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Toward a New Dharma of Peace, Health, and Global Well-Being
Peace is generally seen as absence of conflict, like health is seen as absence of disease. However, when we review Vedic literature, peace, and...
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The Healer’s Dharma: Interfacing Dharma and Healing from Śākta-Tantric Perspectives
It can be insisted that, since time immemorial, one of the fundamental functions of religion across the globe has been to heal people in various...
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Introducing Eastern Practices and Nordic Bodies
The Nordic countries have witnessed the growth of various Eastern practices, such as yoga, meditation, tantra, and acupuncture, among others. These...
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Art of Living and Transcendental Meditation: Eastern Practices for the “Scientifically Minded Westerner”
Art of Living (AoL) and Transcendental Meditation (TM) are two of the most successful global Hindu-inspired or Hindu-derived meditation movements in...
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Towards Watery and Vibrating Bodies: Finnish Bodies Learning Tibetan Sound Healing
When becoming interested in new spiritual and holistic practices, people also learn new ways to imagine and enact bodies and embodiment. In the...
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The Role of Uttaramandrā-Gāthā in the Aśvamedha: Ancient Evidence of Music for Psychological Stress
Music in the Uttaramandrā-gāna or Gāthā-gāna is an integral part of the Aśvamedha rite. In the rite, the king transferred authority to a priest for a...
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Crop Diseases and Food Insecurity in Africa: A Hindu Perspective
Africa as a continent has been grappling with a number of calamities. These have left a devastation not just to her environment but to the...
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Conflict Resolution and Indian Dialogical Traditions: Challenges, Resistance, and Celebration
Indian culture is necessarily dialogic, communicative, rich in content and argumentation, and impressively original which animates a remarkable...
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Mind, Body, and Spirit: Metaphysical Healing in America
Metaphysical religion appeals to contemporary Americans for many reasons. One of them is that metaphysical thought provides an intellectual...
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The Ambivalence and Complexities in Hinduism in Portrayal of Abortion and Fertility
Hinduism is regarded as a religion and a way of life. Not conforming to praying and following teachings of one God or adherence to a particular...
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Changing Face of the Yoga Industry, Its Dharmic Roots and Its Message to Women: an Analysis of Yoga Journal Magazine Covers, 1975–2020
Contemporary yoga is popularly represented in various media by a fit, white woman. Yoga Journal is a magazine recognized by many as an industry...
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Āyurveda and Mind-Body Healing: Legitimizing Strategies in the Autobiographical Writing of Deepak Chopra
This paper explores the early autobiographical work of the popular health and wellbeing guru , Deepak Chopra. The autobiography (entitled Return of the...
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The Academic Study of Yoga in India
In the past decade, many diploma and degree programs in Yoga Studies and Yoga Therapy have opened throughout India. This article provides an overview...
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From Contradiction to Oneness: an Indian Spiritual Worldview for Dealing with Paradoxes
The study on paradox in the field of management and organization studies has grown rapidly over the last two to three decades. Paradox is understood...
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Metaphysical Religion and Spirituality: A Measured Approach
The era where the American religious landscape could be accurately described by Will Herberg as Protestant, Catholic, Jew has given way to a period...
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Sri Sabhapati Swami: The Forgotten Yogi of Western Esotericism
The Tamil Śaiva yogi Sri Sabhapati Swami (b. 1828) has had a substantial impact on nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asian and Western occult...
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Develo** an Indigenous Thick Description: Tapas in the Bhagavadgītā
In this paper, the construct of tapas is derived from the Bhagavadgītā. By analyzing the 36 verses that refer to tapas, nine themes were identified....
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Faith Community Nursing: A Wholistic and Holistic Nursing Practice
Care of the whole person is at the center of the practice of Faith Community Nursing. Historically, the use of the words “wholistic” and “holistic”...
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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...