Download or read book The Reluctant Guru A Brief Introduction to the Life and Work of Baba Faqir Chand written by and published by MSAC Philosophy Group. This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hierarchical Structure of Religious Visions written by and published by MSAC Philosophy Group. This book was released on with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Radhasoami Reality written by Mark Juergensmeyer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radhasoami Reality explores the emergence of a new religious tradition that is expandiong rapidly across North India and throughout the world. Mark Juergensmeyer seeks to explain why the religious logic of Radhasoami, which is based on the teachings of medieval Hindu saints, is so compelling to today's society.
Download or read book The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rhetoric of Guru Successorship written by David Christopher Lane and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sikhs in History written by Sangat Singh and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond Religion in India and Pakistan written by Virinder S. Kalra and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on insights from theoretical engagements with borders and subalternity, Beyond Religion in India and Pakistan suggests new frameworks for understanding religious boundaries in South Asia. It looks at the ways in which social categories and structures constitute the bordering logics inherent within enactments of these boundaries, and positions hegemony and resistance through popular religion as an important indication of wider developments of political and social change. The book also shows how borders are continually being maintained through violence at national, community and individual levels. By exploring selected sites and expressions of piety including shrines, texts, practices and movements, Virinder S. Kalra and Navtej K. Purewal argue that the popular religion of Punjab should neither be limited to a polarised picture between formal, institutional religion, nor the 'enchanted universe' of rituals, saints, shrines and village deities. Instead, the book presents a picture of 'religion' as a realm of movement, mobilization, resistance and power in which gender and caste are connate of what comes to be known as 'religious'. Through extensive ethnographic research, the authors explore the reality of the complex, dynamic and contested relations that characterize everyday material and religious lives on the ground. Ultimately, the book highlights how popular religion challenges the borders and boundaries of religious and communal categories, nationalism and theological frameworks while simultaneously reflecting gender/caste society.
Download or read book The Radhasoami Tradition written by David Christopher Lane and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1992 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sociological study of the forces at work in choosing a successor to a guru, taking as the central example, the 1974 rivalry for spiritual leadership of an Indian sect. Traces the lineage back to the beginning of the sect, noting the circumstances of the various successions, and relating them to the thoughts of the followers about the recent succession, based on interviews. No subject index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Path of the Masters written by Julian Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Sikhism written by Louis E. Fenech and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sikhism traces its beginnings to Guru Nanak, who was born in 1469 and died in 1538 or 1539. With the life of Guru Nanak the account of the Sikh faith begins, all Sikhs acknowledging him as their founder. Sikhism has long been a little-understood religion and until recently they resided almost exclusively in northwest India. Today the total number of Sikhs is approximately twenty million worldwide. About a million live outside India, constituting a significant minority in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. Many of them are highly visible, particularly the men, who wear beards and turbans, and they naturally attract attention in their new countries of domicile. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Sikhism covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on key persons, organizations, the principles, precepts and practices of the religion as well as the history, culture and social arrangements. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Sikhism.
Download or read book The Sikhs of the Punjab written by J. S. Grewal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-02-21 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a revised edition of his original book, J. S. Grewal brings the history of the Sikhs from its beginnings in the time of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, right up to the present day. Against the background of the history of the Punjab, the volume surveys the changing pattern of human settlements in the region until the fifteenth century and the emergence of the Punjabi language as the basis of regional articulation. Subsequent chapters explore the life and beliefs of Guru Nanak, the development of his ideas by his successors and the growth of his following. The book offers a comprehensive statement on one of the largest and most important communities in India today.
Download or read book Later Mughals written by William Irvine and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Mighty Striving written by Muhammad Ahmad and published by Ahmadiyya Anjuman Lahore Publications, U.K.. This book was released on with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a biography of Maulana Muhammad Ali (d. 1951), the world-famous author of several highly acclaimed books on Islam, including an English translation of the Holy Quran with commentary. Besides being a history of his life and work, and the history of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement, it also vividly portrays his burning desire to present to the modern and Western world the pristine Islam based directly on the Holy Quran and the Holy Prophet Muhammad’s teachings — a religion of peace, tolerance, reason and moderation, which seeks to win over people’s hearts and minds. The Mighty Striving with the Quran which the Maulana urged upon Muslims is the only way to restore the dignity of Islam in the light of the misunderstandings between Muslims and the West.
Download or read book Transformation of Sikhism written by Gokul Chand Narang and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impact of Guru Gobind Singh on Indian Society written by Gurbachan Singh Talib and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Unknowing Sage The Life and Work of Baba Faqir Chand Fifth Edition written by David Lane and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First dictated in Urdu at the request of David Lane, this is the controversial autobiography of the late sage, Baba Faqir Chand, a well regarded Master in the Shabd Yoga tradition. Also presents selections from his radical teachings regarding the unknowingness of gurus and mystics. Includes a rare interview with Faqir conducted by Professor Mark Juergensmeyer as well as introductory essays about Faqir's teachings and meditational techniques.
Download or read book Grounds for Play written by Kathryn Hansen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nautanki performances of northern India entertain their audiences with often ribald and profane stories. Rooted in the peasant society of pre-modern India, this theater vibrates with lively dancing, pulsating drumbeats, and full-throated singing. In Grounds for Play, Kathryn Hansen draws on field research to describe the different elements of nautanki performance: music, dance, poetry, popular story lines, and written texts. She traces the social history of the form and explores the play of meanings within nautanki narratives, focusing on the ways important social issues such as political authority, community identity, and gender differences are represented in these narratives. Unlike other styles of Indian theater, the nautanki does not draw on the pan-Indian religious epics such as the Ramayana or the Mahabharata for its subjects. Indeed, their storylines tend to center on the vicissitudes of stranded heroines in the throes of melodramatic romance. Whereas nautanki performers were once much in demand, live performances now are rare and nautanki increasingly reaches its audiences through electronic media—records, cassettes, films, television. In spite of this change, the theater form still functions as an effective conduit in the cultural flow that connects urban centers and the hinterland in an ongoing process of exchange.
