Hinduism

In the Bible, faith is contrasted with sight, not with reason.

The idea that there is a truth within the person linked to the discovery of a deeper, more fundamental, more authentic self, has been a common theme in many religions throughout history and an idea that is still with us today.

While we look forward in mission and strive to develop strategies for reaching a rapidly changing world with the gospel, we must also look back.

Through the use of epigraphical evidence, Leslie C.

What are Christian women thinking about mission?

The Reformation-era writings that make up the Lutheran Confessions remain lively resources for Christian ministry and mission today.

The content of the gospel never changes; however, communicating it constantly fluctuates.

Who and what are marriage and sex for?

Within most pre-modern, Indian traditions of yoga, the role of the guru is absolutely central.

Devotional Spaces of a Global Saint focuses on the presence and contemporaneity of Shirdi Sai Baba (d.

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.

This book traces the evolution of Hindu theories of warfare in India from the dawn of civilization.

Material Devotion in a South Indian Poetic World contributes new methods for the study and interpretation of material religion found within literary landscapes.

Kerala Christian Sainthood is an ethnography-based study that celebrates the multi-vocal function of saints.

In this book Stephen Phillips focuses on one of the most important poems about meditation in world literature, as understood by two of the greatest philosophers of India, one classical, one modern.

This book, first published in 1957, was the first in English to provide a full and clear introduction to one of the most significant of Indian gods, and stresses his supreme role in Indian religion and art.

Today the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India, is a major Hindu religious pilgrimage and the largest religious gathering in the world.

Supporting Mission Among All PeoplesGlobal Member Care (Volume 3): Stories and Strategies for Staying the Course is part of ongoing efforts over the past thirty years to shape and support the field of member care in mission.

"e;Sengupta has written an in-depth study of the development of political Hinduism in India.

All churches have had to learn to do things differently during closure due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Ramayana, an ancient epic of India, with audiences across vast stretches of time and geography, continues to influence numberless readers socially and morally through its many re-tellings.

This book offers new translations of the Tiruppavai and Nacciyar Tirumoli, composed by the ninth-century Tamil mystic and poetess Kotai.

This important book poses a challenging question: what are the aims of mission and are they being achieved through Fresh Expressions?

Objects of worship are an aspect of the material dimension of lived religion in South Asia.

Would it surprise you to know that New Testament scholars, missiologists, and church-planting authorities cannot agree on how to define tentmaking, whether or not the church should be practicing it today, or even why Paul did it in the first place?

Hinduism in America: An Introduction is a concise introduction to the long history of religion in the encounter between America and India.

This volume presents a comparison of seven major religious reformers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: For Islam, Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani, Muhammad 'Abduh and Muhammad Rashid Rida; for Hinduism, Dayananda Sarasvati and Swami Shraddhananda; for Confucianism, K'ang Yu-wei and Liang Ch'i-ch'ao.

In the decades after World War II, Protestant missionaries abroad were a topic of vigorous public debate.

How do text, performance, and rhetoric simultaneously reflect and challenge notions of distinct community and religious identities?

This book offers a critical re-examination of the relationship between caste and class.

Most overviews of Hindu belief and practice follow a history from the ancient Vedas to today.

The rise, fall, and modern resurgence of an enigmatic book revered by yoga enthusiasts around the worldConsisting of fewer than two hundred verses written in an obscure if not impenetrable language and style, Patanjali's Yoga Sutra is today extolled by the yoga establishment as a perennial classic and guide to yoga practice.

Abiding Mission presents the discipline of abiding as the first priority of the Christian and the base methodology of mission.

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.

This book is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Hindu contemplative praxis.

In this book William Gould explores the nature of Hindu nationalism as an ideology and political language.

The need to train Christian missionaries was an afterthought of the Protestant missionary movement in the early nineteenth century.

In his pathbreaking Israel in Egypt James K.

Philosophy of The Bhagavad Gita: A Contemporary Introduction presents a complete philosophical guide and new translation of the most celebrated text of Hinduism.

What role do pre-modern religious traditions play in the formation of modern secular identities?

Snakebite may sound like a rare and exotic phenomenon, but in India it is a problem that affects 1.

Like any other subject, the study of religion is a child of its time.

A celebrated Hindu pilgrimage site, Hardwar lies on the river Ganges at the edge of the Himalayas.

This book assesses the impact of European colonization in the late 19th and early 20th century in 'restructuring' the shared past of India and Southeast Asia.

Theistic Vedanta originated with Ramanuja (1077-1157), who was one of the foremost theologians of Visistadvaita Vedanta and also an initiate of the Srivaisnava sectarian tradition in South India.

The purpose of this study was to describe how the North Korean refugee understanding of evil can shape missionary practice in the Korean Peninsula.