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Balagangadhara Rao
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2022
Is thinking together possible? Reconceptualizing inter-tradition dialogues in the 21st century
Balagangadhara Rao
Sarika Rao
Bookchapter
in
De natura fidei : rethinking religion across disciplinary boundaries
2022
Which fidelity, whose adultery? Minding Manu's verse
Balagangadhara Rao
Sarika Rao
Jakob De Roover
Marianne Keppens
A1
Journal Article
in
PHILOSOPHY EAST & WEST
2022
2021
What does it mean to be 'Indian'?
Balagangadhara Rao
Sarika Rao
Book
2021
2017
Caste-based reservation and social justice in India
Balagangadhara Rao
Bookchapter
in
Western foundations of the caste system
2017
Indian culture and its social security system
Balagangadhara Rao
Bookchapter
in
Critical humanities from India : contexts, issues, futures
2017
2016
Questioning the Axioms
Balagangadhara Rao
Newsarticle
2016
2015
How About Speaking the Truth About Reservations?
Balagangadhara Rao
Newsarticle
2015
Indian culture and its social security system
Balagangadhara Rao
A2
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT
2015
Paris, terrorism and the Third World War
Balagangadhara Rao
Blog post
2015
Religion, Secularism and Law
Balagangadhara Rao
U
Journal Article
in
International Journal of Law and Social Sciences
2015
2014
De antieken en het vroege Christendom: een heidense visie uit India
Balagangadhara Rao
Sarah Claerhout
Bookchapter
in
Christendom en filosofie : opstellen over wijsbegeerte, wereldbeeld en wetenschappen van het antieke christendom over Nietzsche tot fundamentalisme vandaag
2014
Do all roads lead to Jerusalem? The making of Indian religions
Balagangadhara Rao
Divya Jhingran
Book
2014
Oh Europa, My Lady, Whither are you Going?
Balagangadhara Rao
Newsarticle
2014
On the dark side of the 'secular': is the religious-secular distinction a binary?
Balagangadhara Rao
A1
Journal Article
in
NUMEN-INTERNATIONAL REVIEW FOR THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS
2014
Translation, interpretation and culture: on the disingenuity of a comparative theology
Balagangadhara Rao
A2
Journal Article
in
CANADIAN SOCIAL SCIENCE
2014
2013
'Secularism', does the translation matter when the meaning is unknown?
Balagangadhara Rao
[0-9]{2}
2013
Can the story of the caste system be seen as a social scientific theory?
Balagangadhara Rao
Newsarticle
2013
How can there be fundamentalism when Hinduism doesn't exist?
Balagangadhara Rao
Newsarticle
2013
Is changing devatas and rituals conversion?
Balagangadhara Rao
[0-9]{2}
2013
Is religious tolerance a virtue in the Indian context?
Balagangadhara Rao
[0-9]{2}
2013
Questions and answers that are irrelevant to our culture
Balagangadhara Rao
Newsarticle
2013
Rethinking a Humboldtian vision for the twenty-first century
Balagangadhara Rao
A2
Journal Article
in
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
2013
Since when did the traditional rituals become blind beliefs?
Balagangadhara Rao
Newsarticle
2013
The dark hour of secularism: Hindu fundamentalism and colonial liberalism in India
Balagangadhara Rao
Jakob De Roover
Bookchapter
in
Making sense of the secular : critical perspectives from Europe to Asia
2013
Were there any anti-caste movements in ancient India?
Balagangadhara Rao
Newsarticle
2013
Western assumptions behind the notion of the 'Brahmin Priesthood'
Balagangadhara Rao
[0-9]{2}
2013
What is the relation between social change and the bashing of brahmins?
Balagangadhara Rao
[0-9]{2}
2013
What is there in Indian society if not Hinduism?
Balagangadhara Rao
Newsarticle
2013
2012
Are there 'invisible hands' in every ritual of a multicultural society?
Balagangadhara Rao
[0-9]{2}
2012
Before disgracing them as 'superstitions'
Balagangadhara Rao
[0-9]{2}
2012
Bharatadalli Jati Vyavasthe Ideye?
