Hinduism

Nature conservation planning tends to be driven by models based on Western norms and science, but these may not represent the cultural, philosophical and religious contexts of much of Asia.

This updated version of Tippett's 1977, The Deep Sea Canoe, describes a significant but often overlooked aspect of the expansion of Christianity in the South Pacific, that of South Sea Island believers who carried the gospel from one island to another in their deep sea canoes.

All of us educate, teach, and form others; as Christians, the place in which this formation takes place is our community.

Although a large majority of believers agree that they should share their faith, most report that they, in fact, do not.

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

This book is about exploring and presenting a model of digital-based curriculum for Christian education suitable for the digital ways of learning, communicating, and thinking.

A major church shift is happening all around the world.

This book studies Natha sampradaya through archaeological evidence for the first time.

More Sermon Nuggets contains ninety-five topics treated in hundreds of Fred R.

This is the first book fully dedicated to Indian philosophical doxography.

Vincent Donovan is best known as the author of the influential bestseller, Christianity Rediscovered (1978).

'An indispensable companion for all interested in yoga, both scholars and practitioners' Professor Alexis G.

The poetry emanating from the bhakti tradition of devotional love in India has been both a religious expression and a form of resistance to hierarchies of caste, gender, and colonialism.

This book explores a number of concepts of God in Vaisnavism, which is commonly referred to as one of the great Hindu monotheistic traditions.

In the mid-nineteenth century, the American missionary James Butler predicted that Christian conversion and British law together would eradicate Indian ascetics.

This uniquely Canadian volume tells stories of Ellie Johnson, missiologist and director of Partnerships at the Anglican Church of Canada from 1994 to 2008.

For centuries, access to Tibet was difficult for geographical and political reasons until missionaries pried it open in the nineteenth century.

Includes up-to-date information about growth, geographic expansion, leadership transitions, and the impact of Swaminarayan institutions in India and abroad.

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

Is the Christian concept of grace anathema to the social structure of merit-making found in Buddhist karmic communities?

Because the World Matters.

Trying to articulate the ways in which one's life meshes with one's own time can be perilous, yet friends have encouraged me to do just that.

Moral Conversion in Scripture, Self, and Society offers a broad - historical, theological, and philosophical - reflection on the phenomenon of moral conversion.

Dapha, or dapha bhajan, is a genre of Hindu-Buddhist devotional singing, performed by male, non-professional musicians of the farmer and other castes belonging to the Newar ethnic group, in the towns and villages of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.

The true story of mission has been deeper, wider, and far more diverse than many Christians in countries with long histories of church presence have realized.

Paramahansa Yogananda (18931952), author of the modern spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi and widely regarded as the father of Yoga in the West, contributed in far-reaching ways to a greater awareness and appreciation in the West of the spiritual wisdom of the East.

All ministry leaders concern themselves with the intersection of Jesus-centered ministry and contemporary culture.

Do you need a little adventure in your life?

The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text-the epic Ramcaritmanas-and the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression.

Developing a Practical Theology of Risk In a world where danger and uncertainty loom large, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and unsure about how to tread wisely in ministry.

Sayings of Gorakhnath presents a translation of late-medieval texts in Old Hindi, traditionally attributed to one of the founders of the Order of Nath Yogis.

The insiders guide to Hindu spiritual life.

Hinduism, a religious tradition of Indian origin, comprising the beliefs and practices of the Hindus.

Hinduism perhaps is the oldest religion among all the existing religions of the world.

Important and broadening study of the way Africans engaged with missions, not as beneficiaries of humanitarian philanthropy, but as workers.

Lesslie Newbigin's concept of the congregation as hermeneutic of the gospel has been used for over thirty years to discuss the overlap of mission and ecclesiology.

The Hindu thinker Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) was and remains an important figure both within India, and in the West, where he was notable for preaching Vedanta.

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.

Believers and teachers of faith regularly know the in-breaking of God's Spirit in their midst, when revelatory experiencing unexpectedly shifts habits of thinking, feeling, and doing toward more life-giving ways of being and becoming.

Discover Your Place in the Movement of God An incredible breakthrough in missions history is taking place as disciples of Jesus make more disciples of Jesus around the globe, particularly among the least-reached.

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This autobiography traces Francis X.

The speed and scale of urbanisation in India is unprecedented almost anywhere in the world and has tremendous global implications.

This book is the first to present current scholarship on gender and in regional and sectarian versions of the Ramayana.