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Unifying Hinduism

Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History

Autor: Andrew J. Nicholson

Język:

Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: Columbia University Press

Dostępność: Dodruk

Termin nieznany

561.21 zł

Some postcolonial theorists argue that the idea of a single system of belief known as "Hinduism" is...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Andrew J. Nicholson

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2010

strony

280

EAN

9780231149860

ISBN

0231149867

Enbook ID

04558792

Wydawca

Columbia University Press

Waga

496

Wymiary

162 x 237 x 23

Pełny opis

Some postcolonial theorists argue that the idea of a single system of belief known as "Hinduism" is a creation of nineteenth-century British imperialists. Andrew J. Nicholson introduces another perspective: although a unified Hindu identity is not as ancient as some Hindus claim, it has its roots in innovations within South Asian philosophy from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. During this time, thinkers treated the philosophies of Vedanta, Samkhya, and Yoga, along with the worshippers of Visnu, Siva, and Sakti, as belonging to a single system of belief and practice. Instead of seeing such groups as separate and contradictory, they re-envisioned them as separate rivers leading to the ocean of Brahman, the ultimate reality. 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.