<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->3. Much of what is known as Grimm's Fairy Tales and Hans Anderson's Fairy Tales are closely related to stories that have been around in India for the usual <mocking1> years. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Ummm. Before someone comes to ridicule this, Hans-Christiaan Andersen wrote practically all his own stories (exceptions are very mild: Der Sieben Schwaene is his own version of Der Sieben Raben or was it vice-versa).
Many of the well-known fairy tales have been in Europe and Russia for ages, from times well before christianity. They are the oldest non-religious stories in the European continent.
Cinderella of course has variations around the world (including one of the oldest ones in China). That's the context where the 'smallest foot' bit ever made sense in.
In my own family, we have heard my grandmother, then mother and aunt narrate the Indian version of German Frau Holle/Russian Father Frost. Recalling this is when my sister realised that what western scholars say about fairy tales originating in India was true.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"comparative theology" catholicism vs Hinduism<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->There is no theology in Hinduism. The minute people start talking about some 'Hindu theology' or 'Hindu doctrines' or whatever, is the minute they stop talking about Hindu Dharma and start talking about christoislamic views on Hinduism.
When Hindus start using the same terms, they're already entering into the christian paradigm. Sigh. When one can't use ones own terms to discuss something (or, though even this is insufficient, <i>utterly redefine</i> another language's terms to do the same) but is forced to use another language/framework's terms, is when you're at a severe disadvantage. A disadvantage there's no recovering from.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I[/I]f an "ABCD" youth asks me where s(he) can find the inside scoop on what Hinduism says, in particular, to treat depression arising from, say, being in the middle of a Hurricane-hit city, where should I guide him/her?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->If an authentic situation, then guide them to the Gita.
Many of the well-known fairy tales have been in Europe and Russia for ages, from times well before christianity. They are the oldest non-religious stories in the European continent.
Cinderella of course has variations around the world (including one of the oldest ones in China). That's the context where the 'smallest foot' bit ever made sense in.
In my own family, we have heard my grandmother, then mother and aunt narrate the Indian version of German Frau Holle/Russian Father Frost. Recalling this is when my sister realised that what western scholars say about fairy tales originating in India was true.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"comparative theology" catholicism vs Hinduism<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->There is no theology in Hinduism. The minute people start talking about some 'Hindu theology' or 'Hindu doctrines' or whatever, is the minute they stop talking about Hindu Dharma and start talking about christoislamic views on Hinduism.
When Hindus start using the same terms, they're already entering into the christian paradigm. Sigh. When one can't use ones own terms to discuss something (or, though even this is insufficient, <i>utterly redefine</i> another language's terms to do the same) but is forced to use another language/framework's terms, is when you're at a severe disadvantage. A disadvantage there's no recovering from.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I[/I]f an "ABCD" youth asks me where s(he) can find the inside scoop on what Hinduism says, in particular, to treat depression arising from, say, being in the middle of a Hurricane-hit city, where should I guide him/her?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->If an authentic situation, then guide them to the Gita.