Balagangadhara Rao
Book
2012
Doing development research in Asia: problems and perspectives
Balagangadhara Rao
Bookchapter
in
Proceedings international symposium : evaluation of Development Research
2012
Hudukaatavannu Nillisadirona
Balagangadhara Rao
Book
2012
Pseudo argument: 'the separation of Dharma from politics'
Balagangadhara Rao
[0-9]{2}
2012
Reconceptualizing India studies
Balagangadhara Rao
Book
2012
Searching for Hindu dharma on the basis of religion
Balagangadhara Rao
[0-9]{2}
2012
The misconception that pooja and worship are the same
Balagangadhara Rao
Newsarticle
2012
The search for scriptures and principles in India and the struggle of the intellectuals
Balagangadhara Rao
[0-9]{2}
2012
Two worlds within us
Balagangadhara Rao
[0-9]{2}
2012
Where did the idea that idol worship is immoral originate from?
Balagangadhara Rao
[0-9]{2}
2012
2011
La paradoja de la tolerancia moderna en sus inicios: de Europa a la India
Jakob De Roover
Balagangadhara Rao
Bookchapter
in
Forjadores de la Tolerancia
2011
Liberal political theory and the cultural migration of ideas: the case of secularism in India
Jakob De Roover
Sarah Claerhout
Balagangadhara Rao
A1
Journal Article
in
POLITICAL THEORY
2011
Puurvavalokana
Balagangadhara Rao
Rajaram Hegde
Sadananda Janekere
Book
2011
Rethinking orientalism: colonialism and the study of Indian traditions
Raf Gelders
Balagangadhara Rao
A1
Journal Article
in
HISTORY OF RELIGIONS
2011
2010
Bhaarata mattu Pashchimada Tulane
Balagangadhara Rao
TL Praveen
Vani Palve
Bookchapter
in
Sampreethi
2010
Bharatiyonki avashyakata : ithihasa athava ateet?
Balagangadhara Rao
A4
Journal Article
in
CHINTAN-SRIJA
2010
Orientalism, postcolonialism and the 'construction' of religion
Balagangadhara Rao
Bookchapter
in
Rethinking religion in India : the colonial construction of Hinduism
2010
The saint, the criminal and the terrorist: towards a hypothesis on terrorism
Balagangadhara Rao
Jakob De Roover
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
2010
2009
Liberty, tyranny and the will of God: the principle of toleration in early modern Europe and colonial India
Jakob De Roover
Balagangadhara Rao
A1
Journal Article
in
HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
2009
Reconceptualizing the postcolonial project : beyond the strictures and structures of orientalism
Balagangadhara Rao
Marianne Keppens
A1
Journal Article
in
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
2009
Smruti, Vismruti: Bharatiya Samskruti
Balagangadhara Rao
Rajaram Hegde
Book
2009
Spirituality in management theories: a perspective from India
Balagangadhara Rao
Bookchapter
in
Spirituality and Business : exploring possibilities for a new management paradigm
2009
What do Indians need? A history or the past?
Balagangadhara Rao
A4
Journal Article
in
MAATHU-KATHE
2009
What should religious studies do, if it is to have a future?
Balagangadhara Rao
A4
Journal Article
in
PANTHEON (PARDUBICE)
2009
Why terrorists bite the hand that feeds them
Jakob De Roover
Balagangadhara Rao
Other
2009
Why understand the Western culture?
Balagangadhara Rao
A4
Journal Article
in
TARIKH : HISTORY SOCIETY JOURNAL
2009
2008
Are dialogues antidotes to violence?: two recent examples from Hinduism studies
Balagangadhara Rao
Sarah Claerhout
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGIONS AND IDEOLOGIES
2008
Comparing India and the West
Balagangadhara Rao
A4
Journal Article
in
ASIANETWORK EXCHANGE
2008
Crimes are Transformed into Moral Acts
Balagangadhara Rao
A4
Journal Article
in
Tehelka Magazine
2008
De tijd, het geluk en ervaring
Balagangadhara Rao
A4
Journal Article
in
JAARVERSLAG : OIKONDE LEUVEN
2008
John Locke, Christian liberty, and the predicament of liberal toleration
Jakob De Roover
Balagangadhara Rao
A1
Journal Article
in
POLITICAL THEORY
2008
Mumbai: Demonstratieles voor Would-Be Terroristen
Balagangadhara Rao
Other
2008
Rethinking colonialism and colonial consciousness: the case of modern India
Balagangadhara Rao
Esther Bloch
Jakob De Roover
Bookchapter
in
Forms of knowledge in India : critical revaluations
2008
Why understand the Western culture?
Balagangadhara Rao
Bookchapter
in
Understanding Multiculturalism
2008
2007
Balagangadhara on the biblical underpinnings of ’secular’ social sciences
Balagangadhara Rao
Bookchapter
in
Invading the sacred : an analysis of hinduism studies in America
2007
Decolonising the social sciences, utopia or a task for today?
