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.

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 Rāṣṭra and Gandhi Rāṣṭra through the myth of Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita.- 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.

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.

This anthology deals with fundamental issues of our time. "Roots and routes" is a nice metaphor for what the contributors to the anthology study in an impressive variety of contexts and from different standpoints: how the dynamism of the modern world that makes move millions of people and interact thousands of cultures is both dependent on the sociocultural traditions and transforms them. What makes the anthology especially valuable is that what is at the very heart of its contributors discussion is human identity in a great variety of its manifestations in the present-day world.
Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation.

In Roots, Routes and a New Awakening, Professor Ananta Kumar Giri has successfully assembled a consortium of stellar scholars committed to re-worlding away from  the problematic paradigm of difference, thus openinga new canvas towards pluriversity.

 

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Professor and Chair of Epistemologies of  Global South, University of Bayreuth, Germany.

 

 

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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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