Word: hinduism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gnaws at the roots of our being." In search of something that they can hold on to, many people in the West, particularly the young, are either returning to Christian fundamentalism through the Jesus Revolution (TIME, June 21) or turning to the religions of the East, chiefly Buddhism and Hinduism. "The swamis are coming from India, and they're taking away the flock," says Campbell. "They're speaking of religion as dealing with the interior life and not about dogmatic formulae and ritual requirements...
Historian Max Müller. Not that Welch believes in what he calls the "Zoo Theory," according to which representatives of the various species of religion must be on a faculty. The "Insider Theory"-the principle that Catholic studies must be taught by a Catholic, Hinduism by a Hindu-is similarly beguiling and wrong, says Welch. Instead, he says, the qualifications for scholars are the same in religion as in any other discipline, including the ability to perform critical analysis. Welch is convinced that the study of religion must be buttressed with that of the social sciences and the other...
...Gandhi reminds voters to look for the New Congress Party's symbol on the ballot. Since perhaps 70% of the voters are illiterate, all parties use symbols (see above), and some ballots bear a score or more. Given the importance of the sacred cow in Hinduism, the New Congress symbol could hardly be more effective-a cow and a calf...
...important thing about All Things Must Pass is that Harrison is as deeply into affirmation as the Dylan of old was into protest. Harrison clearly agrees with the old Indian belief that music has the power to change human destiny. In Art of Dying, George is talking mainly about Hinduism, yet his lyrics have universal appeal...
...Jews recite every morning thanking God they are not female. In the future, the church will become an area of equal participation by women. This means, of course, that organized religion will have to give up one of its great historical weapons: sexual repression. In most structured faiths, from Hinduism through Roman Catholicism, the status of women went down as the position of priests ascended. Male clergy implied, if they did not teach, that women were unclean, unworthy and sourc es of ungodly temptation, in order to remove them as rivals for the emotional forces of men. Full participation...