Abstract
Kingdom of God is a familiar and dominant discourse in religion, society and the world. It is also a dominant framing for thinking about a good society here on Earth. But the discourse of Kingdom of God is many a time locked in a discourse of power. In dominant versions of political theology, it is linked to violence. In this essay, an attempt is made to rethink Kingdom of God as Gardens of God. There is also an interlinked attempt to rethink the discourse of Ramrajya to Ramvana where there is an attempt to transform violence to non-violence.
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Giri, A.K. (2021). Gardens of God: Spiritual Pragmatism and Transformation of Religion, Politics, Self and Society. In: Giri, A.K. (eds) Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7114-5_18
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