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Author : Makarand R. Paranjape
Publisher : Makarand Paranjape
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion and science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128358079
Papers presented at the International Conference on Science and Spirituality in Modern India, held at New Delhi during 5-7 February 2006.
Author : Makarand R. Paranjape
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843317760
Spirituality played a key role in the construction of Indian modernity. While science has certainly been an agent of modernization in India and other non-Western countries, what makes Indian modernity somewhat special is that spiritual leaders have also been instrumental in the process. Moreover, leading Indian scientists and spiritualists have recognized the immense potential for dialogue between the two disciplines. Post-colonial India, with its ready access to a holistic spirituality and significant achievements in science and technology, is a fertile site for such a dialogue. Each of the book’s four sections addresses specific themes: (1) The tension not just between science and spirituality, but also between the East and West; (2) how some key figures in India became carriers of modern consciousness, and explored the relationship between science and spirituality in the very process of trying to reform their society; (3) significant areas of research in which science and spirituality are both deeply implicated; and (4) the relationship of both scientific and spiritual practice with gender and social justice.
Author : Renny Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000534313
This book provides an in-depth ethnographic study of science and religion in the context of South Asia, giving voice to Indian scientists and shedding valuable light on their engagement with religion. Drawing on biographical, autobiographical, historical, and ethnographic material, the volume focuses on scientists’ religious life and practices, and the variety of ways in which they express them. Renny Thomas challenges the idea that science and religion in India are naturally connected and argues that the discussion has to go beyond binary models of ‘conflict’ and ‘complementarity’. By complicating the understanding of science and religion in India, the book engages with new ways of looking at these categories.
Author : Pratik Chakrabarti
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Science
ISBN : 8178240785
The Book Is About Western Science In A Olonial World. It Asks: How Do We Understand The Transfer And Absorption Of Scientific Knowledge Across Diverse Cultures, From One Society To Another? This Monograph Will Interest Scientists, Historians And Sociologists, As Well As Students Of Imperialism And The History Of Ideas.
Author : Yiftach Fehige
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317335238
This volume situates itself within the context of the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that is dedicated to the study of the complex interactions between science and religion. It presents an innovative approach insofar as it addresses the Eurocentrism that is still prevalent in this field. At the same time it reveals how science develops in the space that emerges between the ‘local’ and the ‘global’. The volume examines a range of themes central to the interaction between science and religion: ‘Eastern’ thought within ‘Western’ science and religion and vice versa, and revisits thinkers who sought to integrate ‘Eastern’ and ‘Western’ thinking. It studies Zen Buddhism and its relation to psychotherapy, Islamic science, Vedantic science, atheism in India, and Darwinism, offering in turn new perspectives on a variety of approaches to nature. Part of the Science and Technology Studies series, this volume brings together original perspectives from major scholars from across disciplines and will be of great interest to scholars and students of science and technology studies, history of science, philosophy of science, religious studies, and sociology.
Author : Dr. Mohinder Partap
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion and science
ISBN : 8190254804
Author : Zaheer Baber
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0791429202
Investigates the complex social processes involved in the introduction and institutionalization of Western science in colonial India.
Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781408801246
A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet - then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve herself to death. Nine people, nine lives; each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. William Dalrymple delves deep into the heart of a nation torn between the relentless onslaught of modernity and the ancient traditions that endure to this day. LONGLISTED FOR THE BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE
Author : Makarand R. Paranjape
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429534355
This book examines key aspects of the history, philosophy, and culture of science in India, especially as they may be comprehended in the larger idea of an Indian civilization. The authors, drawn from a range of disciplines, discuss a wide array of issues — scientism and religious dogma, dialectics of faith and knowledge, science under colonial conditions, science and study of grammar, western science and classical systems of logic, metaphysics and methodology, and science and spirituality in the Mahabharata. This collection of essays aims to evolve a framework in which science, culture, and society in India may be studied fruitfully across disciplines and historical periods. With its diverse themes and original approaches, the book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in the fields of the history and philosophy of science, science and religion, cultural studies and colonial studies, philosophy and history, as well as India studies and South Asian studies.
Author : R. Balasubramanian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UOM:39015038151463
Description: The primal spirituality of the Vedic tradition, which is the subject dealt with in this volume, contains the central ideas of the philosophia perennis-the One as the source and support of the many, the spirituality of matter, and the divinity of all living beings. Its outlook is holistic as it integrates beings with the primal Being. It has a long history of five millennia spanning pre-axial, axial, and modern periods. It has been renewed from time to time through a series of renaissance-first through the Upanisads, again through the epics and the bhakti movement, and then through the modern renaissance leaders. Hence, it is vibrant in spite of its age, modern in spite of its antiquity. Swami Vivekananda, Ramana Maharsi and Jagadguru Candrasekharendra Sarasvati are some of the exemplars of the primal spirituality.
