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Unifying Hinduism : philosophy and identity in Indian intellectual history / Andrew J. Nicholson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: South Asia across the disciplinesPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 266 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231526425
  • 0231526423
  • 1282872419
  • 9781282872417
  • 9786612872419
  • 6612872411
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Unifying Hinduism.DDC classification:
  • 294.509 22
LOC classification:
  • BL1150 .N53 2010eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 11.92
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Contents:
Introduction -- An alternative history of Vedānta -- Vijñānabhikṣu's "difference and non-difference" Vedānta -- A history of God in Sāṃkhya and yoga -- Reading against the grain of the Sāṃkhyasūtras -- Yoga, praxis, and liberation -- Vendānta and Sāṃkhya in the orientalist imagination -- Doxography, classificatory schemes, and contested histories -- Affirmers (astikas) and deniers (nastikas) in Indian history -- Hindu unity and the non-Hindu other.
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)384856

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-249) and index.

Introduction -- An alternative history of Vedānta -- Vijñānabhikṣu's "difference and non-difference" Vedānta -- A history of God in Sāṃkhya and yoga -- Reading against the grain of the Sāṃkhyasūtras -- Yoga, praxis, and liberation -- Vendānta and Sāṃkhya in the orientalist imagination -- Doxography, classificatory schemes, and contested histories -- Affirmers (astikas) and deniers (nastikas) in Indian history -- Hindu unity and the non-Hindu other.

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.

Print version record.

English.