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Do All Roads Lead to Jerusalem?: The Making of Indian Religions
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Manohar
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S.N. Balagangadhara
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English
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Publisher:
Manohar
Author:
S.N. Balagangadhara
Language:
English
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Do All Roads Lead to Jerusalem? traces the history of western encounters with other cultures on two occasions: the ‘pagans’ of Greece and Rome and the ‘heathens’ in India. The West has produced many descriptions of other cultures. A close examination of these descriptions reveals that these descriptions tell us more about western culture than about the cultures the West has attempted to describe. This over-arching theme is developed by examining one element in western culture, namely, religion. This book argues that religion is not a cultural universal and the belief that all cultures have religion is an assumption on the part of all scholars of religion. The reason for this is that western culture has been shaped by religion so that members of this culture are conceptually compelled to describe other cultures from within the framework of religion. From Biblical scholarship to the Enlightenment, from the Reformation to the Romantics, from believers to atheists, the cognitive scheme is the same – one that has been set in place by the experiential framework of Christianity. It is through this framework that all other cultures have been studied so far. Is it any wonder that members of such a culture saw religion wherever they went? By means of methodical arguments and lucid explanations this book demonstrates that religion is not a cultural universal and explains why it is believed to be so. Scholars in the field of religious and cultural studies will find this work illuminating, original, and deeply compelling.
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Do All Roads Lead to Jerusalem? traces the history of western encounters with other cultures on two occasions: the ‘pagans’ of Greece and Rome and the ‘heathens’ in India. The West has produced many descriptions of other cultures. A close examination of these descriptions reveals that these descriptions tell us more about western culture than about the cultures the West has attempted to describe. This over-arching theme is developed by examining one element in western culture, namely, religion. This book argues that religion is not a cultural universal and the belief that all cultures have religion is an assumption on the part of all scholars of religion. The reason for this is that western culture has been shaped by religion so that members of this culture are conceptually compelled to describe other cultures from within the framework of religion. From Biblical scholarship to the Enlightenment, from the Reformation to the Romantics, from believers to atheists, the cognitive scheme is the same – one that has been set in place by the experiential framework of Christianity. It is through this framework that all other cultures have been studied so far. Is it any wonder that members of such a culture saw religion wherever they went? By means of methodical arguments and lucid explanations this book demonstrates that religion is not a cultural universal and explains why it is believed to be so. Scholars in the field of religious and cultural studies will find this work illuminating, original, and deeply compelling.
About Author
Prof. Dr. S.N. Balagangadhara has formulated ‘decolonizing social sciences’ as an intellectual and cognitive project spanning multiple generations. Resulting from the understanding that the currently dominant theories are expressions of one specific culture’s experience of the world, the research programme Comparative Science of Cultures, extends across different social scientific domains. He has authored many articles and books: “The Heathen in His Blindness…”: Asia, the West and the Dynamic of Religion (Brill, 1994; Manohar, 25); Reconceptualizing India Studies (Oxford University Press, 212); Do All Roads Lead to Jerusalem? (Manohar, 214); Cultures Differ Differently (Routledge, 222).
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