By DAMYANTEE DEVI DABYDEEN (Author)
- Paperback : 350 pages
- Product Dimensions : 20.32 x 12.7 x 3.18 cm
- Publisher : Authorspress (12 September 2020)
- ASIN : B08HY542H6 Language: : English
About the Book: This book, Essence of Sanatana Dharma, is a work of much religious research and soul searching in the heartland of “Sanatana Dharma”. In my effort to make it as accurate as possible, I took an imaging journey into the past to discover more of what I already knew, or thought I knew, and the essence of what I would discover. It is prudent to admit this journey is a long way to go.
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Sep 06, 2020 APNU Column, Features / Columnists, – Kaieteur News
(A review of David Granger’s Congregationalism and communitarianism. The Congregational Church in post-Emancipation Guyana.)
David Granger’s Congregationalism and communitarianism. The Congregational Church in post-Emancipation Guyana recalls the historic role which Congregationalism played in the struggle of enslaved Africans for their emancipation. It is an aspect of local history which remains underreported and underappreciated.
Granger defines ‘communitarianism’ as the fusion of the evangelical constitution of Congregationalism with the Church’s communal character. It refers to the social ministry of the Church which “…emphasizes the interactions among a community of people who share a common history or purpose and who live in a shared geographic space.” Continue reading →
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My Guyanese Identity – By Vidur dindayal
In my early teens, in Guyana, I was growing up in a village with Indian and Black people and few Chinese as well.
I saw myself as an Indian. I was Hindu. We lived like Indians did, eating Indian food and liking Indian music and dance. We saw mostly Indian films. This is how we lived as a community of Indians.
In the larger community I and my family lived well with everybody. My parents had non-Indian friends from their school days. Their contemporaries – nurses in our local hospital, the school Head and teachers, employees at the Sugar factory, were Black people. I grew up respecting them as part of my larger family. My best friends at school were Indian Black and Chinese. They are to this day. Continue reading →
RACISM …A Sikh living in the USA talks about ‘Black Lives Matter’
David Granger’s Congregationalism and communitarianism. The Congregational Church in post-Emancipation Guyana recalls the historic role which Congregationalism played in the struggle of enslaved Africans for their emancipation. It is an aspect of local history which remains underreported and underappreciated.
BOOK: ESSENCE OF SANATANA DHARMA: Timeless and Eternal – by Damyantee Devi Dabydeen
By DAMYANTEE DEVI DABYDEEN (Author)
About the Book: This book, Essence of Sanatana Dharma, is a work of much religious research and soul searching in the heartland of “Sanatana Dharma”. In my effort to make it as accurate as possible, I took an imaging journey into the past to discover more of what I already knew, or thought I knew, and the essence of what I would discover. It is prudent to admit this journey is a long way to go.
Continue reading →
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