1st Edition
Cultures Differ Differently Selected Essays of S.N. Balagangadhara
Introduction: Studying Other Cultures in the 21st Century
Author’s Voice
1. Selfless Morality and the Moral Self
2. Knowing to Act and Acting to Know
3. How to Speak for the Indian Traditions
4. Law, Religion and Culture
5. Seven Problems in Translation: The Case of India
6. The Vedic Society and a Brain Stasis
7. The Indology and Sociology of Varna
8. Knowledge, Bullshit and the Study of India
Afterword
Biography
S.N. Balagangadhara is former Professor in the Department of Comparative Science of Cultures at Ghent University, Belgium. He is the author of "The Heathen in His Blindness…": Asia, the West and the Dynamic of Religion (1994/2005) and Reconceptualizing India Studies (2012). In these books and other works, he has developed a research programme called ‘Comparative Science of Cultures’.
Jakob De Roover is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Science of Cultures at Ghent University, Belgium. He is the author of Europe, India, and the Limits of Secularism (2015).
Sarika Rao is Assistant and a doctoral student in the Department of Comparative Science of Cultures at Ghent University, Belgium. Her research focuses on the secularisation of religion.
