TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nicholson,Andrew J.
TI  - Unifying Hinduism: philosophy and identity in Indian intellectual history 
T2  - South Asia across the disciplines
SN  - 9780231526425
AV  - BL1150 .N53 2010eb
U1  - 294.509 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Hinduism
KW  - History
KW  - Hindouisme
KW  - Histoire
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Eastern
KW  - fast
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Indische filosofie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Intellectuelen
KW  - Geschiedenis
KW  - Hinduismus
KW  - idszbz
KW  - Einheit
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - historia
KW  - sao
KW  - India
KW  - Indien
KW  - intellektuellt liv
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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