Book Review: Imagining Hinduism: A Postcolonial Perspective

A review of Imagining Hinduism: A Postcolonial Perspective by Sharada Sugirtharajah

Book Review: Dialogue in Action: Essays in Honour of Johannes Aagaard

A review of Dialogue in Action: Essays in honour of Johannes Aagaard, edited by Lars Thunberg, Moti Lal Pandit, and Carl Vilh

Taking Care of Business: Childcare in Bangalore’s Apparel Industry

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.FLA_2012_Brief_Childcare_in_Apparel_Industry_Bangalore.pdf: 306 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Book Review: Krishna and Christ

A review of Dr. Ishanana\u27s Krishna and Christ

Briefly Noted

A brief review of Encountering Kali: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West edited by Rachel Fell McDermott and Jeffrey J. Kripal

The Politics and the Dharma of Conversion: Reflections from the Mahabharata

This reflection is in the context of trends of the last decade in India, in which some Hindu nationalists have resisted the proselytizing activities of Christian missionaries with tactics of intimidation and terror

Friedrich Heiler und Indien

Von F. Max Müller (1823-1900), dem englischen, deutschgebürtigen Religionsforscher und Herausgeber der "Sacred Books of the East", den Friedrich Heiler sehr verehrte, wird erzählt, er habe fast täglich das Bild der heiligen Stadt Benares auf seiner Tabaksdose meditiert. Nach Indien gefahren sei er aber nie, um sich nicht der häßlichen Alltagswirklichkeit des Subkontinents auszusetzen. Heiler dagegen war in Indien, und zwar während seiner achtmonatigen Ostasienreise (1958/59). Hier soll aber nicht Heilers Begegnung mit dem "Wunderland" Indien, in dessen Bann so viele Indienfahrer in diesem Jahrhundert (wie z.B. W. Bonsels, Hermann Hesse u.a.) standen, geschildert werden. Im Mittelpunkt wird vielmehr Heilers Bild der Indischen Religion stehen, mit der er sich in zahlreichen Untersuchungen auseinandergesetzt hat. Heiler gebraucht übrigens stets den Plural für die Religion des Subkontinents. "Indische Religionen und Buddhismus" war eine seiner Lieblingsvorlesungen. Während er 45 Minuten lang seinen Text vortrug, pflegte er mehrmals die Tafel mit Sanskritwörtern vollzuschreiben, sicher ein besonderes Merkmal des Heilerschen Forschungsansatzes: Fremde Religion erschloß sich ihm über Texte, d.h. über Sprache. Der gelernte Orientalist, der neben Sanskrit, Pali und Arabisch auch Hethitisch, Avestisch, Ägyptisch, Koptisch u.a. beherrschte, hat im Gegensatz zu Rudolf Otto keine Originaltexte übersetzt und im Druck herausgebracht. Aber er war ein intimer Kenner der entsprechenden Quellentexte, die er in Einzeluntersuchungen wie im Überblick dargestellt hat, z.B. in dem (mit anderen Forschern verfaßten) bekannten Werk "Die Religionen der Menschheit in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart" [1], wo er die "Indischen Religionen" wie folgt unterteilt: "Die vedische Religion", "Die Religion der priesterlichen Ritualtexte", "Die Erlösungsmystik der Upanishaden", "Die Übungsmystik des Yoga", "Die Erlösungslehre des Samkya", "Die heterodoxen Erlösungsgemeinschaften (A. Der Jainismus; B. Der Buddhismus)", "Die nachbuddhistischen Religionen Indiens (Der Hinduismus)". ..

Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study Using SMC on Wellbeing of Students Enduring Difficult Situations

This study examines how disrupted intrapersonal communication from conflict and migration affects student well-being and proposes the Sadharanikaran School Counseling Technique (SSCT) to foster emotional connectedness (sahridayata) using the Sadharanikaran Model of Communication (SMC). The study is conducted in two phases within a five-year interval using a longitudinal time frame. The first role of intrapersonal communication in the human development of the research participants facing difficult life situations, such as conflict and international migrant workers leaving behind families, is articulated using the theoretical framework of SMC. The first phase of the study was conducted in 2019, and the second phase was conducted in 2025. It attempts to trace the effect of Maoist insurgency (1996 to 2006) leading to international migrant workers in the wellbeing of children of those families who are studying from school to university level. In the first phase, the findings of the study show that these children have self-harming tendencies due to disconnection from parents and overindulgence in digital media, hindering intrapersonal communication. This has led to drug abuse, suicidal tendencies, hyper-reaction, and anxiety in them. Institutional intervention of family, school, rehab, and other support mechanisms is an urgent need to ensure their well-being, yet the stakeholders seem disconnected from them. The second phase of the study attempts to bring some theoretical insights to resolve this issue for the well-being of research participants using communication as a tool. Sadharanikaran School Counseling Technique (SSCT), derived from the Sadharanikaran Media Analysis Technique (SMAT), is proposed here to assess the Sahridayata between the students experiencing difficult life conditions and the school counselor who supports them to cope with it in a teaching-learning context

Well-being and Self-transformation in Indian Psychology

This paper uses instances from literature covering a broad spectrum of Indian philosophies, art, medicine and practices—attempts to offer the components of a psychology that is rooted in transformative and transpersonal consciousness. Psychology, in this instance, refers to a systematic study of mind, behavior, and relationship, rather than the formal Western discipline as such. In the Indian approach to understanding consciousness, primary importance is given to the possibility of well-being. Such an approach facilitates an immediate comprehension of the unity of metaphysical opposites, such as matter and consciousness, and its experience as empathy, love and intuition. It involves a thinking that connects the gross and the subtle, the particular and the universal, the outer and the inner, the objective and the subjective, through a discipline of transcendence. This paper argues, based on carefully selected narratives from the Indian philosophical discourse, that the theories of the transpersonal developed in Indian wisdom traditions are founded on a practical body-mind discipline designed to lead to well-being and self-transformation

Into terra incognita:Charting beyond Peter Harrison's 'The Territories of Science and Religion'

Peter Harrison’s ‘The Territories of Science and Religion’ throws down a serious challenge to advocates of dialogue as the primary means of engagement between science and religion. This paper accepts the validity of this challenge and looks at four possible responses to it. The first – a return to the past – is rejected. The remaining three – exploring new epistemic frameworks for the encounter of science and religion, broadening out the engagement beyond the context of the physical sciences and Western culture, and looking at ways in which scientific and theological practitioners may collaborate on practical problems – are all offered as potential ways in which science and religion may engage with one another, in ways which move beyond Harrison’s critique