Roots, Routes and a New Awakening

Chapter 1 Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: An Introduction and an Invitation

Chapter 2 Beyond One and Many: Deconstructing the Notion of Identity

Chapter 3 Siva Tantra Rediscovered: Transforming the Etic Routes and Emic Roots of Indian Spirituality

Chapter 4 Semiotic Roots and Buddhist Routes in Phenomenology and Intercultural Philosophy: A Peircean Study of Abhidharma Buddhist Theories of Consciousness and Perception

Chapter 5 Ecological Interconnectedness: Entwined Selves, Transcendent and Immanent

Chapter 6 From Root to Return Routes: A Brief Tantric Description of the Passage from Being to beings

Chapter 7 Roots, Routes, and Creative Transformations: New Perspectives on Transitions in Human Society

Chapter 8 Thoreau—Tolstoy—Gandhi: The Origin of Satyagraha

Chapter 9 “The Gospel According to Babylon”: The Rastafarian Challenge to Eurocentric Theological Discourse in the Caribbean

Chapter 10 Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: Towards a New Art of Border Crossing

Chapter 11 Multicentric World and Nationalism

Chapter 12 Roots, Routes, and a New Awakening: Walking and Meditating with Raimon Panikkar

Chapter 13 Overcoming Evil as Creation of Others as Enemies: Roots, Routes and a New Awakening of Plural Identities

Chapter 14 Muddled Roots and Diverse Routes of Reality: Understanding Hindu Rāṣṭra and Gandhi Rāṣṭra Through the Myth of Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita

Chapter 15 Roots, Routes and a New Awakening: Rupantara, a Transformative Intiative in Co-Learning and Training of Tribal Teachers of Odisha, India

Chapter 16 Roots and Routes and the Origins of Urban Theory: A Journey to “Stadtluft Macht Frei”

Chapter 17 Utopias and Dystopias in Literature and Life

Chapter 18 Mysticism in the Tree of Anthropocene: The Feminine Tree of Life and the Virtual Sphere

Chapter 19 Roots, Routes, and Crossing Borders: Embracing Cosmopolitanism in a Transcultural World