmonizing the one and its many. Tagore’s writings, in Bengali and in English, on religious and social themes are held together by the leitmotif of a “harmony” which operates across several existential, …
Politics and Promise of Yoga
Contemporary Relevance of an Ancient Practice
Inbunden, 2022
1427 kr
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Yoga is many things to many people. However, the basics of yoga are worth understanding given its popularity and the benefits of the practice. This includes understanding yoga's roots, its origins, its development within and outside India as well as the research involving yoga as an integrative …
Sakta Method for Comparative Theology
Upside Down, Inside Out
Inbunden, 2023
1072 kr
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A Sakta Method for Comparative Theology: Upside-Down, Inside-Out offers a Sakta thealogy of religions and a Sakta anti-method, method, and a-method for comparative theology. For Saktas, the thread of religious diversity is part of the rich tapestry of cosmological, topographical, environmental, and …
Forms of Krishna
Collected Essays on Vaishnava Murtis
Av Steven Rosen
Inbunden, 2023
1214 kr
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Scholars of religion and seekers in general will find Forms of Krishna: Collected Essays on Vaishnava Murtis to be an informative introduction to Indic philosophy and Vaishnava history, particularly in terms of Krishna’s form and the underlying theological and scriptural background for the worship …
Posthumous Editing of a Great Master's Work
Special Focus on the Writings of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Inbunden, 2024
1214 kr
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Posthumous Editing of a Great Master's Work: Special Focus on the Writings of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada examines how a leading figure's hallowed written and published works, which remain so important to the religious community, should be editorially treated following the leader's …
Bhakti Ethics, Emotions, and Love in Gaudiya Vaisnava Metaethics
Inbunden, 2024
1427 kr
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Bhakti Ethics, Emotions, and Love in Gaudiya Vaisnava Metaethics explores the broader implications of understanding bhakti, “devotional love to the divine,” as an ethical theory based on a “realist” account of emotions, where emotions are sensory perceptions of the real ethical qualities of classes …
Critical Analysis of Bhima Bhoi and the Mahima Cult
Inbunden, 2024
1214 kr
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A Critical Analysis of Bhima Bhoi and the Mahima Cult is a rare compendium of insightful essays by eminent Indian scholars on the Mahima Cult, its genesis, and its growth. The volume focuses on Bhima Bhoi, the poet-philosopher and the prime interlocutor of the Renegade Faith, who started a revolt …
Sacred Sound and the Transcultural Practice of Kirtan
Inbunden, 2024
1214 kr
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Ancient ideas on sacred sound find a very tangible and lively expression in the practice of kirtan, which is a broad term referring to various forms of devotional singing commonly done in South Asian traditions. Kirtan is a core practice in the Hindu and Sikh faiths that is becoming increasingly …
Ahimsa in the Indic Traditions
Explorations and Reflections
Av Jeffery D. Long, Steven J. Rosen
Inbunden, 2024
1214 kr
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Ahi?sa in the Indic Traditions: Explorations and Reflections, edited by Jeffery D. Long and Steven J. Rosen, examines the diversity of nonviolent (ahimsa-oriented) doctrines originating in the Indic world, both in terms of interpersonal relationships and how they apply to the rest of creation, …
Gandhi and Rajchandra
The Making of the Mahatma
Av Uma Majmudar
Inbunden, 2020
1214 kr
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Mahatma Gandhi, one of the greatest influencers in the world, was himself influenced by trailblazing thinkers and writers like Tolstoy, Ruskin, Thoreau, and others—each one contributing significantly to his moral and spiritual development. Yet only a few people know the most consequential person to …
Gandhi and Rajchandra
The Making of the Mahatma
Av Uma Majmudar
Häftad, 2021
517 kr
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Mahatma Gandhi, one of the greatest influencers in the world, was himself influenced by trailblazing thinkers and writers like Tolstoy, Ruskin, Thoreau, and others—each one contributing significantly to his moral and spiritual development. Yet only a few people know the most consequential person to …
Philosophy of Sri Chinmoy
Love and Transformation
Inbunden, 2021
1214 kr
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This is the first book-length study of the thought of Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007), who became well known during his lifetime as the exponent of a dynamic spirituality of integral transformation, which he set forth in an extensive body of writings in both prose and poetry, mostly in English but also in …
Philosophy of Sri Chinmoy
Love and Transformation
Häftad, 2023
461 kr
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This is the first book-length study of the thought of Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007), who became well known during his lifetime as the exponent of a dynamic spirituality of integral transformation, which he set forth in an extensive body of writings in both prose and poetry, mostly in English but also in …
Indian and Western Philosophical Concepts in Religion
Av Pankaj Jain, Jeffery D. Long
Inbunden, 2023
1072 kr
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Philosophical concepts are influential in the theories and methods to study the world religions. Even though the disciplines of anthropology and religious studies now encompass communities and cultures across the world, the theories and methods used to study world religions and cultures continue to …
Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Co-Creator of the Integral Yoga
Inbunden, 2024
1598 kr
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The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram: Co-Creator of the Integral Yoga analyzes the contributions of the Mother (née Mirra Alfassa, 1878-1973) to the Integral Yoga that she and Sri Aurobindo (né Aurobindo Ghose, 1872-1950) co-created for his ashram. Scholars have ignored Mirra for Aurobindo, which …
Hindu Self and Its Muslim Neighbors
Contested Borderlines on Bengali Landscapes
Av Ankur Barua
Inbunden, 2022
1214 kr
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In The Hindu Self and its Muslim Neighbors, the author sketches the contours of relations between Hindus and Muslims in Bengal. The central argument is that various patterns of amicability and antipathy have been generated towards Muslims over the last six hundred years and these patterns emerge at …
Worldwide Krishna Movement
Half a Century of Growth, Impact, and Challenge
Inbunden, 2027
1201 kr
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This open access book explores the historical, sociological, and theological dimensions of the Krishna Movement since its inception in the 1960’s through its blossoming in the 2000's.Experts in the field discuss the surprising growth, the amazing impact, and the various past and current challenges …
Illness and Healing in Shakta-tantric Traditions
A South Asian Perspective
Inbunden, 2027
1034 kr
Kommande
Sudipta Chakraborty deconstructs Eurocentric epistemologies of health and healing from Hindu, Shakta-tantric perspectives.Unlike Eurocentric conceptions of health, Hinduism views religious belief as directly complimentary to medical concerns. This book sheds light on the gradual evolution of Shakta …
Upanisads as They Are
Brhadaranyaka, Chandogya, Aitareya, Taittiriya, Kausitaki
Inbunden, 2026
1214 kr
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This book argues that the early classical Upanisads constitute a “field of wildflowers” of insight that later Vedanta has tried to fashion into a proper garden. These Upanisads (c. 800-300 BCE) are almost always read from the point of view of the later Vedantins, but they do not share in the neatly …
