Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality

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Sri Ramakrishna and Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion

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This pioneering study examines the philosophy of the nineteenth-century Indian mystic Sri Ramakrishna, bringing him into dialogue with Western thinkers. Sri Ramakrishna's expansive conception of God as the impersonal-personal Infinite Reality, Maharaj argues, introduces a new paradigm for addressing central issues in the philosophy of religion.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

A Note on Sanskrit and Bengali Transliteration

Abbreviations of Primary Texts

Introduction

PART ONE: THE INFINITUDE OF GOD

Chapter 1

Sri Ramakrishna's Harmonizing Philosophy of Vijñana Vedanta

Chapter 2

A Cross-Cultural Inquiry into Divine Infinitude: Sri Ramakrishna, Paraconsistency, and the Overcoming of Conceptual Idolatry

PART TWO: RELIGIOUS PLURALISM

Chapter 3

"All Faiths Are Paths": A Reconstruction and Defense of Sri Ramakrishna's Vijñana-Based Model of Religious Pluralism

Chapter 4

John Hick's Vedantic Road Not Taken?: Hick's Evolving Views on Religious Pluralism in the Light of Sri Ramakrishna

PART THREE: MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE

Chapter 5

Beyond Perennialism and Constructivism: Sri Ramakrishna's Manifestationist Model of Mystical Experience

Chapter 6

A Cross-Cultural Defense of the Epistemic Value of Mystical Experience: Sri Ramakrishna, Self-Authentication, and the Argument from Experience

PART FOUR: THE PROBLEM OF EVIL

Chapter 7

Sri Ramakrishna's Multidimensional Response to the Problem of Evil: Skeptical Theism, Saint-Making Theodicy, and the Panentheistic Standpoint of Vijñana

Chapter 8

A Cross-Cultural Approach to the Problem of Evil: Sri Ramakrishna, the Rowe-Alston Debate, and Hick's Soul-Making Theodicy

Methodological Postlude

Bibliography

Index

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum

08. November 2018

Sprache

englisch

Seitenanzahl

370

Autor/Autorin

Ayon Maharaj

Verlag/Hersteller

Oxford University Press

Produktart

gebunden

Gewicht

640 g

Größe (L/B/H)

236/160/30 mm

ISBN

9780190868239

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Portrait

Ayon Maharaj

Ayon Maharaj is Assistant Professor and Head of Philosophy at Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute in West Bengal, India. He is also an ordained Brahmacarin, with the name of Buddhacaitanya, in training to be a Sannyasin monk of the Ramakrishna Order. Holding a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley, he has published over a dozen articles on Indian, German, and cross-cultural philosophy. He is the author of The Dialectics of Aesthetic Agency: Revaluating German Aesthetics from Kant to Adorno (2013) and the editor of the forthcoming Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Vedanta.

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