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Sima Sharma, a senior journalist has compiled
the anthology, Faith in an Age of Uncertainty as
Editor of the IIC Quarterly and head of the
publication division of the India International
Center, New Delhi, till summer 2000.
She had been involved in issues of faith and
philosophy and associated with the International
Sacred Literature Trust (ISLT) and the Temenos
Academy of Integral Studies. She was series
co-editor for the first six volumes of the ISLT
series of sacred texts in translation from
various world traditions, published by Harper
Collins in 1994. For the Temenos academy, she
wrote papers and delivered talks and seminars
related to the Indian tradition within the
context of the universal integral heritage.
She has also broadcast short talks in the BBC's
Words of Faith series and was respondent to the
1996 Sir Francis Younghusband Memorial Lecture
delivered by Dr. George Carey, the Archbishop of
Canterbury, on the theme: "How far can we travel
together."
As a seeker and thinker she is guided by the
works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother whose
influence she imbibed deeply at Pondicerry. She
lives and works in Delhi.
Faith
This anthology of essays on the theme of Faith
is a tribute to the spirit that lives in
humanity. As the editor writes in her
introduction, "Believer, non-believer or
iconoclast, no one living in this kaliyuga can
be indifferent to this issue."
This anthology is an offering that comes with a
plea that it be read slowly, a little at a time,
for it is not 'ten easy steps to a better
millennium.' In fact it has no agenda whatever
on the faith question, except to clear a space
wide enough for various shades of insights which
might be received and reflected upon.
The volume has no pretensions of representing
any cross-section of opinion nor even that of
working towards a coherent set of answers. It
came into being through the unique authenticity
and generosity of each of the contributors.
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Alok
Pandey |
Arindam Chakrabarti |
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Donald Eichert |
E. C.
George Sudarshan |
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Fr.
G. Gispert-Sauch |
Ghulam Rasol Santosh |
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Gogi
Saroj Pal |
John
Carey |
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John
Haldane |
Karen
Armstrong |
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Kathleen Raine |
Madhu
Tandan |
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Makarand Paranjape |
Marcus Braybrooke |
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Maulana Wahiduddin Khan |
Peter
Tyler |
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Philip Sheldrake |
Raimon Panikkar |
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Ranjit Hoskote |
Roger
Housden |
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Savyasaachi |
Sudhamahi Regunathan |
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Swami
Agnivesh |
V. S.
Naipaul |
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Vidya
Rao |
William A. Conrad |
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