CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN CONSTRUCTIVE DHARMA: Volume I

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Proceedings of the First DANAM Conference, Atlanta, 21 November  2003

Edited by
Rita Dasgupta Sherma, Ph.D.
Binghamton University, New York, and Berghoffer Institute, New York
and
Adarsh Deepak, Ph.D.
Dharma Association of North America (DANAM), Poquoson, Virginia

         This volume contains the proceedings of the First Dharma Association of North America (DANAM) Conference, held at the site of the American Association of Religion, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 21 November 2003.  Over 80 participants from universities and nonprofit institutions in the USA, Canada, UK, and India attended the conference (listed at Appendix 2), in which seven Symposium papers and seven Roundtable Panel talks were presented (Agenda listed at Appendix 3).  Complete texts of five papers and six talks, and their ensuing discussions are included in this volume.

      The Conference was sponsored by DANAM (Dharma Association of North America) which is an independent, non-political, membership-based, non-profit scholarly organization based in Virginia, with a focus on the constructive study of Dharma traditions, understood as the indigenous traditions of India, through the North American contextual lens.  The mission and objectives of DANAM are described at its web site at www.danam-web.org, as well as at Appendix 4, which also lists many distinguished scholars as Patron and members of the Board of Distinguished Visiting Scholars (BDVS) drawn from various disciplines.  

       The primary purpose of the meeting was to provide a forum where scholars of Dharma Traditions (Darshana-s, Sampradaayaa-s, Sangha-s, Maarga-s, Paramparaa-s) and interested members of Dharma communities could engage in constructive approaches to, and in the examination of, contemporary issues in the study of Dharma Traditions. 

ISBN:  0-937194-46-8, 176 pages
ISBN13:  978-0-937194-46-1
Price:  $24.95

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Proceedings of the Second DANAM Conference, San Antonio, Texas,  November  2004

Edited by
Rita Dasgupta Sherma, Ph.D.
Binghamton University, New York, and Berghoffer Institute, New York
and
Adarsh Deepak, Ph.D.
Dharma Association of North America (DANAM), Poquoson, Virginia

      This volume contains the proceedings of the Second Dharma Association of North America (DANAM) Conference, held at the site of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), in San Antonio, Texas, USA, 19–21 November 2004. The meeting, at which twenty-four Symposium and Panel papers and presentations were given, was attended by scholars from North America, Europe, UK, Africa, and India. Complete texts of eighteen papers are included in this volume.

      One of the primary aims of the DANAM annual conference was to provide a forum where the academic examination of the Dharma Traditions and contemporary issues central to the life and practice of these traditions can be informed by constructive hermeneutics.  A secondary objective was openness to a discussion of the hermeneutical, epistemological, and pedagogical concerns and conflicts that impact scholarship in these traditions. Such discussions are still rather rare in the study of the Dharma Traditions.

       DANAM's mission includes the creation of a venue for collective engagement among scholars of the Dharma traditions, for mutual interaction and enrichment, to help initiate a reclamation of the historic relationship of intellectual cross-fertilization, dialogue, and sharing of thought and practices—while honoring the important differences— among these traditions.     

ISBN:  0-937194-47-6, 279 pages
ISBN13:  978-0-937194-47-8
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Graham M. Schweig, Ph.D.
Christopher Newport University

Jeffery Long, Ph.D.
Elizabethtown College

Ramdas Lamb, Ph.D.
University of Hawaii-Manoa

Adarsh Deepak, Ph.D.
Dharma Association of North America (DANAM), Poquoson, Virginia

This volume contains the proceedings of three sessions at the Third Dharma Association of North America (DANAM) Conference, held at the site of the American Association of Religion (AAR) Annual Meeting, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 18–20 November 2005. Over 100 participants from universities and nonprofit institutions in the USA, Canada, UK, Belgium, Egypt and India attended the conference. Complete texts of the four papers presented in the session are included in this volume. 

 Topics addressed include "Who is a Hindu?" The attempt to define Hinduism, to delineate its boundaries, involves a delicate balance, and four of the papers address this issue in various ways. 

 DANAM is an independent, non-political, membership-based, non-profit scholarly organization based in Virginia, with a focus on constructive engagement in the study of Dharma traditions, understood as the indigenous traditions of India. DANAM’s general focus continues to be on the conceptual, reflective study of these traditions through a North American contextual lens.  (The mission and objectives of DANAM are described at its web site at www.danam-web.org.)

ISBN:  978-0-937194-50-8, 213 pages
Price:  $21.95

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Adarsh Deepak, Ph.D.
Dharma Association of North America (DANAM), Poquoson, Virginia
and
Rita Dasgupta Sherma, Ph.D.
Binghamton University, New York, and Berghoffer Institute, New York

This volume contains the proceedings of the session on “Dying, Death, and Afterlife in Dharma Traditions and Western Religions” at the Third Dharma Association of North America (DANAM) Conference, held at the site of the American Association of Religion (AAR) Annual Meeting, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 18–20 November 2005. Over 100 participants from universities and nonprofit institutions in the USA, Canada, UK, Belgium, Egypt and India attended the conference. Complete texts of the four papers presented in the session are included in this volume.

ISBN:  978-0-937194-51-5, 116 pages
Price:  $11.95

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Deepak Sarma
Case Western University

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