On Saturday 28 Jul 2012 11:46:30 am Charles Haynes wrote:
African Christianity is very different from European Christianity which in
turn is very different from South American Christianity.
Tibetan Buddhism is very different from Japanese Buddhism which is very
different from Sri Lankan
On Jul 28, 2012 3:35 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday 27 Jul 2012 5:23:53 am Shoba Narayan wrote:
What will Indian culture (or any culture) be like without religion?
I am not sure that I should reply to this because it typically launches
me off
on one of my rambles.
Religion
To expand slightly, I interpret religion is never culture to assert that
religion and culture are orthogonal - independent of each other. (I am
ignoring the islamophobic attempt at 'othering' Islam.)
For this to be true, culture would not affect religion and religion would
not affect culture.
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 3:34 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday 27 Jul 2012 5:23:53 am Shoba Narayan wrote:
What will Indian culture (or any culture) be like without religion?
I am not sure that I should reply to this because it typically launches me off
on one of my rambles.
On Jul 28, 2012 3:36 PM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
I think religion is always cultural ... i remember traveling in
tanzania years ago and the southern region
bordering mozambique has the yao people who practice their brand of
islam (they dont eat pork, they pray
five times a day
On Friday 27 Jul 2012 5:23:53 am Shoba Narayan wrote:
What will Indian culture (or any culture) be like without religion?
I am not sure that I should reply to this because it typically launches me off
on one of my rambles.
Religion is never culture. The exception in my view is Arab culture.
On Wednesday 25 Jul 2012 3:43:06 pm Deepa Mohan wrote:
Sorry for top-posting, but it is Rahu Kalam ot the moon is looking at
Jupiter or something like that.
Not to mention the fact that Ashaada the inauspicious month is just over and
you still haven't recovered.
I find a curious
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Shoba Narayan sh...@shobanarayan.comwrote:
I find a curious disjointedness between my generation and my parents'.
The things that mean a lot to my mother's generation, for instance, like
Varalakshmi Puja, doesn't seem to resonate so much with mine. Indeed,
it either. So..
That said, I seriously doubt that my daughter, or either of my nieces will know
or care about patthu
--srs (HTC One X)
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On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Shoba Narayan sh...@shobanarayan.com wrote:
[snip]
I find a curious disjointedness between my generation and my parents'. The
things that mean a lot to my mother's generation, for instance, like
Varalakshmi Puja, doesn't seem to resonate so much with mine.
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Shoba Narayan sh...@shobanarayan.com wrote:
On Wednesday 25 Jul 2012 3:43:06 pm Deepa Mohan wrote:
What will Indian culture (or any culture) be like without religion?
I think there will always be a kind of transition, so there will be
enough people believing in
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