Abstract
The Research article highlights the issue of women and religious reforms and in contemporary Hinduism and focuses on one of the women dominated contemporary Hindu religious reform movements as a phenomenon of reviving the role of women as religious and spiritual leaders in Hinduism. The study is basically analytical in nature as the researchers have provided an analysis of the religious ideology and historical background of the leader of the ‘Brahma Kumari organization’ and then an Islamic appraisal for these ideas. The purpose of the research is to analyze the phenomena of contemporary socio religious reforms and the way these have upheld the status of Hindu women with an Islamic viewpoint. The article starts with an introduction of the issue and provides a brief account of the life history of Dada Lekhraj the founder. Then there is a detailed analysis of his religious and reformist ideas and that how it presented its ideology in the light of religion and how this organization has interpreted some key concepts of Hinduism. Finally, it is concluded that the movement of Brahma Kumari is a religious, spiritual and social reform organization and is a living example of religious leadership of women in contemporary Hinduism. The reform that is triggered by this movement has also some connotation with the role of women and some Islamic social ideals while its own particular religious traits demark it from the contemporary feminist ideologies.
Zenab Khurram, Munazza Batool. (2020) The Reformist Ideology of Brahma Kumaris: An Islamic Appraisal, AFKĀR (Journal of Islamic & Religious Studies) , Volume 4, Issue 2.
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