Knowing beyond knowledge: epistemologies of religious experience in classical and modern Advaita

"This book builds on contemporary discussion of 'mysticism' and religious experience by examining the process and content of 'religious knowing' in classical and modern Advaita. Drawing from the work of William Alston and Alvin Plantinga, Thomas Forsthoefel examines key stre...

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1. Verfasser: Forsthoefel, Thomas A. 1958- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Alderhot, England Ashgate 2002
Schriftenreihe:Ashgate world philosophies series
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Zusammenfassung:"This book builds on contemporary discussion of 'mysticism' and religious experience by examining the process and content of 'religious knowing' in classical and modern Advaita. Drawing from the work of William Alston and Alvin Plantinga, Thomas Forsthoefel examines key streams of Advaita with special reference to the conditions, contexts, and scope of epistemic merit in religious experience. Forsthoefel uniquely employs specific analytical categories of contemporary Western epistemologies as heuristics to examine the cognitive dimension of religious experience in Indian Vedanta."--Jacket
Beschreibung:xi, 199 pages 25 cm