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The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
wiley   +1 more source

Raising double-muscled breed cattle and their crossbreds in the tropics: insight from growth models [PDF]

Veterinary World
Background and Aim: In tropical conditions, modeling the predictive parameters of live weight, including those at birth, pre-weaning, post-weaning, finishing, and maturing, and the average daily gain, is challenging.
Ummi Noorhakimah Abdullah, Goh Yong Meng
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ATMAN, IDENTITY, AND EMANATION: ARGUMENTS FOR A HINDU ENVIRONMENTAL ETHIC [PDF]

, 2011
Many contemporary authors argue that since certain Hindu texts and traditions claim that all living beings are fundamentally the same as Brahman (God), these texts and traditions provide the basis for an environmental ethic.
Framarin, Christopher G.
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Integral Samnyasa ? Adi Shankaracharya and Liberation Hermeneutics [PDF]

, 2007
Writing in the Women\u27s Bible Commentary, Carolyn Osiek offers five conflicting interpretations of this controversial passage and its significance for women\u27s liberation.
Locklin, Reid B.
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
wiley   +1 more source

THE CONCEPT OF BRAHMAN IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF NIMBĀRKA-VEDĀNTA

Prachi Prajna, 2021
Reality according to the Nimbārka-Vedānta is of two kinds: Those are Independent and Dependent. Brahman alone is the independent reality. In the philosophy of Nimbᾱrka-Vedᾱnta, the absolute ultimate reality is Śrῑkṛṣṇa himself.
SHYAM SUNDAR SADHUKHAN
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P.T. Raju’s Approach to the Real: A Relationalist Critique [PDF]

, 2018
This article provides an overview of P.T.
Kaipayil, Joseph
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Buddha, Bhakti, and Brahman: Sebastian Kappen S.J.’s Dialogue with Indian Religions [PDF]

, 2017
This article analyzes how Sebastian Kappen S.J. (1924-1993), a social thinker and one of the most radical Indian liberation theologians, related to Indian religions.
Goddeeris, Idesbald, Thekkemuriyil Antony, Mathew   +1 more
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Nepali Women at Work: Menstruation in Informal and Formal Workplaces

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Women of specific castes in Nepal are socialized to adhere to a range of menstrual customs. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews, we examine the relevance of menstrual customs in informal and formal workplaces in Kathmandu, Nepal. We expand upon Acker's work on gendered institutions cross‐culturally, highlighting its global significance, and ...
Srijana Karki, Tamara L. Mix
wiley   +1 more source

Unity in Diversity: Coinfluence of Basic Mythological and Philosophical Systems of India

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2012
The article examines one of the main questions of intercommunications between main religious and cultural systems in India: Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Christianity. The article, using detailed factual material, focuses the similarities and differences
O. G. Ulltsiferov
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