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A Goddess and a Pañcāyat President: Narrative, Sanctity, and Authority in Rural Tamil Nadu
In an examination of the interdependent relationship between narrative and ritual, this article discusses a ritual dilemma solved through narrative...
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The Bahá’í Faith: Interface Between the Secular and Religious
Different religions and different religious beliefs generate principles that manifest themselves in different ways, at different times, in different...
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Religion, Conflict Transformation, Peacebuilding, and Development in Ghana: The Role of the National Peace Council
The chapter analyses the genesis and activities of Ghana’s National Peace Council (NPC) and its contribution to peacebuilding and economic...
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Preparing for the Past, Packaged for the Present: The Brahma Kumaris, Meditation, and a Self-(Help) Styled Monasticism
The Brahma Kumaris are a Hindu religious movement whose membership consists almost exclusively of women and whose devotional practices revolve around...
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Religious Education as a Location for Encountering Pluralism and for Develo** Identity
Since 2000, European schools accepting refugees and asylum seekers from many countries have, as part of a process of integration, had to modify their...
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Spectres of Violence and Landscapes of Peace: Imagining the Religious Other in Patterns of Hindu Modernity
Across multiple Hindu traditions, the motifs of violence and peace have been modulated both by scriptural templates and by context-specific factors....
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Religious Fundamentalism in the Age of Globalization
Continuing the thought of the previous chapter, the present one attempts to study religious fundamentalism in the context of globalization. It...
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War and Religious Discourse in the Russia–Ukraine Conflict
Since 2014, Ukraine has been in a state of armed conflict with Russia, which has cost 13,000 lives and displaced some two million civilians. The...
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The Rādhāsoāmī Theory of Subtle Body as an Expression of Religious Inclusivism
This article looks at the yogic theory of subtle body as a hermeneutical and pedagogical tool used by the Rādhāsoāmī ( rādhāsvāmī ) tradition to...
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Lift Up to Drawdown: Empowering Women and Girls to Systemically Reverse Climate Change, and Relevance to Religious Communities
This chapter examines the findings of the 2017 Drawdown study that demonstrates the urgency of empowering women and girls—with quality education and...
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Religious Tradition and Secular Order: Catholic Globalism as Cooperation and Resistance
The present chapter offers an introductory study into the relationship between Christianity, secularism and the constitution of global order. The...
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Voices from the Margins: Early Modern Nāth Yogī Teachings for Muslim Publics
The Avali Silūk (The Ultimate Song) and the Kāfir Bodh (The Wisdom of the Infidels) are lesser-known yogic granth s, or treatises, in the early modern...
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“Reciprocal Illumination” of Hinduism, Human Rights, and the Comparative Study of Religion: Arvind Sharma’s Contributions
Arvind Sharma has made immensely significant contributions in the fields of both comparative religion and the study of Hinduism through his...
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Divine Power and Fluid Bodies: Tirunaṅkais in Tamil Nadu
This article analyzes the complex ways in which religious practices influence the formation of identity and community among tirunaṅkai s,...
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Introduction
To what or whom does one owe their primary allegiance, to the state or to God? Throughout history, people around the world have been forced to make...
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Religious and Human Rights Attitudes of the Youth of South Africa
The bill of rights in Chap. 2 of the South African constitution protects the rights of the citizens...
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Islamic Reform Movements and Mosque-State Relations: Prospects and Realities
In a presentation at the annual conference of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR) at Baylor University in 2004, I presented a paper...
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Remodeling the Paradigm of Religious Inference and Decision Making in Islam: Converting Dogmatism into a Positive and Vibrant Human Activity
This chapter proposes some fundamental adjustments in the basic paradigm of religious inference/decision making, remodeling the conventional paradigm...
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Powers and Principalities in the New Testament
The constructive work to be carried out now will unfold over three chapters: one for political authority, one for ecclesiology, and finally a chapter...
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Does Religious Self-Understanding Impede Interreligious Dialogue?
In chapter five, I first respond to my critic’s query whether it is logically possible to say that mutual understanding is the primary aim of...