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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review of What Kind of Creatures Are We? by Noam Chomsky Prabuddha Bharata August 2018 on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months ago
Noam Chomsky is undoubtedly one of the brilliant polyglots produced in the last century, who continues to engage critically with various issues that bother us today. In the masterly foreword to this book Akeel Bilgrami, a thinker and linguist, explains that this book is ‘a lifetime of reflection by a scientist of language’ (vii). It is divided int…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review Unconditional Equality Ajay Skaria Reading Religion October 2018 in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoMohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, is credited with having rekindled the ancient Indian discourse of an interrelation between spirituality, religion, and politics. This has been mostly studied from the perspective of faith or spirituality. The last five decades or so have seen rising scholarship on the not-so-spiritual…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review Unconditional Equality Ajay Skaria Reading Religion October 2018 in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoMohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, is credited with having rekindled the ancient Indian discourse of an interrelation between spirituality, religion, and politics. This has been mostly studied from the perspective of faith or spirituality. The last five decades or so have seen rising scholarship on the not-so-spiritual…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review Unconditional Equality Ajay Skaria Reading Religion October 2018 in the group
Indology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoMohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, is credited with having rekindled the ancient Indian discourse of an interrelation between spirituality, religion, and politics. This has been mostly studied from the perspective of faith or spirituality. The last five decades or so have seen rising scholarship on the not-so-spiritual…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review Unconditional Equality Ajay Skaria Reading Religion October 2018 in the group
Hinduisms on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoMohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, is credited with having rekindled the ancient Indian discourse of an interrelation between spirituality, religion, and politics. This has been mostly studied from the perspective of faith or spirituality. The last five decades or so have seen rising scholarship on the not-so-spiritual…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review Unconditional Equality Ajay Skaria Reading Religion October 2018 in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoMohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, is credited with having rekindled the ancient Indian discourse of an interrelation between spirituality, religion, and politics. This has been mostly studied from the perspective of faith or spirituality. The last five decades or so have seen rising scholarship on the not-so-spiritual…[Read more]
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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 of The Triumph of Religion Preceded by Discourse to Catholics by Jacques Lacan Prabuddha Bharata September 2018 in the group
Religious Studies 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 of The Triumph of Religion Preceded by Discourse to Catholics by Jacques Lacan Prabuddha Bharata September 2018 in the group
Philosophy of Religion 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 of The Triumph of Religion Preceded by Discourse to Catholics by Jacques Lacan Prabuddha Bharata September 2018 in the group
Philosophy 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 The Gathering of Intentions, Jacob P. Dalton, Indian Philosophy Blog May 2017 in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis book could be seen as a novel method of tracing the history of a scripture. Jacob P. Dalton does this by “tracing the vicissitudes of a single ritual system—that of the Gathering of Intentions Sutra (Dgongs pa ’dus pa’i mdo)—from its ninth-century origins to the present day” (xv). This tantra is referred to as the “root tantra” and i…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review The Gathering of Intentions, Jacob P. Dalton, Indian Philosophy Blog May 2017 in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis book could be seen as a novel method of tracing the history of a scripture. Jacob P. Dalton does this by “tracing the vicissitudes of a single ritual system—that of the Gathering of Intentions Sutra (Dgongs pa ’dus pa’i mdo)—from its ninth-century origins to the present day” (xv). This tantra is referred to as the “root tantra” and i…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review The Gathering of Intentions, Jacob P. Dalton, Indian Philosophy Blog May 2017 in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis book could be seen as a novel method of tracing the history of a scripture. Jacob P. Dalton does this by “tracing the vicissitudes of a single ritual system—that of the Gathering of Intentions Sutra (Dgongs pa ’dus pa’i mdo)—from its ninth-century origins to the present day” (xv). This tantra is referred to as the “root tantra” and i…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review The Gathering of Intentions, Jacob P. Dalton, Indian Philosophy Blog May 2017 in the group
Indology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis book could be seen as a novel method of tracing the history of a scripture. Jacob P. Dalton does this by “tracing the vicissitudes of a single ritual system—that of the Gathering of Intentions Sutra (Dgongs pa ’dus pa’i mdo)—from its ninth-century origins to the present day” (xv). This tantra is referred to as the “root tantra” and i…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review The Gathering of Intentions, Jacob P. Dalton, Indian Philosophy Blog May 2017 in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis book could be seen as a novel method of tracing the history of a scripture. Jacob P. Dalton does this by “tracing the vicissitudes of a single ritual system—that of the Gathering of Intentions Sutra (Dgongs pa ’dus pa’i mdo)—from its ninth-century origins to the present day” (xv). This tantra is referred to as the “root tantra” and i…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review The Concept of Non Photography by Francois Laruelle Prabuddha Bharata August 2017 in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoIn this bilingual edition with the original French, François Laruelle envisions a discipline of non-photography by concentrating on what photography is and not what it becomes. He emphasises the immanence of photography as opposed to its externality. He concludes that there is an ‘a priori photographic intuition’ and that a ‘photographic appara…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review The Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit A M Rupell Reading Religion January 2018 in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoLearning Sanskrit is usually considered to be a harrowing experience what with the memorization of elaborate rules of grammar and the language’s various verb and noun forms in numerous tenses and cases (such as the vocave case). This has discouraged many students from completing the study of Sanskrit and most leave it halfway. Every textbook t…[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 Teresa My Love Julia Kristeva Prabuddha Bharata October in the group
Religious Studies 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 Unconditional Equality Ajay Skaria Reading Religion October 2018 on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months ago
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, is credited with having rekindled the ancient Indian discourse of an interrelation between spirituality, religion, and politics. This has been mostly studied from the perspective of faith or spirituality. The last five decades or so have seen rising scholarship on the not-so-spiritual…[Read more]
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