"One of today's most vital tasks is to try to understand other cultures, and also their spirituality. Anyone who travels to another country can discover that our efforts to get inside the skin of what is 'foreign' to us can at the same time lead to a deeper understanding of our own culture. In adolescence and youth it seems quite natural to find ......
This book deals with post-Vedic developments in understanding the con-cept of sacrifice (yajna) and the response of the Bhagavad Gita to it. Concepts such as Karma, Brahman and Tapas originated in the context of Vedic ritual and were the generators of autonomous power in the performance of sacrifice. The book argues that the Upanishads are not ......
Published in association with Centre de Sciences Humaines, New DelhiHow do we understand those ascetics who have developed an extremely elaborate martial tradition and yet have taken strict vows of non-violence, especially when, for some ascetics today that tradition has been put at the service of the most extreme forms of Hindu militancy? And how ......
Shastrartha in India: Methodology and Applications revisits one of the richest traditions of Indic wisdom - a system of dialogue and debate that combined intellectual rigor with ethical responsibility. Unlike adversarial argumentation, Shastrartha was conceived as a collaborative quest for truth, where views were clarified, tested, and refined ......
The first comparative treatment of the topic of lila in Hindu and Christian traditions, this volume explores what it means to consider divine and human action under the categories of play, wit, drama, grace, and compassion God at Play presents a theological exploration of the multifaceted motif of lila across diverse Hindu and Christian ......
The first comparative treatment of the topic of lila in Hindu and Christian traditions, this volume explores what it means to consider divine and human action under the categories of play, wit, drama, grace, and compassion God at Play presents a theological exploration of the multifaceted motif of lila across diverse Hindu and Christian ......
How middle-class families in Nepal pursue "well-being" in a rapidly changing social landscape Modern Dharma asks how middle-class Nepalis pursue an ethical, good life in a rapidly evolving society. In the aftermath of a decade-long civil war that raged between 1996 and 2006, social change accelerated in Nepal as the shift to a market economy and ......
How middle-class families in Nepal pursue "well-being" in a rapidly changing social landscape Modern Dharma asks how middle-class Nepalis pursue an ethical, good life in a rapidly evolving society. In the aftermath of a decade-long civil war that raged between 1996 and 2006, social change accelerated in Nepal as the shift to a market economy and ......
Nishant Upadhyay unravels Indian diasporic complicity in its ongoing colonialist relationship with Indigenous peoples, lands, and nations in Canada. Upadhyay examines the interwoven and simultaneous areas of dominant Indian caste complicity in processes of settler colonialism, antiblackness, capitalism, brahminical supremacy, Hindu nationalism, ......
