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Asian Philosophies and the Idea of Religion: Beyond Faith and Reason book cover

1st Edition

Asian Philosophies and the Idea of Religion Beyond Faith and Reason

Edited By Sonia Sikka, Ashwani Peetush Copyright 2021
278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge
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With a focus on Asian traditions, this book examines varieties of thought and self-transformative practice that do not fit neatly on one side or another of the standard Western division between philosophy and religion. It contains chapters by experts on Buddhist, Confucian, Taoist, Hindu and Jain philosophies, as well as ancient Greek philosophy and recent contemplative and spiritual... Read more

1 Introduction
Sonia Sikka & Ashwani Peetush


2 Faith, Reason, and Practice in Buddhist Traditions
William Edelglass


3 Faith and/or/as Enlightenment:  Rethinking Religion from the Perspective of Japanese Buddhism
Bret W. Davis


4 Faith & its Derivatives:  Knowledge, Conduct and Liberation in Jainism.
Anne Vallely

5 Enlightening the unEnlightened: The Exclusion of Advaita Vedānta from the Western Philosophical Canon
Ashwani Kumar Peetush


6 Ruism and the Category of Religion: Or, What to Do About the Confucians?
Sarah Mattice and Paul Carelli


7 Faith, Reason, and the Paradox of Wu-Wei in the Zhuangzi
Julianne Chung

8 Medium of Many Messages: Roles of Aesthetic Discourse in Religion and Philosophy
Gordon Davis


9 Reason and Faith on the Path to the Transcendent in Plotinus
Catherine Collobert


10 Trusting the daimonion: Faith and Reason in the case of Socrates and Beyond
Anna Lännström

11 Thoughtful Seekers Among the Spiritual but not Religious
Sonia Sikka

12 Between Faith and Reason:  Feminist Contemplative Pedagogy
Erin McCarthy


13 An Immanent World of Wonder: Nonreligion and Emerging Worldviews
Lori Beaman

Biography

Sonia Sikka is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her primary areas of research are social and political philosophy, philosophy of religion and German philosophy.

Ashwani Kumar Peetush is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada. His main areas of research are legal and political philosophy, ethics, and Indian philosophies.

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