Biography of Mahmoud Mustafa Ayoub. Introduction.

I. The need for dialogue : setting the context: 1.

The need for harmony and collaboration between Muslims and Christians. 2.

The Islamic context of Muslim-Christian relations. 3.

Islam and Christianity : between tolerance and acceptance. 4.

Roots of Muslim-Christian conflict. 5.

Christian-Muslim dialogue : goals and obstacles. II.

Critical theological and juridical issues : a comparative perspective: 6. A Muslim appreciation of Christian holiness.

7. Martyrdom in Christianity and Islam.

8. The idea of redemption in Christianity and Islam.

9. Dhimmah in the Qur'an and Hadith.

III. Christological issues : Muslim perspectives: 10.

The miracle of Jesus : Muslim reflections on the divine word. 11.

Jesus the son of God : a study of the terms Ibn and Walad in the Qur'an and Tafsir tradition. 12.

Toward an Islamic Christology I : an image of Jesus in early Shi'i Muslim literature (less)

How did this small remote town become the Holy City the 'centre of the world' and now the key to peace in the Middle East? (less)

How did this small remote town become the Holy City the 'centre of the world' and now the key to peace in the Middle East? (less)

Hinduism: 1. Introduction.

2. The myth.

3. Theology and Autology.

4. The way of works.

5. The social order.

II. Buddhism: 1.

Introduction. 2.

The myth. 3.

The doctrine. Index.

"Hinduism and Buddhism is the eleventh volume in the series of the Collected Works of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in IGNCA's publication programme.

Originally published in 1943, the two essays are authoritative expositions of the teachings of these religions as understood by those who practiced them rather than as understood by scholars and comparative religionists who studied and viewed them from without. Coomaraswamy assumes that even the oldest forms of Hinduism were neither polytheistic nor pantheistic and that there is no doctrine of reincarnation, other that of the immanent God 'who never become anyone'.

Hinduism is the oldest of the surviving mystery religions whose formulations are essentially the same as those of Platonism Christianity, Taoism and other traditional doctrines. "Buddhism is treated in (less)

General. II.

The awakening of faith. III.

Buddhism and Christianity. IV.

Nirvana. V.

The translation and its history. VI.

The editing. 1.

Reasons for writings the book. 2.

The fundamental doctrine of the Mahayana faith. 3.

Expositions of the Mahayana faith. 4.

The practice of the Mahayana faith. 5.

The advantages of the practice of the Mahayana faith. Translator's supplementary.

Select bibliography. "This is the title of one of the most important religious books in the world, occupying, in the literature of the higher Buddhism, a place not dissimilar to that of our own New Testament.

Its importance is increased when one considers that it formulates the fundamental doctrines of the Mahayana School, and was written by Ashvaghosha, one of the greatest poets of India, during the early part of the first century AD--a period when communication between east and west was reasonably frequent and extensive. Not only have Buddhist sages considered (less)

"For the first time, two classic biographies - Dhan Gopal Mukerji's The Face of Silence (1926) and Swami Nikhilananda's Sri Ramakrishna (1942) - are brought together to provide a fuller understanding of the life and spiritual significance of Sri Ramakrishna as well as the systems of Indian religious thought intimately connected with him. Pairing legend with fact, memory with history, this unique volume - including an Introduction to Sri Ramakrishna's God-consciousness by Swami Adiswarananda - succeeds in intimately examining the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna and conveying the true story of this great mystic, whose leaping flame of spiritual realization continues to influence the modern spiritual (less)

1. The background.

2. The context of mission 1904-6.

3. Breakthrough to mission 1906-7.

4. Towards a theology of national renaissance.

5. Towards an Indian Church.

6. People of other faiths.

7. Moving on.

Conclusion. Notes.

Bibliography. Index.

"Charles Freer Andrews first came to India in 1904 and even in his lifetime he was being turned into a saint, a fate similar to that of his greatest friend, Gandhi. This book gets behind that obfuscation.

Others have studied the story of his later development but this is the first closely researched account of the period between 1904 and 1914, which traces Andrews' transformation into a significant player in modern Indian history. Arriving as a young missionary to teach at St.

Stephen's College Delhi, at the high noon of the empire, Andrews underwent a profound transformation. His Christianity was challenged and changed in the process, as (less)

The enlightened prophets live in the light of hope and with faith in that hope for mankind. Presented in a captivating style let us embark upon a voyage into the unknown Bhaskar Banerjee takes us through which is immediately both gripping as also daring fully to realize in the end that (less)

2. Buddhism's developments in India and abroad.

3. Mahayana and Hinayana.

4. Buddhist traditions.

5. Rejoicing and reversing the wheel of becoming.

6. Buddhist revival in east and west.

7. International Buddhism.

8. Concept of inequality of religions and definitions of religions.

9. Religion and other departments of knowledge.

10. The religion of Zarathustra and the religion of Buddha.

11. Buddhism and Greek religion.

12. Hinduism and Buddhism.

13. Judaism and Buddhism.

14. Buddhism and Jainism.

15. Buddhism and Confucianism.

16. Buddhism and Taoism.

17. Buddhism and Shintoism.

18. Buddhism and Christianity.

19. Buddhism and Islam 20.

Sikkhism and Buddhism. 21.

Atheism and Buddhism. 22.

Buddhism and Communism. 23.

Dr. Ambedkar and Buddhism.

