DOCSLIB.ORG

Applied Ethics Burni

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Applied Ethics Burni 1 APPLIED ETHICS BURNING ISSUES 2 CONTENTS Chapter – 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO APPLIED ETHICS page 1-23 1.1 Normative Principles in Applied Ethics 1.1.1 Personal benefit 1.1.2 Social benefit 1.1.3 Principle of benevolence 1.1.4 Principle of paternalism 1.1.5 Principle of harm 1.1.6 Principle of honesty 1.1.7 Principle of lawfulness 1.1.8 Principle of autonomy 1.1.9 Principle of justice 1.1.10 Rights 1.2 Issues in Applied Ethics Chapter – 2 3 THE ETHICAL QUESTION OF MERCY – KILLING OR EUTHANASIA page 24-57 2.1 Introduction 2.1.1 Meaning and Definition 2.1.2 Arguments in Favor and against of Euthanasia 2.1.3 Dutch Experience with Euthanasia 2.1.4 Potential for Abuse 2.2 The Alternative to Euthanasia 2.2.1 What can One do 2.2.2 Religious Aspect 2.2.3 Euthanasia in the Netherlands 2.3 Brain Death 2.3.1 Euthanasia in the Pediatric Age – group 2.3.2 Conclusion 2.3.3 Conclusions of a British Medical Association Review of Guidelines on Euthanasia 4 2.3.4 Vitalism versus sanctity/inviolability of life versus Quality of life 2.3.4.1 The Value of autonomy or the ‘right to choose’ 2.3.5 Intended versus foreseen life-shortening (Distinguishing intention from foresight) 2.4 Moral Difference 2.4.1 Physician assisted Suicide Chapter – 3 RACIAL DISCRIMINATION page58-164 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Racism, Nationalism, Tribalism and the Caste System 3.2.1 The Colonialism: 1500s- late 20th century 3.2.2 National and Racial Wars 3.3 Racism of the Last Century 3.3.1 South Africa’s Apartheid Era 5 3.3.2 The Treatment and Tragedies of African – Americans 3.4 Nationalism Continued to Play the Killing – Role throughout the Last Century 3.4.1 The Untouchables of India 3.4.2 Tribalism 3.5 Definitions 3.5.1 Legal Aspect 3.5.2 Sociological Aspect 3.5.3 Types of Racial Discrimination 3.5.4 Institutional Racism 3.5.5 Economic Racism 3.5.6 Declarations Against Racial Discrimination 3.5.7 Ideology 3.5.8 Ethnic Nationalism 3.5.9 Ethnic Conflicts 3.5.10 Scientific Variations 3.5.11 Heredity and Eugenics 3.5.12 Polygenism and Typologies 3.5.13 Human Zoos 6 3.5.14 Evolutionary Theories about the Origins of Racism 3.5.15 As state – sponsored activity 3.6 In History 3.6.1 In Antiquity 3.6.2 Middle Ages and Renaissance 3.6.3 19th Century 3.6.4 In the Age of Enlightenment 3.6.5 20th Century 3.6.6 Inter – minority variants 3.7 Caste System in India 3.7.1 History 3.7.2 Varna and Jati 3.7.3 Caste and Social Status 3.7.4 Caste system in South Asian Hindus 3.7.5 Caste Mobility 3.7.6 Reforms 3.7.8 British Rule 3.8 Modern Status of the Caste System 3.8.1 Scheduled Castes 3.8.2 Scheduled Tribes 7 3.8.3 Other Backward classes 3.9 Caste System among Non – Hindus 3.9.1 Caste – related Violence 3.9.2 Caste – Politics 3.10 Criticism 3.10.1 Historical Criticism 3.10.2 Contemporary Criticism 3.11 Caste and Race 3.11.1 Genetic Analysis 3.11.2 Has Enough Been Done to Stop Discrimination in the U.S.? 3.11.3 Gender Discrimination 3.12 Efforts at Solution 3.12.1 Civil Rights Movement 3.12.2 Equal Employment Opportunity in the Workplace 3.12.3 Re – instatement to their position; or promotion to a senior position 3.12.4 A System of Evaluation 3.12.5 The International Humanist and Ethical Union 8 3.12.6 Women’s Rights and the Position of Women in the IHEU 3.12.7 The Legal Situation of Homosexuality References 9 Chapter – 4 ETHICS OF ABORTION: IS IT MORAL OR IMMORAL TO HAVE AN ABORTION page165-204 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Abortion is a Serious Ethical Issue 4.2.1 Pro – life 4.2.2 Pro – Choice 4.3 History 4.4 Current – Status 4.5 Abortion – Controversy 4.6 Abortion in India 4.7 Abortion Controversy in India 4.7.1 The Indian Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act 4.7.2 Grounds for Abortion as per the Indian MTP Act 4.7.3 Induced and Spontaneous Abortions 4.8 Cultural Relativism 10 4.8.1 The Classical Hindu View Chapter – 5 BUSINESS ETHICS page205-406 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Definition of Business Ethics 5.3 Why Business Ethics? 