author: arvind sharma

Essays on the Mahābhārata

... Sanskrit śrāddha ] . Let's do it , " said Kunthā , “ our fathers ' sarad ... names of men of the warrior caste . " Bhīm Singh , " then , is a perfectly ... home , and Mother Kuntha roundly chastises Bhim Singh , who informs her of the ...

Hindu Narratives on Human Rights

Arvind Sharma. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights incorporates both kinds of rights ... Independence of 1776, and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and ... differences between the two traditions were mainly of degree and ...

Feminism and World Religions

... Surah 2 : Al - Bagarah : 187 . 38. Article on Ird in supplement to the Encyclopedia of Islam ( Leiden : E. J. Brill ... Nisa ' : 135 , 136 ; Surah 5 : Al - Ma'idah : 8 . 42. for instance , see Surah 2 : Al - Baqarah : 177 , 256 , 282 ...

The Annual Review of Women in World Religions: Volume I

... Ashanti kinship is the rule of matrilineal descent .... The chief problem of kinship relations among them is to adjust the jural and moral claims and bonds arising out of marriage and fatherhood to those imposed by matrilineal kinship ...

Fundamentalism and Women in World Religions

... (tan, man, dan) for the sake of the organization. Some remain pracharikas for life while others marry and continue their work as lay sevikas. 18. A couple of months later K. S. Sudarshan was appointed as the fifth sarsanghchalak ofthe ...

Decolonizing Indian Studies

... Sinhala Yaasodharavata ( The Story of Yasodhara ) and the Sinhala Yasodharapandanaya ( The Sacred Biography of ... sex change from life to life does not prove that the impossibility of sex change from life to life was a doctrine . In later ...

The Little Clay Cart: An English Translation of the Mṛcchakaṭika of Śūdraka as adapted for the stage by A.L. Basham

... summary of the law for the four castes . " 83 It seems to me that it was this human quality of the play which so attracted Professor Basham to it , and attracted him sufficiently to under- take the literary enterprise of translating it ...

A Primal Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion

Arvind Sharma. INTRODUCTION WHAT ARE PRIMAL RELIGIONS ? Primal : A Word About the Word The decision to use of the ... Religion ( 1987 ) for the term ' primal , ' one is led to the term ' primitive . ' The term ' primitive , ' however ...

Problematizing Religious Freedom

... primal religions, to fully grasp the manner in which they problematize the concept of religious freedom. Huston Smith explains: The historical religions now pretty much blanket the earth, but chronologically they form only the tip of ...

Religious Studies and Comparative Methodology: The Case for Reciprocal Illumination

... briefly " in that his interests are so wide ranging through fiction writing , Eastern religion , shamanism , alchemy , phenomenology of religion , hermeneutics , primal religions The Views of W. C. Smith and Mircea Eliade 71.

Studies in "Alberuni's India"

... Vaiṣṇava calendar started with it . Albīrūnī cites another verse from the Gītā with calendrical implications , 225 which , as Edward Sachau notes , bears comparison with Bahgavadgītā X.35226 a segment of which was quoted earlier ...

The World's Religions after September 11: [4 volumes]

... Abu Daud , Tirmidhi , Nasai XVI 81. Qur'an Al Baqarah 2 : 188 82. Hadith narrated by Bukhari 83. Hadith narrated by Muslim 84. Hadith narrated by Muslim , Tirmidhi XVII 85. Qur'an At - Tawbah 9 : 105 86. Hadith narrated by Abu Yala ...

Hinduism and Its Sense of History

It is virtually an axiom in the study of Hindu religion and culture that the Hindus lived in a mythic universe and lacked a sense of history. This text examines this proposition in detail.

Part of the Problem, Part of the Solution: Religion Today and Tomorrow

... my weeks and months in a year in various parts of the world looking at poverty face ... grandchildren . ” He looked back at me and said , “ Most people in my ... storms . Sometimes , those storms come out of huge systems . They may be as ...

Today's Woman in World Religions

... andromorphic God symbol who is said , nevertheless , to be nonsexual and beyond gender , even though he is offended by female references but is comfortable with male pronouns . Such clarity would defuse both popular and sophisticated ...

The Experiential Dimension of Advaita Vedanta

... Nisargadatta may be presented in brief , as follows : Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj was born in Bombay in 1897. His parents , who gave him the name Maruti , had a small farm at the village of Kandalgaon and it was here that he spent his ...

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