Israel Selvanayagam
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It is observed from history and contemporary society that humans are religious animals or spiritual creatures. But the complexity and variety of religious life have made even the most sophisticated studies wanting. Identification of different dimensions of religious life has helped but its enumeration and analysis remain inconclusive. The recognition and study of a new variety such as quasi religion and implicit religion calls for exploring newer forms with ...
However complex and mysterious, religion in some form is integral to human life as evident in history and therefore cannot be divorced from study and analysis. The alternative term `spirituality' appeared to ward off the ambiguous characters of religion, but it has not proved to be less complex. Explicit religions claim to possess the resources of spirituality while often maintaining a dichotomy between spiritual and material. An alternative understanding of ...
What does the popular Sanskrit term Bhakti mean? Is it a self-evident concept? With an acknowledgment of complexity and variety this book helps to grasp the essential meaning and various dimensions of a God-experience and its implication for a transformed and transforming life. Taking the famous figures Jesus and Krsna, as presented by two popular texts (St. John's Gospel and the Rasalila section), two distinctive Bhakti frameworks are analysed and compared. Any ...
The scholarly essays present the profound insights of the Bible. They examine a pluralist approach to the New Testament, ways in which the Bible is used to better life and its misuse in certain ways, and themes like liberation, the Sabbath and theology of resistance vis-à-vis a reading of the Bible. With specific examples from different parts of the world, they comprise of theological essays which address burning issues of today like Christian presence in ...