5.4 History of Ethics in Business 5.5 Overview of Issues in Business Ethics 5.5.1 General Business Ethics 5.5.2 Ethics of Finance 5.5.3 Ethics of the Finance Paradigm 5.5.4 Optional Areas of Financial Ethics 5.5.5 Ethics of Human Resource Management 5.5.6 Ethics of Sales and Marketing 5.5.7 Ethics of Production 5.5.8 Ethics of Property, Property Rights and Intellectual Property Rights 5.5.9 Ethics and Technology 5.5.10 International Business Ethics and Ethics of Economic Systems 11 5.6 Law and the Business Ethics 5.7 Business Ethics in the Field 5.7.1 Corporate Ethics Policies 5.7.2 Ethical Officers 5.8 Business Ethics as an Academic Discipline 5.9 Religious Views on Business Ethics 5.10 Differing Opinions Regarding Business Ethics 5.11 Ethical Issues in Business 5.12 In a Free Unregulated Self Ethics – Model 5.13 Industry Wide Ethical Issues in Business 5.14 Company Specific Ethical Issues in Business 5.15 Ethical Issues in Marketing: the Context of Developing Countries 5.16 The Upshot 5.17 Exploiting Social Paradigms 5.18 Surrogate Advertisements 5.19 Subliminal Advertisements 5.20 The Ethical Issue of Creating Demand 5.21 Predatory Pricing 12 5.22 False and Misleading Advertisings 5.23 Post Purchase Dissonance 5.24 The Ethical Issue of Political Marketing 5.25 Ethical Issues in Internet, e – commerce 5.25.1 The Small Point 5.25.2 World Wide Web versus the Wild Wild Web 5.25.3 Ownership and Responsibility 5.26 Conclusion – Good Marketing Citizens 5.27 Ethics in Advertising 5.27.1 Introduction 5.27.2 The Field of Advertising 5.27.3 Values in Advertising 5.28 The Benefits of Advertising 5.28.1 Economic Benefits of Advertising 5.28.2 Benefits of Political Advertising 5.28.3 Cultural Benefits of Advertising 5.28.4 Moral and Religious Benefits of Advertising 5.29 The Harm done by Advertising 13 5.29.1 Economic Harms of Advertising 5.29.2 Harms of Political Advertising 5.29.3 Cultural Harms of Advertising 5.29.4 Moral and Religious Harms of Advertising 5.30 Some Ethical and Moral Principles 5.30.1 Truthfulness in Advertising 5.30.2 The Dignity of Human Person 5.30.3 Advertising and Social Responsibility Conclusions: Some Steps to take 5.31 Making Ethical Decisions in the Workplace 5.31.1 Conclusion 1: Kiss Keep It Short and Simple 5.31.2 Conclusion 2: The Great Traditions 5.31.3 Conclusion 3: The All Inclusive Approach 5.31.4 Duty – based Ethics 5.31.5 Result – based Ethics 5.31.6 Value – based Ethics 5.31.7 Discourse – Ethics 5.31.8 Conclusion 4: Case Study 14 5.31.9 Conclusion 5: At Macro Level 5.31.10 Conclusion 6: Calling All Managers 5.32 Business Ethics in India 5.32.1 A Macro Glance 5.33 Business Culture of India 5.34 Business Program 5.35 Responsible Business as part of Solution 15 Chapter – 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO APPLIED ETHICS Recently ethics and ethical principles are applied to contemporary issues whose repercussions on society are enormous. They range from societal problems to political ones, national problems to international ones. So, Applied Ethics is the branch of ethics which consists of the analysis of specific controversial moral issues such as abortion, animal rights, or euthanasia. In recent years applied ethical issues have been subdivided into convenient groups such as medical ethics, business ethics, environment ethics and sexual ethics. Generally speaking, two features are necessary for an issue to be considered an “applied ethical issue”. First, the issue needs to be controversial in the sense that there are significant groups of people both for and against the issue at hand. The issue of drive-by shooting, for example, is not an applied ethical issue, since everyone agrees that this practice is grossly immoral. By contrast, the issue of gun-control would be an applied ethical issue since there are significant of people both for and against gun control. The second requirement for an issue to be an applied ethical issue is that it must be a distinctly moral issue. On any given day, the media presents us with