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The Guru of Abuse: Analysing Cultural Distortions in Anuradha Roy’s Sleeping on Jupiter
Nalans, 2023 This research paper delves into the intricate relationship between culture as a tool of oppression and liberation, focusing on the experiences of child abuse within the context of Anuradha Roy’s Sleeping on Jupiter (2015).
Dhruvee Sinha, Zeeshan Ali
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Globalization and the Conduct of Hindu Radicalism in Authority [PDF]
Journal of World Sociopolitical Studies, 2023 Following the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, the sociopolitical rivalry between Hindu religious nationalists and secular democratic nationalists that arose during the independence struggles and whose intolerance precipitated the conflict ...
Heshmat Sadat Moinifar +1 more
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Viatica, 2015 In the 17th century, the theme of monster gods is recurrent in accounts of French travel to the East Indies. Faced with translating iconography of Indian reality, which was foreign to outsiders, artists of the Middle Ages and of the Renaissance ...
Devika Vijayan
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Hinduism in the Socio-Political Life of India
Международная аналитика, 2021 The article analyzes the importance of the religious factor in determining the ways of socio-political development of India. India remains a country with a multi-confessional population with a clear predominance of adherents of Hinduism.
T. L. Shaumyan
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Cultural Identity Transformation of Gaudiya Vaishnavas in Russia
Концепт: философия, религия, культура, 2020 This study of Gaudiya Vaishnavism in Russia focuses on the transformation of its former followers’ worldviews. Major attention is paid to the ways and trends of these changes and, in particular, to the extent of their resilience in Russian cultural ...
T. V. Yasnaya
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Positive Psychology and Hinduism [PDF]
, 2022 The present chapter focuses on Hinduism, offering an overview of intersections between Hinduism and positive psychology. We first compare and contrast modes of inquiry used within Indian and mainstream psychology.
Singh, Kamlesh +2 more
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“Ancestors We Didn’t Even Know We Had”: Alice Walker, Asian Religion, and Ethnic Authenticity
Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2015 Recent debates about the ethics of identity in a global age have dealt with how to prioritize conflicting local and global allegiances. Guided by these concerns, the fiction of Alice Walker develops a distinctive view of how local cultures and global ...
Kyle Garton-Gundling
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Hinduism and the Genealogy of Culture: Sovereignty, Religion, and Authority in India
ReOrientThe article is an attempt to unpack the famous “Hindutva verdict” of 1995, by specifically paying attention to the construction of culture and its relationship with Hinduism in India.
Muhammed Shah Shajahan
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Akhil Sharma Against Mysticism: the Unconscious Body
Indialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies, 2018 This article deals with Akhil Sharma’s latest work, Family Life (2014), where Birju’s dead body, after a pool accident, shows the possibility of living after mental death.
Edgar Tello
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A Popular Dictionary of Hinduism [PDF]
, 2005 A multi-purpose reference work which should become an indispensable companion for anybody who comes into touch with Hinduism. Includes a dictionary of Sanskrit and vernacular terms; a glossary of terms and concepts; and a survey of the historical ...
Werner, Karel
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