02248nam a2200409Ka 4500001001300000003000600013005001700019006001900036007001500055008004100070040001300111020001800124020001500142020003500157020003200192035002100224035001800245043001200263050002400275072002500299082001600324100002500340245012700365260005100492300003600543490003800579504005100617520072200668588004701390650002301437651003001460650004301490655002201533776015801555830003901713856008601752ocn750193428OCoLC20200709055411.0m        d        cr cnu---unuuu110907s2010    nyu     ob    001 0 eng d  aN$TcN$T  z9780231149860  z0231149867  a9780231526425 (electronic bk.)  a0231526423 (electronic bk.)  a(OCoLC)750193428  a384856b(N$T)  aa-ii--- 4aBL1150b.N53 2010eb 7aRELx0320102bisacsh04a294.5092221 aNicholson, Andrew J.10aUnifying Hinduismh[electronic resource] :bphilosophy and identity in Indian intellectual history /cAndrew J. Nicholson.  aNew York :bColumbia University Press,cc2010.  a1 online resource (xii, 266 p.)1 aSouth Asia across the disciplines  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aDrawing on the writings of philosophers from late medieval and early modern traditions, including Vijnanabhiksu, Madhava, and Madhusudana Sarasvati, Nicholson shows how influential thinkers portrayed Vedanta philosophy as the ultimate unifier of diverse belief systems. This project paved the way for the work of later Hindu reformers, such as Vivekananda, Radhakrishnan, and Gandhi, whose teachings promoted the notion that all world religions belong to a single spiritual unity. In his study, Nicholson also critiques the way in which Eurocentric concepts--like monism and dualism, idealism and realism, theism and atheism, and orthodoxy and heterodoxy--have come to dominate modern discourses on Indian philosophy.  aDescription based on print version record. 0aHinduismxHistory. 0aIndiaxIntellectual life. 7aRELIGION / Hinduism / History2bisacsh 4aElectronic books.08iPrint version:aNicholson, Andrew J.tUnifying Hinduism.dNew York : Columbia University Press, c2010z9780231149860w(DLC)  2010027458w(OCoLC)645673077 0aSouth Asia across the disciplines.403NetLibraryuhttp://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=384856