The female body has historically been a site of struggle in western society. The dualism of the mind and the body, or flesh and spirit, has generally associated the female body with lesser nature or matter while associating the male body with the higher spirit and mind. These du…
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This dissertation inquires into the experience of self-transcendence that results in compassionate living. This awareness engenders a sense of belonging, a cosmological vision in a social narrative in which individuals are members of the community and become caretakers of the ec…
The integral path of devotion to the Divine Mother may be described as a legacy of Sri Aurobindo and Mother Mirra Alfassa, and their gift to humanity, honoring a direct relation to the embodiment of the Divine Mother, and Her essential consciousness. Mother Meera, considered to …
Engaged Buddhism is a modern form of Buddhism that addresses social, as well as individual, suffering; often using contemporary political-economic structural analysis to understand suffering, in addition to traditional Buddhist teachings and practices. Earth Holder Sangha is a g…
Zora Neale Hurston, S. Ansky, Wole Soyinka, and Tyler Perry come from different locations and cultures, but the critical analysis of their work in tandem reveals connections, similarities, dissonances, and possibilities for close readings. These authors expose the breaches in th…
This thesis endeavored to introduce Messianic Judaism to the academic community and explore the notion of whether a supersessionist free form of Christianity is capable of existing. This question was posed by Wilhelmus Valkenberg and did not seem to have an answer; therefore, th…
The current dissertation centers on a host of communal liturgies at Dūnhuáng from the eighth through the tenth centuries. In this period, Buddhist ritual flourished by localizing the existing Chinese ritual elements and absorbing ritual techniques from Tibetan sources. The Dūnhu…
Southeast Asian religions have often been described as syncretic, highlighting the mixture of Hinduism, Buddhism and indigenous animism and supernaturalism. However, syncretism is difficult to detect in the archaeological record. In this study, I investigate a phenomenon in Main…
This book makes a valuable contribution to the fascinating global debate on the meaning and scope of freedom of religion or belief and the relations between state, society and religion. It offers a cross-thematic approach to law and religion from the Global South. Law and religi…
This book makes a valuable contribution to the fascinating global debate on the meaning and scope of freedom of religion or belief and the relations between state, society and religion. It offers a cross-thematic approach to law and religion from the Global South. Law and religi…
This volume brings together diverse Asian religious perspectives to address critical issues in the encounter between tradition and modern western evolutionary thought. Such thought encompasses the biological theories of Charles Darwin, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Earnest Haeckel, Tho…
This book combines the mainstream liberal arguments for religious tolerance with arguments from religious traditions in India to offer insights into appropriate attitudes toward religious 'others' from the perspective of the devout. The respective chapters address the relationsh…
The nineteenth century witnessed a proliferation of alternative religious currents and practices, appropriating earlier traditions, entangling geographically distinct spiritual discourses, and crafting a repository of mindscapes eminently suitable to be accommodated by later gen…
This book examines and compares the religious experience of an African group with a European one. It offers an ethnographical investigation of the Jukun of north central Nigeria. The author also organically weaves into the narrative the Christianization of the Irish in a compara…