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Academic books and articles

Post autor: gndd » 08 sty 2007, 19:43

Korzystajac z ksiazki zaproponowanej przez Rasathali pozowole sobie otworzyc i tutaj, jak na Vrindzie, watek z roznymi ciekawymi pozycjami. Zeby ta pozycja (i mniejmy nadzieje inne) nie umknela i zeby w razie czego latwo bylo ja odszukac.
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Post autor: gndd » 08 sty 2007, 19:44

John Brooke, Geoffrey Cantor
Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion (Glasgow Gifford Lectures)
Oxford University Press, 2002
Review
"Excellent treatment, particularly in avoiding simplistic essentializing characterizations of both religion and science."--Richard Payne, Graduate Theological Union

Book Description
This book published in the UK by TandT Clark, expands upon the authors' 1995-6 Glasgow Gifford Lectures, a prestigious lecture series. Brooke and Cantor examine the many different ways in which the relationship between science and religion has historically been presented. They contend that in fact neither science nor religion is reducible to some timeless "essence," and criticize the various master-narratives that have been put forward in support of such "essentialist" theses. Along the way, Brooke and Cantor repeatedly demolish the cliches of popular histories of the science and religion debate, demonstrating again and again the impossibility of reducing these debates a single narrative, or the relationship to to a paradigm of conflict.
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Nauka i religia

Post autor: Rasasthali » 09 sty 2007, 19:07

Wlasciwie pomylilo mi sie, na poczatek lepsza jest inna ksiazka tego samego autora : 'Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives' (http://www.amazon.com/Science-Religion- ... 0521283744)
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Re: Nauka i religia

Post autor: Rasasthali » 01 mar 2007, 17:39

"Hinduism and Ecology"

The Intersection of Earth, Sky, and Water
Editor Christopher Key Chapple
Editor Mary Evelyn Tucker

Z ksiazki tej korzystal ostatnio moj maz przygotowujac seminarium o ekologii i hinduizmie w swoim collegu. Bylo bardzo ciekawe. Pisze krotka raport dla naszej grupy naukowcow Iskconu, wiec moge tez tu umiescic w ktoryms z watkow.
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Post autor: gndd » 21 kwie 2007, 15:20

Wkrotce dostepna bedzie:

E. Burke Rochford
Hare Krishna Transformed (The New and Alternative Religions Series)
New York University Press
"Burke Rochford is the most notable scholarly interpreter of Krishna Consciousness in America, and Hare Krishna Transformed is the most insightful and informative book written on the organizational evolution of the movement."
--David G. Bromley, Virginia Commonwealth University

Most widely known for its adherents chanting "Hare Krishna" and distributing religious literature on the streets of American cities, the Hare Krishna movement was founded in New York City in 1965 by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Formally known as the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, or ISKCON, it is based on the Hindu Vedic scriptures and is a Western outgrowth of a popular yoga tradition which began in the 16th century.

In its first generation ISKCON actively deterred marriage and the nuclear family, denigrated women, and viewed the raising of children as a distraction from devotees' spiritual responsibilities. Yet since the death of its founder in 1977, there has been a growing women's rights movement and also a highly publicized child abuse scandal. Most strikingly, this movement has transformed into one that now embraces the nuclear family and is more accepting of both women and children, steps taken out of necessity to sustain itself as a religious movement into the next generation. At the same time, it is now struggling to contend with the consequences of its recent outreach into the India-born American Hindu community.

Based on three decades of in-depth research and participant observation, Hare Krishna Transformed explores dramatic changes in this new religious movement over the course of two generations from its founding.
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Re: Nauka i religia

Post autor: gndd » 28 kwie 2007, 09:33

Rasasthali pisze:Z ksiazki tej korzystal ostatnio moj maz przygotowujac seminarium o ekologii i hinduizmie w swoim collegu. Bylo bardzo ciekawe. Pisze krotka raport dla naszej grupy naukowcow Iskconu, wiec moge tez tu umiescic w ktoryms z watkow.
Co z raportem? zamiescisz go gdzies? Czy moze juz to zrobilas i mi umknal?
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Re: Nauka i religia

Post autor: Rasasthali » 28 kwie 2007, 12:02

gndd pisze:
Rasasthali pisze:Z ksiazki tej korzystal ostatnio moj maz przygotowujac seminarium o ekologii i hinduizmie w swoim collegu. Bylo bardzo ciekawe. Pisze krotka raport dla naszej grupy naukowcow Iskconu, wiec moge tez tu umiescic w ktoryms z watkow.
Co z raportem? zamiescisz go gdzies? Czy moze juz to zrobilas i mi umknal?
NIe napisal sie jeszcze :( Dzieki za przypomnienie! :-)
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Re: Academic books and articles

