The author holds the Birks Chair in Comparative Religion at Mc Gill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
30 Ebooks por Arvind Sharma
Arvind Sharma: A Primal Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion
What am I trying to accomplish through the exercise which I have undertaken, namely, to examine the philosophy of religion in the light of primal religions? If to choose someone else’s expression to …
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Rita Sherma & Arvind Sharma: Hermeneutics and Hindu Thought: Toward a Fusion of Horizons
The advent of Hindu Studies coincides with the emergence of modern hermeneutics. Despite this co-emergence and rich possibilities inherent in dialectical encounters between theories of modern and pos …
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Brian Arthur Brown: Four Testaments
Four Testaments brings together four foundational texts from world religionsthe Tao Te Ching, Dhammapada, Analects of Confucius, and Bhagavad Gitainviting readers to experience them in full, to explo …
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Nancy M. Martin & Joseph Runzo: Human Rights and Responsibilities in the World Religions
This volume outlines the approaches to human rights and responsibilities within the different world religions. Featuring contributions from over 15 scholars, the book covers such key issues as women’ …
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€38.74
Arvind Sharma: Problematizing Religious Freedom
The concept of religious freedom is the favoured modern human rights concept, with which the modern world hopes to tackle the phenomenon of religious pluralism, as our modern existence in an electron …
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Sharma Arvind Sharma: World’s Religions after September 11
This set is an unprecedented examination of religion’s influence on modern life, an honest assessment of how religion can either destroy us or preserve us, and a thorough exploration of what steps mi …
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€208.10
Sharma Arvind Sharma: Gandhi
In his Autobiography, Gandhi wrote, "What I want to achieve-what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years-is self-realization, to see God face to face. . . . All that I do b …
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Sharma Arvind Sharma: Part of the Problem, Part of the Solution
Part of the Problem, Part of the Solution unleashes religion’s true potential to do good by bridging the modern divide between religion and an ever pervasive secular society, a notion often loathed b …
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€84.47
Sharma Arvind Sharma: Hindu Narratives on Human Rights
This pioneering work examines the existing understanding of Hinduism in relation to human rights discourse.Written by a leading Hindu scholar, Hindu Narratives on Human Rights is organized around spe …
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€67.19
Sharma Arvind Sharma & Khanna Madhu Khanna: Asian Perspectives on the World’s Religions after September 11
This book offers a unique perspective on September 11 and our world after this tragic event, sharing lessons from an Asian religious experience that can help heal a world troubled by religious confli …
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Arvind Sharma: Religious Studies and Comparative Methodology
Comparison is at the heart of religious studies as a discipline and foundational to the field’s methodology. In this book, Arvind Sharma introduces the term ‘reciprocal illumination’ to describe the …
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Arvind Sharma: Sleep as a State of Consciousness in Advaita Vedānta
Indian philosophy bases itself on three states of consciousness: waking, dreaming, and deep sleep. Deep sleep, or susupti, plays an important role in Advaita Vedanta, the major philosophical school t …
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Arvind Sharma: Methodology in Religious Studies
Methodology in Religious Studies assesses the impact of women’s studies on the various methods employed in studying religion. Since its inception in the 1860s, the study of religion as an academic di …
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€34.99
Arvind Sharma & Katherine K. Young: Feminism and World Religions
CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic Books Addressing religion and feminism on a global scale, this unprecedented book contains a nuanced and fine-tuned treatment of seven of the world’s religions from a …
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Arvind Sharma: Hinduism as a Missionary Religion
Is Hinduism a missionary religion? Merely posing this question is a novel and provocative act. Popular and scholarly perception, both ancient and modern, puts Hinduism in the non-missionary category. …
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Arvind Sharma: One Religion Too Many
One Religion Too Many is a Hindu pilgrim’s progress through the world’s religious traditions. An eminent scholar of comparative religion, Arvind Sharma provides a first-hand account of how he came to …
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Ellen Bradshaw Aitken & Arvind Sharma: The Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith
This is the first work to address the legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1916–2000), whose intellectual and institutional contributions helped shape the field of religious studies in the latter half o …
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Arvind Sharma: Women in World Religions
This is a book by women about women in the religions of the world. It presents all the basic facts and ideological issues concerning the position of women in the major religious traditions of humanit …
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Victoria Kennick & Arvind Sharma: Spiritual Masters of the World’s Religions
What is a spiritual master? Spiritual Masters of the World’s Religions offers an important contribution to religious studies by addressing that question in the context of such themes as charismatic a …
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Arvind Sharma: An Accidental Theodicy
An adequate explanation of suffering is perhaps the most intractable issue in the study of religion and philosophy, and the answer to the question ‘Why me?’ has eluded not only those who are the vict …
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€31.99
Rita D. Sherma: Swami Vivekananda
With historical-critical analysis and dialogical even-handedness, the essays of this book re-assess the life and legacy of Swami Vivekananda, forged at a time of colonial suppression, from the vantag …
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Mark Quentin Benedict & Maxwell J Scott: Transgenic Insects
Technology for modifying the genotypes and phenotypes of insects and other arthropods has steadily progressed with the development of more precise and powerful methods, most prominently transgenic mo …
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Arvind Sharma: Gandhi
In his Autobiography, Gandhi wrote, What I want to achieve what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years is self-realization, to see God face to face. . . . All that I do by way …
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€11.99
Dr Mark Quentin (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA) Benedict & Dr Maxwell J (North Carolina State University, USA) Scott: Transgenic Insects : Techniques and Applications
Technology for modifying the genotypes and phenotypes of insects and other arthropods has steadily progressed with the development of more precise and powerful methods, most prominently transgenic mo …
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Arvind Sharma: Decolonizing Indian Studies
The present Indian academic self-understanding of its history and culture is largely Western in origin. This Western intellectual enterprise, however, went hand in hand with a Western political enter …
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Arvind Sharma & Katherine Young: Her Voice, Her Faith
They say religion is a personal and private affair. But when a woman believes in a tradition, she has a relationship to that faith beyond her sacred space. Religious traditions’ historically poor tre …
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€64.32
Arvind Sharma & Katherine Young: Her Voice, Her Faith
They say religion is a personal and private affair. But when a woman believes in a tradition, she has a relationship to that faith beyond her sacred space. Religious traditions’ historically poor tre …
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€64.20