an array of sensitive issues 16 such as affirmative action policies, gays in the military, involuntary commitment of the mentally impaired, capitalistic versus socialists business practices, public versus private health care systems, or energy conservation. Although all of these issues are controversial and have an important impact on society, they are not all moral issues. Some are only issues of social policy. The aim of social policy is to help make a given society run efficiently by devising conventions, such as traffic laws, tax laws and zoning codes. Moral issues, by contrast, concern more universally obligatory practices, such as our duty to avoid lying, and are not confined to individual societies.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • August 19, 2021 Dear President and Esteemed University Administrators
    August 19, 2021 Dear President and esteemed university administrators, We write to you to express our serious concern regarding an event to be held September 10-12, 2021, entitled “Dismantling Global Hindutva” (DGH). This event is being promoted as co-sponsored by your institution with your institution’s name and logo appearing on the DGH website, promotional materials, and social media posts. If this event is not endorsed by your institution, or if the logo is being utilized in contravention to university policy, we respectfully request that you: 1. ask the event organizers to remove your university’s name and logo from its website, promotional materials, and social media posts, 2. ensure the safety and wellbeing of Hindu students, faculty, and staff on your campus who may feel targeted, threatened, or face hostility or harassment as a result of this partisan, anti-Hindu event. The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) which we represent, wholeheartedly supports free speech and academic freedom as we are guided by the Hindu precepts of satya (truthfulness), vāda and saṃvāda (debate and discussion), and viveka (discernment). We ask that institutions of higher learning support the same and also privilege academic integrity by promoting open inquiry, encouraging a diversity of viewpoints, and modeling constructive disagreement. This event, however, is the antithesis of all of these values. The DGH organizers trade on the prestige of your institution’s name to host, not an academic conference, but a partisan event related to politics in India. The event platforms activists with extensive histories of amplifying Hinduphobic discourse even while denying the existence of Hinduphobia.
    [Show full text]
  • The People of India
    LIBRARY ANNFX 2 CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ^% Cornell University Library DS 421.R59 1915 The people of India 3 1924 024 114 773 Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924024114773 THE PEOPLE OF INDIA =2!^.^ Z'^JiiS- ,SIH HERBERT ll(i 'E MISLEX, K= CoIoB a , ( THE PEOPLE OF INDIA w SIR HERBERT RISLEY, K.C.I.E., C.S.I. DIRECTOR OF ETHNOGRAPHY FOR INDIA, OFFICIER d'aCADEMIE, FRANCE, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETIES OF ROME AND BERLIN, AND OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND SECOND EDITION, EDITED BY W. CROOKE, B.A. LATE OF THE INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE "/« ^ood sooth, 7tiy masters, this is Ho door. Yet is it a little window, that looketh upon a great world" WITH 36 ILLUSTRATIONS AND AN ETHNOLOGICAL MAP OF INDIA UN31NDABL? Calcutta & Simla: THACKER, SPINK & CO. London: W, THACKER & CO., 2, Creed Lane, E.C. 191S PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BECCLES. e 7/ /a£ gw TO SIR WILLIAM TURNER, K.C.B. CHIEF AMONG ENGLISH CRANIOLOGISTS THIS SLIGHT SKETCH OF A LARGE SUBJECT IS WITH HIS PERMISSION RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION In an article on "Magic and Religion" published in the Quarterly Review of last July, Mr. Edward Clodd complains that certain observations of mine on the subject of " the impersonal stage of religion " are hidden away under the " prosaic title " of the Report on the Census of India, 1901.
