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Gandhi’s Concept of Conscience/Antarātmā Revisited: Exploring His Cardinal Principle in Trilingual Texts
This article explores the nature and genealogy of Mohandas K. Gandhi’s concept of conscience/ antarātmā (inner soul/spirit), the cardinal principle of...
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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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Soft Power and Biopower: Narendra Modi’s “Double Discourse” Concerning Yoga for Climate Change and Self-Care
In this article, I will elucidate the Indian government’s two primary discourses concerning yoga since 2014 as right-wing Hindu Nationalist Prime...
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“Ever New Flights” of Creativity: Improvisation in South Indian Music
This inquiry explores the terms yogakshema , sampradaya , and manodharma sangita , as well as theories and practices of improvisation and innovation in...
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Religions as Yogas: How Reflection on Swami Vivekananda’s Theology of Religions Can Clarify the Threefold Model of Exclusivism, Inclusivism, and Pluralism
This article has two purposes. First, it aims to reformulate the threefold model of exclusivism, inclusivism, and pluralism that has become standard...
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Spiritualizing the Other: Appropriating and Commodifying Practices in Metaphysical Religion
Metaphysicals are known for their individualistic self-understanding and tendency to appropriate freely from different cultures and religious...
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The (Im)Possibility of Interracial Relationships in John A. Williams’ Night Song
This chapter turns to John A. Williams’ Night Song (1961) as a Black humanist novel to study its profound analysis of the workings of race and how...
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The Place of Nature in Metaphysical Religion: A Brief History
On its website, the Esalen Institute, located in Big Sur, California, describes itself as many things: “a retreat center,” an “educational...
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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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Heretical Orthodoxy: Eastern and Western Esotericism in Thomas Moore Johnson’s “Platonism”
Despite being isolated in a small town in rural Missouri, his extensive international correspondence, his rare book collection, his editorial work...
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Phenomenologies of Grace: Introduction
This chapter sets the scene for this edited book. Collectively we are presented with a gathering of thinkers and practitioners all working with...
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Conscientious Objection as a Spiritual Path
Conscientious Objectors (COs) oppose war or oppressive social conditions. They suffer for their ethical resistance to that which dehumanizes...
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A Test of Reasonable Religion
At the end of the previous chapter, I indicated that the democratization of religion implies that it meets the requirement of...
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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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Practical Spirituality and Human Development: An Introduction and an Invitation
Our contemporary moment witnesses fundamental transformations in the fields of self, society, culture, religion, politics, and spirituality. While in...
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Practical Spirituality: Dabbawala Case
The state of the planet today is the result of human intellect. The way we pursue happiness and progress—by exploiting natural resources, ignoring...
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The Writing of Creatures: The Environmentality of Confessions in Derrida and Augustine
This chapter considers how the exercises of reading and writing in both Derrida and Augustine chart a path in which philosophical theology is...