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Modern Jainism
This book presents a substantive yet accessible introduction to the modern thought of Jainism. It examines the life and thought of some of the most influential 19th and 20th-century Jain ascetic leaders that remain little known in the Western world. The book's first part provides a detailed philosophical overview of Jain thought based on the translation of a seminal Hindi text Jain Darshan. The second part introduces eight Jain saints from the major Jain sects, including their biographies, philosophical perspectives, and related contemporary movements flourishing in various places across India and beyond. The author also shares his ethnographic experiences in several chapters. Furthermore the book provides a detailed glossary of terms in Sanskrit, Prakrit, Hindi, Gujarati, and Rajasthani and their English meanings. An indispensable book that offers innovative insights into several crucial Jain movements and how they helped shape modern Indian society and beyond. The book includes historical, philological, and anthropological accounts of modern Jainism.
An Introduction to Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy is the field of science devoted to the study of astronomical objects, such as stars, galaxies, and nebulae. Astronomers have gathered a wealth of knowledge about the universe through hundreds of years of painstaking observations. These observations are interpreted by the use of physical and chemical laws familiar to mankind. These interpr
Dharma in America
America now is home to approximately five million Hindus and Jains. Their contribution to the economic and intellectual growth of the country is unquestionable. Dharma in America aims to explore the role of Hindu and Jain Americans in diverse fields such as: education and civic engagements medicine and healthcare music. Providing a concise history of Hindus and Jains in the Americas over the last two centuries, Dharma in America also gives some insights into the ongoing issues and challenges these important ethnic and religious groups face in America today.
Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities
In Indic religious traditions, a number of rituals and myths exist in which the environment is revered. Despite this nature worship in India, its natural resources are under heavy pressure with its growing economy and exploding population. This has led several scholars to raise questions about the role religious communities can play in environmentalism. Does nature worship inspire Hindus to act in an environmentally conscious way? This book explores the above questions with three communities, the Swadhyaya movement, the Bishnoi, and the Bhil communities. Presenting the texts of Bishnois, their environmental history, and their contemporary activism; investigating the Swadhyaya movement from an ecological perspective; and exploring the Bhil communities and their Sacred Groves, this book applies a non-Western hermeneutical model to interpret the religious traditions of Indic communities. With a foreword by Roger S Gottlieb.
Science and Socio-Religious Revolution in India
Scholars have long noticed a discrepancy in the way non-Western and Western peoples conceptualize the scientific and religious worlds. Non-Western traditions and communities, such as of India, are better positioned to provide an alternative to the Western dualistic thinking of separating science and religion. The Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organization (HESCO) was founded by Dr. Anil Joshi in the 1970s as a new movement looking at the economic and development needs of rural villages in the Indian Himalayas, and encouraging them to use local resources in order to open up new avenues to self-reliance. This book argues that the concept of dharma, the law that supports the ...
Disability - Curse or A Challenge
It took me 15 years to pen down my emotions as a locomotor disabled person. Please spend 1 minute to allow me awaken your interest to read it. Living the past 15 years as a LOCOMOTOR DISABLED person, I have penned this book depicting my perspective and strong emotions like grief, agony, despair and love shared by a person whose journey from abled to disabled showcase the changes one experiences in relationship, behaviour and love of family, friends and society. This book represents the fight of a disabled person to overcome every challenge that life throws at him and live an abled life.
The 100 Crore Plan
A person who has never initiated in life needs a very big motivation. There is a thin line between knowing something & still having confusion about the same thing. You need leap of faith one day to start actual working. Therefore, we shall start with magic of compounding calculator. How can we reach 100 CR? Keep the end target in sight and start investing. Does it need 5 lac per month earning? Not at all. Let’s calculate - Initial capital - Rs. 0 Put Rs. 3000 in monthly saving box (means Rs. 100 daily) Time - 30 years Rate of Return - 35% (only 0.1% daily return on capital) What is the result? The Result - 112 crore Rs. 100 per day is possible even if you have 5-10 thousand as capital, which is less than your smart phone's price. Read the book to know and learn the moneymaking strategies by the Money Guru Pankaj Jain.
Self Medication and Drug Knowledge in Haryana
According to WHO, self medication is "the selection and use of medicines by individuals to treat self-recognized illnesses or symptoms". It includes the use of nonprescription drugs and a range of different alternative medicines such as herbal remedies, food supplements, and traditional products. In most illness episodes, self medication is the first option which makes self-medication a common practice worldwide. Drugs are central to self-medication. Self-medication is the selection and use of medicines by individuals to treat self-recognized illnesses or symptoms of illnesses.Socio-demographic and socio-economic variables affect self-medication. The self medication is not always safe and th...
The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophical Theories of Religion
The theories and methods used to study world religions and cultures continue to be rooted in Western philosophies. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Indian Philosophical Theories of Religion challenges the reliance on Western approaches and shows how innovative ideas from the major Indian traditions can enrich understandings of religion and the social sciences. Divided into three core parts - Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism - each chapter takes a key Indic philosophical idea, like Jain Theory or Samkhya Philosophy, and applies it to areas including religion, anthropology and psychology. By drawing on non-western views, such as seeing reality as a world within one self and outside a flow with nothing...
Indian and Western Philosophical Concepts in Religion
Philosophical concepts are influential in the theories and methods to study the world religions. Even though the disciplines of anthropology and religious studies now encompass communities and cultures across the world, the theories and methods used to study world religions and cultures continue to be rooted in Western philosophies. For instance, one of the most widely used textbooks used in introductory courses on religious studies, introduces major theoreticians such as Edward Burnett Tylor, James Frazer, Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Mircea Eliade, William James, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, and Clifford Geertz. Their theories are based on Western philosophy. In contrast, in Indic philosophical systems, such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism, one of the common views on reality is that the world both within one self and outside is a flow with nothing permanent, both the observer and the observed undergoing constant transformation. This volume is based on such innovative ideas coming from different Indic philosophies and how they can enrich the theory and methods in religious studies.
