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Author : Austin B. Creel,Vasudha Narayanan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X001811491
Author : Mario I. Aguilar
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781784503475
In late 20th-century India, Christian-Hindu dialogue was forever transformed following the opening of Shantivanam, the first Christian ashram in the country. Mario I. Aguilar brings together the histories of the five pioneers of Christian-Hindu dialogue and their involvement with the ashram, to explore what they learnt and taught about communion between the two religions, and the wide ranging consequences of their work. The author expertly threads together the lives and friendships between these men, while uncovering the Hindu texts they used and were influenced by, and considers how far some of them became, in their personal practice, Hindu. Ultimately, this book demonstrates the impact of this history on contemporary dialogue between Christians and Hindus, and how both faiths can continue to learn and grow together.
Author : Mirko Breitenstein,Gert Melville
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643148759
The fact that certain cultures and religions produced a way of life which, for the sake of self-perfection, expected its adherents to withdraw from various obligations to the world and to enter into the organisational structure of a monastic community obviously represents a constant anthropological foundation. The spectrum of monastic life within these various cultures was extremely diverse in its manifestations. It was the result of a high degree of flexibility in the face of constantly changing ideas about piety, social needs and concepts of community and individuality. However, an interreligious study with the aim of a scholarly analysis of comparable key elements across different monastic cultures does not exist yet. The editors as well as the authors of this volume are particularly interested in how monastic life was realised communally in many ways according to fixed norms and rules, how it shaped the understanding of community and civilisation and therefore made a decisive contribution to the formation of our cultural identity.
Author : Livia Kohn
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780824841669
In Monastic Life in Medieval Daoism, a senior scholar of Daoist studies presents for the first time a detailed description and analysis of the organization and practices of medieval Daoist monasteries. Following an introduction to the wider, comparative issues involved in the study of monasticism, Livia Kohn outlines the origin, history, conceptual understanding, and social position of the monasteries, which came into their own early in the Tang dynasty. She examines texts from this period along with the architectural layout of Daoist monasteries, the daily discipline and interpersonal etiquette of monks and nuns, their implements and vestments, as well as the liturgical dimension (regular services, annual festivals, and special rites such as funerals) of monastic life. Throughout, Professor Kohn maintains a high comparative level, linking the Daoist situation and practices not only with Chinese popular, Confucian, Buddhist, and lay Daoist traditions, but also with relevant examples from Indian Buddhism and medieval Christianity. Monastic Life in Medieval Daoism breaks new ground in Daoist studies, the understanding of Chinese religion and medieval society, and the theoretical understanding and interpretation of the comparative phenomenon of monasticism. It will be required reading for scholars of Daoist studies and Chinese religion and medieval history and illuminating to experts in comparative religion and religious studies in general as well as to the wider public interested in questions of monastic life.
Author : David M. Miller,Dorothy C. Wertz
Publisher : Manohar Publishers
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8173041563
It Is A Detailed Descriptive And Analytical Study Of Hindu Monastic Life As It Was Lived And As It Is Being Lived, In A Traditional Hindu Temple-Pilgrimage Town-Bhubaneswar. The Study Concludes With Observation About The Role That Hindu Monasticism Will Play In Contemporary Indias. A Complete Bibliography Of Hindu Monasticism Adds To The Utility Of The Study.
Author : Swami Bhajanananda
Publisher : Advaita Ashrama (A Publication House of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This book discusses the traditional modes of monasticism and compares them with the modern monastic way of life as seen in the Ramakrishna Order. With the changing times, monasticism too has to grow and assume new forms to adapt to the new situations. Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda brought about this change in the outward form of Indian monasticism without deviating from the eternal principles. Here the readers will get an overview of monasticism in general, and the Ramakrishna monasticism in particular. Published by Advaita Ashrama, a publication house of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, India.
