Gandhian Religion

Book Code: 1111008613775

Mohit Chakrabarti

GANDHIAN RELIGION About The Book ‘Perhaps the greatest figure’, as Louis Fischer appreciates, ‘of the last nineteen hundred years’, Mahatma Gandhi represents the best of religion. He identifies religion with the vision of man christened in Truth, Beauty and Goodness. The vision of man, the embodiment of religion as Gandhi highlights in his vision of Satyabarayana or Daridranayana, bring religion at the doorstep of every society where synchronization between religion and society becomes a living reality. The education of religion towards this direction is a typical Gandhian strategy for making religion a serene way of life hitherto unknown. The aesthetics of religion coupled with its mystic beyondings as Gandhi designs and experiments with Truth is even now a challenging task at the threshold of the twenty first century. Nationalism and religion as he harmonizes, might serve as positive guidelines for emergence of global consciousness. Religion in terms of non-violence is religion as it should be for greater excellence of man. The religion of non-violence as Gandhi Advocates, is the only way to eliminate utter ignorance in the name of religion now-a-days. An indepth study with a singnificant approach to the philosophy of religion, Gandhian Religion is a unique contribution toward Gandhian studies and research. Contents Preface • Gandhian Religion • Society and Religion • Education and Religion • Aesthetics and Religion • The Mystic World of Religion • Nationalism and Religion • Non-voinence and Religion • O for the Eternal Voice Within • Index. About the author/editor Dr. Mohit Chakrabarti, teaches Education and English at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan. He is the recipient of National Award as Teacher-educator, Member, International Council on Education for Teaching (ICET), Arlington, Virginia. U.S.A He frequently participates and presents papers in international/national conferences, seminars symposia, etc. As a translator, book reviewer, poet critic, writer of books for children, he is a prolific and consistent contributor to Rabindranath Tagore's educational thought and experiments and Gandhian philosophy and education.