Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion
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<U+0019>s own...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
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2009.
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2538-8 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface. Introduction
- Surveying the Scene. 1. A Subaltern/Postcolonial Critique of the Comparative Philosophy of Religion. 2. Uneasy Intersections: Postcolonialism, Feminism, and the Study of Religions. 3. Philosophy of Religion as Border Control: Globalization and the Decolonization of the Love of Wisdom (philosophia). 4. The Third Eye and Two Ways of (Un)knowing: Gnosis, Alternative Modernities, and Postcolonial Futures
- "India". 5. Mispredicated Identity and Postcolonial Discourse. 6. On the Death of the Pilgrim: The Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Jarava Lal Mehta. 7. Western Idealism Through Indian Eyes: A Cittamitra Reading of Berkeley, Kant and Schopenhauer. 8. An Approximate Difference: Proximity and Oppression in the West<U+0019>s Encounter with Sikhism. 9. Max M<U+00fc>ller and Textual Management: A Postcolonial Perspective. 10. The Orientalism of E B Havell
- "America". 11. The Meaning and Function of Religion in an Imperial World. 12. Cultural Participation and Postcoloniality: A U.S. Case Study. 13. Imperial Somatics and Genealogies of Religion: How We Never Became Secular. 14. Post-Colonial Contribution to the Jewish Conception of <U+0018>the Other<U+0019> in Postmodern/Multicultural/Subaltern Americas. 15. The Enduring Enchantment: The Epistemic Privilege of Modernity, and Where to Go from Here. Response and Afterword
- Index.