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#BookOverview Science and Socio-Religious Revolution in India By Pankaj Jain

The book presents a holistic model transcending the dichotomies of nature vs culture & science vs religion, as practiced in India

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@IndicaBooks Scholars have long noticed a discrepancy in the way non-Western & Western peoples conceptualize the scientific and religious worlds

Non-Western traditions & communities, such as India, are better positioned to provide an alternative to the Western dualistic thinking

@IndicaBooks ...of separating science & religion

A new movement was founded, looking at the economic and development needs of rural villages in the Indian Himalayas, and encouraging them to use local resources in order to open up new avenues to self-reliance

@IndicaBooks This throughly-revised book argues that the concept of dharma, the law that supports the regulatory order of the universe in Indian culture, can be applied as an overarching term for such socio-economic work

@IndicaBooks The book highlights that the very categories of religion & science are problematic when applied to non-Western traditions, but that Western technologies can be radically transformed through integration with regional legacies to enable the flourishing of a multiplicity of...

@IndicaBooks ...knowledge-traditions and the societies that depend upon them

It will be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian Studies, Religion, Environmental Studies, Himalayan Studies, and Development Studies

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