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Getting Past the Ego: Modern Advaita and the Cultivation of a Nondual Habitus
This chapter is a study of modernized interpretations of the Indian philosophical system Advaita (“nondual”) Vedanta that were popularized in the...
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“Give Me Eight More Young and Devoted Priests”: Setbacks and Successes in the Early Twentieth Century
By the beginning of the twentieth century, British Malaya had achieved considerable stability, and its interstate connectivity foreshadowed the...
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The Challenges of Religious Literacy The Case of Finland
This open access book presents religious literacy as the main explanatory factor when dealing with certain ethnic groups that attract stereotypes...
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Competition and Contestation at a Hindu-Muslim Shrine: The Case of the Sant Laldas in Mewat, North India
Laldas, a sixteenth-century-born saint, is revered by both Hindus and Muslims in the Mewat region of north India. Being an ardent follower of the...
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Migration and Women Migrants in Asia and Hong Kong
Yuen examines the phenomenon of migration in Asia and the situation of migrants in an age of globalization, including the trend of labor migration,...
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Gaṇeśa Caturthī and the Making of the Aspirational Middle Classes in Rajasthan
This article examines the ways in which religious practices play a critical role in formulating middle-class identities among upwardly mobile Hindu...
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Vedantam vs. Venus: Drag, Impersonation, and the Limitations of Gender Trouble
Drawing on the seminal work of feminist and queer theorist Judith Butler, this article compares the practice of gender impersonation in the South...
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Hindu Apologist or Modern Reformer? Arvind Sharma on Hindu Women
Using a case study of Arvind Sharma’s thinking on striyaḥ (women), a subject he claims he has not written about aside from the topic of sati , this...
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Strangers in a Strange Land: Indian Jewish Women, Paid and Unpaid Work and Families in Canada
This chapter explores the obstacles that Indian Jewish women faced in the immigration and settlement process in Toronto between 1964 and 1980. I...
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Conclusion
For much of history Britons have viewed their own parish as an exclusive unit, a feeling vividly displayed in the custom of ‘beating of the bounds’....
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Introduction
In days gone by, any Anglican church in England might be crowded with worshippers, just as today on Christmas Eve or Easter. The numbers of...
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Relationship Between State and Religion in India: A Sphere of Indifference, Contradictions, or Engagement?
While religious liberty has become one of the frequently deliberated and contested categories in our contemporary global world, its public presence...
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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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Interreligious Learning and Intersectionality
Interreligious learning is important because of the plurality of religious traditions in many parts of the globalized world. This article uses an...
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Earth, Gender and Religion in Zambia: An Eco-Feminist Reading of Sula and Ja, A Novel by Ellen Banda-Aaku
Earth, gender and religion are three concepts which are interweaved and the female gender or woman/girl is at the centre of the three concepts. The...
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‘Pew-Opener’s Muscle’: Informal Pew-Renting and Pew-Openers
If the ‘quality’ were not in formally rented pews, where were they? The idea that they almost exclusively frequented the older parish churches where...
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Creating While Black and Female: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s African Feminist Decolonial Imaginary
Tsitsi Dangarembga has long been that one woman Zimbabwean writer, filmmaker and activist who has gained and maintained international acclaim. She...
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Works of Love: Revolution and Judgment
Chapter 7 , “Works of Love: Revolution and Judgment,” turns to what we might call practical questions...
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Conflict Transformation and Peace Initiative in a Cross-Cultural Context
Conflicts are as much a part of any society as its members themselves. Peace too is an important phenomenon in the society.