Category: Hinduism

By L. Zastoupil

ISBN-10: 0230616801

ISBN-13: 9780230616806

This publication investigates Rammohun Roy as a transnational famous person. It examines the function of non secular heterodoxy--particularly Christian Unitarianism--in remodeling a colonial outsider into an imagined member of the rising Victorian social order  It makes use of his popularity to shed clean mild on nineteenth-century British reformers, together with advocates of liberty of the click, early feminists, loose alternate imperialists, and constitutional reformers reminiscent of Jeremy Bentham.  Rammohun Roy's highbrow agendas also are interrogated, relatively how he hired Unitarianism and the British satiric culture to undermine colonial rule in Bengal and provincialize England as a laggard kingdom within the development in the direction of rational faith and political liberty.

By Stanley Wolpert

ISBN-10: 019515634X

ISBN-13: 9780195156348

ISBN-10: 1423722493

ISBN-13: 9781423722496

Greater than part a century after his demise, Mahatma Gandhi keeps to motivate hundreds of thousands in the course of the international. but smooth India, so much strikingly in its selection to hitch the nuclear palms race, turns out to have deserted a lot of his nonviolent imaginative and prescient. encouraged via contemporary occasions in India, Stanley Wolpert bargains this sophisticated and profound biography of India's "Great Soul."Wolpert compellingly chronicles the lifetime of Mahatma Gandhi from his early days as a toddler of privilege to his humble upward push to energy and his assassination by the hands of a guy of his personal religion. This trajectory, like that of Christ, was once the results of Gandhi's ardour: his wakeful relationship of discomfort because the capacity to arrive divine fact. From his early campaigns to forestall discrimination in South Africa to his management of a people's revolution to finish the British imperial domination of India, Gandhi emerges as a guy of internal conflicts obscured through his political genius and ethical imaginative and prescient. stimulated early on via nonviolent teachings in Hinduism, Jainism, Christianity, and Buddhism, he got here to insist at the primacy of affection for one's adversary in any clash because the invincible strength for swap. His unyielding competition to intolerance and oppression might encourage India like no chief because the Buddha--creating a legacy that may inspire Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, and different worldwide leaders to call for a greater international via peaceable civil disobedience.By boldly contemplating Gandhi the guy, instead of the dwelling god depicted by means of his disciples, Wolpert offers an extraordinary illustration of Gandhi's character and the profound complexities that pressured his activities and taken freedom to India.

By Gavin Flood

ISBN-10: 0631215352

ISBN-13: 9780631215356

An excellent source for classes on Hinduism or global religions, this obtainable quantity spans the full box of Hindu reports. It offers a discussion board for the simplest students on this planet to make their perspectives and learn on hand to a much broader viewers.

• Comprehensively covers the textual traditions of Hinduism
• positive aspects 4 coherent sections protecting theoretical matters, textual traditions, technology and philosophy, and Hindu society and politics
• displays the rage clear of essentialist understandings of Hinduism in the direction of culture and regional-specific stories
• comprises fabric on Hindu folks religions and stresses the significance of zone in reading Hinduism
• perfect to be used on collage courses.

By Julian F. Woods

ISBN-10: 0791449815

ISBN-13: 9780791449813

ISBN-10: 0791449823

ISBN-13: 9780791449820

Considers the questions of loose will within the nice India epic, the Mahabharata.

By Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger

ISBN-10: 0253009529

ISBN-13: 9780253009524

During the goddess Gangamma’s competition within the city of Tirupati, lower-caste males take guises of the goddess, and the streets are choked with males donning saris, braids, and feminine jewellery. in contrast, girls take part by way of intensifying the rituals they practice for Gangamma all year long, comparable to cooking and supplying nutrients. Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger argues that in the pageant final fact is imagined as lady and ladies determine with the goddess, whose strength they proportion. vibrant money owed by way of female and male individuals provide new insights into Gangamma’s traditions and the character of Hindu village goddesses.

