Connecting Their Selves: The Discourse of Karma, Calling, and Surrendering among Western Spiritual Practitioners in India

This article explores the ways in which long-term western spiritual practitioners settled in Puducherry, India reconstruct their selves as “connected” to the divine, the guru, and India through notions of “karma,” “calling,” and “surrendering.” Current work on spirituality takes an either/or approac...

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Main Author: Ganguly, Tuhina (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2018]
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 86, Issue: 4, Pages: 1014-1045
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Sri Aurobindo Ashram / Europeans / Americans / Karma / Self / Spirituality / Religious experience
RelBib Classification:AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism
KBM Asia
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