Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion

DISMANTLING GLOBAL HINDUTVA CONFERENCE

10-12 September 2021

https://dismantlinghindutva.com/

https://twitter.com/hashtag/dghconference

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Friday, September 10

9:30 – 11:10 am EDT / 7:00 – 8:30 pm IST

What Is Global Hindutva

Opening Remarks: Gyan Prakash

Christophe Jaffrelot | Meena Kandasamy | Anand Patwardhan | Moderator: Thomas Blom Hansen

11:30 – 1:00 PM EDT / 9:00 – 10:30 pm IST

The Political Economy of Hindutva

Jens Lerche | Pritam Singh | Vamsi Vakulabharanam | Moderator: Smriti Rao

1:30 – 3:00 PM EDT / 11:00 – 12:30 am IST

Caste and Hindutva

Gajendran Ayyathurai | Meena Dhanda | Bhanwar Meghwanshi | Moderator: Rupa Viswanath

Saturday, September 11

9:30 – 11:00 am EDT / 7:00 – 8:30 pm IST

Gender and Sexual Politics of Hindutva

Leena Manimekalai | Akanksha Mehta | P. Sivakami | Moderator: Paola Bacchetta

11:30 – 1:00 PM EDT / 9:00 – 10:30 pm IST

Contours of the Nation

Mohamad Junaid | Arkotong Longkumer | Yasmin Saikia | Nandini Sundar | Moderator: Suchitra Vijayan

1:30 – 3:00 PM EDT / 11:00 – 12:30 am IST

Hindutva, Science, and Healthcare

Meera Nanda | Kavita Sivaramakrishnan | Banu Subramaniam | Moderator: Joseph Alter

Sunday, September 12

9:30 – 11:00 am EDT / 7:00 – 8:30 pm IST

Hindutva Propaganda and the Digital Ecosystem

Cyril Sam | FCHS* Member | Salil Tripathi | Moderator: Rohit Chopra

11:30 – 1:10 PM EDT / 9:00 – 10:40 pm IST

Hinduism and Hindutva

Opening Remarks: T. M. Krishna

Raja Bhattar | FCHS* Members | Brij Maharaj | Sunita Viswanath | Moderator: Balmurli Natrajan

1:30 – 3:00 PM EDT / 11:00 – 12:30 am IST: Islamophobia, White Supremacy, and Hindutva

Anjali Arondekar | Demetrius Eudell | Deepa Kumar | Moderator: Manan Ahmed

*FCHS = Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective

Ad-Hoc Organizing Committee

Sahar Aziz, Rutgers University

Ben C. Baer, Princeton University

Sruti Bala, University of Amsterdam

Laura Brueck, Northwestern University

Ananya Chakravarti, Georgetown University

Zahid R. Chaudhary, Princeton University

Rohit Chopra, Santa Clara University

Ashley Cohen, University of Southern California

Meena Dhanda, University of Wolverhampton

John Esposito, Georgetown University

Shubhra Gururani, York University

Jyotsna Kapur, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

David Ludden, New York University

Radhika Mongia, York University

Meera Nanda, IISER Pune (former Visiting Faculty)

Gyan Prakash, Princeton University

Sharmila Rudrappa, South Asia Institute, University of Texas-Austin

Lotika Singha, University of Wolverhampton

Suchitra Vijayan, Author and Barrister-at-Law

Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective

Tweet on 12 September 2021

Narayana Rao

@knoltweet·

If we are in discussion and if the issues are relevant we need to bring them into discussion. Hindutva is about the unity and integrity of Hindustan. How you can promote it,  is its thesis. It is based on region and not religion.  There can be other theses. 

@vishwa_samvad  #dgh

Christian Persecution of Jews over the Centuries

GERARD S. SLOYAN

PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF RELIGION

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY

https://www.ushmm.org/research/about-the-mandel-center/initiatives/ethics-religion-holocaust/articles-and-resources/christian-persecution-of-jews-over-the-centuries/christian-persecution-of-jews-over-the-centuries

Research Anthology on Religious Impacts on Society

Management Association, Information Resources

IGI Global, 21-Jul-2020 - Social Science - 825 pages

Religion is considered by many to be something of the past, but it has a lasting hold in society and influences people across many cultures. This integration of spirituality causes numerous impacts across various aspects of modern life. The variety of religious institutions in modern society necessitates a focus on diversity and inclusiveness in the interactions between organizations of different religions, cultures, and viewpoints.

