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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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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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Scholar and Spokesman: Benoy Sarkar on the West, Religion, Nationalism and Internationalism
Cracow Indological Studies, 2021 Benoy Kumar Sarkar was both a serious scholar of history and society and a spokesman who wanted to promote ideas of equality between East and West and highlight the secular achievements of the Hindus.
Rohit Wanchoo
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Review of: Rosane Rocher; Ludo Rocher, Founders of Western Indology: August Wilhelm von Schlegel and Henry Thomas Colebrooke in correspondence 1820-1837. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013 [PDF]
, 2014 Descriptive and Comparative ...
Kulikov, Leonid
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Journal for Art Market Studies, 2018 In 2016, the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) returned a 3rd-century stone panel to India. Titled Worshippers of the Buddha, the panel was bought in 2005 for US$595,000 from New York art dealer Subhash Kapoor. Arrested in 2011 and extradited to India,
Robert Arlt, Lucie Folan
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Book Review: Revelation, History, and the Dialogue of Religions: A Study of Bhartrhari and Bonaventure [PDF]
, 1997 A review of David Carpenter\u27s Revelation, History, and the Dialogue of Religions: A Study of Bhartrhari and ...
Clooney, Francis X.
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Before and After Comparative Philosophy
Asian Studies, 2022 This paper traces the history of comparative philosophy and points to a transition toward post-comparative philosophy. It is argued that, theoretically speaking, comparative philosophy was created by making a distinction between Western and non-Western ...
Hans-Georg Moeller
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Logic in the tradition of Prabhacandra [PDF]
, 2014 The characterization of truth-preserving arguments is a core issue in India and received the detailed attention of philosophers. This chapter presents Prabhācandra’s theory of inference from the eleventh century, stressing its uniqueness and detailed ...
Gorisse, Marie-Hélène
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