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Author: Dr. Abraham Kovoor
Publisher: Jaico Publishing House
Published: 2005-07-01
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 8172243316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBegone Godmen! describes Dr. Kovoor's encounters with assorted fakes attempting to cash on the credulity of their victims. It is a work of detection and exposure, as enjoyable a any thriller, and a warning against the bogus gurus the reader may come across.
Author: Dr. Abraham Kovoor
Publisher: Jaico Publishing House
Published: 2000-03-01
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 8172242166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGods, Demons and Spirits is a worthy successor to the bestseller BEGONE GODMEN. In it, Dr. Abraham Kovoor, the famed rationalist, continues his relentless crusade against charlatans and miraclemen with greater vigour. It is a scathing exposure of the conning methods employed by pseudo-gods, bogus gurus and assorted fakes to entrap their gullible victims.
Author: S. R. Ramteke
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9788171567485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKR.K. Narayan And His Social Perspective Deals With The Caste-Ridden Hindu Society Which Narayan Presents In His Novels. His Characters Are Fatalists With Explicit Faith In The Invisible. The Book Presents Their Half¬Hearted Attempts At Self-Assertion. However, Their So-Called Sentimentalism Does Not Bear Fruit And They Fall Back To Their Former Position Accepting Defeat In Life.The Book Brings Out Vividly Narayan S Atti¬Tude To Life, His Firm Grip Of Hindu Ethos Of Which He Is The Product, And His Failure To Come Out Of It, Though The West Wind Has Blown Much Of Its Dust.However Detached He Sounds Himself To The Readers, His True Spirit Finds Vivid Expression In The Book. At Any Rate R.K. Narayan Is A Thoroughly Indian Novelist Par Excellence, And The Aspect Is Hardly To Be Overlooked.
Author: Lise McKean
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1996-05-15
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780226560106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough shrewd marketing and publicity, Hindu spiritual leaders can play powerful roles in contemporary India as businessmen and government officials. Focusing on the organizations and activities of Hindu ascetics and gurus, Lise McKean explores the complex interrelations among religion, the political economy of India, and global capitalism. In this close look at the business of religion, McKean traces the ideological and organizational antecedents to the Hindu nationalist movement. The Indian state's increasing patronage of Hindu institutions makes competition for its support greater than ever. Using materials from guru's publications, the press, and extensive field research, McKean examines how participation by upper-caste ruling class groups in the Divine Life Society and other Hindu organizations further legitimates their own authority. With a remarkable selection of photographs and advertisements showing icons of spirituality used to sell commodities from textiles to cement to comic books, McKean illustrates the pervasive presence of Hindu imagery in India's burgeoning market economy. She shows how gurus popularize Hindu nationalism through imagery such as the goddess, Mother India, and her martyred sons and daughters.
Author: Leonard Angel
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1994-08-04
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0791494985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book shows that mysticism is incomplete without scientific rationalism, and that our current social and political projects cannot be completed without assimilating the values and practices of mysticism. It discusses cross-cultural ethics, mysticism and value theory, mysticism and metaphysics, mysticism and the theory of knowledge, ethics and religion, parapsychology, patriarchy, and social and political history.
Author: Michael R. Matthews
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-07-18
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 3030188221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a richly documented account of the historical, cultural, philosophical and practical dimensions of feng shui. It argues that where feng shui is entrenched educational systems have a responsibility to examine its claims, and that this examination provides opportunities for students to better learn about the key features of the nature of science, the demarcation of science and non-science, the characteristics of pseudoscience, and the engagement of science with culture and worldviews. The arguments presented for feng shui being a pseudoscience can be marshalled when considering a whole range of comparable beliefs and the educational benefit of their appraisal. Feng shui is a deeply-entrenched, three-millennia-old system of Asian beliefs and practices about nature, architecture, health, and divination that has garnered a growing presence outside of Asia. It is part of a comprehensive and ancient worldview built around belief in chi (qi) the putative universal energy or life-force that animates all existence, the cosmos, the solar system, the earth, and human bodies. Harmonious living requires building in accord with local chi streams; good health requires replenishment and manipulation of internal chi flow; and a beneficent afterlife is enhanced when buried in conformity with chi directions. Traditional Chinese Medicine is based on the proper manipulation of internal chi by acupuncture, tai-chi and qigong exercise, and herbal dietary supplements. Matthews has produced another tour de force that will repay close study by students, scientists, and all those concerned to understand science, culture, and the science/culture nexus. Harvey Siegel, Philosophy, University of Miami, USA With great erudition and even greater fluidity of style, Matthews introduces us to this now-world-wide belief system. Michael Ruse, Philosophy, Florida State University, USA The book is one of the best research works published on Feng Shui. Wang Youjun, Philosophy, Shanghai Normal University, China The history is fascinating. The analysis makes an important contribution to science literature. James Alcock, Psychology, York University, Canada This book provides an in-depth study of Feng Shui in different periods, considering its philosophical, historical and educational dimensions; especially from a perspective of the ‘demarcation problem’ between science and pseudoscience. Yao Dazhi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Author: Satya Pal Ruhela
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Published: 2015-11-06
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1482857782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis very important research based, comprehensive and most enlightening book is the revised and updated book combining my two most important books on Sri Sathya Sai Incarnation: Section I presents the second Sai Baba Incarnation - Sri Sathya Sai Babas life (1926-2011), His Identityand Role, Teachings and His Contributions to humanity. It Is the revised and updated version of the authors first book Sai Baba Sai and His Message(1975) which was very much appreciated by Sri Sathya Sai Baba saying: very good book, Yes,very good book. Its 13 editions were published from 1975 to 2002.. Section II presents a sample of Sri Sathya Sai Babas thrilling miracles for which He has been universally known as Man of miracles. His miracles are still happening throughout the world even after His leavingg His mortal body on 24th April,2011 at the age of 85.. In Section III is presented the authors own self-inspired life-long research review of the important writings of Sai devotees and scholars from various fields on this great incarnation of this age and His unique contributions to the moral and spiritual development and social welfare of millions of people throughout the world. It is a unique study as no one else has as yet done such a research review. This publication is being published on the happy occasion of His 90th Birth Anniversary on 23rd November 2015 as the tribute of the 80 year old author who has been privileged to be His ardent devotee for the last 40 years as His devotee since 1971 and studying His spiritual and social movement as a quasi observer retaining his Identity as an independent sociologist.
Author: Corinne G. Dempsey
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2009-01-07
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780791476345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClaims of the miraculous are foundational to faith and skepticism, making and breaking religious careers and movements in their wake. Drawing on a variety of South Asian religious traditions-Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity-this book revolves around the theme of conundrum, demonstrating how miracles offer divine proof, tenacious embarrassment, and, in many cases, both. The contributors explore not only how modern miracles are conundrums themselves but also how they make conundrums out of assumed divides between scientific and supernatural realms, modernity and tradition, the West and the rest, and ethnographer and native. Book jacket.
Author: Stefan Binder
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2020-04-09
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1789206758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring lived atheism in the South Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, this book offers a unique insight into India’s rapidly transforming multi-religious society. It explores the social, cultural, and aesthetic challenges faced by a movement of secular activists in their endeavors to establish atheism as a practical and comprehensive way of life. On the basis of original ethnographic material and engaged conceptual analysis, Total Atheism develops an alternative to Eurocentric accounts of secularity and critically revisits central themes of South Asian scholarship from the hitherto marginalized vantage point of radically secular and explicitly irreligious atheists in India.
