Hindu India: Another Approach to its Multiflorous Religious Culture- Collected Essays by Edmund Weber

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Hindu India: Another Approach to its Multiflorous Religious Culture- Collected Essays
Author:	Edmund Weber
ISBN:	9783631545409
Binding:	Paperback
Year:	2006
Pages:	136
Size:	16 x 23 cm
Weight:	240 grams
Price:	INR1210.00

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Modernism which has become a self-conscious and very powerful intellectual and cultural factor in the global inter-religious competition. There is the old Indian Buddhism which is deeply rooted in Hindu culture. There is Ambedkar, the great leader of the Untouchables and fighter against caste system, who prevented his Dalit comrades from conversion to Christianity or Islam, and encouraged them to stay in the world of Indo-genous culture by entering Neo-Buddhism. There are anti-karmistic Hindu religions fighting against the rule of karma: arul (selfless grace), bhakti (selfless love) and seva (selfless service) are their basic religious ideas. The Indo-genous religions are deeply connected by puja whatever objects may be worshipped; Sikhs worship the Holy Book, the Granth, as their Guru and Lord; Iskcon worships Krishna and has reconstructed the puja even in the West.

About the Author

Edmund Weber

Edmund Weber, born in 1939; studies in Comparative Religion, Protestant Theology, Philosophy, and Sociology in Marburg, Tübingen, Münster (Westphalia), and Frankfurt am Main; 1969 Doctor of Theology; 1972 Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Frankfurt am Main; 1982 Director of the Institute for Irenics; Editor of the THEION-Annual for Religious Culture.

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