Author : Swami Ranganathananda
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791406792
This book shows that science and religion should not be antagonistic since both relate to each other in the search for unity and truth. Swami Ranganathananda believes that the modern age demands the meeting of the challenges of life with an adequate philosophy. That adequacy can be ensured only if the philosophy achieves a happy synthesis between the physical sciences and spirituality. This is the specialty of Vedanta. Human Being in Depth illustrates the kinship between Vedanta and modern science. Religion expounded as a verified and verifiable science has a message for all humanity: that spiritual life is a fact, that the consciousness within man is a spark of divinity, and that this same divine consciousness pervades nature and the universe of physics. Vedanta, with its various yoga disciplines, has been explored by the author in its role in mental and spiritual development.
Author : Vanamali
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620553879
A complete introduction to Sanatana Dharma, the spiritual science of the Hindu sages • Examines how many core concepts of Hinduism, including Brahman, Atman, bhakti, karma, and reincarnation, relate to modern science • Explores the scientific discoveries of the rishis, ancient Vedic sages, and how they have only recently been rediscovered by Western scientists • Reveals the concepts of quantum physics hidden within the Vedas, the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, and the Puranas Called “the scientists of Hinduism,” the rishis of ancient India were the scribes of the Vedas. They developed the spiritual science of Hinduism, Sanatana Dharma, as their way of ensuring the constant renewal and progress of India’s spiritual tradition and culture. Sanatana Dharma permeates every aspect of Hindu culture, from religion to the arts to the sciences. Woven within its Vedic texts lie all of the essential concepts of quantum physics and other modern scientific discoveries. Providing a complete introduction to the science of Sanatana Dharma, Vanamali reveals how the core concepts of Hinduism, including Brahman, Atman, bhakti, karma, and reincarnation, relate to modern science and how the scientific discoveries of the ancient rishis have been recently rediscovered by the West. She examines the scientific principles within the classic stories and texts of India, including the Vedas, the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, and the Puranas. Within the teachings of the ancient Puranic sages and saints such as Valmiki and Vyasa and legendary physicians and mathematician-philosophers such as Aryabhatta and Varahamihir, the author reveals great scientific truths--not those believed by the ancient world, but truths still upheld by modern science, particularly quantum physics. She explores Desha and Kaala (Space and Time), Shankara and his philosophy of Advaita Vedanta, and the Hindu sciences of mathematics, astronomy, and Vedic astrology. In illustrating the scientific basis of Hinduism and the discoveries of its sages, Vanamali provides a window into the depths of this most ancient spiritual way of life.
Author : Radhakrishna Panicker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1946280607
ESP, TELEPATHY, MIND, SOUL, REINCARNATION & GOD FIELD This book gives scientific answers Are you not the 'same internal person' throughout your life? Of course you are! Considering that, you will be the same 'unaltered being' until death. If so, who are you? The answer is: "I am the I-ness in me." If this 'I-ness' in you is a steady factor, what will your status be when you leave the physical body? Convergence is a book of factual findings based on scientific data that supports man's continuity after death. Learning about the 'I-ness' factor in us, will benefit our daily lives too. Through awareness, such knowledge will generate calmness, tranquility and peace in your internal world -- the unsteady monkey mind. It will also empower you to deal with the tribulations of daily life. What about reincarnation? Is there any truth to this popular belief? Grab a copy and welcome a new perspective to your life and beliefs! The book is very readable and highly informative for the general reader. The author has done a creditable job of collecting information lying scattered in various modern publications as well as in ancient Indian literature. He has succeeded in showing that by incorporating some of the traditional views, how the base of modern science can be widened to offer convincing explanations on many strange and inexplicable subjective as well as objective phenomena. Dr. C.P. Girijavallabhan (M.Sc-Ph.D Physics) Cochin University of Science & Technology As a practicing pathologist, I used to wonder how life continues with altered structure, function of cells and tissues. It is a mystery and miracle how this life in our body functions and the science I studied does not give me a satisfactory answer for many such questions, and thanks to the book, Convergence: Ultra Science & Vedic Spirituality, now I believe there is more to human existence than what we perceive. This is a knowledge-packed book with good readability; you cannot put it down easily, that is for sure. Dr. Hymavathi (Pathologist)"
Author : Peter van der Veer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691128153
A comparative look at religion and spirituality in postcolonial China and India The Modern Spirit of Asia challenges the notion that modernity in China and India are derivative imitations of the West, arguing that these societies have transformed their ancient traditions in unique and distinctive ways. Peter van der Veer begins with nineteenth-century imperial history, exploring how Western concepts of spirituality, secularity, religion, and magic were used to translate the traditions of India and China. He traces how modern Western notions of religion and magic were incorporated into the respective nation-building projects of Chinese and Indian nationalist intellectuals, yet how modernity in China and India is by no means uniform. While religion is a centerpiece of Indian nationalism, it is viewed in China as an obstacle to progress that must be marginalized and controlled. The Modern Spirit of Asia moves deftly from Kandinsky's understanding of spirituality in art to Indian yoga and Chinese qi gong, from modern theories of secularism to histories of Christian conversion, from Orientalist constructions of religion to Chinese campaigns against magic and superstition, and from Muslim Kashmir to Muslim Xinjiang. Van der Veer, an outspoken proponent of the importance of comparative studies of religion and society, eloquently makes his case in this groundbreaking examination of the spiritual and the secular in China and India.
Author : Dr. Om Prabhat Agrawal
Publisher : Suruchi Prakashan
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Science and spiritualism
ISBN : 9789384414450