On the Death of the Pilgrim: The Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Jarava Lal Mehta - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Death of the Pilgrim: The Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Jarava Lal Mehta write by Thomas B Ellis. This book was released on 2012-11-28. On the Death of the Pilgrim: The Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Jarava Lal Mehta available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This searching examination of the life and philosophy of the twentieth-century Indian intellectual Jarava Lal Mehta details, among other things, his engagement with the oeuvres of Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Jacques Derrida. It shows how Mehta’s sense of cross-cultural philosophy and religious thought were affected by these engagements, and maps the two key contributions Mehta made to the sum of human ideas. First, Mehta outlined what the author dubs a ‘postcolonial hermeneutics’ that uses the ‘ethnotrope’ of the pilgrim to challenge the philosophical hermeneutic emphasis on supplementation and augmentation. For Mehta, the hermeneutic encounter ruptures, rather than supplements, the self. Secondly, Mehta extended this concept of hermeneutics to interrogate the Hindu tradition, arriving at the concept of the ‘negative messianic’. In contrast to Derrida's emphasis on the 'one to come', Mehta shows how the Hindu bhakti model represents the very opposite, that is, the 'withdrawn other,' identifying thereby the ethical pitfalls of deconstructivism's emphasis on the messianic tradition. This is the only full-length study in English of this high-profile Hindu philosopher.
On Hindu Pilgrims and Cross-cultural Pilgrimage
On Hindu Pilgrims and Cross-cultural Pilgrimage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Hindu Pilgrims and Cross-cultural Pilgrimage write by Thomas Baynard Ellis. This book was released on 2002. On Hindu Pilgrims and Cross-cultural Pilgrimage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion
Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion write by Purushottama Bilimoria. This book was released on 2009-09-30. Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The present collection of writings on postcolonial philosophy of religion takes its origins from a Philosophy of Religion session during the 1996 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion held in New Orleans. Three presentations, by Purushottama Bilimoria, Andrew B. Irvine, and Bhibuti Yadav, were to be offered at the session, with Thomas Dean presiding and Kenneth Surin responding. (Yadav, unfortunately could not be present because of illness. ) This was the ?rst AAR session ever to examine issues in the study of religion under the rubric of the postcolonial turn in academia. Interest at the session was intense. For instance, Richard King, then at work on the manuscriptof the landmark Orientalism and Religion, was present; so, too, was Paul J. Grif?ths, whose s- sequent work on interreligious engagement has been so noteworthy. In response to numerous audience appeals, revised versions of the presentations eventually were published, as a “Dedicated Symposium on ‘Subalternity’,” in volume 39 no. 1 (2000) of Sophia, the international journal for philosophy of religion, metaphysical theology and ethics. Since that time, the importance of the nexus of religion and the postcolonial has become increasingly patent not only to philosophers of religion but to students of religion across the range of disciplines and methodologies. The increased inter- tionalization of the program of the American Academy of Religion, especially in more recent years, is a signi?cant outgrowth of this transformation in conscio- ness among students of religion.
Ancestral Feeling
Ancestral Feeling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancestral Feeling write by Renie Chow Choy. This book was released on 2021-11-30. Ancestral Feeling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The language of heritage permeates Scripture, encouraging Christians to approach church history like a family history. But the notion of ancestry also constrains the world’s Catholics and Protestants to trace their confessional descent from Europe, rendering them perpetual latecomers in the historical chain. "Ancestral Feeling" systematically diagnoses the postcolonial problems generated by an ancestral outlook. But, applying critical theories in cultural studies to the study of church history, the book experiments with ways that the Western Christian inheritance can awaken the memory of one’s own ancestors. Writing a personal reflection on her family’s history in British-ruled Hong Kong, Renie Chow Choy engages autobiographically with England’s ecclesiastical art, architecture, music, and literature, in order to affirm her attachment to a heritage normally associated with English national identity. For global and immigrant Christians brought into a relationship with English Christianity by colonialism but are bypassed by its history, this book makes a bold declaration: England’s Christian heritage is also our story.
The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics
The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics write by Jeff Malpas. This book was released on 2014-11-20. The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hermeneutics is a major theoretical and practical form of intellectual enquiry, central not only to philosophy but many other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. With phenomenology and existentialism, it is also one of the twentieth century’s most important philosophical movements and includes major thinkers such as Heidegger, Gadamer and Ricoeur. The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key philosophers, topics and themes in this exciting subject and is the first volume of its kind. Comprising over fifty chapters by a team of international contributors the Companion is divided into five parts: main figures in the hermeneutical tradition movement, including Heidegger, Gadamer and Ricoeur main topics in hermeneutics such as language, truth, relativism and history the engagement of hermeneutics with central disciplines such as literature, religion, race and gender, and art hermeneutics and world philosophies including Asian, Islamic and Judaic thought hermeneutic challenges and debates, such as critical theory, structuralism and phenomenology.
