Wednesday, September 08, 2021

Highly influential teaching of Sri Aurobindo holds much promise of fruitful interaction between religions and cultures

After being incarcerated by the Anglican Christianist occupiers of Bharat, and then being released, Sri Aurobindo spoke at Uttarpara, the words echo even today ..

Why Sri Aurobindo's Hermeneutics Still Matters: Philology and the Transformative Possibilities of Scripture

S Medhananda - Religions, 2021
Contemporary scholars, this article argues, stand to learn a great deal from Sri
Aurobindo's sophisticated hermeneutic approach to the Vedāntic scriptures. After
identifying the strengths and weaknesses of traditional and modern hermeneutic …

[PDF] New Nationalism in India: Identifying the Broad Contours

A Chanda
… Abstract Since the BJP-led NDA Government was elected to office in 2014, India seems
to have been experiencing a new brand of nationalism with renewed vigour: Hindutva …
CDA would help unravel the reality of Hindutva discourse in the 21st century Indian context …

[PDF] Journal of International and Global Studie s

E Bloch, M Keppens, RH Rethinking
… The authors say that the near non-existence of religious studies programs
in Indian academia and the dichotomy that is presented in Indian academia
between Hindutva (a term roughly meaning “Hindu-ness,” coined in 1923 …

[PDF] Being Moral: Do We Need God and Religion?

MM Rahman
… some as gods. One may say these are all history and we have evolved but
this is not true as the evidence from fascist domination or social acceptance,
or Hindutva functionalism and acceptance show. This means human morality …

Belief and Mystery

HD Lewis - Our Experience of God
… of present reality. Such is the highly influential teaching of Sri Aurobindo in modern
Hinduism, and this holds much promise of fruitful interaction between religions and
cultures which are otherwise most antipathetic. It might be …

18 Translation, discursive violence, and Aryanism in early Indian nationalism

P Rangarajan - The Routledge Handbook of Translation History, 2021

Discordant Colonialism: Museums and the Emergence of Indian Independence in the Former Territories of French and Portuguese India

R Mason, D Bhattacharya - International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2021
In this article, we analyse Indian museum practices that pertain to the
representation of the nation's liberation and independence from colonial
occupation. We draw specifically on a comparative an...

Bureaucratic Archaeology: State, Science and Past in Postcolonial India

A Avikunthak - 2021
… Sites” (1950–52). Both these projects were precursors to the ideological formation
of Hindutva archaeology, which attempted to archaeologically assert the veracity
of the events that occurred in Hindu epic narratives. BB Lal's …

New monuments for the new India: heritage-making in a 'timeless city'

V Lazzaretti - International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2021
… These campaigns are informed by the ideology of Hindutva 5 and build
on readings of history in which Muslims (whether Mughal emperors or
contemporary Indian citizens) are seen as foreign invaders, desecrators …

[HTML] India: From the World's Largest Democracy to an Ethnocracy

I Roy
… Alongside, we see the identification of religious minorities as threats,
intensifying territorial contests between Hindus and Muslim, a Hindutva
ethnonationalism that permeates political discourse, and a widening of a …

Hindutva as Political Monotheism: by Anustup Basu, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2020, 296 pp., $27.95 (Paperback), ISBN 978-1-4780-1094-4

M Ratti - 2021
In this deeply relevant and engaging book, Anustup Basu analyzes Hindu political
monotheism in India through three main lenses: how a unified Hinduism was
constructed by figures in India and Europe during the long nineteenth century; how a …

[PDF] Modes of silence, religious symbolism, and biopolitics in the COVID-19 pandemic

B Ohm
… Modi's political pedigree—the para-military RSS, 1 the core organization of the expansive
Hindu nationalist network (Sangh Parivar), and the post-1980 populist Hindutva 2
movement— has provoked extensive scholarship over the past decades …

Symbols, Community and Contest: Jhatka and Tobacco in the Politics of Sikh Identity

A KAUSHAL - Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
… The recent works of Chetan Bhatt, Badri Narayan and Thomas Blom Hansen
on Hindutva ideology fall into this category that presents a scen- ario of the
“struggle between ideologies”.7 In their publications, a religious ideology …

[PDF] Vivekananda and Vivekananda Kendra; A Critical Appraisal

CS Hota, S Panda - International Journal of Recent Advances in …, 2021
… Nevertheless critics even term this Ramakrishna Mission as Saffron Mission. For them,
the mission has an inherent aim of Hindutva ideal … Like the Hindutva's representation of
Vivekananda, Kendra also woos youth in the name of Vivekananda …

