The Hindu-religio Philosophical Perspectives of Education
Author: Pa Cantiracēkaram
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 34
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Author: Pa Cantiracēkaram
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 34
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arvind Sharma
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1990-06-29
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 1349207977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Francis X. Clooney
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2019-10-28
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 0813943124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe live in an era of unprecedented growth in knowledge. Never before has there been so great an availability of and access to information in both print and online. Yet as opportunities to educate ourselves have greatly increased, our time for reading has significantly diminished. And when we do read, we rarely have the patience to read in the slow, sustained fashion that great books require if we are to be truly transformed by them. In Reading the Hindu and Christian Classics, renowned Harvard Divinity School professor Francis Clooney argues that our increasing inability to read in a concerted manner is particularly notable in the realm of religion, where the proliferation of information detracts from the learning of practices that require slow and patient reading. Although awareness of the world’s many religions is at an all-time high, deep knowledge of the various traditions has suffered. Clooney challenges this trend by considering six classic Hindu and Christian texts dealing with ritual and law, catechesis and doctrine, and devotion and religious participation, showing how, in distinctive ways, such texts instruct, teach truth, and draw willing readers to participate in the realities they are learning. Through readings of these seminal scriptural and theological texts, he reveals the rewards of a more spiritually transformative mode of reading—and how individuals and communities can achieve it.
Author: René Guénon
Publisher: Sophia Perennis
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780900588730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudy of various Hindu schools of thought, with emphasis on the notion of tradition and esoterism.
Author: Pratima Bowes
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 342
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrew J. Nicholson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013-12-01
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0231149875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSome postcolonial theorists argue that the idea of a single system of belief known as "Hinduism" is a creation of nineteenth-century British imperialists. Andrew J. Nicholson introduces another perspective: although a unified Hindu identity is not as ancient as some Hindus claim, it has its roots in innovations within South Asian philosophy from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. During this time, thinkers treated the philosophies of Vedanta, Samkhya, and Yoga, along with the worshippers of Visnu, Siva, and Sakti, as belonging to a single system of belief and practice. Instead of seeing such groups as separate and contradictory, they re-envisioned them as separate rivers leading to the ocean of Brahman, the ultimate reality. Drawing on the writings of philosophers from late medieval and early modern traditions, including Vijnanabhiksu, Madhava, and Madhusudana Sarasvati, Nicholson shows how influential thinkers portrayed Vedanta philosophy as the ultimate unifier of diverse belief systems. This project paved the way for the work of later Hindu reformers, such as Vivekananda, Radhakrishnan, and Gandhi, whose teachings promoted the notion that all world religions belong to a single spiritual unity. In his study, Nicholson also critiques the way in which Eurocentric concepts—like monism and dualism, idealism and realism, theism and atheism, and orthodoxy and heterodoxy—have come to dominate modern discourses on Indian philosophy.
Author: Roy W. Perrett
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780824820855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis philosophical study offers a representation of the logical structure of classical Hindu ethics and argues for the availability of at least the core of this ethical system for Westerners.
Author: Aryasamayajula Ramamurty
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Book Presents An Understanding Of The Nature And Meaning Of Hinduism As Revealed In Its Sruti And Smrti Traditions, Examining Certain Essential Aspects Of The Hindu Philosophical Thinking, Such As The Meaning Of Dharma And Religion, Man S Understanding Of His Own Existence And Reality And The Hindu Conception Of The Divine.
Author: Arvind Sharma
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2008-01-31
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 0271039469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhilosophy of religion, as we know it today, emerged in the West and has been shaped by Western philosophical and theological trends, while the philosophical tradition of India flowed along its own course until the late nineteenth century, when active, if tentative, contact was established between the West and the East. This book provides a definite focus to this interaction by investigating issues raised in Western philosophy of religion from the perspective of Advaita Ved&_nta, the influential school of Indian thought. In promoting the emergence of a cross-cultural philosophy of religion, Arvind Sharma focuses on John H. Hick and his well-known work The Philosophy of Religion as representative of modern Western philosophy of religion, and on &_ankara, along with his modern successors such as M. Hiriyanna and S. Radhakrishnan, as representative of Advaita Ved&_nta.
Author: Jeaneane D. Fowler
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 488
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe six major orthodox schools of philosophical thought in Hinduism, known as the orthodox darsanas, are concerned with the nature of reality and it is this theme which unites them. The text begins by analyzing the concept of knowledge, and what constitutes real knowledge. Four topics - the self, causality, the concept of God, and liberation - are then examined.