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Author : Supriya Kelkar
Publisher : Tu Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1620143569
When her mother is jailed for being one of Gandhi's freedom fighters, ten-year-old Anjali overcomes her own prejudices and continues her mother's social reform work, befriending Untouchable children and working to integrate her school.
Author : Alf Hiltebeitel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317238775
In Indian mythological texts like the Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa, there are recurrent tales about gleaners. The practice of "gleaning" in India had more to do with the house-less forest life than with residential village or urban life or with gathering residual post-harvest grains from cultivated fields. Gleaning can be seen a metaphor for the Mahābhārata poets’ art: an art that could have included their manner of gleaning what they made the leftovers (what they found useful) from many preexistent texts into Vyāsa’s “entire thought”—including oral texts and possibly written ones, such as philosophical debates and stories. This book explores the notion of non-violence in the epic Mahābhārata. In examining gleaning as an ecological and spiritual philosophy nurtured as much by hospitality codes as by eating practices, the author analyses the merits and limitations of the 9th century Kashmiri aesthetician Anandavardhana that the dominant aesthetic sentiment or rasa of the Mahābhārata is shanta (peace). Mahatma Gandhi's non-violent reading of the Mahabharata via the Bhagavad Gita are also studied. This book by one of the leaders in Mahābhārata studies is of interest to scholars of South Asian Literary Studies, Religious Studies as well as Peace Studies, South Asian Anthropology and History.
Author : Jeffery D. Long
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781538122945
Hinduism is the world’s third largest and most ancient religion. The scope of this book ranges from the ancient history of Hinduism to the contemporary issues that Hindus face today. It explores the Hindu history, society, philosophy, theology, and culture. In addition to Hinduism, this book also touches upon religious traditions with which Hindus have had extensive interaction, such as Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Christianity, Islam, and Zoroastrianism. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Hinduism contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,000 cross-referenced entries on deities, historical figures, festivals, philosophical terms, ritual implements, and much more. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Hinduism.
Author : Patrick Colm Hogan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292779556
Indian movies are among the most popular in the world. However, despite increased availability and study, these films remain misunderstood and underappreciated in much of the English-speaking world, in part for cultural reasons. In this book, Patrick Colm Hogan sets out through close analysis and explication of culturally particular information about Indian history, Hindu metaphysics, Islamic spirituality, Sanskrit aesthetics, and other Indian traditions to provide necessary cultural contexts for understanding Indian films. Hogan analyzes eleven important films, using them as the focus to explore the topics of plot, theme, emotion, sound, and visual style in Indian cinema. These films draw on a wide range of South Asian cultural traditions and are representative of the greater whole of Indian cinema. By learning to interpret these examples with the tools Hogan provides, the reader will be able to take these skills and apply them to other Indian films. But this study is not simply culturalist. Hogan also takes up key principles from cognitive neuroscience to illustrate that all cultures share perceptual, cognitive, and emotional elements that, when properly interpreted, can help to bridge gaps between seemingly disparate societies. Hogan locates the specificity of Indian culture in relation to human universals, and illustrates this cultural-cognitive synthesis through his detailed interpretations of these films. This book will help both scholars and general readers to better understand and appreciate Indian cinema.
Author : Ian Proudfoot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : AhimĐsa
ISBN : UOM:39015041161657
Author : Jeffery D. Long
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857713926
Jainism evokes images of monks wearing face-masks to protect insects and mico-organisms from being inhaled. Or of Jains sweeping the ground in front of them to ensure that living creatures are not inadvertently crushed: a practice of non-violence so radical as to defy easy comprehension. Yet for all its apparent exoticism, Jainism is still little understood in the West. What is this mysterious philosophy which originated in the 6th century BCE, whose absolute requirement is vegetarianism, and which now commands a following of four million adherents both in its native India and diaspora communities across the globe?In his welcome new treatment of the Jain religion, Long makes an ancient tradition fully intelligible to the modern reader. Plunging back more than two and a half millennia, to the plains of northern India and the life of a prince who - much like the Buddha - gave up a life of luxury to pursue enlightenment, Long traces the history of the Jain community from founding sage Mahavira to the present day. He explores asceticism, worship, the life of the Jain layperson, relations between Jainism and other Indic traditions, the Jain philosophy of relativity, and the implications of Jain ideals for the contemporary world. The book presents Jainism in a way that is authentic and engaging to specialists and non-specialists alike.
