Introduction. "This Is Not the Morning We Were Waiting For": Theorizing Pink Revolutions -- "Revolutionary" Reform, Reformist "Revolution" -- Safe in the City: Gay Tourism in India and the Politics of Worlding -- Queer Privacy during Seditious Times: Re-Touching the Case of Ramchandra Siras -- Patently Queer: The Late Effects of Illness during Revolutionary Times -- Beyond the Banyan Tree: Diasporic Mobility in Passages Away from India -- Afterword. A Delayed Postscript.
Learning Interreligiously offers a series of about one hundred short pieces, written online between 2008 and 2016. They are meant for a wide range of readers interested in interreligious dialogue, interreligious learning, and the realities of encounters between Hinduism and Christianity, and are rich in insights drawn from teaching, travels in America and India, and the author's research on sacred texts. The author, a Catholic priest who has spent more than forty years learning from Hinduism and observing religion as a plus and minus in today's world, has much to share with readers. Some pieces were prompted by items in the news, some go deeper into traditions and probe the rich Scriptures and practices going back millennia, some seek simply to provoke fresh thinking, and others invite spiritual reflection. The book is divided into several parts so that readers can focus on individual events that made the news or on longer term and more concerted study. Familiar texts such as the Yoga Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita, the Qur'an, and key passages from the New Testament will be considered for their spiritual possibilities. Readers will find much here to learn from and respond to as they too consider religion in today's world. -- From back cover
Religious fundamentalism in the twenty-first century : a beast with many heads -- Christian fundamentalism -- Muslim fundamentalism -- Hindu fundamentalism -- Competing religious fundamentalisms -- Countering violence and nurturing peace in the context of competing religious fundamentalisms
Secularism is one of the important and contentious public debates in India today. It is seen to be in greater crisis now than ever before, making a case for the continuing presence of this book. The debate also furnishes the making of Indian polity and society, given the inter-related development of culture, society and politics in India. It is thus a debate about religious nationalism and fundamentalism as well. Modern Myths, Locked Minds examines the ideologies of secularism and fundamentalism in the setting of the religious traditions of India--Hinduism, Sikhism, and Islam. Further insightful comparison of the traditions is offered, each seen over a long period of time, revealing markedly distinctive historical experiences
