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SacredSecular Contemplative Cultural Critique

SacredSecular Contemplative Cultural Critique

What would it mean to conceive of the sacred as a source of knowledge that is as vital as the secular? What insights does a contemplative approach yield in analysing neoliberal globalisation or Hindu fundamentalism? Is a dew drop sacred or is it secular? In today‘s charged atmosphere many believe that the sacred is best kept firmly apart from the realm of the secular. SacredSecular: Contemplative Cultural Critique offers a contrasting view. It argues that the two are indivisible and can productively interweave in illuminating key contemporary issues. Essays investigate the quotidian (trash cut flowers) the philosophical (advaita karma) the economic (work globalisation) and the political (war violence). Mani invites us to rethink the prevailing view that secularism is the only progressive response to religious authoritarianism. SacredSecular proposes a conceptual approach in which body mind heart nature matter and spirit are not merely equals but equally crucial to crafting an inclusive vision and practice. This book addresses several audiences: scholars of contemporary Indian society and culture spiritual practitioners striving to integrate their practice with their politics and all those interested in contemplating the present and what it portends for our collective future. | SacredSecular Contemplative Cultural Critique

GBP 175.00
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Pandita Ramabai Life and landmark writings

Pandita Ramabai Life and landmark writings

This book looks at the life of Pandita Ramabai one of the major social reformers of 19th-century India. Her unique life trajectory spanned across a pan-Indian orthodox Hindu mould to being part of Brahmo Samaj and Prarthana Samaj and further to Christianity. At the age of 30 she had travelled widely within India and across the world from USA and UK in the West to Japan in the Far East. She reported these fascinating journeys to international friends and fellow Maharashtrians in both English and Marathi. Fighting conservatism and marginalization she set up several projects to empower women notably the Sharada Sadan in Mumbai and the Mukti Mission in Kedgaon near Pune in Maharashtra. This work locates Pandita Ramabai within her liminal social milieu and discursive networks during various phases of her life and traces her diverse ideological routes along with her critical writings some of which have been retrieved and/or presented in English translation here for the first time including The High-Caste Hindu Woman and the newly discovered Voyage to England. Offering a comprehensive insight into aspects of 19th-century Indian society — religion and reform women’s rights and feminism social movements poverty and colonialism — this book will greatly interest researchers and students of South Asian history sociology and gender studies. | Pandita Ramabai Life and landmark writings

GBP 46.99
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