Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
Christianity in India: The Anti-Colonial Turn
1st Edition
By Clara A.B. Joseph
September 30, 2020
By studying the history and sources of the Thomas Christians of India, a community of pre-colonial Christian heritage, this book revisits the assumption that Christianity is Western and colonial and that Christians in the non-West are products of colonial and post-colonial missionaries. Christians ...
Divinizing in South Asian Traditions
1st Edition
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By Diana Dimitrova, Tatiana Oranskaia
August 14, 2020
The issue of divinizing in South Asian traditions has not been examined before as a process involving various methods to affect the socio-cultural cognition of the community. It is therefore essential to consider the context of "divinizing" and to analyse what groups, institutions or individuals ...
Indian Philosophy and Meditation: Perspectives on Consciousness
1st Edition
By Rahul Banerjee, Amita Chatterjee
August 14, 2020
India has a rich tradition of meditative practices designed to study the phenomenon of consciousness. From the distant past to the present, India has evolved a unique psychological culture with grand unifying themes and universal modes of meditative practice. This book provides a detailed analysis ...
The Goddess in Hindu-Tantric Traditions: Devi as Corpse
1st Edition
By Anway Mukhopadhyay
August 14, 2020
The Great Goddess, in her various puranic and tantric forms, is often figured as sitting on a corpse which is identified as Shiva-as-shava (God Shiva, the consort of the Devi and an iconic representation of the Absolute without attributes, the Nirguna Brahman). Hence, most of the existing critical ...
Buddhist Perspectives on Free Will: Agentless Agency?
1st Edition
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By Rick Repetti
December 12, 2019
Throughout the history of Buddhism, little has been said prior to the Twentieth Century that explicitly raises the question whether we have free will, though the Buddha rejected fatalism and some Buddhists have addressed whether karma is fatalistic. Recently, however, Buddhist and Western ...
Islam and Cultural Change in Papua New Guinea
1st Edition
By Scott Flower
December 12, 2019
Scholars of religion and policy makers may be surprised at the changes occurring on the second largest island of the world that straddles one of the most Christianised and least Christianised areas of the world. This book provides an accurate and deeper understanding of the nature of Islam in Papua...
Sutras, Stories and Yoga Philosophy: Narrative and Transfiguration
1st Edition
By Daniel Raveh
December 12, 2019
This book presents a close reading of four Indian narratives from different time periods (epic, Upaniṣadic, pre-modern and contemporary): Ekalavya's story from the Mahābhārata (MBh 1.123.1-39), the story of Prajāpati, Indra and Virochana from the Chāndogya Upanisad (CU 8.7.1-8.12.5), the story of ...
Why Traditional Chinese Philosophy Still Matters: The Relevance of Ancient Wisdom for the Global Age
1st Edition
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By Ming Dong Gu
June 04, 2019
Traditional Chinese philosophy, if engaged at all, is often regarded as an object of antiquated curiosity and dismissed as unimportant in the current age of globalization. Written by a team of internationally renowned scholars, this book, however, challenges this judgement and offers an in-depth ...
Science and Socio-Religious Revolution in India: Moving the Mountains
1st Edition
By Pankaj Jain
August 23, 2018
Scholars have long noticed a discrepancy in the way non-Western and Western peoples conceptualize the scientific and religious worlds. Non-Western traditions and communities, such as of India, are better positioned to provide an alternative to the Western dualistic thinking of separating science ...
Asian Religions, Technology and Science
1st Edition
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By István Keul
June 28, 2018
Over the past five decades, the field of religion-and-science scholarship has experienced a considerable expansion. This volume explores the historical and contemporary perspectives of the relationship between religion, technology and science with a focus on South and East Asia. These three areas ...
Disease, Religion and Healing in Asia: Collaborations and Collisions
1st Edition
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By Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan, Zhou Xun
January 22, 2018
Recent academic and medical initiatives have highlighted the benefits of studying culturally embedded healing traditions that incorporate religious and philosophical viewpoints to better understand local and global healing phenomena. Capitalising on this trend, the present volume looks at the ...
Vegetarianism and Animal Ethics in Contemporary Buddhism
1st Edition
By James Stewart
January 22, 2018
Buddhism is widely known to advocate a stance of total pacifism towards all sentient beings, and because of this, it is often thought that Buddhist doctrine would stipulate that non-violent food practices, such as vegetarianism, be mandatory. However, the Pāli source materials do not encourage ...