Religion and the Philosophy of Life

ISBN-13: 9780198836124 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 464 str.

Gavin Flood

Opis

This book firstly presents an account of how the category life has been understood by religions in the history of Indian, Chinese, and European/Middle Eastern civilizations and secondly how those religions can be explained in terms of life.

Recenzje

This is a really engaging book and a healthy reading for those who tread paths of science, philosophy, and religion and try to bring them together for the benefit of these three areas of knowledge. Indeed, this book reveals the fecundity of that transdisciplinary approach, and it even suggests a model for possible attempts to combine those interacting fields.

O autorze

Gavin Flood is Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion at the University of Oxford, Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, and Yap Kim Hao Visiting Professor of Comparative Religious Studies at Yale-NUS Singapore. His publications include The Truth Within: A History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism (2013), The Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in Our Strange World (2012), and The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory, and Tradition (2004). He is also the General Editor of The Oxford History of Hinduism series.