Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion

Bilimoria, Purushottama [u.a.] (Hrsg.):
Postcolonial philosophy of religion / Purushottama Bilimoria ; Andrew B. Irvine, editors. - Berlin [u.a.] : Springer Netherlands, 2009. - XIV, 350 S.
ISBN 978-90-481-2537-1
EUR 149,75 (Printausgabe)
ISBN 978-90-481-2538-8 (Online-Ausg.)
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2538-8 (SpringerLink)
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Beschreibung
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. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Andrew B. Irvine and Purushottama Bilimoria: Introduction. 1
PART 1: SURVEYING THE SCENE
   1. Purushottama Bilimoria: What is the "Subaltern" of Philosophy of Religion. 9
   2. Richard King: Philosophy of Religion as Border Control: Globalization and the Decolonization of the "Love of Wisdom" (philosophia). 35
   3. Makarand Paranjape: The Third Eye and Two Ways of (Un)knowing: Gnosis, Alternative Modernities, and Postcolonial Futures. 55
PART 2: "INDIA"
   4. Bibhuti S. Yadav: Mispredicated Identity and Postcolonial Discourse. 71
   5. Thomas B. Ellis: On the Death of the Pilgrim: The Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Jarava Lal Mehta. 105
   6. Jay L. Garfield: Western Idealism Through Indian Eyes: A Cittamitra Reading of Berkeley, Kant and Schopenhauer. 121
   7. Navdeep Mandair: An Approximate Difference: Proximity and Oppression in the West's Encounter with Sikhism. 141
   8. Sharada Sugirtharajah: Max Müller and Textual Management: A Postcolonial Perspective. 159
   9. Arvind Mandair: Auto-immunity in the Study of Religion(s): Ontotheology, Historicism and the Theorization of Indic Phenomena. 171
PART 3: "AMERICA"
   10. Nelson Maldonado-Torres: The Meaning and Function of Religion in an Imperial World. 193
   11. Andrew B. Irvine: Cultural Participation and Postcoloniality: A U.S. Case Study. 213
   12. Eduardo Mendieta: Imperial Somatics and Genealogies of Religion: How We Never Became Secular. 235
   13. Santiago H. Slabodsky: De-colonial Jewish Thought and the Americas. 251
   14. Walter D. Mignolo: Enduring Enchantment: Secularism and the Epistemic Privilege of Modernity. 273
PART 4: UNEASY INTERSECTIONS
   15. Grace Jantzen: "Uneasy Intersections": Postcolonialism, Feminism, and the Study of Religions. 295
   16. Purushottama Bilimoria: Postcolonial Discontent with Postmodern Philosophy of Religion. 303
   17. Kenneth Surin: Afterword: Religion and Philosophy between the Modern and Postmodern. 329
Index. 337

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PURUSHOTTAMA BILIMORIA is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Studies at Deakin University (Geelong, Australia), Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and Visiting Professor at State University of New York - Stony Brook and Columbia University. Profile page.
ANDREW B. IRVINE (Ph.D., Boston University) is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Maryville College in Tennessee (USA). Faculty page.

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