Philosophies of Transformative Practice Social Movements in India

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Towards an Archaeology of Social Movements ...........1 From the Ideal to the Real: A shift in Philosophizing ......3 Liberation philosophy wisdom, power and care within transformative social practice ............15 The Rise and Fall of Social Movements.......29 Nature and Scope of Social Movements in Democratic Societies ..........41 Building Capacities and Enhancing freedoms: Movements that Foster Social Development ..........53 Towards a Biblical Philosophy of LIberation .........65 2. Towards a Genealogy of Social Movements........77 Productive semiotics of Social Movements .........79 Religious beliefs and Practice : The philosophical treatment after wittgenstein ................93 Critical theory and the Youth movements of the sixties ..........105 Not without difference : Re-visiting emmanuel Levinas on Racism..........119 Royce beloved Community....131 3. Praxis : Programmatic And Pragmatic ..........143 Sarana movement ........145 Bhakti movements in Contemporary religions .......159 Gandhian movements for Women`s Liberation in India ...........171 The chipko movement and its Aftermath ..........187 Alternative media movement ...........199 From Sudra to Servanthood.........213 The Emerging phenomena of Contemporary inter-Faith harmony movements in Urban India .........225 The pro-Life movement 239 Science Religion dialogue as a Movement .......253 Agapocracy : A new Response to the Ideological foundation of the RSS moement ..........267 Communist movement in India .......279