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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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A Religion “Based Upon Principles, And Not Upon Persons”: The Heart of the “Strategic Fit” of Swami Vivekananda’s Promotion of Vedānta?
Adapting the SWOT matrix used in the study of the effectiveness of organizations, this article employs the notion of “strategic fit” to examine...
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The Bene Israel Indian Jewish Family in Transnational Context
This paper traces the development of the Bene Israel family from Maharashtra in transnational context between the motherland India, and the...
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The Study of Indian Philosophy in the Work of Arvind Sharma (with Particular Reference to Advaita Vedānta)
This essay explores the role of the Advaita Vedānta philosophy of Hinduism in Arvind Sharma’s numerous works on Indian philosophy. It argues that the...
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Relationship Between State and Religion in India: A Sphere of Indifference, Contradictions, or Engagement?
While religious liberty has become one of the frequently deliberated and contested categories in our contemporary global world, its public presence...
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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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A Review of “The Making of Contemporary Indian Philosophy: Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya”
The reviewed book, titled “The Making of Contemporary Indian Philosophy Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya” (Raveh, D., & Coquereau-Saouma, E. (Eds.).
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Society with Indian Characteristics: Caste, Class, and Species in Contemporary Retellings of the Rāmāyaṇa
This paper analyzes the construction of Indian society in retellings of the Rāmāyaṇa published in India between 2010 and 2020. I focus on the...
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A Critical Recovery and Appraisal of Indian Public Theologies
This chapter is a critical recovery and appraisal of Indian public theologies, presenting three important and yet divergent streams of public...
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Beyond Black and White: The Italian Reception of the Debate on Native Indian Commentaries in Nineteenth-century Vedic Studies
This article discusses the nineteenth-century debate between German and British Indologists on ancient Indian commentators, shedding light on how...
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Identity, Religion, and Radicalization
This chapter sets the scene for the entire book, which is based on a qualitative study involving fifty-one in-depth interviews with American Muslims...
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African Traditional Religion and Contemporary Functionalism: Festivals
African Traditional Religion is confronted by several challenges in twenty-first-century Africa and beyond. This is occasioned by the condescending...
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Climate Security and Religion in Africa: Towards Sustainable Development Goals
Climate impacts in Africa contribute to climate-related security risks in numerous pathways. Most of the research on climate security has been...
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Neurological Insights in Peace Building: Towards an Indian Appropriation
Although science is blamed for the arms race and the nuclear weapons that largely threaten the world peace, there are also observations to the...
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An Uneasy Relationship: Religion and Politics in Canada
Religion and politics have had an uneasy relationship in Canada since before Confederation in 1867. The first 100 years of Canada’s history were...
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Religion and the State in Afghanistan
Written after Western forces fully pulled out of Afghanistan in 2021, this chapter looks at the rise of the Taliban and its ideology and forecasts...
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Conflicting Masculinities in Christianity: Experiences and Critical Reflections on Gender and Religion
The article discusses the challenges arising from an essentialist approach to masculinity as a stable category with a set of given, unchangeable...
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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...