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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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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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“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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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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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Pemukiman Kuno Di Daerah Tepi Sungai Batanghari Pada Masa Melayu
Berkala Arkeologi, 1990 Daerah belahan timur pulau Sumatera merupakan tanah aluvial muda yang sebagian besar masih berupa rawa-rawa. Di daerah ini banyak terdapat sungai besar yang mengalir menuju selat Malaka dan selat Karimata, Di antara sungai-sungai besar yang mengalir di ...
Bambang Budi Utomo
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Induced abortion in the world: 3. In search of a minimum common ground
International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.Abstract The rising worldwide trend toward legalization of termination of pregnancy has been accompanied by increased polarization around abortion. Two opposite broad coalitions emerged from this confrontation, generally known as the “pro‐life” and “pro‐choice” movements. The basic issue for pro‐life advocates is that the protection of “innocent, human
Giuseppe Benagiano +4 more
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Wawasan, 2019 There are some scholars, such as Clifford Geertz, Geoffrey Robinson and Miquel Covarubbias who pay much attention to the patterns of the religious and cultural life of Balinese.
Mahmud Arif
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Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gender and race have received significant philosophical attention recently; they are the paradigm cases of social kinds in most philosophical accounts. I argue for the inclusion of caste as a social kind because it affects the lives of many people, and because it presents itself as an important test case for philosophers of social kinds.
Ajinkya Deshmukh
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Book Review: Indian Theology in Dialogue [PDF]
, 1988 A review of Klaus Klostermaier\u27s Indian Theology in ...
Neufeldt, Ronald
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