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Yoga, Silence and Ineffability in Hinduism
In Yoga, Silence and Ineffability in Hinduism, Laura E. Weed explains how the practice of yoga leads to self-knowledge of a type that is not...
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“Politics,” “Religion,” and the Theory and Practice of Toleration: The Case of William Penn
This chapter focuses on two aspects of William Penn’s political thought, both as it developed in England and as he sought to implement it in...
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Kerala Pentecostalism and Mental Health Crisis
In general circumstances Pentecostals and isolation may sound contradictory. However, the suffering and isolating nature of COVID-19 has left the...
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Embodying Qi in the Nordic Countries: The Healing Practices of Zhineng Qigong
This chapter examines the reception of Zhineng qigong in the Nordic countries and aims to answer questions about the results and experiences the...
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Awe and Wonder in Scientific Practice: Implications for the Relationship Between Science and Religion
This paper examines the role of awe and wonder in scientific practice. Drawing on evidence from psychological research and the writings of scientists...
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Man-making, Nation-Building and National Reconstruction: the Engaged Hinduism of the RSS and the Vivekananda Kendra
The offering of sevā in its more recent sense of organized service to humanity has been central to engaged Hinduism. Despite the scale of the...
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Synodality as a Key Component of the Pontificate of Pope Francis: The Difficult Way from Theory to Practice
The International Theological Commission produced the document “Synodality in the Life and Mission of the Church” in 2018 to support change in the...
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“That Is Why The Buddha Laughs”: Apophasis, Buddhist Practice, and the Paradox of Language
This essay arose from a collaborative project exploring the meaning of apophatic discourse in different religious traditions. I focus on the paradox...
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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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Scriptural Reasoning as a Ritualized Practice
In this chapter, Marianne Moyaert looks at an interreligious practice that has come to be known as scriptural reasoning. This practice engages the...
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Bhajan on the Banks of the Ganga: Increasing Environmental Awareness via Devotional Practice
Through my personal lenses as a scholar/sevak at the Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, I explore the ashram’s efforts to raise environmental...
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ʿAlawism through Women’s Eyes
The ʿAlawi “practice of secrecy involves a do-not-talk-it proscription” (Bellman, 1984, p. 144). This proscription, grounded in ʿAlawi cosmology and...
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Decolonizing Among Filipin@ Migrant-Settlers
This chapter explores the recent practice of decolonizing among Filipin@s living outside of the Philippines. It explains the premise for this...
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#MagicMantras: Bhaktamar Mantra Healing Between Jainism and the Spiritual Marketplace
This article addresses Bhaktamar Mantra Healing (BMH), a healing practice based on a popular Jain stotra . After a preliminary discussion of Tantra...
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Beyond Isirika: Problematizing and Theorizing Musimbi Kanyoro’s Communal Ethics
Musimbi Kanyoro’s communal ethics can best be summarized in the term Isirika, an all-encompassing word from her Maragoli people of Western Kenya,...
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Churches Online in Times of Corona Die CONTOC-Studie: Empirische Einsichten, Interpretationen und Perspektiven
Die CONTOC-Studie hat in ökumenischer und internationaler Ausrichtung die digitale kirchliche Praxis unter den Bedingungen der Corona-Pandemie...
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The Śrī Maṅkala Vināyakar Satsaṅg Group: Religious Practice and Middle-Class Status in Tamil Nadu, South India
This article presents an organized group of middle-class, multicaste Hindu housewives living in the suburbs of Madurai, Tamil Nadu—the Śrī Maṅkala...
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Vehicles for the Road Ahead
In this chapter, Schiff recommends that new iterations of Judaism suitable for the digital age should rejuvenate three domains of Jewish life: Jewish...
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Chanting Liberation: Overcoming Pain and Death Through Hindu Deathbed Mantra Recitation
This study considers the usage of mantra for and by the dying, addressing a lacuna in Hindu death studies. This topic is approached by examining a...
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The Nakedness of Prakṛti: A Sāṃkhya-Yoga Reading of Aubrey Menen’s The Space Within the Heart
In his autobiography The Space within the Heart (1970), the writer Aubrey Menen shares the experiment in self-inquiry he conducted in the 1960s in...