A Philosophical Assessment of Understanding Religion During the Indian Renaissance

A Philosophical Assessment of Understanding Religion During the Indian Renaissance
Author: Raut Sunil
Publisher: Shwetabhgangwaryt
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-12-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781805452843

Religion finds expressions in material culture, in human behavior and in a value system. It controls human relations. Philosophical understanding gives us the basic presuppositions, concepts, structure as well as the idea behind the topic and its implications under consideration. The history of Modern India seems to be crowded with many movements in thought and action. It stirred the Ancient wisdom and medieval social practices. The igniting force for the Renaissance movement was the entry of Europeans like French, Portuguese and British people. Britishers had come for trade and commerce and in order to make it firm and stronger they established the political hold on India. It was a dual programme consisting of economic enrichment and extension of the British Rule in the world. As Britishers began their trade and marketing soon they spread their political web to extract more and more money and power. Europeans also brought with them their religion, i.e., Christianity by converting people into their religion. Thus, the trio of economy, politics and religion not only enslaved Indians but also put a serious threat to their identity. This fact motivated the sensitive people of India to oppose such an "attack' or 'invasion' on India and Indians. The thinkers took a lead to organize a programme to oppose the 'invading attack' of Britishers.

Understanding Dharma with a Special Context and Philosophical Assessment During the Indian Renaissance

Understanding Dharma with a Special Context and Philosophical Assessment During the Indian Renaissance
Author: Raut Sunil
Publisher: Seeken
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-12-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781805454021

There have been always changes in social life, as they are demanded either by the time or by the external challenges emerging out of circumstances. In the case of Indian society, there have been significant changes in the 19th century with the advent of the European invasions in different forms ultimately boiling down to political slavery of our society. In a reaction to this phenomenon the society arose with modernity and westernization. The changing face of the Indian Society particularly in the Maharashtra, there have been remarkable social and religious movements as a group taking place during this period. This chapter consists of two sections. In the first section the Indian Renaissance is discussed and the second section deals with the nature and the role of religion in the social life.

Philosophy of Religion in the Renaissance

Philosophy of Religion in the Renaissance
Author: Mr Paul Richard Blum
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2013-06-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1409480712

The Philosophy of Religion is one result of the Early Modern Reformation movements, as competing theologies purported truth claims which were equal in strength and different in contents. Renaissance thought, from Humanism through philosophy of nature, contributed to the origin of the modern concepts of God. This book explores the continuity of philosophy of religion from late medieval thinkers through humanists to late Renaissance philosophers, explaining the growth of the tensions between the philosophical and theological views. Covering the work of Renaissance authors, including Lull, Salutati, Raimundus Sabundus, Plethon, Cusanus, Valla, Ficino, Pico, Bruno, Suárez, and Campanella, this book offers an important understanding of the current philosophy/religion and faith/reason debates and fills the gap between medieval and early modern philosophy and theology.

Indian and Western Philosophical Concepts in Religion

Indian and Western Philosophical Concepts in Religion
Author: Pankaj Jain
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2022-12-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1793623163

Philosophical concepts are influential in the theories and methods to study the world religions. Even though the disciplines of anthropology and religious studies now encompass communities and cultures across the world, the theories and methods used to study world religions and cultures continue to be rooted in Western philosophies. For instance, one of the most widely used textbooks used in introductory courses on religious studies, introduces major theoreticians such as Edward Burnett Tylor, James Frazer, Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Mircea Eliade, William James, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, and Clifford Geertz. Their theories are based on Western philosophy. In contrast, in Indic philosophical systems, such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism, one of the common views on reality is that the world both within one self and outside is a flow with nothing permanent, both the observer and the observed undergoing constant transformation. This volume is based on such innovative ideas coming from different Indic philosophies and how they can enrich the theory and methods in religious studies.

Ninian Smart on World Religions: Religious experience and philosophical analysis. I. Autobiographical. 'Methods in my life'

Ninian Smart on World Religions: Religious experience and philosophical analysis. I. Autobiographical. 'Methods in my life'
Author: Ninian Smart
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2009
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780754640806

Ninian Smart came to public prominence as the founding Professor of the first British university Department of Religious Studies in the late 1960s. His pioneering views on education in religion proved hugely influential at all levels, from primary schools to academic teaching and research. An unending string of publications, many of them accessible to the general public, sustained a reputation that became worldwide.Here, for the first time, a selection of Ninian Smart's wide-ranging writings is organised systematically under a set of categories which both comprehend and also illuminate his varied output over a career spanning half a century. The editor, John Shepherd, was Principal Lecturer in Religion and Philosophy at the University of Cumbria. He first met Smart as a postgraduate student, and recently helped establish the Ninian Smart Archive at the University of Lancaster.

The Yogi and the Devotee (Routledge Revivals)

The Yogi and the Devotee (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Ninian Smart
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1136629335

First published in 1968, Ninian Smart’s The Yogi and the Devotee: The Interplay Between the Upanishads and Catholic Theology is based on lectures given in Delhi and explores in a novel way the relation between Hinduism and Christianity. The author puts forward a general theory of the relationship between religious experience and doctrines, a theory he had developed in earlier works. He argues that a new form of ‘natural theology’ should be presented, which would show the relevance of religious experience and ritual to what is given in revelation. Smart believes this could be the key to a new understanding between Christianity and Indian religions, and also examines what Christians can learn from other faiths. During a career as a Professor of Religious Studies and Philosophy, Ninian Smart was hugely influential in the way Religious Studies was taught, not only in Britain but around the world.