The Religious Spiritual, and the Secular

The Religious Spiritual, and the SecularAn account of the city of Auroville, the vision of founder and well known guru Sri Aurobindo. Auroville's eventual takeover and the promotion of its goals by the Indian government leads to a thought provoking discussion of the meaning of "secularism" in India. The Religious, the Spiritual, and the Secular presents an account of Auroville, a city in contemporary southeast India, and the vision of founder and well known guru Sri Aurobindo. Auroville's

Rooted in the ideas of complexity science and mutual gains negotiation

and barrel hoops

from plays for dispossessed camp children to children enlisted in militias

This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years

Featuring detailed analyses of Rou’s films and their social and industrial contexts

aims to inspire future generations of thinkers

making his point intelligible to non-Sanskrit readers

and the reintroduction of the Greek language in Renaissance Europe only made this interest in the Greek heritage more pronounced

the issue of breeding cacao for organoleptic quality is examined and future developments in this area are discussed

To clarify evolution's conception of natural selection

stemming from the informal ecosystem in which individual farmers operate as well as from the diverse and fragmented nature of smallholders as a group

this book analyses the Neapolitan nobleman Gaetano Filangieri and his seven-volume ‘Science of Legislation’ in their historical context