Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion

Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Contents

Contributors

Introduction: The State of Philosophy of Religion and Postcoloniality

Reference

Part I: Surveying the Scene

What Is the “Subaltern” of the Philosophy of Religion?

The Postcolonial/Subaltern Critique Revisited

Dreamy Scenarios

Finale

Notes

References

Philosophy of Religion as Border Control: Globalization and the Decolonization of the “Love of Wisdom” (philosophia)

The End of European Colonialism and the Crisis ofWestern Philosophy

The Paradoxical Parochialism of “Postcolonial Theory”

Translating Wisdom Traditions as “Religions” - The Price of Crossing the Border

The Subalternization of Non-western Knowledges

Subalternization and Resisting Cultural Essentialism

Conclusion:W(h)ither the Comparative Philosophy of Religion?

References

The Third Eye and TwoWays of (Un)knowing: Gnosis, Alternative Modernities, and Postcolonial Futures

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4

References

Part II: "India"

Mispredicated Identity and Postcolonial Discourse

Introduction

Sa nkar¯ac¯arya on Adhy ¯ asa

The Euro-Christian Colonial Project

Neo-ved¯antic Colonialism

Conclusion: Postcolonial Complicity and Dalit Protest

Notes

References

On the Death of the Pilgrim: The Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Jarava Lal Mehta

Notes

References

Western Idealism Through Indian Eyes: A Cittamatra Reading of Berkeley, Kant and Schopenhauer

Introduction: Metahermeneutic Preliminaries

Cittamatra Is Idealism

Vasubandhu’s Cittamatra Idealism

Berkeley and Parikalpita-Svabh¯ava

Kant and Paratantra-Svabhava

Schopenhauer and Parinispanna-svabh ¯ ava

The Progressive Character ofWestern Idealism

Comparative Philosophy as a Road to Conversation

Notes

References

An Approximate Difference: Proximity and Oppression in the West’s Encounter with Sikhism

Introduction

Incorporating the Foreign: On the Strange Convergence of Pluralism and Stereotyping

Violent Religion. Returning Sikhism to Itself

Engaging the Other: On the Solicitousness of Sikh Warfare

From Battle Play to Playing Soldiers: Colonialism and the Reform of Sikh Militancy

Conclusion

Notes

References

Max M¨ uller and Textual Management: A Postcolonial Perspective

Colonial Patronage

Trope of the Child

Classification

Concluding Remarks

Conclusion

Notes

References

Auto-immunity in the Study of Religion(s): Ontotheology, Historicism and the Theorization of Indic Phenomena

Questioning Post-colonial Theory in Light of the “Return of Religion”

Indology, Race Theory and the (Re-)Conceptualization of Religion(s)

The Unbearable Proximity of the Orient

Co-origination, or, the Difference Between Religion and History

Linking the Aufhebung to the Ontological Proof for God’s Existence

The Reconstitution of Indology

The Comparative Imaginary & the Manufacture of Native Informancy

Reading Comparativism in the Study of Religion(s) as a Spectrology of “theWest”

Notes

References

Part III: "America"

The Meaning and Function of Religion in an Imperial World

The Religion of Empire and the Unmasking of Imperial Man

The Overcoming of Spirit and Man

God and the Self-recognition of Imperial Man

Towards a Post-Imperial Critique of the Critique of Religion

Recognition, the Dead God, and the New Project(ion)s of Empire

Notes

References

Cultural Participation and Postcoloniality: A U.S. Case Study

Introduction

Part I: Fleischacker and Culture as a Moral Posit

Part II: Mestizaje. Latino Refractions Through Culture and Religion

Conclusion

Notes

References

Imperial Somatics and Genealogies of Religion: How We Never Became Secular*

Introduction

Imperial Somatologies

On Foucault’s Genealogy

Religion and Racism

Spiritual Conquest and the Inquisition

Notes

References

De-colonial Jewish Thought and the Americas

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II

III

IV

V

Notes

References

Enduring Enchantment: Secularism and the Epistemic Privileges of Modernity

Notes

References

Part IV: Uneasy Intersections

“Uneasy Intersections”: Postcolonialism, Feminism, and the Study of Religions*

On Shutting Up

Who Speaks for Whom?

Instabilities

Notes

References

Postcolonial Discontent with Postmodern Philosophy of Religion

Preamble

What Is Postmodernism?

Postmodernism Revisited

Part I

Is There Difference Outside of Postmodernism?

Part II

Unconcluding Part III

Berkeley Modern-Posts

References

Afterword: Religion and Philosophy between the Modern and Postmodern

Notes

Index