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Spirituality
The central antinomy in Tolstoy’s thinking concerns two kinds of vision: between seeing and believing, between the eye and the mind. His works...
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Triumphalist Temptations and the Sinfulness of the Church
This chapter sheds light on the ambiguous paragraph 4 of Unitatis Redintegratio regarding the possible triumphalist claim that all divinely revealed...
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Place and Identity in the Lives of Antony, Paul, and Mary of Egypt Desert as Borderland
In this book, Peter Anthony Mena looks closely at descriptions of space in ancient Christian hagiographies and considers how the desertrelates to...
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Postscript: The Church, Distanced and Desiring
The final chapter, “The Church: Distanced and Desiring,” turns to more fully consider the church’s role in our social order, finding it both...
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Modern Yoga and the Nordic Body: Between Authenticity and Cultural Appropriation
The chapter focuses on the development in Denmark where yoga has acquired immense popularity in religious and secular settings and has increasingly...
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Islam and Its History
Today there are over one and a half billion Muslims worldwide, making it, after Christianity, the second largest religion on the planet. The story of...
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Hinduism
In Vedic religion, the body (including its fluids and hair) are sources of pollution that require cleansing and, at certain times, removal. In some...
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Conclusion: Feminine Journeys of the Mahabharata
The conclusion provides the overarching themes examined in the book that pervade the roles of women in the Mahabharata as well as other classical...
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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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Soft Power and Biopower: Narendra Modi’s “Double Discourse” Concerning Yoga for Climate Change and Self-Care
In this article, I will elucidate the Indian government’s two primary discourses concerning yoga since 2014 as right-wing Hindu Nationalist Prime...
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Who Do You Call a Heretic? Fluid Notions of Orthodoxy and Heresy in Late Antiquity
This chapter seeks to show how changeable the notions of heresy and orthodoxy really are by analyzing the reputation of several theologians who were...
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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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Seekers of Love: The Phenomenology of Emotion in Jewish, Christian, and Sufi Mystical Sources
Love constitutes a paradigmatic emotion that is frequently deployed by mystics in the Abrahamic traditions that offers a counterpoint to...
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Gandhi’s Concept of Conscience/Antarātmā Revisited: Exploring His Cardinal Principle in Trilingual Texts
This article explores the nature and genealogy of Mohandas K. Gandhi’s concept of conscience/ antarātmā (inner soul/spirit), the cardinal principle of...
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Purity and Power: Jesus as a Tantric Vīra
For the past 2000 years, Christians have been using terms such as “Messiah,” “Christ,” and “Son of God,” to reflect on the nature of the divinity of...
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The Sufi Shrines of Kishtwar: Dargah of Shah Farid-ud-Din and Shah Asrar-ud-Din
The Sufi shrines are an integral part of the social and cultural life of the people of KishtwarKishtwar district in the Union TerritoryUnion...
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Economic Reforms and Spiritual Transformations? Iran from the 1990s
In the 1990s, the Islamic Republic of Iran carried out significant economic reforms geared toward economic liberalization. The state implemented...
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Bodies in Verse
This chapter focuses on the work of two Mormon poets, Lance Larsen and Kimberly Johnson, both of whom use a variety of bodily metaphors in order to...
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Is There a Tradition of Rejecting the Goddess?
This chapter deals with the following issue: while there is a tradition of rejecting God that informs the age-old discourses of atheism, it seems...
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Living in the World by Dying to the Self: Swami Vivekananda’s Modernist Reconfigurations of a Premodern Vedāntic Dialectic
This article is an exploration of the dialectic of this-worldly activism and the practice of self-effacement in Swami Vivekananda’s discourses. He...