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What five things does the guide list for Hindu religious experience?
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Pilgrimage and festivals as group experience; the role of the guru; ashrams; meditation; and yoga.
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How does doctrine shape Hindu religious experience?
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If liberation is realisation (Shankara's Advaita), meditation is the characteristic experience; if it is nearness to a personal God (Ramanuja), devotion is. The schools disagree about what a religious life feels like.
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What is a guru's role as religious experience?
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Transmission person to person: a living teacher gives one student one worked-out reading, applied to their life, which no text can do alone.
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What is an ashram?
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A community of study, meditation and seva — community work — usually formed around a guru.
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What does yoga mean in this course?
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A path to moksha — jnana, bhakti or karma yoga — and also the disciplines associated with the Yoga darshana and Patanjali. Not an exercise class.
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What does the guide say about conversion to Hinduism?
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That it is not possible or necessary. It then names ISKCON, a modern missionary-type organization, and the Arya Samaj, which worked to restore Vedic religion.
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Which three modern figures does the guide name for Hinduism?
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Mahatma Gandhi, Swami Narayan and Sri Ramakrishna — for developments in Hinduism and its relations with other religions.
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What three things does the guide give on gender and Hindu religious experience?
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The traditional roles of women in worship and the home; the changing status of women in modern India and the diaspora; and female deities in scripture and festivals as role models, plus female gurus.
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Why must a judgement about women in Hinduism be dated as well as placed?
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Because the guide itself names the changing status of women in modern India and in the diaspora, so the balance is currently moving.
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