Special Issues

Introduction: Special Issue on Swami Vivekananda as a Cosmopolitan Thinker (IJHS, April 2023)

International Journal of Hindu Studies 27.1, 2023

The link to this Special Issue of the International Journal of Hindu Studies (April 2023):

https://link.springer.com/journal/11407/volumes-and-issues/27-1

The six contributions to this Special Issue are as follows:

Religions as Yogas: How Reflection on Swami Vivekananda’s Theology of Religions Can Clarify the Threefold Model of Exclusivism, Inclusivism, and Pluralism - Jeffery D. Long

Hindu-Christian Dialogue on the Afterlife: Swami Vivekananda, Modern Advaita Vedānta, and Roman Catholic Eschatology - Michael Stoeber

From Good to God: Swami Vivekananda’s Vedāntic Virtue Ethics - Swami Medhananda

A Religion 'Based Upon Principles, And Not Upon Persons': The Heart of the - “Strategic Fit” of Swami Vivekananda’s Promotion of Vedānta? - Gwilym Beckerlegge

Living in the World by Dying to the Self: Swami Vivekananda’s Modernist - Reconfigurations of a Premodern Vedāntic Dialectic - Ankur Barua

Swami Vivekananda and Knowledge as the One Final Goal of Humankind - Christopher G. Framarin

Introduction: Special Issue on Vedāntic Theodicies (International Journal of Hindu Studies, 2021)

International Journal of Hindu Studies 25.2, 2021

This is my introduction to the Special Issue on Vedāntic Theodicies, published in the International Journal of Hindu Studies (Springer).

Contributions to the special issue:

Michael Williams, “Theodicy in a Deterministic Universe: God and the Problem of Suffering in Vyāsatīrtha’s Tātparyacandrikā”

Swami Medhananda, “‘A Great Adventure of the Soul’: Sri Aurobindo’s Vedāntic Theodicy of Spiritual Evolution”

Ankur Barua, “The Mystery of God and the Claim of Reason: Comparative Patterns in Hindu-Christian Theodicy”