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Polishing the Mirror of the Heart: Sufi Poetic Reflections as Interfaith Inspiration for Peace
For centuries, Sufi poets have sought to express the ineffable experience of encountering the Divine Reality using the highly symbolic ancient...
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Slender Waists and Severed Breasts: The Construction of Female Bodies and Feminine Subjectivities in Vaiṣṇava Bhakti Poetry
This article explores the ways in which the sexed body and its gendered subjectivity are constructed and expressed by Vaiṣṇava devotional poets of...
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Unveiling Abhijῆānaśākuntala: Exploring Kingship, Love, and Asceticism
Kālidāsa (4th – fifth century CE) has always been known for his exquisite poetic style and a deep sense of natural imageries. His works have been...
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Celibate Seducer: Vedānta Deśika’s Domestication of Kṛṣṇa’s Sexuality in the Yādavābhyudaya
Vedānta Deśika produced his monumental poetic biography of Kṛṣṇa in a time when Kṛṣṇa-centered devotionalism was expanding to become perhaps the...
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Pastoral Care for the Incarcerated Hope Deferred, Humanity Diminished?
This book explores and formulates a response to the question: How best can those held in modern systems of mass incarceration be cared for pastorally...
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“A Beautiful Black Pearl Bead”: Dube’s Poetics of Spiritual Esthetics of Dark Luminosity
In this chapter, I have argued that Musa’s stumbling block nature of blackness encompasses both self-affirmation and radical agapeic empathic...
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Organizing Pessimism (In Conclusion)
This chapter is a reflection on the need to think about the relationship between ethics and politics and their convergence in the poetic role of...
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Introduction: ‘All Great Art Is Praise’ John Ruskin
The editors introduce Ruskin’s religious imagination in the compelling terms of a ‘still, small voice’, raised in praise. In this, the collectively...
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Music as Thinking/Thinking as Music: A Dialogue with Mukund Lath
This article offers a dialogue with Mukund Lath. It is comprised of three parts: Part One introduces Lath’s body of work. The second and third parts...
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The Dhārmic Function of Sanskrit Kāvya: Poetry as a Suggestive Force
The primary function of Sanskrit kāvya was always to please the readers. Literary theoreticians like Abhinavagupta often considered esthetic...
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Shifting Śāstric Śiva: Co-operating Epic Mythology and Philosophy in India’s Classical Period
This study accounts for disparate portrayals of divine destroyer Śiva in the normative Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata as opposed to Kālidāsa’s amatory Kumārasaṃbhava...
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Śṛṅgāra in Stone: the Śakuntalā Reliefs at Paṭṭadakal
Bas-reliefs of scenes from the epics Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata are extremely common in temples all over India, but depictions of scenes from a...
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Liberation Themes in Latin American Literatures: The Case of Changó el gran putas by Manuel Zapata Olivella
This chapter focuses the way in which Latin American literature addresses themes of liberation and postcolonialism. For this purpose, the author...
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Beyng as a Concealed (Jewish) God. Gnosis, Esotericism, and Eroticism
Heidegger’s particularly stringent cultural perimeter deprived him from many alternative speculative resources. His patent ignorance of Judaism...
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Just Another Pop Song? The Lyrics (Trace Analysis Pt 2)
This section of the trace analysis of contemporary congregational songs (CCS) focuses on the lyrics on the 32 most sung CCS as a corpus. It contains...
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“The Epistemic Significance of adbhutarasa: Aestheticized Wonder as a Virtue of Inquiry”
This analysis holds that just as wisdom is good for its own sake, the effervescent perfuming of aesthetic pleasure in rasa , camatkāra , need not be...
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Affective Matrivocality and Women’s Voices: A History of Muslim Women Writers in China
China has a unique heritage of matriliny and matrifocality among ethnic minorities. Focusing on what I call matrivocality, this chapter highlights...
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Thinking about Ethical Politics: Gandhi’s Spirituality versus Levinas’s Philosophy
In 1962, Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) was asked about the political implications of his ethics and the possible similarity between his philosophy and...
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Vedantam vs. Venus: Drag, Impersonation, and the Limitations of Gender Trouble
Drawing on the seminal work of feminist and queer theorist Judith Butler, this article compares the practice of gender impersonation in the South...