    [Show full text]
  • Leaving Hinduism
    Chapter 2 Leaving Hinduism Clemens Cavallin 1 Introduction To know whether you have left a country or not, it is essential to know where the border is. Such a demarcation of territory is contingent in the sense that the demarcation could have been drawn elsewhere; and probably has been. Sometimes, the borders are first drawn on a map to create the country in ques- tion and then are implemented later. Sometimes, however, the boundaries grow organically through centuries of warfare and cultural negotiations and follow the natural terrain of rivers and mountains. The notion of Hinduism as a world religion has both this artificial, neat character and the fuzzy boundaries resulting from the accumulation of reli- gious ideas, practices, and cultural traits over millennia. As Knut Jacobsen re- marks in his introduction to Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Hinduism “does not refer to a homogeneous religious tradition but a conglomerate of rituals, religious narratives, art, music, institutions, traditions, theologies, artefacts, and activities” (Jacobsen 2013). Therefore, leaving “Hinduism” is both easy and exceedingly challenging. Adding to the difficulty of locating the borders of Hinduism—of know- ing when one has actually left it behind—the modern notion of Hinduism is closely bound up with British India, from its inception in the seventeenth century up to its 1948 division into the dominions of Pakistan and India (Gott- schalk 2012: Ch. 5). The partition of British India in accordance with the so- called two nation theory—which held that Indian Muslims constituted a separate nation—led to massive amounts of people crossing the border to be on the “right” side of the religious divide and to clashes in which eighteen million people were displaced and several hundred thousand, if not a mil- lion, died (Talbot 2008: 420).
    [Show full text]
  • Polarising Narratives and Deepening Fault Lines: Social Media, Intolerance and Extremism in Four Asian Nations
    Polarising Narratives and Deepening Fault Lines: Social Media, Intolerance and Extremism in Four Asian Nations Jordan Newton, Yasmira Moner, Kyaw Nyi Nyi and Hari Prasad GNET is a special project delivered by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, King’s College London. The authors of this report are Jordan Newton, Yasmira Moner, Kyaw Nyi Nyi and Hari Prasad, with contributions by Joseph Franco, Nazneen Mohsina and Cameron Sumpter. The Indonesia country section was written by Jordan Newton, an independent research consultant and former security analyst for the Australian government. The Philippines country section was written by Yasmira Moner, acting director of IPDM. The Myanmar country section was written by Kyaw Nyi Nyi, a visiting fellow at Yusof Ishak‑ISEAS. The India section was written by Hari Prasad, a research associate at Critica Research. CENS researchers Joseph Franco, Nazneen Mohsina and Cameron Sumpter conceptualised the project and provided editorial assistance. The Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) is an academic research initiative backed by the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), an independent but industry‑funded initiative for better understanding, and counteracting, terrorist use of technology. GNET is convened and led by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR), an academic research centre based within the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing those, either expressed or implied, of GIFCT, GNET or ICSR. CONTACT DETAILS For questions, queries and additional copies of this report, please contact: ICSR King’s College London Strand London WC2R 2LS United Kingdom T.
