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...
| Published in: | Journal of the American Academy of Religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2018]
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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
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| RelBib Classification: | AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism KBM Asia |
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