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Ashram
About: Ashram is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 183 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1255 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the motivations and experiences of tourists visiting the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and the nearby utopian township of Auroville in Pondicherry, south east India.
Abstract: Religious tourism — tourism that is motivated by faith or religious reasons — has been in evidence for centuries. In more recent times, however, it has been suggested that modern tourism has become the functional and symbolic equivalent of more traditional religious practices, such as festivals and pilgrimages. In other words, it is claimed by some that tourism is a sacred journey. To date, however, little work has been undertaken to explore this position; the purpose of this paper, therefore, is to contribute to this debate. Based on an exploratory study, it considers the motivations and experiences of Western tourists visiting the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and the nearby utopian township of Auroville in Pondicherry, south east India. It identifies two principal groups of visitors, namely ‘permanent tourists’ who have immersed themselves indefinitely in a spiritual ‘Other’, and temporary visitors. The latter are categorised into sub-groups which point to a variety of spiritual and non-spiritual motives. The paper concludes that there is a continuum of spirituality inherent in tourism, though this is related to tourists' experience rather than initial motivation. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
301 citations
TL;DR: A curious category in Indian nationalist thought is the ashram as mentioned in this paper, and the Gandhian ashram is one of the most famous examples of such a place in Indian nationalism.
Abstract: A curious category in Indian nationalist thought is the ashram. Among nationalist ashrams were the poet Rabindranath Tagore’s Santiniketan, and the gurukuls (school-ashrams) set up by the Arya Samaj, a Hindu reformist organization. Most famous were the Gandhian ashrams. In South Africa, Gandhi set up the Phoenix settlement and the Tolstoy farm. On his return to India in , he set up the Satyagraha ashram in Ahmedabad, and made that his base. Later, he was involved in and often based at the ashrams at Wardha and Sevagram.1 My question here is a simple one: What was the politics of the Gandhian ashram? Mainstream nationalists such as Nehru, frustrated about the amount of time that the principal leader of the nationalist movement spent on the tiny ashrams, had a simple answer: eccentricity. Gandhi, obviously, did not feel this way.
137 citations
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1 Jan 1996
TL;DR: In this article, Dabydeen and Samaroo discuss the history of East Indian-Creole relations in Trinidad and Guiana in the late Nineteenth-Century, including race relations in Burnhamite Guyana, 1845-1921.
Abstract: Notes on the Editors and Contributors - A Note on Nomenclature - Introduction by David Dabydeen and Brinsley Samaroo - PART 1: RACE RELATIONS: East Indian-Creole Relations in Trinidad and Guiana in the late Nineteenth-Century Malcolm Cross - Race and Ethnic-Relations in Burnhamite Guyana Ralph Premdas - Control, Resistance, Accommodation and Race Relations: Aspects of Indentureship Experience of East Indian Immigrants in Jamaica, 1845-1921 Verene A. Shepherd - PART II: RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL PRACTICES: Hindu Elements in the Shango/Orisha Cult of Trinidad Noorkumar Mahabir and Ashram Maharaj - 'Official' and 'popular' Hinduism in the Caribbean: Historial and Contemporary Trends in Suriname, Trinidad and Guyana Steven Vertovec - Authenticity and Authority in Surinamese Hindu Ritual Peter van der Veer - PART III: BIOGRAPHY: Cheddi Jagan: The Writings of a Visionary Politican Frank Birbalsingh - PART IV: Early History: Indian Government Policy Towards Indentured Labour Migration to the Sugar Colonies Basdeo Mangru - The Repatriates Marianne Soares Ramesar - Early African and East Indian Muslims in Trinidad and Tobago Brinsley Samaroo - Select bibliography - Index
85 citations
TL;DR: It is postulated that a psychological characteristic of the devotees is a strong underlying wish for union with a powerful object, and that this bore on their susceptibility to the influence of certain regressive psychedelic experiences.
Abstract: Meetings between an American guru and his followers were observed and 14 of the devotees were interviewed. Virtually all gave histories of chronic unhappiness and unsatisfactory parental relations. On involvement with the guru and a new "family," they experienced increased well-being and periods of bliss, and their acceptance of mystic Hindu beliefs was solidified. Factors relating to the devotees' psychological "lift" are delineated, including ways that the bond to the leader possibly aided them in dealing with inner conflict. Earlier experiences with psychedelic drugs appeared to have influenced many of the subjects to Hinduism and the guru. It is postulated that a psychological characteristic of the devotees is a strong underlying wish for union with a powerful object, and that this bore on their susceptibility to the influence of certain regressive psychedelic experiences.
44 citations
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1 Jan 2006
TL;DR: The Road Not Taken: The Modernist Roots of Partition as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the history of political modernization. But it is not a good fit for this paper.
Abstract: PREFACE PART ONE 1. Postmodern Gandhi 2. The Road Not Taken: The Modernist Roots of Partition 3. Gandhi in the Mind of America 4. The Coffee House and the Ashram Revisited: How Gandhi Democratized Habermas' Public Sphere PART TWO 5. The Fear of Cowardice 6. Gandhi and the New Courage 7. Self-Control and Political Potency 8. This-Worldly Asceticism and Political Modernization Index
36 citations
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