    [Show full text]
  • Indian Costumes
    A. BISWAS t PUBLICATIONS DIVISION Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Public.Resource.Org https://archive.org/details/indiancostumesOObisw . * <* INDIAN COSTUMES A. BISWAS PUBLICATIONS DIVISION MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING GOVERNMENT OF INDIA First print : 1985 (Saka 1906) Reprint: 2003 (Saka 1924) © Publications Division ISBN : 81-230-1055-9 Price : Rs. 110.00 Published by The Director, Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, Patiala House, New Delhi-110 001 SALES EMPORIA • PUBLICATIONS DIVISION • Patiala House, Tilak Marg, New Delhi-110001 (Ph. 23387069) • Soochna Bhavan, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 (Ph. 24367260) • Hall No. 196, Old Secretariat, Delhi-110054 (Ph. 23890205) • Commerce House, Currimbhoy Road, Ballard Pier, Mumbai-400038 (Ph. 22610081) • 8, Esplanade East, Kolkata-700069 (Ph. 22488030) • Rajaji Bhawan, Besant Nagar, Chennai-600090 (Ph. 24917673) • Press Road, Near Govt. Press, Thiruvananthapuram-695001 (Ph. 2330650) • Block No. 4,1st Floor, Gruhakalpa Complex, M.G. Road, Nampally, Hyderabad-500001 (Ph. 24605383) • 1st Floor, /F/ Wing, Kendriya Sadan, Koramangala, Bangalore-560034 (Ph. 25537244) • Bihar State Co-operative Bank Building, Ashoka Rajpath, Patna-800004 (Ph. 22300096) ® 2nd floor, Hall No 1, Kendriya Bhawan, Aliganj, Lucknow - 226 024 (Ph. 2208004) • Ambica Complex, 1st Floor, Paldi, Ahmedabad-380007 (Ph. 26588669) • Naujan Road, Ujan Bazar, Guwahati-781001 (Ph. 2516792) SALES COUNTERS • PRESS INFORMATION BUREAU • CGO Complex, 'A' Wing, A.B. Road, Indore (M.P.) (Ph. 2494193) • 80, Malviya Nagar, Bhopal-462003 (M.P.) (Ph. 2556350) • B-7/B, Bhawani Singh Road, Jaipur-302001 (Rajasthan) (Ph. 2384483) Website : http://www.publicationsdivision.nic.in E-mail : [email protected] or [email protected] Typeset at : Quick Prints, Naraina, New Delhi - 110 028.
    [Show full text]
  • The Rise, Decline and Renewals of Sramanic Religious Traditions Within
    .DE Edition 2 online magazine THE RISE, DECLINE AND RENEWALS OF SRAMANIC RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS WITHIN INDIC CIVILISATION WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE EVOLUTION OF JAIN SRAMANIC CULTURE AND ITS IMPACT ON THE INDIC CIVILIZATION by BAL PATIL, Member, Maharashtra State Minorities Commission, Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai PAPER READ IN Conference on Religions in Indic Civilisation New Delhi December 18 -21, 2003 Organised by Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in collaboration with International Association for the History of Religions and India International Centre, New Delhi .DE Edition 2 online magazine content PRE-ARYAN ROOTS........................................................................................................... 4 MISLEADING STEREOTYPES ABOUT JAINISM........................................................ 5 CHANDRAGUPTA MAURYA AND JAINISM ................................................................ 6 RADHA KUMUD MOOKERJI AND CHANDRAGUPTA MAURYA........................... 7 ASHOKA & JAINISM.......................................................................................................... 9 R. THAPAR , AND HISTORICAL SOURCES IN PURANAS AND VEDAS................. 9 E. H. CARR: WHAT IS HISTORY?................................................................................. 10 PROF. M. WITZEL & VEDIC AND ITIHASA-PURANA TRADITION...................... 12 RIGVEDIC TEXTS LIKE TAPE RECORDED RECITATION? .................................. 13 FALSITY OF WITZEL’S VEDIC HISTORIOGRAPHY..............................................
    [Show full text]
  • Final Artwork.Indb
    BLINDJuvenile ALLEY Justice in India HAQ: Centre for Child Rights Blind Alley Juvenile Justice in India Paromita Shastri Enakshi Ganguly Th ukral Centre With inputs from For Child Bharti Ali Rights Vipin Bhatt i © HAQ: Centre for Child Rights ISBN No. 978-81-906548-3-8 Published by: HAQ: Centre for Child Rights 208 Shahpur Jat New Delhi 110049 India Telephone: +91-11-26490136 Telefax: +91-11-26492551 Supported by: CORDAID, Th e Netherlands Photographs: Enakshi Ganguly Th ukral Cover Photograph: Amit Mitra Design and Typesetting: Aspire Design, New Delhi ii Foreword HAQ’s fi rst report on the juvenile justice system in India is based primarily on its own journey over the last three and a half years and experiences in this fi eld. It is also a personal journey that we as individuals have traversed in this period. Several co-travellers joined us and left, each one of them bringing in something new and signifi cant. Th ey include our team members, volunteers and interns. One of them was Ruzbeh N Bharucha, who went on to write ‘my god is a JUVENILE DELINQUENT’, based on what he saw and experienced as a volunteer with HAQ, working with the Juvenile Justice Board. Our co-travellers have also been the children who allowed us into their lives, shared with us their pain and hope, so that we could help them in some way. Parts of our journey were shared by members of the Child Welfare Committees and Juvenile Justice Boards, and the Delhi High Court Committee on Juvenile Justice that was set up sometime after we started work.
