Delhi, diaspora and religious consciousness: heritage and palimpsest architecture in M. G. Vassanji’s <i>A Place Within: Rediscovering India</i>

Bhat, Shilpa Daithota

doi:10.1080/14755610.2020.1833057

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“…This research is implemented in theoretical and empirical-practical ways. The first phase was implemented theoretically through studying the approaches, methods, methodologies used by such scholars of the field as Apresyan (2010), Nelson (2010), Jensen (2017), Horujy (2020), Hall (2018), Bermejo (2000), Barbato (2020), Bhat (2019), Velassery and Patra (2019), Wong (2021), Young (2019), and many others. As for the topic of religious consciousness, our special attention was not payed to this conception in general, but to the aspect of correlation with ecology.…”

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Freedom Of Belief And Ecological Consciousness In India

Krapchunov¹

2021

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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To characterize any religious phenomenon from outside, we inevitably use social symbols and concepts, but they can be applied only to a certain cultural context, where the motives of religious actors derive from the wholeness of geopolitical unity and religious doctrine, which both lead to "lived religion" in concrete culture. To speak about freedom in religion today means not to give a degree of more or less, but to criticize the habitual meaning of such constructs as "freedom" and to use it as a tool for analyzing social problems, one of which is ecological crisis. Hindu tolerant worldview is still the basis of coexistence of states, culturally quite different from each other, in language, in law, in religion. There is an opinion that freedom can still help to neutralize the European spirit of consumerism by the old Indian idea of ahimsa. The central idea of Indian religious worldview is ahimsa. Contemporary analogy of ahimsa in western science is "environmental ethics". Both having non-anthropocentric logics, they seem to have something in common. Both of them suggest something more than human existence as a highest aim of life. Trying to apply religious tools to environmental problems, we clearly see two parallels: freedom of expression in Indian religions looks very much like tolerance, and ahimsa is similar to environmental ethics. It needs to verify these analogies.

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