The split selves of modernity

J Sequeira - Global Intellectual History, 2021
… decentralization of the state. Today, with the right-wing Hindutva party in power,
the threat to India seems less a secular state than a religious one imposing its
ideology at the expense of others. Yet arguably this government …

[HTML] Mocking and Making: Subjugation and Suppression of Marginalized and the Politics of Identity

S Alam, S Khalid, F Ahmad, MS Keezhatta - Journal of Education Culture and Society, 2021
… The life of the mind: One/Thinking, Two/Willing. San Diego: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich. Banaji S. (2018). Vigilante publics: orientalism, modernity and
hindutva fascism in India. Javnost - The Public, 25(4), 333-350 …

[HTML] Etymology and nomenclature

O English
… Sound and oral transmission were highly valued qualities in ancient India,
and its sages refined the alphabet, the structure of words and its exacting
grammar into a "collection of sounds, a kind of sublime musical mold", states …

Diminishing returns: leisure and the sunk cost effect

J Harmon, KM Woosnam - Annals of Leisure Research, 2021
… It was easy for me to cut ties with yoga, though, because aside from a monthly
fee, I did not have any expensive equipment or social obligations to others
that suggested I should stick … In their study, motivation, or the loss of value …

Development of Culinary and Self-Care Programs in Diverse Settings: Theoretical Considerations and Available Evidence

D Munroe, MA Moore, JP Bonnet, K Rastorguieva… - American Journal of …, 2021
Culinary-based self-care programs are innovative and increasingly utilized
models for catalyzing behavior change and improving health and well-being.
The content, duration, and delivery of existing...

The Practice of Dance, Habitus, and Heightened Reflexivity

A Christofidou - Men, Masculinities and Sexualities in Dance, 2021
… conceptualization of “reflexive habitus” and argues that dance, as a somatic
and embodied practice, makes reflexivity an integral part of … Like other practices
that increase awareness of bodily sensations such as meditation and yoga …

[HTML] Forest bathing as a mindful tourism practice

J Farkic, G Isailovic, S Taylor - Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights, 2021
… Moreover, forest bathing has been incorporated as an integral part of public
health programmes in a number of countries, for example in Germany or
Scotland, while governments of countries worldwide have been considering …

Introducing a conceptual model for wellbeing tourism–going beyond the triple bottom line of sustainability

L Lindell, S Sattari, E Höckert - International Journal of Spa and Wellness, 2021
… is a growing interest in tourism that involves physical exercise (eg bootcamps),
mental relaxation (eg spa, meditation retreats), yoga, spiritual travel … The
concept for an integral wellbeing tourism is distinct (see Table 1) compared …

[PDF] Masculinities in Digital India

A De - GLOBAL HUMANITIES
… 63 Amrita De MASCULINITIES IN DIGITAL INDIA Following the available
scholarship on Hindutva masculinities (Banerjee, 2005; Chakraborty 2011;
Vijayan 2019), my work primarily locates Hindutva mascu- linities in the …

5 From the Ashram to Auroville: Utopia as Settlement

J Namakkal - Unsettling Utopia, 2021
… with the Ashram in Pondicherry as well as in Sri Aurobindo Society (SAS)
centers both throughout India and around the world.5 The Sri Aurobindo
Society, founded in Calcutta in 1960, worked to promote the philosophy and …
India for his work in the freedom movement, soon after his arrival in
Pondicherry he detached himself from politics to concentrate on his spiri-
tual journey and the development of a philosophy called “integral yoga.” …

A new spiritual marketplace: Comparing new age and new religious movements in an age of spiritual and religious tourism

CM Cusack - The Routledge Handbook of Religious and Spiritual …
… In the 1950s, Ernst and Tanning's 'metaphysical community' was established,
and over time groups and retreats related to Hatha Yoga, Eckankar, the Sri
Aurobindo Center, the Aquarian Educational Center, the Sedona Church …

Religious and spiritual retreats

B Schedneck - The Routledge Handbook of Religious and Spiritual …
… Pandya (2018) found that participation in Indian guru-led yoga retreats led
to increased well-being among participants. Sharpley and Sundaram (2005)
described a retreat at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, home of the controversial …

