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The Bhagavad Gita's philosophical and political significance remains forever contemporary. In this volume a group of leading historians reflect on the significance of the Bhagavad Gita for political and ethical thinking in modern India and beyond. These essays contribute new perspectives to historical, contemporary and global political ideas. Violence and nonviolence, war, sacrifice, justice, fraternity and political community were constitutive of India's political modernity, and it was to these questions that Indian public figures turned their attention in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Oriented towards the future, these commentaries and interpretations of a text that locates war as the central problem of human life have detached the Gita from antiquity and made it foundational for India's modernity. The book would be of interest to academic researchers as well as general readers interested in South Asian history, Indian philosophy and religion.

Bhagavadgita -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Bhagavadgita -- History. --- Gandhi. --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Hinduism --- Bhagavadgītā --- Gita (Bhagavadgītā) --- Bhagavad Gītā --- Bhagvad Gita --- Bagvat Gītā --- Mahābhārata. --- Bagawad Gita --- Bkhagavadgita --- Bhagavada Gita --- Bhagavat Gītā --- Po-chia-fan ko --- Bogafan ge --- Bagabadŭ gitʻa --- Thespesion melos --- Almi Krishnae et Arjunae --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Bhagavadgīt

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In recent years, globalization, multiculturalism, and Western interest in Eastern thought have contributed to the growth of cross-cultural psychology. Paradoxically, however, while spirituality plays such a major role in non-Western cultures, it tends to occupy only a minor area of cross-cultural research.   Its roots in ancient philosophical texts such as the Bhagavad-Gita make Indian psychology not only an especially rich tradition and one deserving of close study, but also a template for how Western researchers can better understand indigenous spiritual perspectives. From this vantage point, Spirituality and Indian Psychology: Lessons from the Bhagavad-Gita provides accessible models for this understanding, from issues on the individual level (cognition, behavior, emotions, the self) to larger concerns such as intergroup relations and world peace, rarely-encountered concepts of work, bondage/liberation, and desire as well as the more familiar karma and dharma. In addressing the question of whether universals exist in psychology, this thought-provoking book:   Presents indigenous psychological perspective in terms of one representative worldview. Contrasts the Indian worldview with Western scientific culture. Analyzes an indigenous research methodology based on culturally relevant concepts. Offers spirituality-based models for mapping basic psychological processes and their relationships. Clarifies relationships among indigenous, cross-cultural, and Western psychologies. Cross-cultural psychologists, sociologists, researchers in Indian psychology and culture—anyone involved in the continuing dialogue across the psychologies of the world and advancing the indigenous research agenda will find Spirituality and Indian Psychology a volume of rare interest and insight.

Bhagavadg ̄it ̄a. --- India -- Religion. --- Psychology -- India. --- Psychology --- Ethnopsychology --- Religion --- Social Sciences --- Philosophy & Religion --- Hinduism --- Spirituality. --- Bhagavadgītā. --- Spiritual-mindedness --- Gita (Bhagavadgītā) --- Bhagavad Gītā --- Bhagvad Gita --- Bagvat Gītā --- Mahābhārata. --- Bagawad Gita --- Bkhagavadgita --- Bhagavada Gita --- Bhagavat Gītā --- Po-chia-fan ko --- Bogafan ge --- Bagabadŭ gitʻa --- Thespesion melos --- Almi Krishnae et Arjunae --- Psychology. --- Cross-cultural psychology. --- Cross Cultural Psychology. --- Cross-cultural psychology --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnic psychology --- Folk-psychology --- Indigenous peoples --- National psychology --- Psychological anthropology --- Psychology, Cross-cultural --- Psychology, Ethnic --- Psychology, National --- Psychology, Racial --- Race psychology --- National characteristics --- Behavioral sciences --- Mental philosophy --- Mind --- Science, Mental --- Human biology --- Philosophy --- Soul --- Mental health --- Spiritual life --- Applied psychology. --- Applied psychology --- Psychagogy --- Psychology, Practical --- Social psychotechnics --- India --- Religion.