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Author : Lakshmaṇaśāstrī Jośī
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 9788171548323
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (483 download)
Download or read book Critique of Hinduism and Other Religions written by Lakshmaṇaśāstrī Jośī and published by Popular Prakashan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Purushottam Lal Bhargava
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Fundamentals of Hinduism written by Purushottam Lal Bhargava and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: Hinduism is not a founded religion like Christianity of Islam. It grew in the course of centuries. Yet judging from its true scriptures and its universally accepted beliefs and observances it is neither a hotchpotch of diverse beliefs and practices, nor a fellowship of faiths, nor a loosely knit pattern of ideologies, but a clear-cut creed, having its own great religious luminaries corresponding to the prophets and Messiahs of other religions, its own theology, its own cosmology, its own ethical code, its own holy places and its own fasts and festivals. In this book, Fundamentals of Hinduism, its author, Dr. P.L. Bhargava, has given a rational analysis of all the important aspects of Hinduism. The author holds the view that if we set aside the Puranic mythology, the Tantric cults and many of the popular beliefs and practices not based on the ancient scriptures, what emerges on the basis of the true scriptures of Hinduism is a well defined and noble religion of which its followers may justly be proud.
Author : Wendy Doniger
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781594202056
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Hindus written by Wendy Doniger and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions, The Hindus elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds. The Hindus brings a fascinating multiplicity of actors and stories to the stage to show how brilliant and creative thinkers have kept Hinduism alive in ways that other scholars have not fully explored. In this unique and authoritative account, debates about Hindu traditions become platforms to consider history as a whole.
Author : Krishnan Ramaswamy
Publisher : Rupa Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Invading the Sacred written by Krishnan Ramaswamy and published by Rupa Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India, once a major civilizational and economic power that suffered centuries of decline, is now newly resurgent in business, geopolitics and culture. However, a powerful counterforce within the American academy is systematically undermining core icons and ideals of Indic culture and thought. For instance, scholars of this counterforce have disparaged the Bhagavad Gita as a dishonest book ; declared Ganesha s trunk a limpphallus ; classified Devi as the mother with apenis and Shiva as a notorious womanizer who incites violence in India.
Author : Bob Robinson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1610975960
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Christians Meeting Hindus written by Bob Robinson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With rare exceptions, serious intentional, reflective and sustained interfaith encounter is a novel and recent enterprise. This book looks in detail at one such encounter--the intentional recent Hindu-Christian dialog in India--and asks why and how the practice of dialog came to replace previous attitudes of confrontation and monologue (especially on the part of Christians). Part I sets the encounter in its global context. Part II offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of the actual encounter. Part III draws on aspects of the Christian tradition as it critically examines the ways in which the dialog has been justified in Christological categories. A final chapter discusses the future of the encounter. Unlike many other works in the area of interfaith studies, this work combines both descriptive detail of the actual encounter and critical theological analysis of the strengths and weakness of the dialog model.
Author : Stephen E. Gregg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317047443
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Swami Vivekananda and Non-Hindu Traditions written by Stephen E. Gregg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hindu thinker Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) was and remains an important figure both within India, and in the West, where he was notable for preaching Vedanta. Scholarship surrounding Vivekananda is dominated by hagiography and his (mis)appropriation by the political Hindu Right. This work demonstrates that Vivekananda was no simplistic pluralist, as portrayed in hagiographical texts, nor narrow exclusivist, as portrayed by some modern Hindu nationalists, but a thoughtful, complex inclusivist. The book shows that Vivekananda formulated a hierarchical and inclusivistic framework of Hinduism, based upon his interpretations of a four-fold system of Yoga. It goes on to argue that Vivekananda understood his formulation of Vedanta to be universal, and applied it freely to non-Hindu traditions, and in so doing, demonstrates that Vivekananda was consistently critical of ‘low level’ spirituality, not only in non-Hindu traditions, but also within Hinduism. Demonstrating that Vivekananda is best understood within the context of ‘Advaitic primacy’, rather than ‘Hindu chauvinism’, this book will be of interest to scholars of Hinduism and South Asian religion and of South Asian diaspora communities and religious studies more generally.
Author : Swami Dayanand Bharati
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0878086862
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Living Water and Indian Bowl (Revised Edition): written by Swami Dayanand Bharati and published by William Carey Publishing. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an insightful analysis based on personal experience of Christian work among Hindus and the error and inadequacy of Western Christianity in the Hindu world. Numerous anecdotes are the greatest strength of this important book. “He presents the transcultural Good News in culturally understandable ways for the India of the 21st century.” –H. Stanley Wood, Center for New Church Development, Columbia Theological Seminary
Author : Shashi Tharoor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1787380459
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Why I Am a Hindu written by Shashi Tharoor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hinduism is one of the world's oldest and greatest religious traditions. In captivating prose, Shashi Tharoor untangles its origins, its key philosophical concepts and texts. He explores everyday Hindu beliefs and practices, from worship to pilgrimage to caste, and touchingly reflects on his personal beliefs and relationship with the religion. Not one to shy from controversy, Tharoor is unsparing in his criticism of 'Hindutva', an extremist, nationalist Hinduism endorsed by India's current government. He argues urgently and persuasively that it is precisely because of Hinduism's rich diversity that India has survived and thrived as a plural, secular nation. If narrow fundamentalism wins out, Indian democracy itself is in peril.
