Ron Geaves

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Ron Geaves (born June 7, 1948 ) is a former professor of religious studies at Hope University Liverpool , England.

Life

Geaves received his PhD from the University of Leeds on the subject of "Education for Muslims in England". He became known for his expertise in the adaptation and transmigration of religions to the West, especially Islam , Sikhism and Hinduism . He is particularly interested in the spiritual manifestation of Islam and Indian traditions.

He has taught in a number of subject-related areas including Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, the sociology and anthropology of religions, Judaism, Christianity and the ancient religions.

He was chairman and program director for religious studies at the University of Chester in England and head of the same department at the University of Chichester .

David Barrett, who works for INFORM, recommended that he combine his experience on the subject of Prem Rawat (Geaves is considered to be one of his first western students) with his academic background in order to provide insight into this movement.

In 2006, Geaves told dignitaries and members of the Muslim Community of North West England that the July 7, 2005 bombings in London had to be seen in the context of the long history of English Muslim protest. Calling these attacks simply terrorism only demonizes those involved and does not lead to any further understanding of cause and motivation. This statement sparked heated controversy with some other speakers. He replied that there was no point in demonizing "the terrorism of the world" as such; The horrors of the bombings in Northern Ireland and the terrorism of that time could also be seen as an extreme form of protest.

Ron Geaves is currently a board member of the Muslims in Britain research network.

In 2013 he retired.

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The book "The Sufis of Britain" (Cardiff: Academic Press, 2000) explains the manifestations of Islamic mysticism in England; "The Continuum Glossary of Religious Terminology" (London: Continuum, 2001) contains an extensive nomenclature of seven major belief systems.

In addition, Geaves wrote a number of scientific papers on Prem Rawat , also known as "Maharaji", and the associated organizations.

In 2007 he published "Study of Religion" in collaboration with George Chryssides from Wolverhampton University and in 2006 "Understanding Religion" in collaboration with Theodore Gabriel from Gloucester University .

He also worked on two collaboratively edited treatises, one on the local and global manifestations of Sufism, and an encyclopedic reference work on Islamic sects.

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Books

  • Peripatetic Mystics: The Renunciate Order of the Terapanthi Jains (2003) in Mysticisms East and West: Studies in Mystical Experience eds C.Partridge & T.Gabriel. Carlisle: Paternoster Press, ISBN 1-84227-092-3 .
  • The Sufis of Britain: An Exploration of Muslim Identity , Cardiff Academic Press (January 1, 2000), ISBN 1-899025-07-3 .
  • Continuum Glossary Of Religious Terms , Continuum International Publishing Group (May 1, 2005), ISBN 0-8264-7921-9 .
  • Aspects of Islam , Georgetown University Press (September 30, 2005), ISBN 1-58901-073-6 .
  • Islam And The West Post September 11th , with Theodore Gabriel and Yvonne Haddad , Ashgate Publishing (December 30, 2004), ISBN 0-7546-5005-7 .

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  • The legitimization of a North Indian form of Skanda worship in the UK: the transmigration of Baba Balaknath from rural Punjab to urban centers of Britain , with Catherine Barnes, 2nd Skanda-Murukan Conference, published in DISKUS Vol. 4, No.2 ( 1996)
  • Baba Balaknath: an exploration of religious identity lecture at the British Association for the Study of Religions annual conference, 16. – 19. September 1996 at the University College of St. Martin , Lancaster .
  • From Divine Light Mission to Elan Vital and Beyond: An Exploration of Change and Adaptation . Nova Religio, March 2004, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 45-62
  • From Totapuri to Maharaji: Reflections on a Lineage (Parampara) (2007), in Indian Religions: Renaissance and Revival , ed. Anna King. London: Equinox, 2007
  • "Forget Transmitted Memory: The De-traditionalized 'Religion' of Prem Rawat" in Journal of Contemporary Religion , Vol. 24/1, 2009

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cagan, Andrea , Peace is possible. Prem Rawat - His life, his way , pp. 148-156 (2007) ISBN 978-3-85219-031-0
  2. ^ From an open online letter from Geaves
personal data
SURNAME Geaves, Ron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geaves, Ronald Allen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Islamic scholar and professor of religious studies
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1948