    [Show full text]
  • Traditional Knowledge & Traditional Cultural Expressions in South Asia
    Book of Abstracts 29-30 April 2013 Sigiriya, Sri Lanka Organized by SAARC Cultural Centre, Sri Lanka ii General Editor G.L.W. Samarasinghe, Director, SAARC Cultural Centre. Executive Editor Dr. Sanjay Garg, Deputy Director (Research), SAARC Cultural Centre. Editorial Team Soundarie David Rodrigo, Deputy Director (Programme), SAARC Cultural Centre. Nirekha De Silva, Research Officer, SAARC Cultural Centre. Apsara Karunaratne, Research Assistant, SAARC Cultural Centre. Production Team Ishan Amaraweera, Computer Operations Officer, SAARC Cultural Centre. Printing: Neo Graphics (Pvt) Ltd., Nugegoda, Sri Lanka SAARC Regional Seminar on Traditional Knoweledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions of South Asia © SAARC Cultural Centre, Colombo 2013 All Rights Reserved. No material in this publication may be reproduced without the written permission of the publisher. ISBN 978-955-0567-06-5 Disclaimer: The views expressed and the information contained in the abstracts included in this publication is the sole responsibility of the author/s, and do not bear any liability on the SAARC Cultural Centre, Colombo. Note: The abstracts are reproduced in the form in which they have been submitted by the participants; no editing work has been undertaken and we are not responsible for any inconsistencies in the spelling of proper nouns. iii Message from the Minister of National Heritage As Minister of National Heritage I happily accepted this invitation because Safeguarding of Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Traditional Cultural Expressions (TCEs) is a part of preservation of our heritage. We are in an era Traditional Cultural Expressions and Knowledge are threatened by various forces and gradually diminishing. Therefore this is a very valuable step taken forward by the SAARC Cultural Centre to Safeguard Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions.
    [Show full text]
  • 18 Baumer.Pdf
    ASIAN STUDIES AT HAWAII, NO. 12 Aspects of B~ngali . History and Society Rachel Van M. Baumer Editor ASIAN STUDIES PROGRAM UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF HAWAII UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII LIBRARY Copyright © 1975 by The University Press of Hawaii All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Aspects of Bengali history and society. (Asian studies at Hawaii; no. 12) "Essays delivered by most of the guest speakers in a seminar on Bengal convened in the spring of 1972 at the University of Hawaii." Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Bengal-Civilization-Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Bengal-History-Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Baumer, Rachel Van M., 1928- ed. II. Series. DS3.A2A82 no. 12 [DS485.B44] 915.4'14'03 73-90491 ISBN 0-8248-0318-3 Dedicated to the memory of our colleagues whose lives and fruitful scholar­ ship were cut off during the independence struggle in Bangladesh. \)j<j 4\31 <j ~\3 ~TbT ~9j$ff<j;ft I - ~D"5' L Contents Introduction vii Hinduism and Islam in Medieval Bengal Edward C. Dimock, Jr. Norms of Family Life and Personal Morality among the Bengali Hindu Elite, 1600-1850 Tapan Raychaudhuri 13 Economic Foundations of the Bengal Renaissance Blair B. Kling 26 The Universal Man and the Yellow Dog: The Orientalist Legacy and the Problem of Brahmo Identity in the Bengal Renaissance David Kopf 43 The Reinterpretation of Dharma in Nineteenth-Century Bengal: Righteous Conduct for Man in the Modern World Rachel Van M.
