02350nam a2200457Ka 4500 ocn750193428 OCoLC 20200709055411.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 110907s2010 nyu ob 001 0 eng d N$T N$T 9780231149860 0231149867 9780231526425 (electronic bk.) 0231526423 (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)750193428 384856 (N$T) a-ii--- BL1150 .N53 2010eb REL 032010 bisacsh 294.509 22 N$TA Nicholson, Andrew J. Unifying Hinduism [electronic resource] : philosophy and identity in Indian intellectual history / Andrew J. Nicholson. New York : Columbia University Press, c2010. 1 online resource (xii, 266 p.) South Asia across the disciplines Includes bibliographical references and index. Drawing 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. Description based on print version record. Hinduism History. India Intellectual life. RELIGION / Hinduism / History bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Nicholson, Andrew J. Unifying Hinduism. New York : Columbia University Press, c2010 9780231149860 (DLC) 2010027458 (OCoLC)645673077 South Asia across the disciplines. NetLibrary http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=384856 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 50531 50531