Unifying Hinduism : philosophy and identity in Indian intellectual history /

Unifying Hinduism : philosophy and identity in Indian intellectual history /

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Author / Creator:Nicholson, Andrew J., author.
Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 266 pages)
Language:English
Series:South Asia across the disciplines
South Asia across the disciplines.
Subject:
Hinduism -- History.
Hinduism.
Intellectual life.
India -- Intellectual life.
India.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11233586
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ISBN:9780231526425
0231526423
9780231149860
0231149867
1282872419
9781282872417
9786612872419
6612872411
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-249) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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.
Other form:Print version: Nicholson, Andrew J. Unifying Hinduism. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010 9780231149860
Standard no.:9786612872419
10.7312/nich14986

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