Why Sri Aurobindo's Hermeneutics Still Matters: Philology and the Transformative Possibilities of Scripture
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
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
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?
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
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
Discordant Colonialism: Museums and the Emergence of Indian Independence in the Former Territories of French and Portuguese India
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
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'
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Jovanovich. Banaji S. (2018). Vigilante publics: orientalism, modernity and
hindutva fascism in India. Javnost - The Public, 25(4), 333-350 …
[HTML] Etymology and nomenclature
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
centers both throughout India and around the world.5 The Sri Aurobindo
Society, founded in Calcutta in 1960, worked to promote the philosophy and …
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The revolution will wear burqas: feminist body politics and online activism in India
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
University Press, 2018, 435 pp., $120, ISBN: 9781107166561 (Hardback).
Amish's Ram Chandra Series: Redefining Transcendent Sita Myth.
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
Simulations of Moksha: Liberation, Mysticism, and Trans- humanism in Philip K.
Dick's Exegesis I will conclude this nightmare marathon analysis …