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Karma: How it really works
{This archived piece is background to the blog discussion on the nature of reincarnation and karma, included in the April 16th piece headlined “Too busy to reflect on life? And afterlife?} Making sport...
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Vaisakhi primer: How Hindu spirituality dovetails with Western philosophy
There is a philosophical story behind the customary news stories reported each year about the two gigantic Vaisakhi parades that will be held this Saturday morning in Vancouver and next Saturday in...
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Hindu women in a bind: Goddesses or homemakers?
Hindu tradition holds up women as goddesses and vehicles of divine power. Hindu tradition also locks women in subservient roles. What’s a Hindu woman to do? University of B.C. professor emerita...
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Young Hindus and Sikhs hope Diwali can counter ‘dogma’
Can India’s most popular festival bring together the disparate South Asians of Canada? For Vancouver’s Milan Singh, Diwali is the fun and sacred time of year when she says “all my friends crash my...
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Ten trends in global religion
Many predicted religion would die out as secularism spreads around the planet. But so far they’ve been wrong, mostly. Religion and spirituality remain extremely powerful across the globe, even while...
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In praise of mixing religions, even when it’s dangerous
Mahatma Gandhi was murdered for it. University of B.C. Sikh studies professor Harjot Oberoi was vilified for it. Religious fundamentalists condemn people to hell for it. There can be a social cost for...
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She’s fighting to bridge the gulf between women and men
Katherine Young isn’t in the habit of picking fights. But the 70-year-old Hinduism specialist didn’t like what she witnessed in the 1990s when a hard-edged stream of feminist scholarship started...
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Hindu leader protests Vancouver artist’s ‘Gods of Suburbia.’ UPDATE
A Hindu leader in the U.S. is attacking a photo exhibition by Vancouver’s Dina Goldstein, claiming her provocative project is “trivializing the highly revered deities of Hinduism, Ganesh and Lakshmi.”...
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Of sand and chakras
A lot of things cross my proverbial desk at The Vancouver Sun, many of them unsolicited. Whether they’re books, magazines, objets d’art or pitches to support certain causes, the reality is that some...
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Bharti Kher's art gets to heart of the Matter in Vancouver Art Gallery exhibit
BHARTI KHER Matter Until Oct. 10 | Vancouver Art Gallery Info: vancouverartgallery.org She’s called Warrior with cloak and shield. Like all of Bharti Kher’s work, she’s complicated. She’s a female...
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