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Tracing Well-Being: The Rise of Kalyāṇ in the Hindi-Hindu Public Sphere
The pursuit of kalyāṇ is pivotal for many Hindus. The Hindi kalyāṇ is close, yet not equivalent, to the English term “well-being.” It is a desirable,...
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Ineffability: A Post-Post Modernist View of Contentless Consciousness
This chapter analyzes three types of mystical experience and shows how each reflects the ineffability of these experiences. Robert K.C. Forman gives...
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Advaita Vedānta and Its Implications for Deep Ecology
While it is sometimes characterized as a “world-denying” philosophy, Advaita, or non-dual Vedānta, with its vision of the ultimate oneness of all...
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Spiritually Empowered Leadership through Historical Reflection
The theme of leadership continues to attract scholarly attention within the history and management literature. Leadership training courses and...
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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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Discernments from the Joban Tradition: Theoretical Context and the Mission Imperative
Insights from Spivak, Derrida, and Deleuze demonstrate the perils and pitfalls of mission. Contention of a shared essence is the prime author of...
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African Traditional Religion and Humanities’ Scholarship: The Contributions of Edward Geoffrey Parrinder and Kofi Asare Opoku
This chapter is concerned with the modern scholars of African Indigenous Religion in Africa. It is essentially a pedagogic approach to what African...
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How to Become an Effective Leader
An effective leader is defined by those human qualities of the heart that have been revered throughout human history, and which develop as a result...
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Substance and Shadow: Resources for Develo** a Vaiṣṇava Ecotheology
Scholars have often criticized Hinduism for being an ecologically unfriendly religion, due to being too “other worldly” and “indifferent” toward the...
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Identity, Prejudice, and Mysticism: Exploring Sustainable Narratives of Peace Across Religious Borders
This chapter contests that “mystics” provide common ground for harmonious coexistence. Those identified as “mystics” across Buddhist, Christian, and...
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Speak Dhamma But Carry A Big Stick: Violence in Early Buddhist Discourse
In kee** with the theme of Religion and the (De)legitimation of Violence, this chapter, on the Cula-Saccaka Sutta (“The Shorter Discourse to...
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Sri Chinmoy’s Philosophy of Nature
This paper offers a constructive account of Sri Chinmoy’s philosophy of Nature and the environment, in the context of the modern stream of Vedāntic...
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Sevā Through the Eyes of Practitioners: Reflections on Service in the Ramakrishna Mission and the Mata Amritanandamayi Math
In this paper, I discuss textual interpretations of sevā based on descriptions from the Bhagavad Gītā , the Nārada Bhakti Sūtra , the Yoga Sūtra of...
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The Modern Bhagavad Gītā: Caste in Twentieth-Century Commentaries
By the twentieth century the Bhagavad Gītā had become the single most important Hindu book. A clear indication of its popularity is that many of the...
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Transhumanism, the Posthuman, and the Religions: Exploring Basic Concepts
This chapter distinguishes “transhuman” from “posthuman” and introduces transhumanism as an intellectual and cultural movement. The chapter refers...
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Sincere Praise of Honest Sweat: Tirumalamba’s Varadambika Parinaya Campu and **ali Surana’s Kalapurnodayam
I have gathered and studied these Sanskrit and Telugu writings by South Indian poets, and I’ve thought about them, and researched them for a few...
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Nīr-Kṣīr Viveka: Discerning the Truth of Spirituality in Gandhi’s Thought and Actions
In his work, Arvind Sharma daringly asserts the fundamental place of spirituality in Mohandas K. (“Mahatma”) Gandhi’s personal life and social and...
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Defining Dharma Yuddha: a Taxonomical Approach to Decolonizing Studies on Hindu War Ethics
Extant scholarship on Hindu war ethics uses the term dharma yuddha as a synonym of the term, just war, as conceptualized within Christian...
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From Julius Evola to Anders Breivik: The Invented Tradition of Far-Right Christianity
Eric Hobsbawm famously helped develop the concept of an invented tradition. Where something may appear traditional, use traditional symbols and...