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Astrology, Letters, and the Cosmos: Ferid Vokopola’s Syncretism
This chapter analyzes the thought of a leading Albanian intellectual Ferid Vokopola, who outlined his esoteric views of man and the world in the form...
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Revisiting Śākta Advaita: The Monistic Śākta Philosophy in the Guhyopaniṣad
Śākti worship is indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. Autochthonous Śākta practices vary village to village, with differing rituals and theologies....
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Introduction
The book is a collection of scholarly essays that brings together the voices of established scholars and the younger generation of emerging scholars....
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Neurological Insights in Peace Building: Towards an Indian Appropriation
Although science is blamed for the arms race and the nuclear weapons that largely threaten the world peace, there are also observations to the...
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The Debate on Cross-Cousin Marriage in Classical Hindu Law
It has long been recognized that the Indian subcontinent is home to two markedly different systems of kinship that broadly correspond to prominent...
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“The Yoga of ‘You Go’”: Meher Baba’s “Ascendant Path” to Nonduality
This comparative theological article explores Meher Baba’s written Vedāntic teaching he once called “the yoga of ‘you go’” within a cosmological...
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Experiences with Violence: Studying Sacred Text in Interreligious Dialogue
Practitioners of interreligious dialogue are drawn to dialogue because of the matters of life and death that are crucial to them. The International...
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H. P. Blavatsky’s “Wisdom-Religion” and the Quest for Ancient Wisdom in Western Culture
Rudbøg’s chapter analyzes and contextualizes Blavatsky’s innovative concept of a “Wisdom-Religion,” the original unity of all religions, which was...
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Reciprocal Interaction Between Śākta Theology and Ritual Praxis—a Study of Caṇḍī Pūjā and Devī Māhātmya in the Devī Mandir Community of Shree Maa
Śākta tradition is one of the major branches of Hindu Theism which focuses on the divine feminine. Recent scholarly researches on Śākta tradition...
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Dharma and Hacking Culture of Peace: Learning to Co-exist in a Time of Becoming
Human beings are endlessly creative. We invent tools and systems, we generate ideas and new surprising relationships, we challenge our assumptions,...
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Extracting a Humanisitic Philosophy of Social and Environmental Well-being from the Bhagavad-gītā
This essay aims at articulating a humanistic philosophy of social and environmental well-being out of the Bhagavad-gītā . It points at the limits of...
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A Pneumatological Kālī-logy and Imago Dei: Contribution of the Yoginī Tantra and Hindu Goddess Traditions to Reconceptualizing the Christian Trinity
Goddess traditions have much to contribute to reflections on the feminine in Imago Dei. Christian theologians and scholars have found goddess...
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The Study of Indian Philosophy in the Work of Arvind Sharma (with Particular Reference to Advaita Vedānta)
This essay explores the role of the Advaita Vedānta philosophy of Hinduism in Arvind Sharma’s numerous works on Indian philosophy. It argues that the...
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Toward a New Dharma of Peace Building: An Introduction and an Invitation
Dharma refers to the right visions and conducts of life.
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Seeking Dharma Below the Winds: Hindu Particularism in Island Southeast Asia
Amidst the positively enormous body of literature on processes of the development of Hinduism in Southeast Asia, considerably fewer studies attempt...