    [Show full text]
  • Indian Protestants and Their Religious Others Views of Religious Diversity Among Christians in Bangalore
    STUDIA MISSIONALIA SVECANA CXX Anita Yadala Suneson Indian Protestants and their Religious Others Views of Religious Diversity among Christians in Bangalore To my parents Dissertation presented at Uppsala University to be publicly examined in Sal IV, Universitetshuset, Biskopsgatan 3, Uppsala, Friday, 17 May 2019 at 10:15 for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Faculty of Theology). The examination will be conducted in English. Faculty examiner: Professor Chad Bauman (Butler University). Abstract Yadala Suneson, A. 2019. Indian Protestants and their Religious Others. Views of Religious Diversity among Christians in Bangalore. Studia Missionalia Svecana 120. 341 pp. Uppsala: Uppsala University. ISBN 978-91-506-2751-0. This study gives an in-depth insight into ways that ordinary Christians in a multireligious context think about religious plurality. It examines how Indian Protestants reflect upon other religions and upon the situation of religious diversity. Methodologically, the study relies mainly on qualitative interviews with Pentecostal and Church of South India (CSI) lay members and pastors from Bangalore, south India. The interviews are analysed through thematic analysis. The study reveals a theological diversity among interviewees. The major differences are found among the clergy, while the views of Pentecostal and CSI lay interviewees show many similarities. The dominant theological perspective is evangelical and this forms an “evangelical lens” that colours attitudes to other religions. Additionally, a general Protestant perspective emerges that reflects a typically Protestant emphasis on Christ and the Bible, as well as a liberal Protestant perspective which focuses on social issues. Salvation, primarily understood in terms of eternal life for the individual, is central to the ideas interviewees have about the difference between Protestant Christianity and other religions.
    [Show full text]
  • Interpreting Tradition
    115 Chapter 3 Interpreting Tradition Tradition is defined as the handing down of knowledge or the passing of a doctrine or a technique^ ^ It is an active process; it entails a very strong and often predominant sense of respect and' duty; it often presents values and standard. It is not so, as it is generally believed that it comes to be handed down in an unchanging form; in fact by its very nature, it involves both continuity and change. It needs to be studied in its various phases of development. It is in this context, that the meaning of the term culture becomes more meaningful. Romila Thapar has used the term 'culture' in its wider sense to include language, tradition, customs and institutions.^ '' The meaning of the term culture becomes clear when used in the context of tradition for it links the past to the present. In the context of India the tradition is ancient and complex; and in regard to its origin, it can only be pointed out that there are multiple of origins of Indian tradition. Indian tradition can be broadly categorized into : (1) Brahminical Traditions, (2) The Renouncer Traditions and (3) Popular Traditions. Though it is not the purpose to discuss all the three traditions, however, a few observations about the dominant Brahminical tradition can be made, since most of the debates that took place in Maharashtra during the period of this study remained mainly concerned with it. These observations are made * Kluckhohn's definition of Culture is as follow : (1) "the total way of life of a people", (2) "the social legacy the individual acquires from his group"; (3) "a way of thinking, feeling, and believing", (4) "an abstraction from behaviour"; (5) a theory on the part of the anthropologist about the way in which a group of people in fact behave".
    [Show full text]
  • Hinduism-And-The-Religious-Arts.Pdf
    RELIGION AND THE ARTS Series Editor: John Hinnells, University of Derby The arts have always been one of the primary means of communicating religious traditions; indeed, visual or performing arts may complement, predate or supplant many scriptural sources. This series explores how the visible has been used to express the invisible, and is designed to provide an understanding of the world's religions through the various art forms associated with religious practice and experience. Already published Art and Religion in Africa by Rosalind I. J. Hackett Arts in the Religions of the Pacific by Albert C. Moore Ganesa, Orissa, thirteenth century. Hinduism and the Religious Arts Heather Elgood CASSELL London and New York Cassell Wellington House, 125 Strand, London WC2R OBB 370 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017-6550 First published 1999 First published in paperback 2000 © Heather Elgood 1999 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 0-304-70739-2 (paperback) ISBN 0-304-33820-6 (hardback) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Elgood, Heather, 1950- Hinduism and the religious arts / Heather Elgood. p. cm.—(Religion and the arts) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-304-33820-6 (hardcover) 1. Art, Hindu—India. 2. Art, Indie-India. 3. Hindu symbolism. 4. Art patronage-India.
    [Show full text]