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Postcolonial philosophy of religion
Abstract
The essays in this volume take up the history of philosophy of religion and contemporary problems within the discipline. They pursue these tasks as opportunities to correct Eurocentric biases that distort knowledge not only of religions originating beyond the West, but of the West's own traditions. This is the first collection of its kind. The contributions re-examine colonial experience in India and the Americas, offering discussion of broad methodological issues, critical re-readings of influential Western interpreters of religion, and arguments that explore blindspots and insights typical of colonial difference when viewed through "non-Western" eyes. The volume is aimed at advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professional scholars in philosophy, religion, and related fields. Readers will benefit from its broad coverage of regions, traditions and problems, and the balance of philosophical critique and reconstruction.
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the state of philosophy of religion and postcoloniality
pp.1-5
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2538-8_1pp.9-33
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2538-8_2globalization and the decolonization of the "love of wisdom" (philosophia)
pp.35-53
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2538-8_3gnosis, alternative modernities, and postcolonial futures
pp.55-67
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2538-8_4pp.71-103
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2538-8_5the postcolonial hermeneutics of jarava lal mehta
pp.105-119
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2538-8_6a cittamatra reading of Berkeley, Kant and Schopenhauer
pp.121-139
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2538-8_7proximity and oppression in the West's encounter with Sikhism
pp.141-158
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2538-8_8a postcolonial perspective
pp.159-170
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2538-8_9ontotheology, historicism and the theorization of indic phenomena
pp.171-189
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2538-8_10pp.193-211
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2538-8_11a U.S. case study
pp.213-234
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2538-8_12how we never became secular
pp.235-250
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2538-8_13secularism and the epistemic privileges of modernity
pp.273-292
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2538-8_15postcolonialism, feminism, and the study of religions
pp.295-301
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2538-8_16pp.303-327
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2538-8_17religion and philosophy between the modern and postmodern
pp.329-336
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2538-8_18Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2009
Pages: 347
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2538-8
ISBN (hardback): 978-90-481-2537-1
ISBN (digital): 978-90-481-2538-8
Full citation:
Bilimoria Purushottama, Irvine Andrew B. (2009) Postcolonial philosophy of religion. Dordrecht, Springer.