Karline Mclain
Biographic Data
| ID | 700522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karline Mclain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karline |
| FAMILY NAME | Mclain |
| SIGNATURE | MCLAIN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bucknell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gandhi's Ashrams: Residential Experiments for Universal Well-Being in South Africa and India
Mohandas Karamchand “Mahatma” Gandhi is known worldwide for his nonviolent fight to attain India's independence from colonial rule. Lesser known are his utopian residential experiments conducted at the intentional living communities, or ashrams, that he founded in South Africa and India during his lifetime. Residents at these ashrams engaged in small-scale experiments with the ideals and methods for living a just life that Gandhi would then apply…
Living the Bhagavad Gita at Gandhi's Ashrams
The Bhagavad Gita is a philosophical Hindu scripture in which the god Krishna imparts lessons to the warrior prince Arjuna about sacred duty (dharma) and the path to spiritual liberation (moksha). This classical scripture has had a long and active interpretive life, and by the 19th century it had come to be regarded as a core text, if not the core text, of Hinduism. During the colonial period, interpretations of the Bhagavad Gita considered the r…
The Gandhi Story: An Official Indian Comic Book History of the Mahatma
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle
Be United, Be Virtuous
In one popular devotional poster the Indian god-man Shirdi Sai Baba (d. 1918) gazes out at the viewer, his right hand raised in blessing. Behind him are a Hindu temple, a Muslim mosque, a Sikh gurdwara, and a Christian church; above him is the slogan, “Be United, Be Virtuous.” In his lifetime, Shirdi Sai Baba acquired a handful of Hindu and Muslim devotees in western India. Over the past several decades, he has been transformed from a regional fi…
The Place of Comics in the Modern Hindu Imagination
This article provides an overview of the birth of comics in India; a discussion of the available scholarship to date, which has focused largely on India's most prominent comic book series, Amar Chitra Katha, and its connections to classical Hindu mythology and modern Hindu nationalist ideology; a roundup of recent developments in Indian comics since the creation of Amar Chitra Katha; and briefly offers some suggestions for further research
Holy superheroine: A comic book interpretation of the Hindu Devī Māhātmya scripture
Amar Chitra Katha (Immortal Picture Stories) is India's leading comic book series, featuring hundreds of mythological titles about the Hindu gods. Founder Anant Pai initially eliminated all miracles, believing them to be unscientific interpolations. But while producing Tales of Durga (no. 176, 1978), he declared that the comic must be an "authentic" recreation of the Devī Māhātmya scripture, and that all miracles in the classical Sanskrit text mu…
Who Shot the Mahatma? Representing Gandhian Politics in Indian Comic Books
Amar Chitra Katha (‘Immortal Picture Stories’) is the leading Indian comic book series, with 440 mythological and historical titles and sales of over 86 million issues. In 1989, after twenty years of publishing success, the producers of this series decided to release two issues on the world-renowned Indian politician and activist, Mahatma Gandhi. But Gandhi, best known for his technique of non-violent civil resistance, presented a formidable chal…
Mullahs on the Mainframe: A Review Essay
(2003). Mullahs on the Mainframe: A Review Essay. India Review: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 103-115
Holy superheroine: A comic book interpretation of the Hindu Devī Māhātmya scripture
Amar Chitra Katha (Immortal Picture Stories) is India's leading comic book series, featuring hundreds of mythological titles about the Hindu gods. Founder Anant Pai initially eliminated all miracles, believing them to be unscientific interpolations. But while producing Tales of Durga (no. 176, 1978), he declared that the comic must be an "authentic" recreation of the Devī Māhātmya scripture, and that all miracles in the classical Sanskrit text mu…
Gandhi's Ashrams: Residential Experiments for Universal Well-Being in South Africa and India
Mohandas Karamchand “Mahatma” Gandhi is known worldwide for his nonviolent fight to attain India's independence from colonial rule. Lesser known are his utopian residential experiments conducted at the intentional living communities, or ashrams, that he founded in South Africa and India during his lifetime. Residents at these ashrams engaged in small-scale experiments with the ideals and methods for living a just life that Gandhi would then apply…