Post autor: Rasasthali » 26 cze 2007, 21:23

Ostatnio ukazala sie ksiazka Radhikaramany (Ravi Gupty) na temat
Jivy Goswamiego pt The Chaitanya Vaishnava Vedanta of Jiva Gosvami: When Knowledge Meets Devotion (Routledge Hindu Studies

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chaitanya-Vaish ... 0415405483
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Post autor: gndd » 27 lut 2008, 17:01

Geoffrey A Oddie
Imagined Hinduism: British Protestant Missionary Constructions of Hinduism, 1793-1900
Many recent studies have sought to critically re-examine the place of missionaries during recent centuries. These have often challenged the assumption that missionaries were simple advocates of imperial policy, and have traced many of the complex inter-relationships between missionary and secular thinking. Within this whole debate, Oddie has consistently been one of the most sophisticated revealers of missionary attitudes. Here, Oddie turns to another angle of this debate, the theological work of missionaries picturing and describing Hinduism. This rather neglected subject, has nevertheless, also been the subject of some recent studies (such as, K. Cracknell, Justice, Courtesy and Love: Theologians and Missionaries Encountering World Religions, 1846-1914 [London: Epworth Press, 1995], and Paul Hedges, Preparation and Fulfilment: A History and Study of Fulfilment Theology in Modern British Thought in the Indian Context [Bern: Peter Lang, 2001]). Positioning himself against much of this debate, Oddie adds a new facet in this field.

The work begins with a very useful introduction which summarises and comments upon much previous missiological research and provides some useful guides. One such is a discussion of the way missionary and imperial agendas entwined, and he provides three ways this happens (21-24): 1) missionaries were influenced by the writings of officials; 2) imperial and Colonial policy often dictated what aspects of Hinduism were highlighted - though, as Oddie argues, it was often what was allowed or condoned by the East India Company that created a context for missionary reaction against this; and, 3) the presence of other Europeans and missionary associations with them helped enforce an "us" and "them" mentality, which was further bolstered by a sense of superiority in Western ability, both from the fact of imperial control as well as from science and technology. He also gives a useful summary of what might be, across the ages, certain key presuppositions of the missionary. These he categorises as four points, though he adds a fifth that affected some missionaries. The first is aversion to idolatry (24-26), the second an antithesis to sexuality (26-28 ), the third a belief in reason and science (28-30), and the fourth being the principle of inner religion (30), the fifth, belief in democracy and republicanism, as noted affected a few missionaries (30-32).

Part I of the book includes three chapters on how Hinduism was imagined within India in the period 1600-1800. However, the heart of the book is Part II. Here he looks at the way the dominant thinking on Hinduism developed, envisaging a brahmanical tradition with a debased popular form alongside it (chapters 5 and 6). This part is a useful original contribution, important not just for missionary studies, but to many within Religious Studies concerned with debates surrounding orientalism and post-colonialism. Chapters 8 to 10 show how attitudes changed within the period 1850-1900. In particular, he usefully shows how missionary attitudes started to break through the old model of a monolithic Hinduism to see it as a diverse system of contrary traditions, and discusses how the older model relates to Hindu self-identity. This covers many areas within the work of Cracknell and myself, but Oddies strong emphasis upon missionaries provides a further layer to this. Chapters 4, 7, and 10 are also very useful contributions looking at the questions, respectively, of Hinduism in missionary training, Hinduism in missionary periodical literature, and gender issues, specifically relating to women missionaries.

In conclusion, this is a valuable work adding a lot that is useful to the debate. My criticisms are, on the whole, relatively minor matters. Finally, I should perhaps say something on the title which places this work in relation to the growing body of work on orientalism and post-colonial criticism. Unlike some work in this field which decries all missionary thinking as inevitably biased, his work, I believe, adds to a growing number of studies which have pointed out how, for their time, missionary attitudes and thinking could be quite advanced and helped push forward new ideas and shape public opinion and scholarly attitudes. As such, this book should be of interest to anyone involved in debates not just on missionary thought, but the construction of the terms "religion" and "Hinduism" as well as the broader range of debates around orientalism and post-colonial thinking.

Paul Hedges
University of Winchester
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