Hinduism

Neighborhood Transformation is a Christian reimagination of compassionate ministry through the application of the practice of biblical hospitality.

This book surveys the development of the religious landscape in Suriname and Guyana, focusing on the interaction between Hindus, Muslims, and Christians and responses to Christian dominance.

Drawing on insights from Indian intellectual tradition, this book examines the conception of dharma by Jaimini in his Mimamsasutras, assessing its contemporary relevance, particularly within ritual scholarship.

Explores some of the issues facing the church, especially in rural areas, and some theological strands in the New Testament that underpin the way we go about mission.

This book examines the practice of poetry in the devotional Vaisnava tradition inspired by Sri Krsna Caitanya (1486-1533), through a detailed study of the Sanskrit poetic works of Kavikarnapura, one of the most significant sixteenth-century Caitanya Vaisnava poets and theologians.

A Call to Follow Jesus When He Challenges Our TraditionsThere are many challenges to adequately representing Jesus to the majority world, and often Western Christian traditions create unnecessary hindrances to people accepting His truth.

'Preston fuels our courage, revisits the essentials, and lights a path back to the narrow road.

This book focuses on dual belonging within Hindu-Christian contexts.

This book, first published in 1933, was the first text on the general Hindu attitude to art.

Originally published in 1977, The Hindu Religious Tradition provides a detailed exploration into the different doctrines regarding the nature of Religious Reality and the many paths of search for this Reality within the Hindu religion.

The Trinity can be understood as a social community with members speaking and listening to one another in love, or, as Luther understood the Trinity, as conversation, then God's mission essentially involves in mission-in-dialogue.

How does a missional mindset or perspective impact the way we read Scripture?

Explores a variety of growing churches to identify what is making the difference between them and churches which are static or declining.

Communicating the Christian Message to People Who Dont ReadDont Throw the Book at Them addresses one of the most vital issues in contemporary missions.

Seven Chakras of Leadership is a transformative guide for leaders seeking to align their inner energy with their professional impact.

A confidence-boosting program based on the spiritual insights of Sanskrit, the language of enlightenment *; Draws on traditional stories from East and West and scholarly works to reveal the wisdom behind Sanskrit words and how to experience them to transform our lives and build confidence, certainty, clarity, and success *; Explains the fourfold energy of the Conscious Confidence program: Focusing, Uniting, Simplifying, and Energizing *; Offers practical exercises for discovering our inner certainty and overcoming fear, anxiety, and insecurity Called ';the language of enlightenment,' Sanskrit is truly unique among all the languages of the world.

Historians of religion have examined at length the Protestant Reformation and the liberal idea of the self-governing individual that arose from it.

The debates between various Buddhist and Hindu philosophical systems about the existence, definition and nature of self, occupy a central place in the history of Indian philosophy and religion.

This book, first published in 1968, comprises five articles on the immortality of the soul.

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Tantric Revisionings presents stimulating new perspectives on Hindu and Buddhist religion, particularly their Tantric versions, in India, Tibet or in modern Western societies.

The growth and religious commitment of the Latino community in the U.

The language of exile, focused with theological and biblical narratives and coupled with depictions of real-life exilic communities, can equip church leaders as agents in the creation of new communities.

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

This work seeks to answer questions about the great religious traditions in the contemporary age.

When Mahatma Gandhi died in 1948 by an assassin's bullet, the most potent legacy he left to the world was the technique of satyagraha (literally, holding on to the Truth).

The 19th century was a pioneering age for vernacular texts in India.

Orientalism and Religion offers us a timely discussion of the implications of contemporary post-colonial theory for the study of religion.

An examination of the rise of Hindu nationalism in India.

Kabir was a great iconoclastic-mystic poet of fifteenth-century North India; his poems were composed orally, written down by others in manuscripts and books, and transmitted through song.

There are many holy cities in India, but Mumbai is not usually considered one of them.

Sarasvati assumes different roles, a physical river and a river goddess, then as a goddess of speech and finally that of a goddess of learning, knowledge, arts and music.

'Hinduism' is a term often used to summarize the aspirations of the majority of the Indian people.

What we fear most has ironically come upon us as Western individualists.

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.

There is a lively debate about the mission of the local church and an interest in doing new things or doing things differently.

This book offers an in-depth study of right-wing politics in India by analysing the shifting ideologies of Hindu nationalism and its evolution in the late nineteenth century through to twenty-first century.

As religion and politics become ever more intertwined, relationships between religion and political parties are of increasing global political significance.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

What if Small Groups Embarked on Mission Together .

The sharp contrast between cultures with a monotheistic paternal deity and those with pluralistic maternal deities is a theme of abiding interest in religious studies.

Tantric yantras are precise geometric forms that have been used for centuries as tools for self-realization and the attainment of mystical powers.

This book presents an original and comprehensive reading of the contemporary Mauritian society where Hinduism is practised by more than half of the population.

Between 1700 and 1850 the Church of England was the among the most powerful and influential religious, social, and political forces in Britain.