'The Heathen in his Blindness...'

'The Heathen in his Blindness...'
Title 'The Heathen in his Blindness...' PDF eBook
Author S.N. Balagangadhara
Publisher BRILL
Pages 579
Release 2018-08-14
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004378863

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Today, most intellectuals agree that (a) Christianity has profoundly influenced western culture; (b) members from different cultures experience many aspects of the world differently; (c) the empirical and theoretical study of both culture and religion emerged within the West. The present study argues that these truisms have implications for the conceptualization of religion and culture. More specifically, the thesis is that non-western cultures and religions differ from the descriptions prevalent in the West, and it is also explained why this has been the case. The author proposes novel analyses of religion, the Roman 'religio', the construction of 'religions' in India, and the nature of cultural differences. Religion is important to the West because the constitution and the identity of western culture is tied to the dynamic of Christianity as a religion.

"The Heathen in His Blindness"--

Title "The Heathen in His Blindness"-- PDF eBook
Author S. N. Balagangadhara
Publisher BRILL
Pages 586
Release 1994
Genre Religion
ISBN 9789004099432

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This book provides novel analyses of religion, the Roman 'religio', the construction of 'religions' in India and the nature of cultural differences. It also shows how the dynamic of Christianity as a religion has brought forth the western culture.

Cultures Differ Differently

Cultures Differ Differently
Title Cultures Differ Differently PDF eBook
Author S. N. Balagangadhara
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 183
Release 2021-11-25
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1000477738

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This volume brings together a collection of essays by contemporary thinker and social scientist S.N. Balagangadhara which develop an alternative theoretical framework for a comparative study of Western and Asian cultures. These essays illustrate how ‘decolonisation of social sciences’ is a cognitive task and offer novel hypotheses about human beings and society. They demonstrate the implications of cultural difference in the study of domains such as psychology, political theory, ethics, religion, sociology, translation, law, Indology, and philosophy. The book addresses new questions in the study of Western and Indian culture and social sciences, and discusses themes like selfless morality and the moral self; knowledge and action; critical representations of Indian traditions and classical literature; law, religion and culture; translation and interpretations; and varna and social systems. Part of the Critical Humanities Across Cultures series, this interdisciplinary volume will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of philosophy, philosophy of science, ethics, religious studies, postcolonial studies, sociology and social anthropology, cultural studies, literature, comparative studies and Global South studies.

Reconceptualizing India Studies

Reconceptualizing India Studies
Title Reconceptualizing India Studies PDF eBook
Author Balagangadhara,
Publisher OUP India
Pages 280
Release 2012-09-06
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0198082967

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This book presents a radical analysis of postcolonial studies as a discipline and modern India as a domain of study. It discusses wide variety of issues such as different definitions of culture, colonialism, secularism, and orientalist discourse.

From Greenland's Icy Mountains

From Greenland's Icy Mountains
Title From Greenland's Icy Mountains PDF eBook
Author Reginald Heber
Publisher
Pages 40
Release 1884
Genre Christian poetry, English
ISBN

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Technological Forms and Ecological Communication

Technological Forms and Ecological Communication
Title Technological Forms and Ecological Communication PDF eBook
Author Piyush Mathur
Publisher Lexington Books
Pages 317
Release 2017-09-25
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1498520480

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Investigating the phenomena of technology, science, technique, and mass communication, Piyush Mathur contends that the enterprise of science communication may be misleading vis-à-vis technology—if in part because it frequently coextends with a flawed, but dominant, notion of science that presumptuously implicates technology anyway. Grappling with what authentically constitutes science and the prospective effects of its realization on a global future of mass communication, Mathur explores how various technological forms play specifically into ecologically sensitive mass communication. The result is an eco-communicative theory of technology that includes its classification based upon a set of qualitative principles and a profile of the notion of development. On the whole, though, Technological Forms and Ecological Communication: A Theoretical Heuristic brings the fields of philosophy and history of science, philosophy and sociology of technology, communication studies, and development studies into conversation with one another.

Do All Roads Lead to Jerusalem?

Do All Roads Lead to Jerusalem?
Title Do All Roads Lead to Jerusalem? PDF eBook
Author S. N. Balagangadhara
Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages 300
Release 2015-02-27
Genre
ISBN 9781508578376

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Do All Roads Lead to Jerusalem? traces the history of western encounters with other cultures on two occasions: the 'pagans' of Greece and Rome and the 'heathens' in India. The West has produced many descriptions of other cultures. A close examination of these descriptions reveals that these descriptions tell us more about western culture than about the cultures the West has attempted to describe. This over-arching theme is developed by examining one element in western culture, viz., religion. This book argues that religion is not a cultural universal and the belief that all cultures have religion is an assumption on the part of all scholars of religion. The reason for this is that western culture has been shaped by religion so that members of this culture are conceptually compelled to describe other cultures from within the framework of religion. From Biblical scholarship to the Enlightenment, from the Reformation to the Romantics, from believers to atheists, the cognitive scheme is the same - one that has been set in place by the experiential framework of Christianity. It is through this framework that all other cultures have been studied so far. Is it any wonder that members of such a culture saw religion wherever they went? By means of methodical arguments and lucid explanations this book demonstrates that religion is not a cultural universal and explains why it is believed to be so. Scholars in the field of religious and cultural studies will find this work illuminating, original, and deeply compelling.