By Harold G. Coward
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The research of contemporary Indian responses to the problem of pluralism unearths the end result of 2500 years of expertise during this "living laboratory" of non secular come across, and gives knowledge to the trendy West in its quite fresh come upon with this problem. A impressive crew of students joins forces during this ebook to check how non secular pluralism really services in India. It makes a speciality of either the responses from inside Hinduism and of different religions in India, with chapters on Parsis, Indian Islam, Indian Christianity, Sikhism, and Tibetan Buddhism.
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A Modern Indian Christian Response J. Lipner 291 14. K. Dargyay 315 Contributors 329 Index 333 Page vii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The preparation of this volume and the bringing together of the scholars involved was a project of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities. The Calgary Institute for the Humanities was established at the University of Calgary in 1976 for the purpose of fostering advanced study and research in a broad range of subject areas. It supports work in the traditional humanities disciplines such as languages and literatures, philosophy, history, and so forth, as well as the philosophical and historical aspects of the social sciences, sciences, arts and professional studies.
9 Adam's position in Calcutta was awkward and insecure; his status as a Baptist missionary was terminated. Rammohun went to considerable lengths to assist Adam in establishing a new base for his presence in Calcutta. 11 Through his involvement with the Calcutta Unitarians Rammohun became involved in correspondence with Unitarians in England and the United States. In that correspondence he explained what attracted him to this interpretation of Christianity; but perhaps more importantly, he described his own interpretation of Unitarian Christianity.
40. CW, XLIV, 190. 41. CW, XLV, 223. 42. CW, LXXII, 254. 43. CW, XXV, 86; LXIV, 75. 44. CW, XLIV, 167. 45. CW, XXIII, 196. 46. CW, XXIII, 485. 47. CW, XXIV, 139. 48. CW, XXV, 202. 49. CW, XLI, 98; cf also XV, 317; XXIX, 444; XXXII, 228. 50. CW, XXVIII, 316; LI, 344; LVI, 341. 51. CW, XXVIII, 316; XXXII, 31 and 146; LXXI, 29. N. Pankratz In the Trust Deed signed by Rammohun Roy and seven of his associates in Calcutta on January 8, 1830, a plot of land and a building on Chitpore Road was set aside as and for a place of public meeting of all sorts and descriptions of people without distinction as shall behave and conduct themselves in an orderly and sober religious and devout manner for the worship and adoration of the Eternal Unsearchable and Immutable Being who is the Author and Preserver of the Universe but not under or by any other name designation or title peculiarly used for and applied to any particular Being or Beings by any men or set of men whatsoever and that no graven image statue or sculpture carving painting picture portrait or the likeness of anything shall be admitted within the said messuages building land tenements hereditaments and premises and that no sacrifice offering or oblation of any kind or thing shall ever be permitted therein .
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