| Description |
xviii, 265 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
SUNY series, toward a comparative philosophy of religions |
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SUNY series, toward a comparative philosophy of religions.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-256) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Chapter one: Comparative theology and the practice of Advaita Vedānta -- The elements of the experiment -- Comparative theology -- Comparative theology as practical knowledge -- Advaita, text and commentary -- Practical implications -- Chapter two: The texture of the Advaita Vedānta text -- The texture of the Advaita text -- The rough texture of the Upaniṣads -- The organization of Upaniṣadic knowledge in the UMS -- The contextualization of meaning through engaged reading -- Chapter three: the truth of Advaita Vedānta -- The problem of truth in the text -- Strategies of textual truth -- Truth after the text: the true meaning of the Upaniṣads and the world of Advaita -- Defending Brahman: The fragmentation of the other in the text -- Truth, text and reader -- A concluding note on Advaita and intertextual truth -- Chapter four: Advaita Vedānta and its readers -- The tension between the text and its truth -- Timeless truth, timely reading: the truth in reading -- Becoming a reader -- The constraints on liberation and the cessation of reading in UMS III.4: description as prescription -- Advaita Elitism and the possibility of the unauthorized reader: finding a loophole -- Chapter five: Theology after Advaita Vedānta: the text, the truth, and the Theologian -- The practice of comparative theology -- The composition of the text for comparative theology: reading the Summa Theologiae and the Uttara Mīmāṃsā Sutras together -- The truth of comparative theology -- The education of the comparative theologian -- Finishing the experiment. |
| Subject |
Advaita.
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Vedanta.
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Theology, Doctrinal -- Comparative studies.
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Christianity and other religions -- Hinduism.
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Catholic Church -- Relations -- Hinduism.
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Hinduism -- Relations -- Christianity.
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| ISBN |
0791413659 hardcover |
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0791413667 paperback |
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