Author : Satya P. Agarwal
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8120815246
The present work is a new perspective on the Bhagavad-Gita, supported by through research, for it focuses attention on the social relevance of this famous Hindu scripture. Part 1 provides a penetrating analysis of how new interpretations of the Gita palyed a significant role in the social history of India during the ninteenth and twentieth centuries. The illustrative material consists of five case studies relating to : Raja Rammohun Roy, Swami Vivekananda, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Aurobindo Ghose and Mahatma Gandhi. Part II expalins how the social applications of the Gita are linked with its most important teaching for the modern age, viz.,Loksamgraha- the good of the society. Lokasamgraha is a sanskrit term occurring in the Gita but not in Upanishads and a modern interpretation of the lokasamgraha-approach is the inculcation of social values and a sense of social responsibility in each individual.
Author : Bryan Rennie,Philip L. Tite
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000938609
September 11 and the subsequent War on Terror continues to cast a long shadow over the world. Religion, Terror and Violence brings together a group of distinguished scholars from a range of backgrounds and disciplines to explore the claim that acts of violence – most spectacularly the attack of September 11, 2001 and the international reaction to it – were intimately linked to cultural and social authorizing processes that could be called 'religious.' This book provides a nuanced but incisive insight into the reaction of the discipline of religious studies to the post 9/11 world.
Author : Tara Sethia,Satyaranjan Banerjee
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788120820319
Motilal Banarsidas (www.mlbd.co.in, [email protected]) Essays in this volume offer fresh insights into Jain principles of Ahimsa and Anekanta by examining their meaning and historical significance and demonstrating their relevance and role in addressing contemporary issues of intolerance, conflict, violence and war. Contributors to this book bring perspectives from the disciplines of philosophy, religious studies, history and art history.
Author : S. V. Subramanyam (Prof.)
Publisher : Pustak Mahal
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : Yoga
ISBN : 9788122311532
Presents all the 195 Yoga Sutras professed by the legendary Maharishi PATANJALI. He affirmed that Yoga is not only limited to Āsanas, but also aims at outer and inner purification; control and balance of the self; meditation and complete absorption. And finally union with the Self. Contains 4 Chapters: Samadhi; Sadhana; Vibhuti and Kaivalya. Comprises of all the 8 limbs of Ashtanga Yoga: 5 external and 3 internal, Yama; Niyama; Asana; Pranayama; Pratyahara; Dharana; Dhyana; and Samadhi. The book fully utilizes available technology to aid elaboration of the commentary on Yoga Sutras which are admittedly terse. Charts and tables as well as graphs and pictures adore the book practically on every page so that the reader finds it helpful to enhance his understanding. Stories and quotations from the spiritual greats are added to widen comprehension. This then is a book that is truly unique in its presentation that would find ready acceptance by Yoga teachers and students alike all over the world. All those students and teachers of Yogasanas who wish to go beyond Asanas and aim at avoidance of mental modifications and the resultant stressful life would find this book a boon.
Author : K. R. Sundararajan,Bithika Mukerji
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Hinduism
ISBN : 8120819373
The term hindu is referred to the religious life of the people of India, and Spirituality understood as wisdom about the way back into the ground of pluralism of religious forms. These two volumes are strucrtured along the division between the classical and the postclassical.Twenty seven scholars from around the world shed light on the spiritual beauty of Hinduisms poetry art and temples, festivals and music, as well as the contributions of modern pioneers such as Swami Vivekananda Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi and others.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Jaina philosophy
ISBN : UVA:X030289882
Author : Sun Keun Kim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015041300578
This Book Gives A Lucid Account Of The Indian Renaissance And Its Influence On Gandhi. It Discusses At Length The Key Concept Of Ahimsa Explicating Its Meaning And Expounding Gandhi`S Understanding And Interpretation Of The Term.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : India
ISBN : UCLA:L0078306461
Author : Satya Ranjan Banerjee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Jaina literature
ISBN : UOM:39015070125623