Author : Kemal Ataman
Publisher : CRVP
ISBN 13 : 1565182529
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)
Download or read book Understanding Other Religions written by Kemal Ataman and published by CRVP. This book was released on 2008 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benedict de Spinoza
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1613105886
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Theologico-Political Treatise (Complete) written by Benedict de Spinoza and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently, for the most part, very prone to credulity. The human mind is readily swayed this way or that in times of doubt, especially when hope and fear are struggling for the mastery, though usually it is boastful, over - confident, and vain. This as a general fact I suppose everyone knows, though few, I believe, know their own nature; no one can have lived in the world without observing that most people, when in prosperity, are so over-brimming with wisdom (however inexperienced they may be), that they take every offer of advice as a personal insult, whereas in adversity they know not where to turn, but beg and pray for counsel from every passer-by. No plan is then too futile, too absurd, or too fatuous for their adoption; the most frivolous causes will raise them to hope, or plunge them into despair - if anything happens during their fright which reminds them of some past good or ill, they think it portends a happy or unhappy issue, and therefore (though it may have proved abortive a hundred times before) style it a lucky or unlucky omen. Anything which excites their astonishment they believe to be a portent signifying the anger of the gods or of the Supreme Being, and, mistaking superstition for religion, account it impious not to avert the evil with prayer and sacrifice. Signs and wonders of this sort they conjure up perpetually, till one might think Nature as mad as themselves, they interpret her so fantastically. Thus it is brought prominently before us, that superstition's chief victims are those persons who greedily covet temporal advantages; they it is, who (especially when they are in danger, and cannot help themselves) are wont with Prayers and womanish tears to implore help from God: upbraiding Reason as blind, because she cannot show a sure path to the shadows they pursue, and rejecting human wisdom as vain; but believing the phantoms of imagination, dreams, and other childish absurdities, to be the very oracles of Heaven. As though God had turned away from the wise, and written His decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!
Author : Eric John Sharpe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Faith Meets Faith written by Eric John Sharpe and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dayanand Bharati
Publisher : ISPCK
ISBN 13 : 9788172143916
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Living Water and Indian Bowl written by Dayanand Bharati and published by ISPCK. This book was released on 1997 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Murray Milner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195084896
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Status and Sacredness written by Murray Milner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Status and Sacredness provides a new theory of status and sacral relationships and a provocative reinterpretation of the Indian caste system and Hinduism. Milner shows how in India and many other social contexts status is a key resource, and that sacredness can be usefully understood as a special form of status. By analysing the nature of this resource Milner is able to provide powerful explanations of the key features of the social structure, culture, and religion. He argues against the widely held view that the Indian caste system is best understood as a unique cultural development, demonstrating that many of the seemingly exotic features are variations on themes common to other societies. Milner's analysis is rooted in a new theoretical framework called "resource structuralism" that helps to clarify the nature and significance of power and symbolic capital. The book thus provides a bold new analysis of India, an innovative approach to the analysis of religion, and an important contribution to social theory.
Author : Dharam Vir Mangla
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781533416605
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Scientific Analysis of Hinduism V/S Christianity written by Dharam Vir Mangla and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2019-02-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With scientific background, the author has tried to synthesis these religions with sciences and has given the scientific analysis also. There shouldn't be any contradiction between Sciences and our Scriptures. If there is any contradiction, the religion must explain the reasons to justify its claim. This book informs about the differences between various religions, especially the Christianity and Hinduism. Some are trying to justify that Hindu Scriptures & Bible are same, but in fact it is just opposite. All religions say differently, are not alike and have their different goals. Scriptures are not an exclusive private property of Hindu's alone, but all humans on entire earth have equal right over it. Moreover it is a knowledge directly transferred to humans by God Himself, it can never be wrong. It is to be finding out, whether Christianity supports all the religions or say offensive, blasphemy statement on other religions? All religions say differently and not alike and have their different goals. It is true that few thousand years ago, Sciences were not so advanced but the Spiritual Science was definitely very much advanced as compared today. It is well planned mischief to say that Jesus was an Avatara of God and died for us for our sins. In fact he didn't die but was murdered /killed for charges of blasphemy. In the last 2000 years there have been about a million murders on street crossings in Europe on charges of blasphemy and witchcraft. Should we call all of the killed as an Avatara of God like Jesus and they have died for us? There have been some persons in the world, who are 1000 times more miraculous than Jesus, should we call them as Super Avatara of God or Super God? Due to rapid scientific and technological advancement, our old ideas and philosophies are changing and the new ideas and philosophies are taking births. Now the scientists have begun to realize that our basic identity in the world is neither mind, nor the physical body bounded by birth and death, nor time and space. But it is basically the infinite universal and eternal spirit with infinite cosmic consciousness. This consciousness is beyond time and space and is unaffected by death. The entire cosmos is a manifestation of universal consciousness. It is beyond limits, finite, eternal, and without boundaries. It is ultimately our real self. Why we have not realized this truth? The author has tried his best to remove their doubts and misconceptions. He has tried to convince that the sciences, the Scriptures, the Dharma and the yogic science are in perfect agreement with each other. There cannot be any contradiction between God, Dharma and the scientific laws. The Scriptures are not myths as propagated by western people with vested interested interests, but are full of truth. Science and the Scriptures are not contradictory to each other as said by some ignorant scientists and religions. Both are supplementing their knowledge to each other and ultimately leading to the same Absolute Complete Truth. The Scriptures doesn't the same as so-called 'Holy Books'.
