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Performing anti‐colonial military identities in the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, 1943–1945: War, diasporic women and decolonisation

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 602-619, July 2024.
Abstract The processes by which diasporic colonised Indian women were constituted as anti‐colonial military subjects offer a valuable corrective to the neglected role of colonised women in the scholarship on decolonisation and war. This article addresses how female officers of the Rani of Jhansi Regiment staged and performed anti‐colonial gendered ...
Shompa Lahiri
wiley   +1 more source

Hindu‐Christian Comparative Theology in a Decolonial Key

open access: yesModern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 285-306, April 2024.
Abstract This article imagines how the discipline of comparative theology might sound in a decolonial key. Focusing on implications for Hindu‐Christian comparative theology, this article puts the sacramental theological approach of Indian Christian artist and theologian Jyoti Sahi into conversation with Michi Saagiig (Mississauga) Nishnaabeg theorist ...
Michelle Voss
wiley   +1 more source

The modeling pastes of the monumental terracruda sculpture of the Silk Roads: Archaeometric study of the Tepe Narenj and Qol‐e‐tut examples (Kabul, Afghanistan)

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 76-99, February 2024.
Abstract This paper presents the results of the mineralogical, petrographic and chemical study of different archaeological samples related to terracruda sculptures and other elements that were part of the architectural decoration of the Buddhist sites of Tepe Narenj and Qol‐e‐tut (Kabul, Afghanistan; fifth to 11th centuries CE).
Monica López‐Prat   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Continuity and Change in Neo-Tantra: An Ethnographic Contribution

open access: yesEntangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer
Critical scholarship on neo-Tantra has underscored how it has distorted Tantric practice into a consumerist pursuit of so-called sacred sex that bears little resemblance to the South Asian traditions it originates from.
Carine Plancke
doaj   +1 more source

Kuṇḍalinī Rising and Liberation in the Yogavāsiṣṭha: The Story of Cūḍālā and Śikhidhvaja

open access: yesReligions, 2017
Various Śaiva Tantric elements have been identified in the Yogavāsiṣṭha, but little has been written about the role of kuṇḍalinī rising in relation to this text’s notion of living liberation (jīvanmukti).
Ana Laura Funes Maderey
doaj   +1 more source

EPILOGUE: Currents of convergence—Religious change in Asian contexts

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The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 318-320, August 2025.
J. Derrick Lemons
wiley   +1 more source

Charya: the tantric musical tradition of the Kathmandu Valley

open access: yes, 2013
This musical CD presents a wide overview of Charya, one of the lesser known sacred musical traditions of the Kathmandu valley. \ud Rooted in esoteric Tantric Buddhist tradition (vajrayana), widespread among the Newar of Nepal, Charya songs represent an ...
Nicoletti, Martino
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Exploring India's Bridge Position: Contemporary Globalized Yoga in Fact and Fiction

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Religious Studies Review, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 435-436, June 2025.
Suzanne Newcombe
wiley   +1 more source

The neuroscience of tantric practice

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This chapter is primarily concerned with tantric practice as spiritual training or self-cultivation within Buddhist and Hindu traditions. This process involves cognitive, emotional, and physical aspects of an integrated body-mind, and it appears to ...
Samuel, Geoffrey, Kozhevnikov, Maria
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Post-Tantric Teleology [PDF]

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Teleological thinking is often viewed with suspicion in modern philosophy, especially when it is linked to ideas of salvation or to fixed final states.
Rudolph, Hans-Joachim
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