[PDF] Is This a Sudra Critique? Periyar and the Intermediate Castes

KR Manoharan
Is This a Sudra Critique? Periyar and the Intermediate Castes Karthick Ram
Manoharan* Introduction When Kancha Ilaiah published his controversial
book Why I Am Not a Hindu (1996), he subtitled it A Sudra Critique of …

[PDF] The Pyramid of Values: Value-based Leadership Lessons from the Bhagavad Gita

NS Harshavardhana, KG Srinivas - Dev Sanskriti Interdisciplinary International …, 2021
… The 13th chapter of Srimad Bhagavad Gita is called 'Kshetra-Kshetrajna Vibhaga Yoga' …
The leadership values are integral part of self-realization achieved through practicing
of these values. Keywords. Bhagavad Gita, Leadership, Management, Values, Wisdom …

Extraordinary Awakenings: When Trauma Leads to Transformation

S Taylor - 2021
Page 1. "Mind-blowing. A gripping combination of moving personal stories and
groundbreaking psychological research, this inspiring book will help you find the gifts
in life's greatest challenges." Matthew Green, author of Aftershock …

[PDF] Decoding the Elements of Human Rights from the Verses of Ancient Vedic Literature and Dharmaśāstras: An Exegetical Study

S Kumar, S Choudhury - 2021
Page 1. 1 Article Decoding the elements of human rights from the verses
of Ancient Vedic literature and Dhar- maśāstras: An Exegetical Study
Authors: Shailendra Kumara Sanghamitra Choudhurybcdef a Department …

Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance, Margins and Extremism

SS Ali, G Karmakar, N Islam - 2021

The revolution will wear burqas: feminist body politics and online activism in India

KV Bhatia - Social Movement Studies, 2021
… Under the rule of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), the Hindutva ideology is gaining traction
in India, deepening the already existing schism between the Hindu majority and Muslim
minority populations. Hindutva is a political-majoritarian …

Activism Through Music During the Apartheid Era and Beyond: When Voices Meet

A Yudkoff - 2021
… |Summary:“In Activism through Music during the Apartheid Era and Beyond,
Ambigay Yudkoff details a compelling narrative of collaboration through
music, travel … My mother, Savitri Pillay, has always been steadfast in her …

[PDF] Sacred sound: the thread of sound, language and reality in Hinduism

PA Chappelle - 2021
Page 1. SACRED SOUND: THE THREAD OF SOUND, LANGUAGE AND
REALITY IN HINDUISM By PAMELA ANN CHAPPELLE A capstone
submitted to the Graduate School-Camden Rutgers, The State University …

[PDF] Devi to Diva-A transformational journey portraying women in Mainstream Bollywood

MSA Orora
… The audience reads the characters based on how they look, dress and talk.
Over the years Indian cinema has portrayed women being ' The Satti Savitri,
The Abla Nari ,The Sanskari ,The Wamp … The era of '80s saw a spate of family …

[PDF] Block-3 Adhe Adhure (Halfway House)

R Nandyal, PK Singh, G Chandra, C Sharma… - 2021
… Suffice to say here that 'Halfway House' truly became landmark in Hindi drama
and is arguably the most significant text dealing with urban India in the
post-Independence era … A little later, The Man becomes Savitri's husband …

Women and the narrative of nationalism in Raja Rao's The Cow of the Barricades

S Singh - Reading India in a Transnational Era
… The image, in the mould of Hindu iconography, is a recurrent theme in popular
art like calendars and posters, where, in all likelihood, a character like Narsiga
is likely to have seen it.3 In the second excerpt quoted above by Aurobindo …

From national to metaphysical: Raja Rao's idea of India in a transnational era

R Sethi - Reading India in a Transnational Era
… In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Hindu traditionalists like Vivekananda,
Aurobindo Ghose, and Annie Besant sought to stimulate national pride
through the Ramakrishna mission school of Vedantism, the culturally assertive …

[PDF] Pt Deendayal Upadhyaya's Integral Humanism Swarajya and Surajya

RS Sepeya - International Journal of Recent Advances in …, 2021
… The worship of land, pilgrimage, reverence of the mother, social order, yajna,
yoga and many other elements are interwoven into our Dharma … [22] During
his famous lectures on Integral Humanism, Upadhyaya clarified that Dharma …

[PDF] Relationality and Revelation: Early Hindu Ecological Visions

RD Sherma - Religions, 2021
… This article, titled Relationality and Reverence: Hindu Ecological Visions,
for the Special Issue on “Hinduism, Jainism, Yoga and Ecology”, edited by …
relationship with the ecosphere at a time in which the global commercial …

