Author: David Emmanuel Singh
Editor(s): David Emmanuel Singh
Publisher: ISPCK
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 454
ISBN/UPC (if available): 817214461X
Description
The title deals with Spirituality, its meaning from various denominational angles and perspectives. Part I consists of a series of articles on World Traditions of Spirituality with two major components, one directly based on various traditions of spirituality, while the other deals with primal spiritualities.
It covers Modern Hindu Spirituality, Advaita Spirituality and Sikh Spirituality, to name a few. Component Two elaborates on Primal Spiritual Traditions, such as Oraon Spirituality, Primal Spirituality in Madhya Pradesh and Primal Societies of Jharkhand.
Part II gives Examples of How Spirituality Affirms the World. It consists of three components: Spirituality and Women’s Concerns, Spirituality and Ecological Concerns and on how spirituality supports action towards saving our environment and our world.
Spirituality and Inter Faith Concerns deals with Interfaith keeping in mind spiritualities direct relevance for human inter-relations. It is hoped that readers would get an in-depth knowledge of Spirituality, and its meaning in the various spheres of human life and religion.
EDITORS
DAVID EMMANUEL SINGH is Associate Director, the Henry Martyn Institute (P O Box 153, Hyderabad-1, A.P., India). He is author of several scholarly and devotional papers published in various journals and magazines. Prior to joining Henry Martyn Institute, he was Auxiliary Secretary, The Bible Society of India, New Delhi. Besides teaching, he is currently researching in the area of philosophical Sufism.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
By David Emmanuel Singh
PART I: SPIRITUALITY AFFIRMS THE WORLD
WORLD TRADITIONS OF SPIRITUALITY
Aynu’sh-Shams wa’l-Baha (Nizam) in Ibn al-Arabi’s Tarjuman al-Ashwaq and her significance for world Affirmation
Modern Hindu Spirituality with reference to Swami Sivananda
Meaning of the true significance of This World in the advaita spirituality of Sankara
Guru Nanak and Sikh Spirituality
Spirituality as Responses and Reactions to the environs of this World, based on Pratitya-Samutpada
PRIMAL SPIRITUAL TRADITIONS
Sarhul: A Way of Maintaining Life in the Primal societies of Jharkhand
Oraon Spirituality: Female Privilege, Responsibility and Challenge
Primal Spirituality in Madhya Pradesh
PART II: EXAMPLES OF HOW SPIRITUALITY AFFIRMS THE WORLD
SPIRITUALITY AND WOMEN’S CONCERNS
Beyond the maya of Patriarchal Religion:
The Female Body as Battleground of Meaning
Denying the Realm of Mara:
A Life-Affirming Buddhist Women’s Spirituality
The figure of Zaynab in Shi’i Devotional Life
Storytelling in the Rhetoric of a Muslim Female Healer in South India
SPIRITUALITY AND ECOLOGICAL CONCERNS
Let the Rivers and the Trees Clap their Hands: Spirituality and Ecological Concern-A Christian View
Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: Some Soundings into the Relation between Ecology and Hinduism
Spirituality and Purposive Action for Environment Protection
Towards an Eco-Spirituality: Recovering the Living Planet
Creative Reflections on the Modern Ecological Concern in the Holy Qur’an
Religion and Environment: The Sikh Perspective
God, Human Person and Nature: Some Reflections from the Point of View of Christian Theism
SPIRITUALITY AND INTER-FAITH CONCERNS
Interpretive Dialogue with a Vaishnava Tradition
J Krishnamurti on the Religious Life
The Concept of World According to the Bhagavat Gita
Components of a Tamil Saiva Bhakti experience as Evident in Mankkavacakar’s Tiruvacakam
Summary
Appendix 1
A List of the Writings of Prof David C Scott
Index