Roots, Routes and a New Awakening

This book seeks to find creative and transformative relationship among roots and routes and create a new dynamics of awakening so that we can overcome the problems of closed and xenopbhobic roots and rootless cosmopolitanism. The book draws upon multiple philosophical and spiritual traditions of the world such as Siva Tantra, Buddhist phenomenology and Peircean Semiotics and discusses the works of Ibn-Arabi, Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi and Raimon Panikkar,among others.The book is transdiscipinary building on creative thinking from philosophy, anthropology, political studies and literature. It is a unique contribution for forging a new relationship between roots and routes in our contemporary fragile and complex world.

Explores roots, routes, identity, social creativity, cultural regeneration and planetary realization Rethinks ethnicity and identity and linking to a new philosophy, anthropology and literature of global conversations Is a unique trans-disciplinary and cross-cultural engagement with identity, social creativity and contemporary dynamics of cultural regeneration

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Ananta Kumar Giri is a Professor at Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. He is the author and editor of more than two dozen books in English and Odia including Knowledge and Human Liberation (2013), Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo (editor), and The Calling of Global Responsibility: New Initiatives in Justice, Dialogues and Planetary Realizations(forthcoming).

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Part One: Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: Border Crossings in Self, Societies and Spiritual Awakening.- Beyond One and Many: Deconstructing the Notion of Identity.- Siva Tantra Rediscovered: Transforming the Etic Routes and Emic Roots of Indian Spirituality.- Semiotic Roots and Buddhist Routes in Phenomenology and Intercultural Philosophy: A Peircean study of Abhidharma Buddhist Theories of Consciousness and Perception.- Ecological Interconnectedness: Entwined Selves, Transcendent and Immanent.- From Root to Return Routes: A Brief Tantric Description of the Passage from Being to Beings.- Roots, Routes and Creative Transformations: New Perspectives on Transitions in Human Society.- Thoreau Tolstoy Gandhi: The Origin of Satyagraha.- The Gospel According to Babylon: The Rastafarian Challenge to Euro-centric Theological Discourse in the Caribbean.- Part Two Roots, Routes anda New Awakening: Beyond One and Many and Alternative Planetary Futures.- Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: Towards a New Art of Border Crossing.- Multicentric World and Nationalism.- Roots, Routes and A New Awakening: Walking and Meditating with Raimon Panikkar.- Overcoming Evil as Creation of Others as Enemies:Roots, Routes and a New Awakening of Plural Identities.- Muddled Roots and Diverse Routes of Reality: Understanding Hindu Rra and Gandhi Rra through the myth of Bhaoji Dkita.- Roots, Routes and a New Awakening: Rupantara, A Transforamtive Iniative in Co-Learning and Training of Tribal Teachers of Odisha, India.- Roots and Routes and The Origins of Urban Theory: A Journey to Stadtluft Macht Frei.- Utopias and Dystopias in Literature and Life.- Mysticism in the Tree of Anthroposcene: The Feminine Tree of Life and the Virtual Sphere.- Roots, Routes, and CrossingBorders: Embracing Cosmopolitanism in a Transcultural World.