Vai¿¿ava Concepts of God (eBook, ePUB)

Philosophical Perspectives
Redaktion: Silvestre, Ricardo Sousa; Göcke, Benedikt Paul; Herbert, Alan Constantine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores a number of concepts of God in Vai¿¿avism, which is commonly referred to as one of the great Hindu monotheistic traditions. By addressing the question of what attributes God possesses according to particular Vai¿¿ava textual sources and traditions, the book locates these concepts within a global philosophical framework.

The book is divided into two parts. The first part, God in Vai¿¿ava Texts, deals with concepts of God found in some of the more prominent canonical Vai¿¿ava texts: the Bhagavad-Gita, the Bhagavata-Puräa, the Jayakhya-Sähita as representative of the Pañcaratras, and the Mahabharata. The second part, God in Vai¿¿ava Traditions, addresses concepts of God found in several Vai¿¿ava traditions and their respective key theologians. In addition to the A¿vars, the five traditional Vai¿¿ava schools-the Sri Vai¿¿ava tradition, the Madhva tradition, the Nimbarka tradition, the Pu¿¿imarga tradition, and the Caitanya Vai¿¿ava tradition-and two contemporary ones-those of Ramakrishna (who has Vai¿¿ava leanings) and Swami Bhaktivedanta-are considered.

The book combines normative, critical, and descriptive elements. Some chapters are philosophical in nature, and others are more descriptive. Each unpacks a specific Vai¿¿ava concept of God for future philosophical analysis and critique. Written by experts who break new ground in this presentation and representation of the diversity of Vai¿¿ava texts and traditions, the book provides approaches that reflect the amount of philosophical and historical deliberation on the specific issues and divine attributes so far considered in the field of Hindu Studies. This book will be of interest to researchers in disciplines including philosophy of religion and Indian philosophy, cross-cultural and comparative philosophy, analytic philosophy of religion, Hindu Studies, theology, and religious studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003831747
• Artikelnr.: 69430011

Autorenporträt

Ricardo Sousa Silvestre is Associate Professor at Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil and Professor of the Graduate Program in Philosophy at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Also, he is the leader of the project "Concepts of God and the Variety of Theisms in Indian Traditions", funded by the John Templeton Foundation. He has authored and edited several books, including Beyond Faith and Rationality: Essays on Logic, Religion and Philosophy (2020). Alan C. Herbert is Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (OCHS), Oxford, UK. He was a director of the research project that made this volume possible: "A Philosophical Approach to the Vaishnava Concept of God", funded by the John Templeton Foundation through the Global Philosophy of Religion Project. He is the Indian Studies Lead Researcher for the John Templeton-funded project "Concepts of God and the Variety of Theisms in Indian Traditions". He is also a co-director of the OCHS research project: Hinduism in Modern Contemporary Society. Benedikt Paul Göcke is Professor of the Philosophy of Religion and the Philosophy of Science at the Faculty of Catholic Theology, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, a Research Fellow in Philosophy at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University, UK and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. The concept of god in the Bhavaga-G
t
: A panentheistic account; 3. Beauty and form as a corollary of a perfect being: K
a in the Bh
gavata-Pur
a; 4. The nature of God in the P
ñcar
tra with specific reference to the Jay
khya-Sähit
; 5. Supreme Self and Supreme Lord: Cosmological monotheism in the Mah
bh
rata epicr; 6. The
v
r concept of God and Tamil Vai
avism: If we examine, there is but one God! 7. Two conceptions of the relation between self and God: The debate between
äkara and R
m
nuja; 8. In defence of divine transcendence: Madhva's critique of 'material panentheism'; 9. Non-theism and theism in the Nimb
rka Samprad
ya ; 10. Embodiment and abstraction: God in Pu
im
rga; 11. On
aktis and their divine possessor: Towards a Gau
ya Vai
ava concept of God; 12. Harmonising the personal God with the impersonal Brahman: Sri Ramakrishna's Vijñ
na Ved
nta in dialogue with Gau
ya Vai
avism; 13. The God of yoga: Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup
da and divine pedagogy addressing divine hiddenness; Index