Research Anthology on Religious Impacts on Society examines the cultural, sociological, economic, and philosophical effects of religion on modern society and human behavior. Highlighting a range of topics such as religious values, social reforms, and spirituality, this publication is an ideal reference source for religious officials, church leaders, psychologists, sociologists, professionals, researchers, academicians, and students.

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=krgIEAAAQBAJ

Volume 16 - Ralph L. Piedmont - 2005 - Book Information

Google Book Link
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=pCkGD_RcbEEC


Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (RSSSR) publishes reports of innovative studies that pertain empirically or theoretically to the scientific study of religion, including spirituality, regardless of their academic discipline or professional orientation.

The articles included in this volume report studies on the role of religion and spirituality in relationship to many topics of current popular interest, among them well-being, self-esteem, emotional intelligence, substance abuse, social mobility, positive psychology, coping with medical decision making, and images of God.

Ralph L. Piedmont is Psychologist at the Department of Pastoral Counseling, Loyola College in Maryland, Columbia, USA. One of his publications is The Revised NEO Personality Inventory: Clinical and Research Applications (Plenum Press, 1998).

Table of contents

Christian Belief About the Bible and the Holy Spirit in Relation to Psychological Type.
Andrew Village

Monastic Spirituality Beyond the Cloister: A Preliminary Look at Lay Cistercians.
William L. Smith

Relationships Between Spiritual Transcendence and Emotional Intelligence Among Older Catholic Nuns.
Ann Billard, Joanne M. Greer, Mary Ellen Merrick, William Sneck, S.J., and N. J. Scheers

A Comparison of Religiosity Between European-Americans, African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans and Asian-Americans.
George Yancey

God Images and Self-Esteem: A Study Among 11-18 Year-olds.
Leslie J. Francis

Charismatic Experience and Emotional Stability: A Study Among Adult Christians.
Leslie J. Francis and Susan H. Jones

Social Mobility and Religion: Evidence From Lebanon.
Marianne El Khoury and Ugo Panizza

Hope, Optimism, Pessimism, and Spirituality as Predictors of Well-Being Controlling for Personality
Joseph W. Ciarrocchi and Erin Deneke

Parental Rejection and Religiosity: Differential Predictors of Mood and Substance Use.
John J. Cecero and Adam L. Fried

Is a Consensus Definition of Spirituality Possible? Theory Construction in Spiritually-Oriented Psychotherapy.
Len Sperry

Religious Coping and Mental Health Outcomes in Family Members Making DNR Decisions.
Johanna R. Sood, Celia B. Fisher, and Daniel P. Sulmasy

Spirituality, Religious Commitment, and Psychological Well-being
Stephen A. Price and Lawrence G. Herringer

Spiritual Transcendence as an Unmediated Causal Predictor of Psychological Growth and Worldview Among Filipinos
Gabriel S. Dy-Liacco, M. Christine Kennedy, Donna J. Parker, and Ralph L. Piedmont

Spirituality as “Feeling Connected with the Transcendent:” Outline of a Transpersonal Psychology of Adult Development of Self.
Jan Sinnott

http://www.brill.com/research-social-scientific-study-religion-volume-16

Details of other volume are also there in the website and they have to be collected.

Ud 19.9.2021, 12.9.2021

Pub 29 August 2014

Memory - Working Memory - Baddeley's Research

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baddeley%27s_model_of_working_memory


Baddeley's Model of Working Memory is a model of human memory proposed by Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch in 1974, in an attempt to present a more accurate model of primary memory (often referred to as short-term memory). Working memory splits primary memory into multiple components, rather than considering it to be a single, unified construct.

Baddeley & Hitch proposed their three-part working memory model as an alternative to the short-term store in Atkinson & Shiffrin's 'multi-store' memory model (1968). This model is later expanded upon by Baddeley and other co-workers to add a fourth component, and has become the dominant view in the field of working memory. However, alternative models are developing (see working memory), providing a different perspective on the working memory system.


More recent work on working memory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memory

Psychology Google Books - Bibliography

Introduction to Psychology

Lionel Nicholas
Juta and Company Ltd, 2008 - Psychology - 414 pages, 2nd ed.

