...assumption that meditation practices taught by the Buddha are ahistorical and cross-cultural. An expert on Buddhism’s encounter with modernity, McMahan suggests that we approach the subject by considering a monk...
...reproves. “Poverty is fairly widespread in India, but a few Indians have great wealth,” World Book decides. The reader of the encyclopedia knows that a thriving country must be good...
...of the book—that Islamic ideas of law should not be mandated by a political state—is not the sort of thing that would be disputed by most readers of books published...
...brief but clear depiction of tensions between Hindus and Muslims in India, and, most significantly, it explores concepts of fate and destiny. (The New York Times’s web site has an...
...that history is on its side) in more modest garb. Can we really envision, on Bilgrami’s grounds, an engagement that reveals that secularism, too, has internal tensions that should be...
...the Indian experience: one-sided exclusion, mutual exclusion, preference, and principled distance. In other contributions Jonathan VanAntwerpen took a conceptual look at what he termed interstitial spaces, that is ‘shared spaces...
...and intellectual making. Departing from the traditional security studies approaches that have characterized so much research in this area, Contextualising Jihadi Thought bridges existing disciplines and fields of study to...