24. Ambedkarism in the world.

25. Buddhism in the world.

26. Conversion.

27. Ambedkar's perspective: A Philosophy of a religion.

28. Evaluation and conclusion.

29. Chronology: Dr.

Ambedkar (Before and (less)

2. Introduction.

3. Prologue.

4. Beyond song and dance.

5. The festivals: i.

Aoleng Monyu. ii.

Bushu. iii.

Meleingi and Chega-N-Khia. iv.

Metum-Neo. v.

Mimkuut. vi.

Moatsu. vii.

Mongmong. viii.

Monyu. ix.

Naknyulum. x.

Nazhu. xi.

Ngada. xii.

Sekrenyi. xiii.

Sukrunye. xiv.

Tokhu Emong. xv.

Tsokum. xvi.

Tuluni. 6.

Epilogue. "Nagaland -- the most vibrant of eight Northeast Indian states, is home to 16 hospitable tribes and other sub-tribes, each distinctively different from the other in terms of tradition, customary practices, language and attire.

But all bound by a unique identity -- Naga. Although Christianity is the predominant religion here, yet each tribe of Nagaland annually celebrates its respective traditional festival connected one way or the other with sowing, post-sowing or harvesting.

The roots of these festivals go back to the ancient times when isolated villages on unforgiving hill-tops existed as independent city-states and head-hunting others from hostile villages around was order (less)

Religion and terrorism: the need for a multidimensional model. 2.

Jihadism in comparative perspective: psychological themes in religiously motivated terrorism. 3.

Aum Shinrikyo: violence and terrorism in Japanese Buddhism. 4.

The divine terrorist: religion and violence in American apocalyptic Christianity. 5.

The role of the individual: toward a clinical psychology of religious terrorism. 6.

What does this tell us about religion. Notes.

Bibliography. Index.

"Religious terrorism has become the scourge of the modern world. What causes a person to kill innocent strangers in the name of religion? As both a clinical psychologist and an authority on comparative religion.

James W. Jones is uniquely qualified to address this increasingly urgent question.

Research on the psychology of violence shows that several factors work to make ordinary people become dangerous to others. These include feelings of humiliation or shame, a tendency to see the world in black and white, and demonization (less)

Personal experience (biographical). 2.

A life of dialogical commitment. II.

Abhishiktananda's dialogical theology: 1. The context and the setting of Abhishiktananda's dialogical theology.

2. Presuppositions and process of Abhishiktananda's dialogical theology.

3. The unique shape of Abhishiktananda's dialogical theology.

3. Evaluation and conclusion.

Bibliography. Index.

"This book in its original form is the thesis submitted to the Senate of Serampore College towards the D.Th degree with the title : "An Examination of Swami Abhishiktananda's Dialogical Theology": now published, with written permission with the title : "A Christian Dialogical Theology : The Contribution of Swami Abhishiktananda.

The book is both a person-oriented and a problem-oriented research. It focuses on the unique personality of Swami Abhishiktananda and on the unique contribution he has made to the problem of inter-faith relationships in terms of inter-faith dialogue.

Meeting between the Sanathana Dharma (classical Hindu faith, Advaita in particular) and Christianity as a faith (less)

Religions and Ideologies: Hinduism, Christianity and Islam: 1. A scientist looks at Hinduism.

2. Faith and freedom.

3. Faith and politics.

4. Science on prophets and revelation.

II. Historical Themes: Correcting Distortions: 5.

Indus script and the myth of the Aryan invasion. 6.

Vedic Dravidians. 7.

The meaning of Ayodhya. 8.

From Somnath to Haj. 9.

Dead sea scrolls shatter the Christian myth. 10.

The real Mother Teresa. III.

The National Scene: Conflicts and Values: 11. A country at odds with itself.

12. More education, less politics.

13. The historic role of caste.

IV. The Kshatriya Spirit : Recovering Cultural Nationalism: 14.

Sri Aurobindo on the Kshatriya spirit. 15.

Needed : a new national vision emphasizing heroic virtues. 16.

Contrasting visions: Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo. Selected bibliogrphy.

Index. "A feature of the current Indian intellectual scene that strikes an outside observer (as I consider myself) is its excessive inhibition.

There appear (less)

2. Apollonius of Tyana or the spectacle of wisdom/Chiara Cremonesi.

3. Kinds of doctrinal transmission in late ancient Judaism/Piero Capelli.

4. The master-disciple relationship in Christianity: some introductory observations/Franco Macchi.

5. The interior master in the understanding of the first friends/Pier Cesare Bori.

6. Master and disciple in the Islamic Sufi tradition in the writings of 'Abd al-Qadir-al-Jilani/Angelo Scarabel.

7. Encounters with Khidr: saint-immortal, protector from the water, and guide of the elected ones beyond the confluence of the two oceans/Thomas Dahnhardt.

8. The Guru and death/Gian Giuseppe Filippi.

9. The custodians of truth/Giovanni Torcinovich.

10. Authority, devotion, and trials: teachers and pupils in the Mahabharata/Cinzia Pieruccini.

11. The Guru-gita or "Song of the Master" as incorporated in the Guru-caritra of Sarasvati Gangadhar: observations on its teachings and the Guru institute/Antonio Rigopoulos.

12. The function of the Guru in Tantric traditions/Monia Marchetto.

13. The twenty-four Guru-s of (less)

English Rendering by M.S.

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