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The role of philosophy in the academic study of religion in Indian [PDF]

, 2016
Joseph T. O’Connell drew attention to the relative scarcity of academic work on religion in South Asia, and o ered as a plausible explanation for this state of a airs the tension between secular and religio‐political communal interests.
Sikka, Sonia
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Constructing the new Nepal: Religious Billboards in Nepal’s Second People’s Movement [PDF]

, 2015
Accompanying King Gyanendra’s February First, 2005, efforts to consolidate his loosening grip on national power, the royal Nepali government raised a series of highly visible billboards throughout the cities of the Kathmandu Valley.
Baltutis, Michael
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Registered report: The effectiveness of a Bhagavad Gita intervention to reduce psychological distress in homeless people-A randomised controlled trial.

PLoS ONE
IntroductionThe coronavirus disease pandemic has worsened psychological distress in people experiencing homelessness (PEH). This study evaluates the impact of learning the Bhagavad Gita versus engaging in Kuchipudi dance on reducing psychological ...
Laalithya Konduru, Simranjeet Singh Dahia, Gargi Kothari-Speakman   +2 more
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Reading Nature-Culture Correlation in the Anthropocene

Nordicum-Mediterraneum
This paper aims to scope the nature-human relationship in the Anthropocene, the era which is marked by man’s presence as a factor of climate and environmental changes.
Iskra Tasevska
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Earlier Buddhist Theories of Free Will: Compatibilism [PDF]

, 2010
A critical review of the first wave of publications on Buddhism and free will between the 1960s and ...
Repetti, Rick
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The Bhagavad Gita through the Prism of Kantian Ethics

RUDN Journal of Philosophy
The study analyzes one of the main works of Hindu philosophy, the Bhagavad Gita, which tremendously influenced the development of the Eastern image of the world in general and the Hindu in particular.
Vadim V. Kortunov, Ivan Y. Lapshin, Alexandr I. Panyukov   +2 more
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The dilemma of dharma in the Gītā : religious constraints on moral duty [PDF]

, 2014
The ethical dilemma begins in the Gītā with the refusal of Arjuna to fight against his own kinsmen the Kauravas. The entire discourse in the Gītā basically offers the reasons by which Kṛṣṇa encouraged and persuaded Arjuna to fight.
Sequeira, Cinderella
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Double Visions

Rhesis
This article examines Rudyard Kipling’s Kim and E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India from the point of view of the religious elements, deriving from Buddhism and Hinduism respectively, contained within them.
David Ian Lucking
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A phenomenological inquiry into sacred time in Hinduism [PDF]

, 2016
In this work, I examine the nature of sacred time in religious experience. Applying the methodology of phenomenology of religion, I inspect the ways in which human beings experience sacred time in Hinduism and present an argument against Mircea Eliade’s ...
Provost, Netty
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Expanding Ethical Horizons: Rethinking the Ethics of De 德 and Guṇa in the Laozi 老子 and Bhagavad-Gītā

Religions
This paper aims to engage in an ethical discussion of de in the Laozi and guṇa in the Bhagavad-Gītā to expand the horizon of our ethical understanding of Chinese and Indian philosophy. First, this paper will explore the different ethical levels of de and
Pritam Saha
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