Completely revised and updated, this newly illustrated guide helps both licensed and student nurses apply the latest in psychological research and theory to their everyday lives. Sensation, perception, cognitive processes, and developmental psychology are among the topics discussed. A brief history of the field and new information on HIV and AIDS are also included. 
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=MP5X2SK2DCgC

Goleman's New Book on Emotional Intelligence - Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence - Book Information - 2013

Daniel Goleman: "Focus: the Hidden Driver of Excellence" | Talks at Google
6 December 2013
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The Focused Leader
Daniel Goleman
HBR, THE DECEMBER 2013
https://hbr.org/2013/12/the-focused-leader


Review posted in Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/2013/12/20/c3774f2c-672a-11e3-a0b9-249bbb34602c_story.html


Updated 21 October 2017, 22 December 2013

Moral Psychology - Some Thoughts

The idea that the mind is a blank slate at birth is a right. Developmental psychology has shown that kids come into the world with some knowledge about the physical and social worlds, and programmed to make it really easy for them to learn certain things and hard to learn others. The brain scientist Gary Marcus says, "The initial organization of the brain does not depend that much on experience. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises. Built-in doesn't mean unmalleable; it means organized in advance of experience." OK, so what's on the first draft of the moral mind? Jonathan Hiadt and Craig Joseph,  found five foundations of morality from a literature review that they did.

The first one is harm/care. All mammals have a lot of neural and hormonal programming that makes them  really bond with others, care for others, feel compassion for others, especially the weak and vulnerable. It also gives them  very strong feelings about those who cause harm.

The second foundation is fairness/reciprocity. This is a foundation of  many religions.

The third foundation is in-group/loyalty. You do find groups in the animal kingdom.  Among humans you find very large groups of people who are able to cooperate, join together into groups, but also  fight other groups.


The fourth foundation is authority/respect. Here you see submissive gestures from two members of very closely related species. But authority in humans is not only based on power and brutality also based on love and regard for certain services rendered when they are helpless and need those services.


The fifth foundation is purity/sanctity.  It's about any kind of ideology, any kind of idea that tells you that you can attain virtue by controlling what you do with your body, by controlling what you put into your body.


What is the difference between liberals and conservatives? Jonathan Hiadt believes that these are the five best candidates for what's written on the first draft of the moral mind. If there really are five systems at work in the mind — five sources of intuitions and emotions — then we can think of the moral mind as being like one of those audio equalizers that has five channels, where  a different setting can be made on every channel.


For  harm and care issues as well as fairness issues, liberals very committed. We can say that liberals have a kind of a two-channel, or two-foundation morality. Conservatives have more of a five-foundation, or five-channel morality. Conservative are more committed to  in-group, authority, purity. Moral arguments within cultures are especially about issues of in-group, authority, purity among liberals and conservatives.


The arguments can be explained based  on an idea. In the beginning all is ordered, all is beautiful, all the people and animals are doing what they're supposed to be doing, where they're supposed to be. But then, we know, things change based on  individual preferences. We get every person doing whatever he wants, and the resulting disorder starts hurting more people. Cooperation may decay from reasonably good, down to close to zero. The liberal thought became too extreme, the social cause was neglected too long by too many people, and therefore conservatives have to step in and bring more social or moral controls. Initially there will be arguments and then small fights etc. as the change process progresses.


Liberals also have very noble motives when they drive for change and individual liberty.  Traditional authority, traditional morality can be quite repressive, and restrictive to those at the bottom, to women, to people that don't fit in. So liberals speak for the weak and oppressed. They want change and justice, even at the risk of chaos.  So once you see this — once you see that liberals and conservatives both have something to contribute, that they form a balance on change versus stability.


In an argument or dispute, everybody thinks they are right. A lot of the problems we have to solve are problems that require us to change other people. And if you want to change other people, a much better way to do it is to first understand who we are — understand our moral psychology, understand that we all think we're right — and then step out, even if it's just for a moment, step out.  And if you do that, that's the essential move to cultivate moral humility, to get yourself out of this self-righteousness, which is the normal human condition. Think about the Dalai Lama. Think about the enormous moral authority of the Dalai Lama — and it comes from his moral humility.


There has to be a passionate commitment to the truth or to reason out what is appropriate for the moment. Let thought in the society change from liberal to conservative - from conservative to liberal as appropriate. You also change your side as per need.

Abridged from a Ted Talk.
Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives
http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind/transcript?language=en

Humility - An Unlikely Virtue

Presentation by Dr. David Bobb on his new book, Humility: An Unlikely Biography of America's Greatest Virtue given at Hillsdale College's Kirby Center on November 5, 2013.

It is the time where people say be assertive, be aggressive. It is surprising to note that some US Presidently has shown humility.


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What is Mind?

Mind, instead of referring to an entity, refers to a collection of mental events experienced by a person.

http://phd-research-methodology.blogspot.in/2012/01/ontology-introduction.html