Hinduism

At the turn of the millennium, Nepal was the world's last remaining Hindu kingdom.

Can a state empower its citizens by classifying them?

Jewish Paideia investigates diverse self-reflections on what it meant to be Jewish in Hellenistic and early Roman Diaspora communities by examining depictions of ideal Jewish education, or paideia, in the literature of the period.

How do Christ followers celebrate unity in the midst of diversity?

At the age of 45, unfit and overweight, Clark Berge, a professed Franciscan friar, took up running.

The Life of Hinduism brings together a series of essays-many recognized as classics in the field-that present Hinduism as a vibrant, truly "e;lived"e; religion.

This publication provides readers with an introduction to Hindu texts and scriptures, including Vedas and its major subdivisional texts.

This book is concerned with the argument that religious traditions are inherently environmentally friendly.

Hinduism is, in many respects a unique phenomenon in the History of World Religions.

Hinduism is, in many respects a unique phenomenon in the History of World Religions.

This companion volume focuses on the application and practical ramifications of Indian ethics.

The rise of strong nationalist and religious movements in postcolonial and newly democratic countries alarms many Western observers.

The lands where Muslims, Jews, and Christians have encountered each other are littered with the ruins of fortresses.

This volume examines several theoretical concerns of embodiment in the context of Asian religious practice.

Modern Hindu Personalism explores the life and works of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (1874-1937), a Vaishnava guru of the Chaitanya school of Bengal.

In today's multi-cultural and multi-religious world, evangelism is often viewed as scandalous, not only by those who are opposed to anything religious, but also by many Christians.

This book offers a systematic and radical introduction to the Buddhist roots of Patanjala-yoga, or the Yoga system of Patanjali.

Missional Conversations introduces the reader to key themes in contemporary mission through global conversations between theory and praxis.

For the first time Genealogy of the South Indian Deities, the work of Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg (1682-1719), the first Protestant missionary in India, is made accessible to an English readership.

Mobile Lifeworlds illustrates how the imaginaries and ideals of Western travellers, especially those of untouched nature and spiritual enlightenment, are consistent with media representations of the Himalayan region, romanticism and modernity at large.

Religious authority and political power have existed in complex relationships throughout India's history.

Devotion is a category of expression in many of the world's religious traditions.

Generous Ecclesiology seeks to present a positive theological response to the issues raised by Mission-Shaped Church and For the Parish.

Hinduism is, in many respects a unique phenomenon in the History of World Religions.

This book attempts to provide an ethnography of the Marakwet and its encounter with colonizers and missionaries.

Hindus and Christians have a long history of interaction on the Indian subcontinent.

Focusing on complex entanglements of religion and gender from a diversity of perspectives, this book explores how women enact agencies in transcultural Hindu and Buddhist settings.

This book considers in detail the key drivers of globalization, its contemporary shape, and its implications for world mission.

There are hundreds of books on Islam; after all, it is the second largest religion on the planet.

Hinduism is, in many respects a unique phenomenon in the History of World Religions.

These reflections on school and schooling come from the crucible of practice in the real world of K-12 education.

Secular contemporary development discourse deals with the problems of societal development and transformation by prioritizing the human good in terms of vital and social values with the aim of providing the basic necessities of life through social institutions that work.

A God-Designed Generation for a God-Given TaskThe scale and scope of the global, technological, and cultural changes of the past two decades are unprecedented.

More than at any time in the past, today's evangelicals struggle to understand what the essence of the Christian faith really is.

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Hinduism is, in many respects a unique phenomenon in the History of World Religions.

Hinduism is, in many respects a unique phenomenon in the History of World Religions.

Churches and mission agencies are increasingly characterized by cultural diversity.

In this comprehensive analysis of South Indian village Hinduism, Isabelle Nabokov shows that a wide spectrum of Tamil rituals effects transformations of identity through similar processual and symbolic operations.

God is at work in the Muslim world!

Over the past five decades, the field of religion-and-science scholarship has experienced a considerable expansion.

Indian ethics is one of the great traditions of moral thought in world philosophy whose insights have influenced thinkers in early Greece, Europe, Asia, and the New World.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of the state of the field of the philosophy of meditation and engages primarily in the philosophical assessment of the merits of meditation practices.

Negotiating Cross-Cultural Issues in MinistryFrontline Women is a collection of writings on womens issues from those who have had mission field experience.

Savoring God is a comparative study that examines the creative interaction of poetry and theology in two mystical poems central to the Christian and the Hindu traditions, the sixteenth-century Spanish Cntico espiritual (Spiritual Canticle), by Saint John of the Cross, and the Sanskrit R=asa L=il=a (Dance of Love), which originated in the oral tradition.

The term "e;emerging church"e; causes confusion, conflict, and contention whenever it is used.