Balagangadhara Rao
A2
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF KARNATAKA STUDIES
2007
Foreword
Balagangadhara Rao
Bookchapter
in
Invading the Sacred : an analysis of Hinduism studies in America
2007
India and her traditions: a reply to Jeffrey Kripal
Balagangadhara Rao
Bookchapter
in
Invading the sacred : an analysis of hinduism studies in America
2007
The secular state and religious conflict: liberal neutrality and the Indian case of pluralism
Balagangadhara Rao
Jakob De Roover
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
2007
To follow our forefathers?: the nature of tradition
Balagangadhara Rao
A4
Journal Article
in
INDIA-FORUM
2007
Translations, or travesty of traditions?
Balagangadhara Rao
A4
Journal Article
in
India-Forum
2007
What can India offer?
Balagangadhara Rao
A4
Journal Article
in
OUTLOOK INDIA
2007
Why understand the western culture?
Balagangadhara Rao
A4
Journal Article
in
INDIA-FORUM
2007
2006
Imagining hinduism: a postcolonial perspective
Balagangadhara Rao
Bookreview
2006
Secularisation as the harbinger of religious violence in India: hybridisation, Hindutva and post-coloniality
Balagangadhara Rao
Bookchapter
in
Hybridising East and West : tales beyond westernisation : empirical contributions to the debates on hybridity
2006
Waar zijn de argumenten van de Indiër?
Balagangadhara Rao
A4
Journal Article
in
KARAKTER (LEUVEN)
2006
2005
"The heathen in his blindness...": Asia, the West and the dynamic of religion
Balagangadhara Rao
Book
2005
How to speak for the Indian traditions : an agenda for the future
Balagangadhara Rao
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION
2005
2003
'Leve Edward Said?'
Balagangadhara Rao
Editorial material
2003
2002
India and her traditions: a reply to Jeffrey Kripal
Balagangadhara Rao
Other
2002
On Colonial Experience and the Indian Renaissance: A Prolegomenon to a Project
Balagangadhara Rao
Editorial material
2002
Oosterse Godsdiensten als Uitvindsel van het Westen
Balagangadhara Rao
Newsarticle
2002
1998
The future of the present: thinking through orientalism
Balagangadhara Rao
A2
Journal Article
in
CULTURAL DYNAMICS
1998
1996
Comparative Anthropology and Rhetorics in Cultures II
Balagangadhara Rao
Hendrik Pinxten
Bookchapter
in
Perspectives on Written Argument
1996
1994
"The heathen in his blindness…": Asia, the West, and the dynamic of religion
Balagangadhara Rao
Book
1994
De vraag in het migrantenvraagstuk
Balagangadhara Rao
Article in a magazine
1994
1991
Comparative science of cultures and the universality of religion : an essay on worlds without views and views without the world
Balagangadhara Rao
Etienne Vermeersch
Dissertation
1991
Review Article: Frits Staal. Rules Without Meaning: Ritual, Mantras and the Human Sciences. Toronto Studies in Religion, Vol. 4. New York and Bern: Peter Lang
Balagangadhara Rao
Bookreview
1991
The reality of the elusive man?
Balagangadhara Rao
Bookchapter
in
The quest for man : the topicality of philosophical anthropology
1991
1990
The Origin of Religion: Why is the Issue Dead?
Balagangadhara Rao
A2
Journal Article
in
CULTURAL DYNAMICS
1990
Understanding and Imagination: A Critical Notice of Halbfass and Inden
Balagangadhara Rao
A2
Journal Article
in
CULTURAL DYNAMICS
1990
1989
Comparative Anthropology and Rhetorics in Cultures
Balagangadhara Rao
Hendrik Pinxten
Bookchapter
in
Norms in Argumentation: Proceedings of the Conference on Norms
1989
1988
Comparative Anthropology and Moral Domains: An Essay on Selfless Morality and the Moral Self
Balagangadhara Rao
A2
Journal Article
in
CULTURAL DYNAMICS
1988
Cultural Dynamics: a Vision and a Perspective
Hendrik Pinxten
Balagangadhara Rao
E. Soberon
D. Verboven
K. Snoeck
A2
Journal Article
in
CULTURAL DYNAMICS
1988
1987
Comparative anthropology and action sciences: an essay on knowing to act and acting to know
Balagangadhara Rao
A2
Journal Article
in
PHILOSOPHICA (GENT)
1987