Agape and Bhakti with Bataille and Mark at Loyola and St. Francis (Postmodern Ethics, #9)
by David L Goicoechea
People in India form images of Jesus Christ that link up with their own culture. Hindus have given Jesus a place among the teachers and gods of their own religion, seeing in his life something of the wisdom and mysticism that is so central to Hinduism. Christians in India also make use of the concepts provided by Hinduism when they wish to express the meaning of Christ. Thus, in any case, Jesus is-for Hindus and Christians-a guru, a teacher of wisdom who speaks with divine authority. But for man...
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 1 (Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, #1)
by Swami Vivekananda
All the great utterances of man have to be judged not by the letter but by the spirit-- the spirit which unfolds itself with the growth of life in history. We get to know the real meaning of Christianity by observing its living aspect at the present moment-- however different that may be, even in important respects, from the Christianity of earlier periods. For western scholars the great religious scriptures of India seem to possess merely a retrospective archaeological interest; but to us they...
What is Hinduism? Historians, teachers, scholars, and gurus have disagreed for centuries-and continue to disagree. One reason is because Hinduism-the world's oldest continuously extant major religion-is not a single faith with a static set of beliefs and a single sacred scripture. It is actually a mixture of faiths that have evolved from the inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent-a universal faith that is open to interpretation and evolving scientific truth, and one that deeply respects individu...
Jnana-Yoga (Collections Spiritualites, #6000376)
by Swami Vivekananda
Jnana-Yoga The Necessity of Religion The Real Nature of Man Maya and Illusion Maya and the Evolution of the Conception of God Maya and Freedom The Absolute and Manifestation God in Everything Realisation Unity in Diversity The Freedom of the Soul The Cosmos: The Macrocosm The Cosmos: The Microcosm Immortality The Atman The Atman: Its Bondage and Freedom The Real and the Apparent Man
With historical-critical analysis and dialogical even-handedness, the essays of this book re-assess the life and legacy of Swami Vivekananda, forged at a time of colonial suppression, from the vantage point of socially-engaged religion at a time of global dislocations and international inequities. Due to the complexity of Vivekananda as a historical figure on the cusp of late modernity with its vast transformations, few works offer a contemporary, multi-vocal, nuanced, academic examination of hi...
Views on Hindu Dharma by M.K. Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi took pride in calling himself a Sanatani Hindu. He lived by what he professed. Indeed, he spiritualized his entire political existence and his very opinion, world view and discourse was weighted with morality and ethics born of Hindu Dharma.This timely compilation of Mahatma Gandhi’s views on Hindu Dharma is a remarkable and systematically arranged compendium of his ideas on every aspect of India’s social and political life.Gandhi’s views – disseminated through many sh...
Paribhasha Storas
by Ramamurthy Natarajan and Dr Ramamurthy Natarajan
Defending God in Sixteenth-Century India (Oxford Oriental Monographs)
by Jonathan Duquette
This book is the first in-depth study of the Śaiva oeuvre of the celebrated polymath Appaya Dīkṣita (1520-1593). Jonathan Duquette documents the rise to prominence and scholarly reception of Śivādvaita Vedānta, a Sanskrit-language school of philosophical theology which Appaya single-handedly established, thus securing his reputation as a legendary advocate of Śaiva religion in early modern India. Based to a large extent on hitherto unstudied primary sources in Sanskrit, Duquette offers new insig...