Author : Parimal G. Patil
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231142226
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Against a Hindu God written by Parimal G. Patil and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-22 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical arguments for and against the existence of God have been crucial to Euro-American and South Asian philosophers for over a millennium. Critical to the history of philosophy in India, were the centuries-long arguments between Buddhist and Hindu philosophers about the existence of a God-like being called Isvara and the religious epistemology used to support them. By focusing on the work of Ratnakirti, one of the last great Buddhist philosophers of India, and his arguments against his Hindu opponents, Parimal G. Patil illuminates South Asian intellectual practices and the nature of philosophy during the final phase of Buddhism in India. Based at the famous university of Vikramasila, Ratnakirti brought the full range of Buddhist philosophical resources to bear on his critique of his Hindu opponents' cosmological/design argument. At stake in his critique was nothing less than the nature of inferential reasoning, the metaphysics of epistemology, and the relevance of philosophy to the practice of religion. In developing a proper comparative approach to the philosophy of religion, Patil transcends the disciplinary boundaries of religious studies, philosophy, and South Asian studies and applies the remarkable work of philosophers like Ratnakirti to contemporary issues in philosophy and religion.
Author : Robert John Ackermann
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Religion as Critique written by Robert John Ackermann and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While science renews itself by refuting and replacing pictures of how the world is, religion derives its longevity from the ability to create images of how the world ought to be. In this view, religions arise as legitimate protests against prevailing ways of life--that is, as forms of critique. Robert Ackermann here explores this idea, considering the manner in which six major religion systems (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Marxism, Hinduism, and Buddhism) articulate critique. This approach differs markedly from most contemporary philosophy of religion, which the author believes has grown sterile by seeing its task as the logical analysis of religions viewed as collections of dogmata. He proposes instead that one see the major religions as both dead ands alive, "dead in their orthodoxy, but alive in providing a source of critical ideas for evaluating surrounding society." After indicating the latent possibilities for social critique in such issues as environmental concerns, war, and the status of women, Ackermann turns to the history of Christianity in the United States. He utilizes the grid/group analysis of Mary Douglas and ideas from Thomas Luckmann, Robert Bellah, and John Cuddihy to trace Christianity's evolution from confrontation to quiet accommodation. Ackermann demonstrates that currently privatized versions of Christianity have lost out to a largely unnoticed civil religion whose critical resources are too impoverished to provide more than short-term social steering. In this situation, Christianity's critical potential is unlikely to be noticed, particularly by those who turn to other religious traditions for critical perspectives on contemporary society.
Author : Muthuraj Swamy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474256422
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Problem with Interreligious Dialogue written by Muthuraj Swamy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muthuraj Swamy provides a fresh perspective on the world religions paradigm and 'interreligious dialogue'. By challenging the assumption that 'world religions' operate as essential entities separate from the lived experiences of practitioners, he shows that interreligious dialogue is in turn problematic as it is built on this very paradigm, and on the myth of religious conflict. Offering a critique of the idea of 'dialogue' as it has been advanced by its proponents such as religious leaders and theologians whose aims are to promote inter-religious conversation and understanding, the author argues that this approach is 'elitist' and that in reality, people do not make sharp distinctions between religions, nor do they separate political, economic, social and cultural beliefs and practices from their religious traditions. Case studies from villages in southern India explore how Hindu, Muslim and Christian communities interact in numerous ways that break the neat categories often used to describe each religion. Swamy argues that those who promote dialogue are ostensibly attempting to overcome the separate identities of religious practitioners through understanding, but in fact, they re-enforce them by encouraging a false sense of separation. The Problem with Interreligious Dialogue: Plurality, Conflict and Elitism in Hindu-Christian-Muslim Relations provides an innovative approach to a central issue confronting Religious Studies, combining both theory and ethnography.
