1st Edition
Asian Philosophies and the Idea of Religion Beyond Faith and Reason
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 movements. The volume also problematizes the notion of a Western philosophical canon distinguished by rationality in contrast to a religious Eastern "other". These original essays creatively lay the groundwork needed to rethink dominant historical and conceptual categories from a wider perspective to arrive at a deeper, more plural and global understanding of the diverse nature of both philosophy and religion.
The volume will be of keen interest to scholars and students in the Philosophy of Religion, Asian and Comparative Philosophy and Religious Studies.
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
Anne Vallely
5 Enlightening the unEnlightened: The Exclusion of Advaita Vedānta from the Western Philosophical Canon
Ashwani Kumar Peetush
Sarah Mattice and Paul Carelli
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.
