Roots, Routes and a New Awakening

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 Ras ra and Gandhi Ras ra through the myth of Bha oji Diksita.- 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.

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).