ebook ebooks e-book e-books downloaden bei MyEbooks.ch downloaden

Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion

:	Purushottama Bilimoria, Andrew B. Irvine
:	Purushottama Bilimoria, Andrew B. Irvine
:	Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion
:	Springer-Verlag
:	9789048125388
:	1
:	CHF 115.60
:

:	Allgemeines, Lexika
:	English

:	347
:	Wasserzeichen/DRM
:	PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
:	PDF

The present collection of writings on postcolonial philosophy of religion takes its origins from a Philosophy of Religion session during the 1996 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion held in New Orleans. Three presentations, by Purushottama Bilimoria, Andrew B. Irvine, and Bhibuti Yadav, were to be offered at the session, with Thomas Dean presiding and Kenneth Surin responding. (Yadav, unfortunately could not be present because of illness. ) This was the ?rst AAR session ever to examine issues in the study of religion under the rubric of the postcolonial turn in academia. Interest at the session was intense. For instance, Richard King, then at work on the manuscriptof the landmark Orientalism and Religion, was present; so, too, was Paul J. Grif?ths, whose s- sequent work on interreligious engagement has been so noteworthy. In response to numerous audience appeals, revised versions of the presentations eventually were published, as a 'Dedicated Symposium on 'Subalternity',' in volume 39 no. 1 (2000) of Sophia, the international journal for philosophy of religion, metaphysical theology and ethics. Since that time, the importance of the nexus of religion and the postcolonial has become increasingly patent not only to philosophers of religion but to students of religion across the range of disciplines and methodologies. The increased inter- tionalization of the program of the American Academy of Religion, especially in more recent years, is a signi?cant outgrowth of this transformation in conscio- ness among students of religion.

Andrew B. Irvine is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee. His publications include articles on Latin American liberation theology, theology and neuroscience, and theology and political philosophy.

Puru hottama Bilimoria is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Studies at Deakin University in Australia and Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne; Visiting Professor at State University of New York (Stony Brook), and Columbia University. His areas of specialist research and publications cover classical Indian philosophy and comparative ethics; Continental thought; cross-cultural philosophy of religion, diaspora studies; bioethics, and personal law in India.

	Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion	1
	Title Page	2
	Copyright Page	3
	Preface	5
	Contents	6
	Contributors	8
	Introduction: The State of Philosophy of Religion and Postcoloniality	12
	Reference	16
	Part I: Surveying the Scene	17
	What Is the “Subaltern” of the Philosophy of Religion?	18
	The Postcolonial/Subaltern Critique Revisited	26
	Dreamy Scenarios	32
	Finale	34
	Notes	37
	References	40
	Philosophy of Religion as Border Control: Globalization and the Decolonization of the “Love of Wisdom” (philosophia)	43
	The End of European Colonialism and the Crisis ofWestern Philosophy	45
	The Paradoxical Parochialism of “Postcolonial Theory”	49
	Translating Wisdom Traditions as “Religions” - The Price of Crossing the Border	52
	The Subalternization of Non-western Knowledges	55
	Subalternization and Resisting Cultural Essentialism	56
	Conclusion:W(h)ither the Comparative Philosophy of Religion?	58
	References	59
	The Third Eye and TwoWays of (Un)knowing: Gnosis, Alternative Modernities, and Postcolonial Futures	62
	1	62
	2	66
	3	69
	4	72
	References	73
	Part II:	73
	Part II:	73
	75	73
	Mispredicated Identity and Postcolonial Discourse	76
	Introduction	76
	Sa nkar¯ac¯arya on Adhy ¯ asa	81
	The Euro-Christian Colonial Project	88
	Neo-ved¯antic Colonialism	96
	Conclusion: Postcolonial Complicity and Dalit Protest	104
	Notes	105
	References	106
	On the Death of the Pilgrim: The Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Jarava Lal Mehta	109
	Notes	120
	References	122
	Western Idealism Through Indian Eyes: A Cittamatra Reading of Berkeley, Kant and Schopenhauer	124
	Introduction: Metahermeneutic Preliminaries	124
	Cittamatra Is Idealism	127
	Vasubandhu’s Cittamatra Idealism	130
	Berkeley and Parikalpita-Svabh¯ava	132
	Kant and Paratantra-Svabhava	132
	Schopenhauer and Parinispanna-svabh ¯ ava	135
	The Progressive Character ofWestern Idealism	137
	Comparative Philosophy as a Road to Conversation	138
	Notes	139
	References	141
	An Approximate Difference: Proximity and Oppression in the West’s Encounter with Sikhism	143
	Introduction	143
	Incorporating the Foreign: On the Strange Convergence of Pluralism and Stereotyping	145
	Violent Religion. Returning Sikhism to Itself	149
	Engaging the Other: On the Solicitousness of Sikh Warfare	151
	From Battle Play to Playing Soldiers: Colonialism and the Reform of Sikh Militancy	155
	Conclusion	157
	Notes	158
	References	159
	Max M¨ uller and Textual Management: A Postcolonial Perspective	161
	Colonial Patronage	162
	Trope of the Child	163
	Classification	165
	Concluding Remarks	167
	Conclusion	170
	Notes	171
	References	171
	Auto-immunity in the Study of Religion(s): Ontotheology, Historicism and the Theorization of Indic Phenomena	173
	Questioning Post-colonial Theory in Light of the “Return of Religion”	173
	Indology, Race Theory and the (Re-)Conceptualization of Religion(s)	177
	The Unbearable Proximity of the Orient	181
	Co-origination, or, the Difference Be