Victor A. van Bijlert (ret.) was a lecturer in the Department of Beliefs and Practices, Faculty of Religion and Theology, at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The nineteenth-century Hindu modernity, it is argued, sought both individual flourishing and collective emancipation from Western domination. For the first time Hinduism began to be constructed as a religion […]
Dr. Gunjan Joshi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and fellow researcher Nyenrode Business Universiteit Rashmi Bharti and Rajnish Jain, who had a spiritual orientation, moved away from a life where they could have a perfect city view to life in a village where the mighty snow-covered Himalayas greeted them with a fresh breeze every day. In […]
Rabin S. Baldewsingh, Oud Wethouder Den Haag Niet alle ruimten van het hoge neuten huis konden worden verlicht. Daarvoor hadden we thuis niet voldoende geld om diyá’s te kopen. Het waren economisch uitdagende tijden, zo aan het begin van de jaren zeventig in Suriname. Met het weinige geld dat er was kocht mijn vader een […]