Author : Timothy S. Dobe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199988976
In the mid-nineteenth century, the American missionary James Butler predicted that Christian conversion and British law together would eradicate Indian ascetics. His disgust for Hindu holy men (sadhus), whom he called "saints," "yogis," and "filthy fakirs," was largely shared by orientalist scholars and British officials, who likewise imagined these religious elites to be a leading symptom of India's degeneration. Yet within some thirty years of Butler's writing, modern Indian ascetics such as the neo-Vedantin Hindu Swami Rama Tirtha (1873-1906) and, paradoxically, the Protestant Christian convert Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889-1929) achieved international fame as embodiments of the spiritual superiority of the East over the West. Timothy S. Dobe's fine-grained account of the lives of Sundar Singh and Rama Tirtha offers a window on the surprising reversals and potentials of Indian ascetic "sainthood" in the colonial contact zone. His study develops a new model of Indian holy men that is historicized, religiously pluralistic, and located within the tensions and intersections of ascetic practice and modernity. The first in-depth account of two internationally-recognized modern holy men in the colonially-crucial region of Punjab, Hindu Christian Faqir offers new examples and contexts for thinking through these wider issues. Drawing on unexplored Urdu writings by and about both figures, Dobe argues not only that Hinduism and Protestant Christianity are here intimately linked, but that these links are forged from the stuff of regional Islamic traditions of Sufi holy men (faqir). He also re-conceives Indian sainthood through an in-depth examination of ascetic practice as embodied religion, public performance, and relationship, rather than as a theological, otherworldly, and isolated ideal.
Author : William M. Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2000 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136787164
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Ines Angjeli Murzaku
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 904292750X
This volume's focus is threefold, thus corresponding to its tri-partite topical division: to analyze Eastern monasticism's unique place in the life transforming journey to theosis; Eastern monasticism's hospitality and mutual encounters with culture; and Eastern and Western monasticism's hospitality to Christian and non-Christian religions, including Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam (even though Islam does not have any monastic institution, its adherents have been historically in dialogue with Christian monastics and have the potential to achieve a spiritual affinity with monks of other religious traditions). The three parts of the volume share one unifying argument: monasticism's special call to spiritually symbiotic relationship or impact on the very socio-politic-historic structures of reality. The topics are explored from various standpoints which include historical, theological, and literary, providing both breath (application) and depth (conclusion) to the principal argument. The volume's overall intention is to help make monastic ecumenical engagement or its potential for inter-faith dialogue better known, appreciated, and relevant within inter-religious dialogue.
Author : Nalini Rao
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793622389
Drawing on both textual and archaeological evidence, this study offers an integrated approach to scholarly debates on monasteries and guru relics in South India between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. This study analyzes the role of the guru in the development of Hindu monastic orders, from centers of education to institutions of traditional authority. Focusing on the complex socio-religious context of the whole-body icon, the author analyzes the relic as a nexus of contradictions surrounding sacredness and death.
Author : Wayne Teasdale
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781577317043
The Mystic Heart chronicled Brother Wayne Teasdale's journey into a multifaceted spirituality blending his traditional Catholic training and the Eastern way of sannyasa (Indian monkhood). A Monk in the World tells what the journey has meant for him — living as a monk outside the monastery, integrating teachings from the world's religions with his own Catholic training, combining his vigorous spiritual practice with the necessities of making a living, and pursuing a course of social justice in a major American city. In telling his story, Teasdale shows how others can find their own internal monastery and bring spiritual practice into their busy lives.
Author : Timothy Dobe
Publisher : AAR Religion, Culture, and His
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199987696
"This book compares two colonial Indian holy men, the Hindu Rama Tirtha and the Christian Sundar Singh. Challenging ideas about modern Hinduism, indigenous Christianity, and sainthood, the study focuses on the vernacular, ascetic idioms that both men creatively drew on to appeal to transnational audiences and pursue religious perfection"--
Author : Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1195 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135583477
A reference surveying the major concerns, findings, and terms of social history. The coverage includes major categories within social history (family, demographic transition, multiculturalism, industrialization, nationalism); major aspects of life for which social history has provided a crucial per
Author : Karen Pechilis,Selva J. Raj
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780415448512
This valuable resource explores the important role which the minority traditions play in the religious life of the subcontinent.
Author : Elizabeth M. Dowling,W. George Scarlett
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780761928836
Focuses on the developmental process of religion and spirituality across the human life span.This encyclopedia joins a recent trend in research and scholarship aimed at better understanding the similarities and differences between world religions and spiritualities, between expressions of the divine and between experiences of the transcendent.
