Pub Date : 2022-11-03DOI: 10.1007/s11407-022-09326-x
R. Saul
{"title":"Merchants, Ritualists, and Bifurcated Hanumāns: A Cultural History of Miracle Deities in Rajasthan","authors":"R. Saul","doi":"10.1007/s11407-022-09326-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-022-09326-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"363 - 391"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49648332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-19DOI: 10.1007/s11407-022-09324-z
Eijiro Hazama
{"title":"Gandhi’s Concept of Conscience/Antarātmā Revisited: Exploring His Cardinal Principle in Trilingual Texts","authors":"Eijiro Hazama","doi":"10.1007/s11407-022-09324-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-022-09324-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"425-449"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42491432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-29DOI: 10.1007/s11407-022-09322-1
J. Lipner
{"title":"A God at Play? Reexamining the Concept of Līlā in Hindu Philosophy and Theology","authors":"J. Lipner","doi":"10.1007/s11407-022-09322-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-022-09322-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"283 - 326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45934580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-28DOI: 10.1007/s11407-022-09323-0
Signe Cohen
{"title":"The Bhagavadgītā and the Kṛṣṇa Yajurveda Upaniṣads","authors":"Signe Cohen","doi":"10.1007/s11407-022-09323-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-022-09323-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"327 - 362"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46547898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-27DOI: 10.1007/s11407-022-09325-y
Alberico Crafa
{"title":"Beyond Black and White: The Italian Reception of the Debate on Native Indian Commentaries in Nineteenth-century Vedic Studies","authors":"Alberico Crafa","doi":"10.1007/s11407-022-09325-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-022-09325-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"451-474"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44295619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-27DOI: 10.1007/s11407-022-09321-2
W. Noseworthy
{"title":"Seeking Dharma Below the Winds: Hindu Particularism in Island Southeast Asia","authors":"W. Noseworthy","doi":"10.1007/s11407-022-09321-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-022-09321-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"393 - 423"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41906789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-29DOI: 10.1007/s11407-022-09317-y
Renée L. Ford
The Shambhala Facebook group created a space for individuals to reimagine their religious teachings and practices without the Tibetan Tantric Buddhist student-teacher relationship, which received much criticism after Shambhala’s spiritual leader, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, had been accused of sexual abuse by some of his students. This article examines how digital space contributes to Shambhala members’ negotiations of religious authorities through their communications and membership on the Shambhala Facebook group, for example, by establishing meditation groups that incorporate Shambhala teachings but not the student-teacher relationship. The collection of posts and comments on the Shambhala Facebook group show how the communication processes utilized by this online social group are an example of relational authority, or what Heidi A. Campbell describes as “a negotiation of reciprocity and agency between different parties.”
香巴拉Facebook小组为个人创造了一个空间,让他们在没有藏传密宗佛教师生关系的情况下,重新想象自己的宗教教义和实践。在香巴拉的精神领袖萨雍米庞仁波切(Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche)被一些学生指控性侵犯后,这种关系受到了很多批评。这篇文章探讨了数字空间如何通过香巴拉成员的交流和香巴拉Facebook小组的成员身份来促进香巴拉成员与宗教当局的谈判,例如,通过建立包含香巴拉教义但没有师生关系的冥想小组。香巴拉Facebook小组的帖子和评论表明,这个在线社交小组利用的沟通过程是关系权威的一个例子,或者海蒂·a·坎贝尔(Heidi a . Campbell)所描述的“不同各方之间互惠和代理的谈判”。
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Pub Date : 2022-08-08DOI: 10.1007/s11407-022-09319-w
Tine Vekemans
This article addresses Bhaktamar Mantra Healing (BMH), a healing practice based on a popular Jain stotra. After a preliminary discussion of Tantra and Tantric elements in Jainism, BMH is introduced as the most recent layer in a complex tradition that grew around the Bhaktāmar Stotra and conceptualized as a “Tantric reconfiguration”: a relatively recent creative blending of Jain devotional and Tantric elements with some new influences resulting in a systematized, democratized, and (to an extent) commodified brand of spiritual healing available on the spiritual marketplace. It then proceeds to examine BMH’s significant digital media presence to demonstrate how information provided on the effectiveness and mechanics of mantra healing reveals a complex interplay of shifting religious, spiritual, and scientific narratives and how functional differences between different digital media forms impact upon the prevalence of these different narratives. Ultimately, the article argues that approaching BMH as a Tantric reconfiguration emerging from an encounter of a Jain practice with consumer culture is helpful to make sense of what sets BMH apart from other uses of Jain mantras and of the importance of the digital space BMH has made for itself.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1007/s11407-022-09318-x
H. Urban
{"title":"Dark Webs: Tantra, Black Magic, and Cyberspace","authors":"H. Urban","doi":"10.1007/s11407-022-09318-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-022-09318-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"237 - 252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52643407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}