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The Brahmin, the Aryan, and the Powers of the Priestly Class: Puzzles in the Study of Indian Religion
Published 2020-04-01Subjects: “…Indian religion…”
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Making Shiʿism an Indian Religion: A Perspective from the Qutb Shahi Deccan
Published 2020-03-01“…Engaging an ethnohistorical approach, this essay examines how the Qutb Shahi sultans represented themselves locally and regionally through the use of built space, sponsorship of ritual and innovation of material practices that enabled diverse constituents of the realm to participate in and remember the martyrdom of the third Shi'i Imam Husain at the battle of Karbala, Iraq in 680 CE in ways that made Shiʿism an Indian religion. I use a case study engaging material culture and built space in imperial Hyderabad to demonstrate how the Qutb Shahi sultans became Deccani, using Shiʿism as both an expression of their identity and a polyvalent religio-cultural mediation with the Hindu majority communities over which they ruled. …”
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Armin Geertz' disputats "The Invention of Prophecy: Continuity and Meaning in Hopi Indian Religion"
Published 1993-07-01“…Review artikel vedr. disputatsen "The Invention of Prophecy: continuity and Meaning in Hopi Indian Religion", forsvaret af Armin W. Geertz i september 1992.…”
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Review of: Parsons, Elsie Clews: Pueblo Indian Religion, Volumes I and II
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Introduction to the Special Issue: Seeing and Reading: Art and Literature in Pre-Modern Indian Religions
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Review of: Geertz, Armin W.: The Invention of Prophecy: Continuity and Meaning in Hopi Indian Religion
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Boundaries and Crossings: Religious Fluidity in Twenty-first Century India
Published 2022-11-01Subjects: “…Indian religions; Hindu nationalism; Inter-religious Worship; Sufism, Sikhism, Islam/Muslims…”
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Magic between Europe and India: On Mantras, Coercion of Gods, and the Limits of Current Debates
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Mobilities in Religious Knowledge: Phiroz Mehta and the Logics of Transreligiosity in 1970s–80s South London
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Imaginary lines? 'Islam,' 'secularism,' and the politics of family law in Bangladesh
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The use of, and controversy surrounding, the term atman in the Indian Buddhist tathagatagarbha literature.
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The Soul in Jainism
Published 2019-02-01“…Jainism is among the ancient Indian religions and has a history of more than twenty five centuries and is considered to be among the Nastika or non-orthodox Indian religions. …”
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Høygud og kulturbringer - til Werner Müllers forståelse av de sentrale skogindianeres religioner
Published 1988-07-01“…Werner Müller is one of the leading European scholars on North American Indian religions, with numerous, albeit somewhat controversial, works, primarily in German. …”
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Louis Dumont: Verdensforsagelse, hierarki og renhed
Published 2018-01-01“…English Abstract: This brief article reviews two main contributions by the French sociologist Louis Dumont, his essay “World Renunciation in Indian Religions” and his major work on the Indian caste system, Homo Hierarchicus. …”
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Meera Syal's scapegoat : Hinduism & the Indian woman
Published 2016“…Therefore, this thesis aims to analyse the incongruence between the actual teachings of Hinduism, and Syal's Western interpretation of Indian religions and culture, and thereby explore its effect on Indian women.…”
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Jesus and Spirituality: Reading the Fourth Gospel in the Light of the Indian Culture
Published 2021-09-01“…The character of Jesus and the spirituality reflected in John have much in common with the mystical traditions of the Indian religions.…”
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The role of philosophy in the academic study of religion in Indian
Published 2016-06-01“…The history of Indian philosophy therefore includes and is included within the history of its ‘religions’, in a way that makes philosophical examination of the truth claims of Indian religions internal to those religions themselves. …”
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Reincarnation (Tanāsukh) According to Islam: Comparative, Historical and Contemporary Analyses
Published 2018-07-01“…In the first part I am going to make a comparison between belief in the Hereafter in Islam and belief in reincarnation in Indian religions in terms of their respective views of about God and the universe. …”
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“Discovery of Hinduism” in Religious Thought of the Bengal Renaissance
Published 2023-04-01“…Based on the works by the Bengal Renaissance thinkers, the paper presents their role in creating the notion “Hinduism” as the term for all group of Indian religions, as well as in interpretation of it as one whole religion. …”
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The Metaphysics of the Masses: A Research on the Role of Religion in Schopenhauer's Philosophy
Published 2023-09-01“…In the discussion about the classification of great religions, we will see that Schopenhauer divides religions into optimistic and pessimistic, and the reason for his inclination towards Indian religions is their pessimism. The essay, then, considers the positive and negative aspects of religion from Schopenhauer's point of view. …”
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