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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Book Review Uttara Gita by Minati Kar Prabuddha Bharata November 2008 in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoA review of the translation of Uttara Gita by Minati Kar published by the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata, India. Though brief, the Uttara-gita clearly explains the nature of the Atman and the method to realize it,primarily through yoga. This book serves as a supplementary text to the Bhagavadgita. It is a text that inspires…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Book Review Towards the Goal by Mrs Vandana Sarathy and Dr Rajeev Ramakrishna Prabuddha Bharata January 2011 in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoBook Review Towards the Goal by Mrs Vandana Sarathy and Dr Rajeev Ramakrishna
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Book Review The Western Construction of Religion: Myths, Knowledge, and Ideology by Daniel Dubuisson, Prabuddha Bharata February 2015 in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoBook Review The Western Construction of Religion: Myths, Knowledge, and Ideology by Daniel Dubuisson
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Book Review The Truth Will Set You Free by Svami Purna Prabuddha Bharata January 2010 in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoBook Review The Truth Will Set You Free by Svami Purna
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Book Review The Lily of the Field and The Bird of the Air Three Godly Discourses Soren Kierkegaard Prabuddha Bharata June 2018 in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoSøren Kierkegaard has left insightful and penetrating texts on the inner life. He gave context to contemplation on and surrender to God. The awareness of agency in a spiritual aspirant creates the obstacle of letting the grace flow freely into one. The lily of the field and the bird of the air breathe a freedom that the conscious agency of a…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Book Review The Journal of Oriental Research, Madras, 2010–2012 Eds Dr V Kamesari, Dr K S Balasubramanian, and Dr T V Vasudeva Prabuddha Bharata August 2014 in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoBook Review The Journal of Oriental Research, Madras, 2010–2012 Eds Dr V Kamesari, Dr K S Balasubramanian, and Dr T V Vasudeva
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Book Review The Buddhist Dead Eds Bryan J Cuevas and Jacqueline I Stone Prabuddha Bharata January 2015 in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoBook Review The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations, Jacqueline I. Stone co-edited with Bryan J. Cuevas
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Book Review The Brahma Kumaris as a Reflexive Tradition by John Wallis Prabuddha Bharata April 2009 in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoBook Review The Brahma Kumaris as a Reflexive Tradition by John Wallis
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Self Knowledge by Nome Book Review Prabuddha Bharata November 2010 in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoSelf Knowledge by Nome Book Review Prabuddha Bharata November 2010
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Secularism and Religion in Multi-faith Societies: The Case of India by Ragini Sen, Wolfgang Wagner, and Caroline Howarth Book Review Prabuddha Bharata December 2015 in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoSecularism and Religion in Multi-faith Societies: The Case of India by Ragini Sen, Wolfgang Wagner, and Caroline Howarth Book Review Prabuddha Bharata December 2015
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review The Problem with Interreligious Dialogue Muthuraj Swamy Reading Religion October 2016 in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoIn this book, Muthuraj Swamy discusses how conflicts are usually caused by factors other than religious factors at the grassroots level, and how dialogue is an elitist phenomenon that does not percolate to the grassroots, who do not need it in the first place.
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review of The Triumph of Religion Preceded by Discourse to Catholics by Jacques Lacan Prabuddha Bharata September 2018 in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoPsychoanalysis and its father in the West, Sigmund Freud, have often been seen as the antitheses of religion and faith. This book seeks to dispel this misconception and place Freud and psychoanalysis as hopes to the faithful and the hedonist alike. Ethics and morality do not get compromised and unethical and immoral behaviour do not get free…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review Teresa My Love Julia Kristeva Prabuddha Bharata October in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoSt Teresa of Avila is one of the most studied and emulated Christian mystic. She is an extraordinary role model to be followed by a monastic religious, because she not only gives step-by-step instructions for the ‘interior’ life, but also guides life in a monastic community. She is one of the very few mystics who have recorded in detail their exp…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review Struggle and Utopia by Francois Laruelle Prabuddha Bharata August 2017 in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThrough this work, François Laruelle looks at non-philosophers from various angles. He seeks to look at them from a humane perspective and as ‘subjects of knowledge’ (25). He argues that ‘non-philosophy is a close relative of the spiritual but definitely not the spiritualist’ (26).
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review Sharing Wisdom Reading Religion June 2017 in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoReligious leaders often come together for a statement of their respective beliefs seeking a false satisfaction that they are working for world peace by a disparate series of talks meant to only emphasize differences among faith traditions. This book is a welcome departure from such meaningless exercises and hopes to create a tradition of…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review of The Rigveda (3 Volumes) by Stephanie W Jamison and Joel P Brereton Reading Religion May 2018 in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoTranslating a Sanskrit text is a highly challenging task. The difficulty only gets compounded if it is a Vedic text, because the Vedas use a Sanskrit that is quite different from the Sanskrit used in other literature. To translate the Rig Veda into English requires great patience and great scholarship. Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review New Models of Religious Understanding edited by Fiona Ellis Reading Religion February 2019 in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoTensions among differing theoretical frameworks are often observed within the philosophy of religion, largely given disparate scientific, analytic, and continental approaches. New Models of Religious Understanding is a serious and timely reexamination of scientific and analytic perspectives, and questions the very need for these approaches. Edited…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review Laruelle Against the Digital Prabuddha Bharata August 2017 in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoGalloway critically examines how François Laruelle’s non-standard philosophy subverts the digital question. Clarifying the philosophical nature of the digital concept, Galloway proceeds to show that non-standard philosophy is an attempt to come out of the authoritarian stance that traditional philosophy takes and to show that there could be a no…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Interreligious Encounters Opportunities and Challenges by Michael Amaladoss Reading Religion November 2017 in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThere are two kinds of academic writing, if we classify the work by the nature of the author’s expertise. The first one, the most prevalent, is the kind of writing that is born out of the scholarly work of the author and is primarily based on research and teaching experience. The second kind, comparatively harder to come by, is the writing of a s…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review Interreligious Comparisons in Religious Studies and Theology Reading Religion February 2017 in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoInterreligious comparisons have been an interesting subject for both religious individuals and academics. The language of comparison has been contested by almost all who rely upon it, from some Western scholars who started such comparisons at the turn of the twentieth century, to phenomenologists and postmodernists. This range of disparate views…[Read more]
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