Editors:
- First collection of its kind, dedicated to giving the reader a deep and wide-ranging sense of current postcolonial approaches to philosophy of religion
- Includes contributions by leading postcolonial scholars and younger thinkers, thereby introducing the reader to the field as it has been shaped thus far and as it is taking shape in the present
- Final section clarifies intersections with feminist and postmodern philosophy of religion, enabling the reader to clearly grasp commonalties as well as distinctive features of postcolonial inquiry
- Sections focused on India and the Americas give rich introductions to the broad impact of postcolonial inquiry in the rethinking of religions and of philosophy
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Surveying the Scene
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Front Matter
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“India”
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Front Matter
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“America”
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Front Matter
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Uneasy Intersections
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Front Matter
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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SOPHIA, Inc., School of Philosophy Anthropology & Social Inquiry (PASI), The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
Purushottama Bilimoria
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Division of Humanities, Maryville College, Maryville, USA
Andrew B. Irvine
About the editors
Andrew B. Irvine is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee. His publications include articles on Latin American liberation theology, theology and neuroscience, and theology and political philosophy.
Purushottama Bilimoria is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Studies at Deakin University in Australia and Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne; Visiting Professor at State University of New York (Stony Brook), and Columbia University. His areas of specialist research and publications cover classical Indian philosophy and comparative ethics; Continental thought; cross-cultural philosophy of religion, diaspora studies; bioethics, and personal law in India.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion
Editors: Purushottama Bilimoria, Andrew B. Irvine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2538-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-2537-1Published: 04 February 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9177-0Published: 02 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-2538-8Published: 30 September 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 347
Topics: Philosophy of Religion, Non-Western Philosophy, Religious Studies, general, History of Philosophy, Cultural Heritage, Regional and Cultural Studies