• Title of article

    What Is the "Subaltern" of the Comparative Philosophy of Religion?

  • Author/Authors

    Purusottama، Bilimoria, نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2003
  • Pages
    -33
  • From page
    34
  • To page
    0
  • Abstract
    It is claimed that Comparative Philosophy of Religion (CPR) mistakenly builds on the dogmas of comparative religion (or history of religions) and philosophy of religion. Thus, the belief that there are things common and therefore comparable between two or more traditions and that these objects of comparison are of philosophical or theological significance are questions that continue to trouble the field. Just what does one compare, how does one choose what to compare or why, through what methodological and epistemic tools, and who is it that carries out the tasks? But what has remained unasked and unanalyzed are the larger meta-questions concerning the motivation, civilizational presuppositions, cultural parochialism, or legacies of orientalism, modernity, and (post-)colonialism that together affect the boundedness of certain key categories and thematic issues in the comparative enterprise such as God or the Transcendent, Creation, the Problem of Evil, the Afterlife, Sin, Redemption, Purpose, and the End. Is difference with respect to alterity and altarity permissible? If so, what a postcolonial, differently gendered, cross-cultural critique would look like and what is left of CPR are two such questions explored here.
  • Keywords
    self-determination , Motivation , hierarchical models
  • Journal title
    PHILOSOPHY EAST AND WEST
  • Serial Year
    2003
  • Journal title
    PHILOSOPHY EAST AND WEST
  • Record number

    81896