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Gandhi and the Jews, the Jews and Gandhi: An Overall Perspective
Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948)’s relationship with the Jews is explored in this article. The history of this relationship can be divided into two...
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Towards a New Dharma of Peace Building Conflict Transformations and Alternative Planetary Futures
This volume deals with a new Dharma of peacebuilding and conflict transformations, drawing on the world's philosophical, religious, and spiritual...
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Rebb Binyamin’s Gandhi: India, Islam, and the Question of Palestine
Rebb Binyamin (pseudonym of Yehoshua Radler-Feldman; 1880–1957) was a leading figure in movements that called for the establishment of a joint...
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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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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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Gandhian Pluralist Spirituality and the Anticorruption Mission of the Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi
This chapter analyzes the India Against Corruption (IAC) movement, which was led by Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party, through the...
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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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Grace: Truth, Travel and Translation
Grace is a flow in life which flows in rugged terrains as well as in smooth planes. Grace is an experience and it is phenomenological, but this...
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Faith and Reason: an Alternative Gandhian Understanding
Liberal theory and practice rests upon, and constantly re-affirms, a division between the secular/rational and the religious/faithful aspects of...
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Gandhi: the Mixture Was the Essence
Like Samiksha Goyal, many have asked—was Gandhi a Philosopher, deeply committed to moral principles, or a mass leader who was political strategist...
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Can the Subalterns Public-ise? A Critical Subaltern Interrogation of ‘Public’
This chapter engages in critically assessing the understandings of public from a subaltern perspective. This chapter engages in a theoretical...
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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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Practical Spirituality and Human Development: Circles of Gender Liberation and the Calling of Lokasamgraha
Practical spirituality involves continued processes of critique, creativity and transformations in quest for realization of beauty, dignity and...
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Building a Peaceful World and the Calling of Practical Spirituality: Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Schweitzer
The author argues that, despite their differences, Gandhi and Schweitzer were united in their fundamental conviction that the only path to a stable...
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Predictors of Human Rights Attitude and Activism in the Multi-religious Context of Indian Democracy: Educational Implications
Do religions uphold or undermine human rights? Do different religious traditions play differential role with regard to human rights? Our empirical...
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Discovering Reality as Old as the Hills Assisted with Gandhi’s Light: Some Notes on Practical Spirituality and Human Development
In the human experience life is a process of discovery. Born into this world with a consciousness of existence, the newborn moves into the second...
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Falling Together: Practical Spirituality in an Impractical World
This chapter attempts to elaborate on the ethical elements of a practical spirituality, in contrast to the traditional religious paradigm of...