Ayon Maharaj - The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Vedanta

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Vednta

Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy

Series Editors

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster University, UK

Sor-hoon Tan, National University of Singapore

Editorial Advisory Board

Roger Ames, Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawaii, USA; Doug Berger, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, USA; Carine Defoort, Professor of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium; Owen Flanagan, James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy, Duke University, USA; Jessica Frazier, Lecturer in Religious Studies, University of Kent, UK; Chenyang Li, Professor of Chinese Philosophy, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Ronnie Littlejohn, Professor of Philosophy, Director of Asian Studies, Belmont University, USA; Evan Thompson, Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Canada

Bringing together established academics and rising stars, Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy survey philosophical topics across all the main schools of Asian thought. Each volume focuses on the history and development of a core subject in a single tradition, asking how the field has changed, highlighting current disputes, anticipating new directions of study, illustrating the Western philosophical significance of a subject, and demonstrating why a topic is important for understanding Asian thought.

From knowledge, being, gender, and ethics, to methodology, language, and art, these research handbooks provide up-to-date and authoritative overviews of Asian philosophy in the twenty-first century.

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The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender, edited by Ann A. Pang White

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy Methodologies, edited by Sor-hoon Tan

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Philosophy, edited by Michiko Yusa

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Early Chinese Ethics and Political Philosophy, edited by Alexus McLeod

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, edited by Arindam Chakrabarti

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Ethics, edited by Shyam Ranganathan

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy and Gender, edited by Veena R. Howard

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy of Language, edited by Alessandro Graheli

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Vednta

Edited by Ayon Maharaj

Ankur Baruas primary research interests are Hindu studies and the comparative philosophy of religion. He teaches and researches at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, various historical, philosophical, and conceptual aspects of the Hindu traditions as they have developed in the Indian subcontinent. In recent years, he has also been investigating how somewhat divergent ideas of Hinduism as a world religion were formulated, interrogated, and articulated during the colonial centuries in British India, and how some of these ideas were received, repackaged, and reconstituted in Britain and Europe. Further, an integral part of his academic research is the comparative study of religions: in particular, the question of whether Christian terms such as grace, creation, and God have any Hindu analogues, and Hindu terms such as dharma, karma, and sasra have any Christian equivalents.

Arindam Chakrabarti did his doctoral work in philosophy of language at Oxford under Sir Peter Strawson and Sir Michael Dummett. Since 1984, he has taught at the University of Calcutta, the Asiatic Society Calcutta, University College London, University of Washington Seattle, University of Delhi, and at the University of Hawaii Manoa for twenty-two years. In 2018 he joined the Stony Brook Philosophy Department as the first occupant of the Nirmal and Augustina Mattoo Chair of Indic Humanities. He is the author of Denying Existence: On the Logic of Singular Negative Existential Sentences (Synthese Library Series, 1997) and Realisms Interlinked: Objects, Subjects and Other Subjects (Bloomsbury, 2019). He has also recently edited the Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art. Apart from more than a hundred articles in journals and anthologies, and six Bengali monographs on philosophy, he published the first Sanskrit book on modern Western theories of knowledge in 2005. He has supervised fifteen successful PhD students in the past twenty years in the areas of comparative philosophy of the body, epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind.

Francis X. Clooney, S.J. is the Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology at Harvard Divinity School. His primary areas of scholarship are theological commentarial writings in the Sanskrit and Tamil traditions of Hindu India, and the developing field of comparative theology, a discipline distinguished by attentiveness to the dynamics of theological learning deepened through the study of traditions other than ones own. He has also written on the Jesuit missionary tradition, particularly in India, and the dynamics of dialogue in the contemporary world. Professor Clooney is the author of numerous articles and books, including most recently His Hiding Place Is Darkness: An Exercise in Interreligious Theopoetics (Stanford, 2013), The Future of Hindu-Christian Studies: A Theological Inquiry (Routledge, 2017), and Reading the Hindu and Christian Classics: How and Why Deep Learning Still Matters (University of Virginia, 2019). During 20102017 he was Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. He has received honorary doctorates from the College of the Holy Cross (2011), the Australian Catholic University (2012), Heythrop College, University of London (2017), and Regis College, University of Toronto (2019). In 2010 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

Neil Dalal is Associate Professor of South Asian Philosophy and Religious Thought at the University of Alberta. He received his PhD in Asian Cultures and Languages from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MA in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Dalals interests include philosophy of mind, contemplative psychology, and meditation practices found in classical South Asian yoga systems. His current research focuses on the intersections of contemplative practices, textual study, and embodiment in Advaita Vednta. He is the codirector of Gurukulam (The Orchard/Sony Pictures), and coeditor of Asian Perspectives on Animal Ethics (Routledge Press, 2014).

Ravi M. Gupta is the Charles Redd Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Religious Studies Program at Utah State University. He is the author or editor of four books, including The Caitanya Vaiava Vednta of Jva Gosvm (Routledge, 2007). He has completed an abridged translation of the Bhgavata Pura (with Kenneth Valpey), published in 2017 by Columbia University Press. Professor Gupta received his DPhil at Oxford University and subsequently taught at the University of Florida, Centre College in Kentucky, and the College of William and Mary. He has received four teaching awards, a National Endowment for the Humanities summer fellowship, three research fellowships at Oxford, and a book award. He is a permanent research fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and a past president of the Society for Hindu Christian Studies. His current research focuses on the Bhgavata Puras Sanskrit commentaries, and he codirects the international Bhgavata Pura Research Project.