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Arvind Sharma
This book studies Hindu nationalism and deliberates on the forms Hindu self-assertion might take in the future.
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Examines the meaning of religion in the aftermath of September 11. This comprehensive set addresses religion’s intersection with human rights, spirituality, science, healing, the media, international diplomacy, globalization, war and…
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A collection of quotable thoughts on various subjects.
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All arts and sciences, in their own way, ultimately try to come to grips with reality. Over the decades spanned by John Hick’s life, in the course of this grappling…
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A highly personal meditation on the nature and meaning of suffering.
The Little Clay Cart is a Sanskrit play revolving around a romantic theme of the love of a high-born man for a courtesan. It contains dramatic developments involving a dynastic…
Renowned scholar of Hinduism, Arvind Sharma, presents a concise and highly accessible introduction to Hindu spirituality, focusing especially on the views of the school of Advaita, or non-dual, Vedanta.
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This wide-ranging reader combines some of the best and most valuable contemporary perspectives from leading and significant writers, teachers, and…
Following the lead of a hermeneutics of surprise the book identifies, indeed, surprising new material, and offers unexpected new insights essential to the debate on the position of goddesses and…
Shows that religion is a force that can be harnessed for both good and evil. This book unleashes religion’s true potential to do good by bridging the modern divide between…
This pioneering work examines the existing understanding of Hinduism in relation to human rights discourse. Written by a leading Hindu scholar, Hindu Narratives on Human Rights is organized around specific…
In this collection of 20 essays, Sharma and his contributors honour Harvey Cox’s seminal contribution to the study of religion.
In this text, leading scholars from around the world take stock of two centuries of international intellectual investment in Hinduism. Offering an assessment of the current state of Hindu studies…
Extinction is the process by which a group of taxa or species dies out, reducing biodiversity.[237] The moment of extinction is generally considered the death of the last individual of…
Reconsiders whether Hinduism can be considered a missionary religion.
Presents enlightening encounters with the world’s religions from a Hindu perspective.
This book examines how the women’s movement is affecting traditional religions and civilizations throughout the world. It reviews cases of global impact in Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam…
This book discusses the position of women in the Native American, African, Shinto, Jaina, Zoroastrian, Sikh, and Baha'i faiths for the first time in a single volume, and evolves a…
Presents stories and commentaries on women saints from the Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Jewish, Islamic, and Christian traditions.
Explores the impact of women’s studies on methodology in religious studies.
Explores deep sleep (susupti), one of the three states of consciousness in Advaita Vedanta, and the major role it plays in this philosophy.
A contribution to the methodology of religious studies, this work discusses using comparison to provide mutual illumination among religious traditions while avoiding the problem of assimilating one tradition to another.
There were two friends who were walking across a desert. While they were walking they got into an ugly argument and out of anger one of them slapped the other…
Most of the time, people find it difficult to abandon their houses, relatives, fields, and granaries without grave risk of loss. Unseen or unpredictable forces do not give a person…
A presentation of Hinduism which particularly stresses the intermingling of philosophy and religion within this faith. It hopes to broaden the horizons of the conventional philosophy of religion by adding…
Philosophy of religion as a discipline first arose in Europe; While Eastern and Western religions subsequently found a place in these studies, one global religious tradition, namely, the primal tradition…
The concept of religious freedom is the favoured modern human rights concept, with which the modern world hopes to tackle the phenomenon of religious pluralism, as our modern existence in…
Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) is a seminal work in the field of postcolonial culture studies. It critiqued Western scholarship about the Eastern world for its patronizing attitude and tendency to…
To write on the Manusmriti is to play with fire! This statement is not merely metaphorical; the Manusmriti has a history of being literally torched. But where there is fire…
Shifting the focus to the understudied subject of Gandhi’s spiritual life, the author retells the story of Gandhi’s life through this lens. He enlarges our understanding of one of history’s…
This is a cross-cultural examination of the well-known Hindu school of philosophy, Advaita Vedanta, in the light of modern Western philosophy of religion.
An essential introduction to the world’s living religions by experts from each tradition - published in conjunction with the 1993 Parliament of the World’s Religions.
Religion has become a vital element in identity politics globally after the terror attacks of 11 September 2001 in the United States of America. And so the question of how…
This book offers a unique perspective on September 11 and our world after this tragic event, sharing lessons from an Asian religious experience that can help heal a world troubled…
Discusses the notion of a spiritual master and looks at examples in a variety of world religions.
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