[HTML] Embodied Liberation in Buddhism, Participatory Theory, and Feminine Spirituality: A Metamodern Critical Hermeneutics

S Grunwald - 2021
… by Sabine Grunwald A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the California Institute
of Integral Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of
Philosophy in Integral and Transpersonal Psychology California Institute of Integral Studies …

[PDF] A Mountain as Multiverse: Circumnavigating the realities

S PIASECKI
… Satchidananda, Sri Swami (2010) Kailash Journal: Pilgrimage in the sacred Himalayas
of Tibet, Buckingham, VA: Integral Yoga Publications. Smith, Lydia B. (2015) Walking
the Camino: Six ways to Santiago [DVD], Victoria, Australia: Umbrella Entertainment …

A brief prehistory of queer freedom in the New India

O Sircar - Sexuality, Abjection and Queer Existence in …
… liberation. I inject a dose of suspicion into the linear progressive logic that queer
liberation has followed in India, particularly to remain alert to the complicities between
Hindutva, neoliberalism and queer politics. Commenting …

Family beyond blood and marriage: Queer intimacies and personal law

C Shah - Sexuality, Abjection and Queer Existence in …
… Page 7. 216 Chayanika Shah Bahu lao'5 raised by the Hindutva brigade before and during
the violence in Muzaffarnagar in 2013) reflect the fears expressed by Dr Ambedkar when
he resigned in protest as law minister from the cabinet. In his words …

A Search for Post-Nationalist Imaginaries in 'Bengal': Exploring Ecoethnoscapes (Bioregions With Permeable Boundaries)

D Roy - Migration, Racism and Labor Exploitation in the World …
… No doubt, there were Bengali followers of Gandhian nationalist ideology,
as well as Bengali followers of Nehruvian nationalist ideology, Hindutva,
and political Islam in the fateful decades of the twentieth century when Bengal …

[HTML] Pan-Asianism

GEACP Sphere, A Council, F Hayashi, S Okawa…
… Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905). This created interest from Indian poets
Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo and Chinese politician Sun Yat-sen.
Japanese Pan-Asian writer Shūmei Ōkawa. The growing official interest …

Book review: Milinda Banerjee, The Mortal God: Imagining the Sovereign in Colonial India

M Basu - 2021
Milinda Banerjee, The Mortal God: Imagining the Sovereign in Colonial India. Cambridge
University Press, 2018, 435 pp., $120, ISBN: 9781107166561 (Hardback).

Amish's Ram Chandra Series: Redefining Transcendent Sita Myth.

G Bhatnagar, R Kaur - International Journal of Religion & Spirituality in …, 2021
… Potter, Karl. H. 1998. Encyclopedia on Indian Philosophy: Volume III: Advaita
Vedanta, upto Samkaro and his Pupils. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers.
Pundalik Pandit, Madhav.1992. Dictionary of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga. Detroit …

Simulations of Moksha: Liberation, Mysticism, and Transhumanism in Philip K. Dick's Exegesis

J DiCaglio - Science Fiction Studies, 2021
Page 1. 279 SIMULATIONS OF MOKSHA: DICK'S EXEGESIS Joshua DiCaglio
Simulations of Moksha: Liberation, Mysticism, and Trans- humanism in Philip K.
Dick's Exegesis I will conclude this nightmare marathon analysis …
This essay by Siddhant Bajpai explores the context of Sri Aurobindo's Uttarpara speech and also underlines how the values and principles elaborated in it by Sri Aurobindo remain immortal. #Aurobindo #UttarparaSpeech
Listen to "What Is Transformation of the Nature?" by Sri Aurobindo Studies. ⚓
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Savitri Era Party: New Man shall transform our mortal tenement savitrieraparty.blogspot.com/2021/09/new-ma Collated by TNM Director, SELF-2005, Founder, Savitri Era Religion (2006) & Founder-President, Savitri Era Party (2007) Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.
Savitri Era Party: New Man shall transform our mortal tenement savitrieraparty.blogspot.com/2021/09/new-ma Collated by TNM Director, SELF-2005, Founder, Savitri Era Religion (2006) & Founder-President, Savitri Era Party (2007) Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.
Savitri Era: Power of the words can bring castles down savitriera.blogspot.com/2021/09/power- By Tusar Nath Mohapatra Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF-2005). [If this is she of whom the world has heard, Wonder no more at any happy change.] - SAVITRI informaticsjournals.com/index.php/nmr/