... of the East (1923), he recounts his journey to Catholicism, showing how it was driven by an ever-deepening appreciation for Hinduism, which, by his teaching and his largely unpublished writings, shaped the history of Western Jesuits in India in the twentieth century. We see a complicated xenophilia at work...

.... This essay concludes with the text of a response delivered by the author, who is a scholar of Hinduism, to Bynum's Lionel Trilling Lecture at Columbia University, “Am I My Body? Medieval Theories of Bodily Resurrection and Some Modern Implications” (1991). [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke...

... to acknowledge that religious mixing has been a central force in the development not only of Hinduism and Islam, but also of Christianity. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Symposium: Fuzzy Studies, Part 6 IS YOGA HINDU? On the Fuzziness of Religious Boundaries...

... regions and to study objects as well as texts. This curiosity has led the author herself to draw comparisons between Indian culture, especially Hinduism, and European Christianity, thereby raising questions about what constitutes good comparative study. Interrogating the nature of comparison, especially...

... by these and other authors. But my worries go deeper. Other religions have been made foils to Christian and American virtue for a very long time, and Hinduism has been characterized by many in the West as flawed on natural, moral, and religious grounds. While Wilkerson does not intend any crude reductionism...

... a truism among Indologists that the colonial encounter between East and West crystallized the present semiotic field: Hinduism is a Talking Peace with Gods: Part 1 with Gods: Part Peace Talking...

... Patañjali Kālīvar Vedāntavāglīś Symposium: Xenophilia, Part 1 YOGA AND XENOPHILIA Ambiguity Now and Then Peter Valdina Today yoga is among the most visible aspects of Hinduism, and its global popu- larity is a source of national pride in India...

..., the in Memorial Hashmi Communalism 15.  Light. perfect the shines There dwelling- His Hemakes where Fortress that is impregnable Inaccessible,   offounder Sikhism the and Muslims, Hindus, mid- the to thelater fourteenth from flourished   Santism of figures leading The Islam. and Hinduism...

... in other ascetic cultures, for example in Hinduism and Jainism, as the pure or free gift whose existence Mauss denied. The blessing is a gift of divine benevolence, grace delivered through a human mediator. It is not synonymous with the gift of alms ( eleēmosynē ), a very human act of mercy from one...

... hat Hinduism and Buddhism are suffi are Buddhism and hat Hinduism ions of a of ions...

..., such as Fundamentalism and Gender ; The Life of Hinduism (with Vasudha Narayanan); and Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination (with Kimberley Patton). Recent books on the bhakti traditions include A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement ; Sur's Ocean ; and a poem-by-poem commentary...

... the 1840s and contrasts his way of reading with those of other scholars during the period. The hermeneutic of “one mind” was the foundation of his xenophilic reading. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 Thoreau transcendentalism Hinduism Yoga Bhagavad Gita xenophilia Symposium...

... undergraduate who has taken a “world religions” survey course has heard the cliché that Hinduism is the most successfully syncretistic of the major reli- gious traditions. Hindu iconography, theology, and ritual are well known for absorbing and integrating aspects of other religious traditions and coexisting...

... undergraduate who has taken a “world religions” survey course has heard the cliché that Hinduism is the most successfully syncretistic of the major reli- gious traditions. Hindu iconography, theology, and ritual are well known for absorbing and integrating aspects of other religious traditions and coexisting...

... undergraduate who has taken a “world religions” survey course has heard the cliché that Hinduism is the most successfully syncretistic of the major reli- gious traditions. Hindu iconography, theology, and ritual are well known for absorbing and integrating aspects of other religious traditions and coexisting...

... undergraduate who has taken a “world religions” survey course has heard the cliché that Hinduism is the most successfully syncretistic of the major reli- gious traditions. Hindu iconography, theology, and ritual are well known for absorbing and integrating aspects of other religious traditions and coexisting...

... undergraduate who has taken a “world religions” survey course has heard the cliché that Hinduism is the most successfully syncretistic of the major reli- gious traditions. Hindu iconography, theology, and ritual are well known for absorbing and integrating aspects of other religious traditions and coexisting...

... undergraduate who has taken a “world religions” survey course has heard the cliché that Hinduism is the most successfully syncretistic of the major reli- gious traditions. Hindu iconography, theology, and ritual are well known for absorbing and integrating aspects of other religious traditions and coexisting...

... undergraduate who has taken a “world religions” survey course has heard the cliché that Hinduism is the most successfully syncretistic of the major reli- gious traditions. Hindu iconography, theology, and ritual are well known for absorbing and integrating aspects of other religious traditions and coexisting...

... undergraduate who has taken a “world religions” survey course has heard the cliché that Hinduism is the most successfully syncretistic of the major reli- gious traditions. Hindu iconography, theology, and ritual are well known for absorbing and integrating aspects of other religious traditions and coexisting...