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Indian Philosophy of Religion

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Roy W. Perrett

    1. Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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Part of the book series: Studies in Philosophy and Religion (STPAR, volume 13)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Roy W. Perrett
    Pages 1-3

  3. Some Varieties of Indian Theological Dualism

    • Keith E. Yandell
    Pages 5-19

  4. From the Fabric to the Weaver?

    • Arindam Chakrabarti
    Pages 21-34

  5. Religions as Failed Theodicies: Atheism in Hinduism and Buddhism

    • A. L. Herman
    Pages 35-60

  6. Scepticism and Religion: On the Interpretation of Nāgārjuna

    • Shlomo Biderman
    Pages 61-74

  7. Some Varieties of Monism

    • Peter Forrest
    Pages 75-91

  8. The Concepts of Self and Freedom in Buddhism

    • David J. Kalupahana
    Pages 93-113

  9. Reflections on the Sources of Knowledge in the Indian Tradition

    • Ninian Smart
    Pages 115-123

  10. Omniscience in Indian Philosophy of Religion

    • Roy W. Perrett
    Pages 125-142

  11. On the Idea of Authorless Revelation (Apaurusṣeya)

    • Purusṣ;ottama Bilimoria
    Pages 143-166

  12. Śaṃkara on Metaphor with Reference to Gita 13.12–18

    • Julius J. Lipner
    Pages 167-181

  13. Salvation and the Pursuit of Social Justice

    • Shivesh C. Thakur
    Pages 183-193

  14. Caste, Karma and the Gītā

    • Bimal Krishna Matilal
    Pages 195-201

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 203-209
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About this book

With a few notable exceptions, analytical philosophy of religion in the West still continues to focus almost entirely on the Iudaeo-Christian tradition. In particular, it is all too customary to ignore the rich fund of concepts and arguments supplied by the Indian religious tradition. This is a pity, for it gratuitously impoverishes the scope of much contemporary philosophy of religion and precludes the attainment of any insights into Indian religions comparable to those that the clarity and rigour of analytic philosophy has made possible for the Iudaeo-Christian tradition. This volume seeks to redress the imbalance. The original idea was to invite a number of Indian and Western philosophers to contribute essays treating of Indian religious concepts in the style of contemporary analytical philosophy of religion. No further restrietion was placed upon the contributors and the resulting essays (all previously unpublished) exhibit a diversity of themes and approaches. Many arrangements of the material herein are doubtless defensible. The rationale for the one that has been adopted is perhaps best presented through some introductory remarks about the essays themselves.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

    Roy W. Perrett

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Indian Philosophy of Religion

  • Editors: Roy W. Perrett

  • Series Title: Studies in Philosophy and Religion

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2458-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0437-1Published: 30 September 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7609-8Published: 01 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2458-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 209

  • Topics: Epistemology, Non-Western Philosophy

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