Contemplative studies and Hinduism : meditation, devotion, prayer, and worship /: meditation, devotion, prayer, and worship. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Rita D. Sherma, Purushottama Bilimoria.
• Editors: Sherma, Rita DasGupta; Bilimoria, Purusottama
• Contents: Contemplative Studies and the Principles and Practices of Hindu Contemplative Life: An Introduction Rita D. Sherma Part I. Contemplative Practice: Cross-Cultural and Interreligious Considerations On Creating a Contemplative Studies Program in the Southwest Andrew O. Fort Contemplative Experience: An Interdharma Comparative Reflection Rita D. Sherma Part II. Contemplation and Yoga Praxis Why Meditate on God? The Role of Īśvara-praṇidhāna in the Classical Sāṃkhya and Yoga Tradition Marzenna Jakubczak; Emotional and Devotional Union: A Bhāgavata Theology of Oneness; Gopal K. Gupta Sri Chinmoy on the Nature and Goals of Contemplative Practice; Kusumita P. Pedersen Part III. Sādhana: Knowledge, Wonder, and Love The Role of Sādhanā in Advaita Vedānta Varun Khanna The Instability of Non-Dual Knowing: Post-Gnosis Sādhana in Vidyāraṇya’s Advaita Vedānta James Madaio Śrīvidyā: A Śākta Model of Esoteric Sādhanā of the Śrīcakra Madhu Khanna The Body and Wonder in Tantra; Loriliai Biernacki Semiotics and Illocution in Gauḍīya Sādhana Cogen Bohanec Part IV. Prayer, Worship, and Ritual Prayer and Worship in the Ascetics of the Ramananda Sampraday Ramdas Lamb Māntric Effect, Effervescent Devatā-s, Noetic Supplications, and Apūrva in the Mīmāṃsā Purushottama Bilimoria Prayer and Worship through Music and Liturgy in North Indian Vaiṣṇava Traditions Guy L. Beck Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New Delhi : Routledge India
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 294.5; Hinduism; Samadhi
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000195064; 9781000195002; 9781000195033; 9781003042419
• Related ISBNs: 9781138583740
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