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Book Vedanta and the West  169

Download or read book Vedanta and the West 169 written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vedanta for the West

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carl T. Jackson
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 1994-05-22
  • ISBN : 9780253113887
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Vedanta for the West written by Carl T. Jackson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994-05-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This important book fills a gap in our knowledge.... Highly recommended."Â -- Library Journal "... highly recommended... " -- Choice "With admirable clarity and remarkable brevity, Jackson surveys the history of the movement and raises... important issues... " -- The Journal of American History An important history of the Ramakrishna movement, the very first and in many ways the most important Asian religious group to appear in the United States.

Book The Divine Quest  East and West

Download or read book The Divine Quest East and West written by James L. Ford and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have discussed the development of the notion of God in Western monotheistic traditions, but how have non-Western cultures conceptualized what those in the West might identify as "God"? What might be learned by comparing different visions of the Divine, such as God, gods, Brahman, Nirvana, and Emptiness? James L. Ford engages these fascinating questions, exploring notions of "the Divine" or "Ultimate Reality" within Jewish, Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions. Looking at a multiplicity of divine conceptions, even within traditions, Ford discusses the relationship between imagination and revelation in the emergence of visions of ultimacy; consequences and tendencies associated with particular notions of the Ultimate; and how new visions of the Ultimate arise in relation to social, cultural, political, and scientific developments. Ford reflects on what can be learned through an awareness of the various beliefs about the Ultimate and on how such disparate visions influence the attitudes and behavior of people in different parts of the world.

Book Aldous Huxley Between East and West

Download or read book Aldous Huxley Between East and West written by C. C. Barfoot and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the title of this volume is Aldous Huxley between East and West, the order of the articles found within goes from West to East, which naturally imitates Huxley's own progress, especially since he went to the trouble of stepping out as far West as possible before starting for the East. Indeed one could argue that he was already on his way there before he left for California, a continuous journey, perhaps, since from the Californian shores of the Pacific the East is the further West. After the Introduction which places Huxley between East and West, the book starts with a consideration of Huxley's family connections, then goes onto his earliest fictions, his interest in science and the issue of modernity, and his experiments with drama and their inherent philosophical concerns. The poetry with which he began his writing career is then viewed as a link between his earlier Western self and his later Oriental interests, suggesting that the latter was always inherent in the former. A number of considerations of the Utopian themes in Huxley's middle and later fiction leads the volume to a climax with four articles surveying the foibles and the wisdom of Huxley's encounter with Eastern religious thought and philosophy, his misunderstandings, as well as ours, of what actually he had learned and wished to pass on to the Western world.

Book Vedanta for the Western World

Download or read book Vedanta for the Western World written by Christopher Isherwood and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Swami Vivekananda  s History of Universal Religion and its Potential for Global Reconciliation

Download or read book Swami Vivekananda s History of Universal Religion and its Potential for Global Reconciliation written by Sister Gayatriprana and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christopher Isherwood

Download or read book Christopher Isherwood written by David Garrett Izzo and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first thorough examination of Isherwood's work and life in twenty years, Izzo's analysis brings into play the Mortmere stories, by Isherwood and Edward Upward (dating from the 1920s but published only in 1994), and the Diaries, 1939-1960, published in 1996, to reposition Isherwood within a circle of British writers that included - besides Upward - W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and Cecil Day Lewis.

Book Christopher Isherwood Encyclopedia

Download or read book Christopher Isherwood Encyclopedia written by David Garrett Izzo and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and accessible reference work serves Isherwood scholars who need quick access to people, places, novels, stories, essays and plays, introduces Isherwood to those who know little of him, expands the knowledge of the literate general reader, and refreshes teachers of literature with Isherwood details. Entries on Isherwood's most influential friends, including W.H. Auden, Aldous Huxley and Stephen Spender, are significant. Included are all of the monumental "roles" Isherwood exemplified during his life--writer, rebel, gay-activist hero, and proud exponent of the Eastern philosophy known as Vedanta.

Book Walt Whitman and the World

Download or read book Walt Whitman and the World written by Gay Wilson Allen and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1995-06 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the various ethnic traditions that melded to create what we now call American literature, Whitman did his best to encourage an international reaction to his work. But even he would have been startled by the multitude of ways in which his call has been answered. By tracking this wholehearted international response and reconceptualizing American literature, Walt Whitman and the World demonstrates how various cultures have appropriated an American writer who ceases to sound quite so narrowly American when he is read into other cultures' traditions.

Book Religion and the Specter of the West

Download or read book Religion and the Specter of the West written by Arvind-Pal S. Mandair and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the politics of knowledge construction in which the category of "religion" continues to be central. Through a case study of Sikhism, he launches an extended critique of religion as a cultural universal. At the same time, he presents a portrait of how certain aspects of Sikh tradition were reinvented as "religion" during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. India's imperial elite subtly recast Sikh tradition as a sui generis religion, which robbed its teachings of their political force. In turn, Sikhs began to define themselves as a "nation" and a "world religion" that was separate from, but parallel to, the rise of the Indian state and global Hinduism. Rather than investigate these processes in isolation from Europe, Mandair shifts the focus closer to the political history of ideas, thereby recovering part of Europe's repressed colonial memory. Mandair rethinks the intersection of religion and the secular in discourses such as history of religions, postcolonial theory, and recent continental philosophy. Though seemingly unconnected, these discourses are shown to be linked to a philosophy of "generalized translation" that emerged as a key conceptual matrix in the colonial encounter between India and the West. In this riveting study, Mandair demonstrates how this philosophy of translation continues to influence the repetitions of religion and identity politics in the lives of South Asians, and the way the academy, state, and media have analyzed such phenomena.

Book The Spiritual Athlete

Download or read book The Spiritual Athlete written by Ray Berry and published by Olema, Calif. : Joshua Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An example of the independent press at its best" (Wilson Library Bulletin), this book "makes available the spiritual message of some of the most outstanding mystics in an accessible language" (Seyyed Hossein Nasr, professor of Islamic Studies, George Washington University). "Reading The Spiritual Athlete makes one want to go into training immediately".--Huston Smith, author of The Religions of Man. (Joshua Press)

Book Vedanta for the Western World

Download or read book Vedanta for the Western World written by Christopher Isherwood and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Religious Conversion in India

Download or read book Religious Conversion in India written by Manohar James and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Dr. Manohar James explores how Hindu intolerance has contributed to anti-Christian propaganda over the centuries, how such intolerance has informed the conclusions of the Niyogi Committee Report, and how the Report’s ongoing publications, redactions and recessions have intensified anti-Christian rhetoric in India over the last six decades.

Book Vedanta and the West No 158  November December 1962

Download or read book Vedanta and the West No 158 November December 1962 written by Christopher Isherwood and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Introduction To Vivekananda, By Christopher Isherwood; Vivekananda And His Message, By Swami Prabhavananda; And Swamiji In Southern California, By Brahmacharini Usha.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Living Wisdom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pravrajika Vrajaprana
  • Publisher : The Teitan Press, Inc.
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780874810554
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Living Wisdom written by Pravrajika Vrajaprana and published by The Teitan Press, Inc.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the spiritual classic Vedanta for the Western World. Included are articles by some of this century's finest writers on spirituality: Huston Smith, Fr. Thomas Keating, Pico Iyer, Rabbi Asher Block. A fresh and timeless contribution to the literature of spiritual inquiry.

Book Swami Vivekananda on Indian Philosophy and Literature

Download or read book Swami Vivekananda on Indian Philosophy and Literature written by Rabindra Kumar Dasgupta and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: