The Life of Hinduism

hinduism in pittsburgh. 245 Hinduism is a tolerant religion.The statement in the “Visitor’s Guide” to the Penn Hills temple tha ...

246. diaspora of devotion either in gratitude or as a petition for particular favors, and to receive a token of the lord ’s grac ...

hinduism in pittsburgh. 247 several dominant motifs have emerged in their self-understanding. With enough repetition, these idea ...

248. diaspora An interesting passage in Kamban’s Tamil Ramayana makes this point very well. The monkeys who are ready to embark ...

249 16. A Diasporic Hindu Creed Some Basic Features of Hinduism sitansu s. chakravarti This essay was previously published as “S ...

250. diaspora SANATANA DHARMA In India, Hinduism is called Sanatana Dharma, which means literally “the eternal religion.” There ...

a diasporic hindu creed. 251 CASTE SYSTEM The majority of Hindus follow the caste system, broadly a fourfold classification of p ...

252. diaspora personal God, to atheism. Most Hindus worship the divine in five personal mani- festations (panchopasana): (1) the ...

a diasporic hindu creed. 253 ject of love, who always responds to the inner call of the devotee. He has planned creation through ...

254. diaspora NOTES Cf. Rig-veda 1.164.46, which stated about 4,000 years ago that “Truth” is one, though the wise name it diff ...

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257 17. Militant Hinduism Ayodhya and the Momentum of Hindu Nationalism john stratton hawley This essay was previously published ...

258. identity Confrontations between groups of Hindus and Muslims shortly preceded the British takeover of that part of India in ...

militant hinduism. 259 were to be freed in Ayodhya at the end of their sojourn. Their “liberation” (mukti) would be represented ...

260. identity A very different kind of stone stood at the site of the erstwhile mosque itself. This bit of rubble was claimed to ...

militant hinduism. 261 tect the mosque, others apparently gave the demonstrators an hour to demolish it, then extended the deadl ...

262. identity of anticolonial struggle in much of the world today. Some opiate! But as the temple of postcolonial secularism is ...

militant hinduism. 263 figure 11 “Most of the people who worship here are Hindus”: Muslim leader surveying the wreckage of the t ...

264. identity the morning of December 23, 1949, got there as a result of divine intervention in the affairs of this world. After ...