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What Weber Got Right About Brahmins-Testing His Theories About South Asian Caste Hierarchies. [PDF]
J Hist Behav SciABSTRACT The following article is an assessment of Max Weber's depiction of Brahmins and ascetics in South Asia. Using contemporary historical analyses, the article has attempted to demonstrate the validity of Weber's analyses in his seminal treatise on South Asian society, “The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism” that he had ...
Pal S.
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Ayurveda: between religion, spirituality, and medicine. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2013 Ayurveda is playing a growing part in Europe. Questions regarding the role of religion and spirituality within Ayurveda are discussed widely. Yet, there is little data on the influence of religious and spiritual aspects on its European diffusion. Methods. A survey was conducted with a new questionnaire.
Kessler C +4 more
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Embodied Metarepresentations [PDF]
Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2022 Meaning has been established pervasively as a central concept throughout disciplines that were involved in cognitive revolution. Its metaphoric usage comes to be, first and foremost, through the interpreter's constraint: representational relationships ...
Nicolás Hinrichs +7 more
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A proposal for inclusion of Indology in regular school curriculum [PDF]
Ancient Science of Life, 2016 Sanchit Misra
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Evolution of the figure of the Brahmin in early Muslim writings
Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2023 When we talk about the caste system today, among other things, we talk about the wily, crafty and the boasting Brahmins who founded and maintained a set of self-serving rules that effectively took the form of the caste system.
Dunkin Jalki
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Towards Methods and Tasks of the Digital Indology
RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2022 The article describes the state of affairs and prospects for research and development in the domain of active use of digitalization and computer programming in the study of the Indian intellectual tradition.
Purushottama Bilimoria +2 more
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Development and Change, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 687-728, July 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT What if we selected our leaders by lottery? Zooming out from the mud huts of indigenous communities in the forested hills of eastern India, this article compares three different models of leadership and democracy: liberal electoral democracy; Marxist‐Leninist Maoist democracy; and democracy by sortition — the random selection of rotating ...
Alpa Shah
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 77-100, March 2021., 2021 Abstract This article demonstrates how, in the 1760s, two British East India Company servants, John Zephaniah Holwell and Alexander Dow, constructed a particular interpretation of India's ancient religious past through creative misrepresentations of mysteriously sourced texts.
Jessica Patterson
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Framing the Pandemic: An Examination of How WHO Guidelines Turned into Jain Religious Practices
Religions, 2022 This paper identifies and examines a Jain narrative that frames Jain tenets as being in line with some of the most impactful COVID-19 measures. It demonstrates how during the early stages of the pandemic (i.e., mid-March 2020 to January 2021), some Jains
Claire Maes
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Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2014 The Department for the "administration of affairs with Asian nations" at College of Foreign Affairs was established on February 26, 1796 by the imperial decree and the school for Chinese, Manchu, Persian and Turkish languages translators was opened one ...
D. V. Streltsov
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