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Kunti: The Many Journeys of the Quintessential Mother
Kunti is the mother of Pandavas and also provides the most central link of the Mahabharata through her relationship to the Yadavas, which brought...
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Epistemological Decolonization of Theology
This chapter discusses the theoretical rupture originated with the epistemological turn in the realm of the sciences produced by Latin American and...
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The LDS Church in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in experienced modest initial growth in Eastern Europe and Russia following the entrance of full-time...
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Introduction: In Search of Signposts Toward A New Theological Paradigm
The human propensity to sin is not a congenital malady, but contingent on the only available means for them to summon and sustain anything in life....
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Spiritual Leadership and Self-Development Model
In order to put things into perspective and for the ease of the reader, a thematic map has been developed. Three main themes are outlined, which have...
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Three Brajbhāṣā Versions of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa
Central to Vaiṣṇava bhakti as it was propagated in Braj from the sixteenth century is the Bhāgavata Purāṇa . That bhakti spread to the Rājpūt courts,...
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John Locke: The Individual Rights Meme
This chapter provides an excellent example of the evolutionary nature of individualism using the biological metaphor. Locke’s focus on natural law...
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Interpretation of Baladeva and Yamunā at Harivaṃśa 83
In Harivaṃśa chapter 83, Kṛṣṇa’s brother Baladeva changes the course of the river Yamunā, using his plough. This article reviews previous...
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Singing Back Against Empire (or the Subaltern Sings Back)
This chapter problematizes a forthright unmasking of empire at the heart of hymnody by drawing on post- and decolonial scholarship. Both currents,...
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Liberating the Song Bird
This chapter extends the decolonial notion of border thinking/singing to encompass the multiplicity and complexity of the identities and intermixing...
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Introduction
In her essay, “The Bible and 500 years of Conquest,” Mexican-born biblical scholar Elsa Tamez invites Christians to move beyond trying to construct...
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The Great Awakening of Life: an Existential Phenomenological Interpretation of the Mahat-Buddhi in the Sāṃkhya Kārikā
The Sāṃkhya Kārikā’s “mahat-buddhi” appears to be riddled with obscurity. Standard realist interpreters struggle to explain its cumbersome, textually...
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The Return to “Nature” and the Problem of the Perennial
This chapter addresses the persistence of perennialism in thought and discourse around both psychedelics and aesthetics. Beginning with discussions...
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Vernacularizing Jñāndev: Hagiography and the Process of Vernacularization
The process of vernacularization involves more than literary language, but also invokes social ethics and an investment in the idioms of everyday...
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Ethics and Aesthetics in Early Modern South Asia: A Controversy Surrounding the Tenth Book of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa
Kṛṣṇa’s relationships with the Gopīs of Vraja, described in texts such as the Bhāgavata Purāṇa were controversial in the precolonial period. This...