By Edwin F. Bryant

ISBN-10: 0195148916

ISBN-13: 9780195148916

ISBN-10: 0195148924

ISBN-13: 9780195148923

ISBN-10: 1435609506

ISBN-13: 9781435609501

Within the West Krishna is basically often called the speaker of the Bhagavad Gita. however it is the tales of Krishna's youth and his later exploits that experience supplied essentially the most vital and common assets of non secular narrative within the Hindu non secular panorama. This quantity brings jointly new translations of consultant samples of Krishna non secular literature from quite a few genres -- classical, well known, local, sectarian, poetic, literary, and philosophical.

By Harold G. Coward

ISBN-10: 0585491372

ISBN-13: 9780585491370

ISBN-10: 0791454991

ISBN-13: 9780791454992

Harold Coward explores how the mental elements of Yoga philosophy were very important to highbrow advancements either East and West. Foundational for Hindu, Jaina, and Buddhist idea and religious perform, Patañjali's Yoga Sutras, the classical assertion of jap Yoga, are specified of their emphasis at the nature and significance of mental tactics. Yoga's effect is explored within the paintings of either the seminal Indian philosopher Bhartrhari (c. six hundred C.E.) and between key figures in Western psychology: founders Freud and Jung, in addition to modern transpersonalists reminiscent of Washburn, Tart, and Ornstein.

Coward indicates how the yogic inspiration of mental methods makes Bhartrhari's philosophy of language and his theology of revelation attainable. He is going directly to discover how Western psychology has been prompted by means of incorporating or rejecting Patañjali's Yoga. the results of those tendencies in Western idea for mysticism and reminiscence are tested besides. This research ends up in a amazing perception, specifically, that there's a the most important distinction among japanese and Western proposal with reference to how restricted or perfectible human nature is—the West retaining that we as people are psychologically, philosophically, and spiritually restricted or fallacious in nature and hence no longer perfectible, whereas Patañjali's Yoga and jap concept often preserve the other. diverse Western responses to the jap place are famous, from entire rejection by means of Freud, Jung, and Hick, to various levels of attractiveness via transpersonal thinkers.

By Paul Dundas

The Indian faith of Jainism, whose valuable guideline contains non-violence to all creatures, is likely one of the world's oldest and least-understood faiths. Dundas seems at Jainism in its social and doctrinal context, explaining its heritage, sects, scriptures and formality, and describing how the Jains have, over 2500 years, outlined themselves as a special non secular neighborhood. This revised and multiplied version takes account of recent study into Jainism.

By Khushwant Singh

ISBN-10: 0143415808

ISBN-13: 9780143415800

Therefore we either have been tied to India with each attainable bond of reminiscence and affection, which truly performed an incredible half in our lives...as the final Viceroy and certainly while I stayed on because the first Governor-General of the autonomous nation of India. Lord Mountbatten a unprecedented number of essays that invitations the reader to revisit a vanished period of sahibs and memsahibs. From Lord Mountbatten to Peggy Holroyde to Maurice and Taya Zinkin, Britishers who lived and labored in India reminisce approximately subject matters and attractions as various because the Indian Civil carrier and the Roshanara membership, shikar and hazri, the beginner Cine Society of India and the Doon tuition, Rudyard Kipling and Mahatma Gandhi. chosen from a chain of articles commissioned through Khushwant Singh whilst he was once the editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India those delightfully individualistic and refreshingly candid writings demonstrate a desirable array of British attitudes, stories, observations, fond thoughts, the occasional short-lived grouses and, particularly, a deep and abiding affection and recognize for India.

By Mostafa Vaziri

ISBN-10: 1137530804

ISBN-13: 9781137530806

ISBN-10: 1349571695

ISBN-13: 9781349571697

This e-book bargains a paradigm shift and clean interpretation of Rumi's message. After being disentangled from the anachronistic reference to the Mevlevi order of Islamic Sufism, Rumi is as a substitute put on this planet of philosophy.