Living the Bhagavad Gita at Gandhi's Ashrams
The Bhagavad Gita is a philosophical Hindu scripture in which the god Krishna imparts lessons to the warrior prince Arjuna about sacred duty (dharma) and the path to spiritual liberation (moksha). This classical scripture has had a long and active interpretive life, and by the 19th century it had come to be regarded as a core text, if not the core text, of Hinduism. During the colonial period, interpretations of the Bhagavad Gita considered the r…
Who Shot the Mahatma? Representing Gandhian Politics in Indian Comic Books
Amar Chitra Katha (‘Immortal Picture Stories’) is the leading Indian comic book series, with 440 mythological and historical titles and sales of over 86 million issues. In 1989, after twenty years of publishing success, the producers of this series decided to release two issues on the world-renowned Indian politician and activist, Mahatma Gandhi. But Gandhi, best known for his technique of non-violent civil resistance, presented a formidable chal…
Mullahs on the Mainframe: A Review Essay
(2003). Mullahs on the Mainframe: A Review Essay. India Review: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 103-115
Who Shot the Mahatma? Representing Gandhian Politics in Indian Comic Books
Amar Chitra Katha (‘Immortal Picture Stories’) is the leading Indian comic book series, with 440 mythological and historical titles and sales of over 86 million issues. In 1989, after twenty years of publishing success, the producers of this series decided to release two issues on the world-renowned Indian politician and activist, Mahatma Gandhi. But Gandhi, best known for his technique of non-violent civil resistance, presented a formidable chal…
Holy superheroine: A comic book interpretation of the Hindu Devī Māhātmya scripture
Amar Chitra Katha (Immortal Picture Stories) is India's leading comic book series, featuring hundreds of mythological titles about the Hindu gods. Founder Anant Pai initially eliminated all miracles, believing them to be unscientific interpolations. But while producing Tales of Durga (no. 176, 1978), he declared that the comic must be an "authentic" recreation of the Devī Māhātmya scripture, and that all miracles in the classical Sanskrit text mu…
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle
Be United, Be Virtuous
In one popular devotional poster the Indian god-man Shirdi Sai Baba (d. 1918) gazes out at the viewer, his right hand raised in blessing. Behind him are a Hindu temple, a Muslim mosque, a Sikh gurdwara, and a Christian church; above him is the slogan, “Be United, Be Virtuous.” In his lifetime, Shirdi Sai Baba acquired a handful of Hindu and Muslim devotees in western India. Over the past several decades, he has been transformed from a regional fi…
The Place of Comics in the Modern Hindu Imagination
This article provides an overview of the birth of comics in India; a discussion of the available scholarship to date, which has focused largely on India's most prominent comic book series, Amar Chitra Katha, and its connections to classical Hindu mythology and modern Hindu nationalist ideology; a roundup of recent developments in Indian comics since the creation of Amar Chitra Katha; and briefly offers some suggestions for further research
The Gandhi Story: An Official Indian Comic Book History of the Mahatma
Gandhi's Ashrams: Residential Experiments for Universal Well-Being in South Africa and India
Mohandas Karamchand “Mahatma” Gandhi is known worldwide for his nonviolent fight to attain India's independence from colonial rule. Lesser known are his utopian residential experiments conducted at the intentional living communities, or ashrams, that he founded in South Africa and India during his lifetime. Residents at these ashrams engaged in small-scale experiments with the ideals and methods for living a just life that Gandhi would then apply…
Living the Bhagavad Gita at Gandhi's Ashrams
The Bhagavad Gita is a philosophical Hindu scripture in which the god Krishna imparts lessons to the warrior prince Arjuna about sacred duty (dharma) and the path to spiritual liberation (moksha). This classical scripture has had a long and active interpretive life, and by the 19th century it had come to be regarded as a core text, if not the core text, of Hinduism. During the colonial period, interpretations of the Bhagavad Gita considered the r…
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