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How perfectible is human nature as understood in Eastern and Western philosophy, psychology, and religion? Harold Coward examines some of the very dif...
Originally developed for use in introductory courses on Eastern religious traditions, this popular anthology offers a selection of readings from prima...
Language, Memory, and Mysticism
Harold Coward explores how the psychological aspects of Yoga philosophy have been important to intellectual developments both East and West. Foundatio...
Reflections on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
When the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) was unanimously approved by the UN General Assembly on November 20, 1989, it was widely hera...
Harold Coward surveys the literature of Bhartṛhari who was a grammarian-philosopher of the 5th century A.D. who wrote on meta-physics and on the San...
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This book establishes a constructive and mutually stimulating dialogue between Jacques Derrida and Eastern thought. Surprising parallels are found wit...
Hearing the Divine in India and America
The experience of the divine in India has three components, sight, performance, and sound. One in a trilogy of books that include Diana Eck's Darsan: ...
A Personal Retrospective
In Canadian universities in the early 1960s, no courses were offered on Hinduism, Buddhism, or Islam. Only the study of Christianity was available, us...
The Calgary Conference on Mysticism 1976
In September of 1976 a group of some fifty scholars and practising mystics gathered at the University of Calgary. The chief objective of the Conferenc...
Purity, Abortion, and Euthanasia
Modern Western approaches to India often have focused on metaphysics at the expense of ethics, leading many to see Hinduism as only concerned with the...
Historical Contexts and Contemporary Significance
Examines claims to freedom of religion by minority, unorthodox faith groups and how these challenges to the state and the law have contributed to the ...
Perspectives and Encounters
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A Short Introduction
The concept of deliverance from an imperfect human condition is present in all the world faiths. But what does the concept of salvation really represe...
A Philosophical Analysis
Study of some linguistic considerations in Sanskrit grammar and Hindu philosophy....
Featuring coverage of all the major religions, this is a fascinating introduction to the manner in which each world faith views the others....
Jung and Eastern Thought is an assessment of the impact of the East on Jung's life and teaching. Along with the strong and continuing interest in the ...
Spiritual Transformation in Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Sikhism
In academic religious studies and musicology, little attention has been given to chanted word, hymns, and songs, yet these are often the key spiritual...
Description: T.R.V. Murti was an original and leading thinker among the Indian philosophers of the twentieth century. He had a brilliant philosophical...