define, because compared to others it is both unique and contentious. Although the movement is relatively new it only became known in the West in 1970s it is firmly rooted in some of the world's oldest religions, philosophies and practices, including Hinduism, Wicca, Druidism, the worship of goddesses and nature, spiritism, spiritualism, Gnosticism, humanism, ancient Egyptian and Babylonian rel...

Law of karma In Hinduism your perpetual soul’s future and the quality of your rebirth and progress towards liberation depend on your actions in life. The law of karma states that every event has a cause and effect, and every cause has a destiny. It signifies the interplay between fate and free will. Hindus are not fatalists who believe that humans have no freedom, are subject to preordained for...

Abstract This article presses on some of the key insights from Mack’s seminal essay Christianity vis-à-vis scholarship a different religion, namely Hinduism. I suggest extensions argument to academic study Hindu traditions, such as identifying harms posed by soft inclusion Christian theology within discipline Religious Studies. argue that this is structural problem in modern academy sidelines s...

This paper was presented at the International Workshop on mantras and ritual diagrams in Hinduism, held in Paris, 21-22 June1984. The complete text in French, which appeared in the Journal asiatique 1986, p.203, is based upon an analysis of Ayurvedc literature from ancient times down to the present and of numerous Sanskrit sources concerning he specialized sciences: alchemy and latrochemisry, v...

Sikh religion originated under the shade of Hinduism and Islam in India. It shaped itself as a distinct category away from “Hinduism”. While Muslim Rulers that era tried to contain influence Sikhism, Hindu elites 19th 20th centuries assimilate Sikhs treated them sect within Hinduism. This paper tries map quest Sikhism for maintaining its identity resisting attempts assimilation. The Khalistan m...