Religion and Culture in Dialogue East and West Perspectives

This volume addresses the issue of the human encounter with the Mystery of God and the purpose of human life. It explores major themes from diverse cultural and philosophical traditions, starting with questions about the possibility of belief in God, His

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Jānis Tālivaldis Ozoliņš Editor

Religion and Culture in Dialogue East and West Perspectives

Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures Volume 15

Series Editors Editor-in-Chief Purushottama Bilimoria, The University of Melbourne, Australia University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Co-Editor Andrew Irvine, Maryville College, Maryville, TN, USA Associate Editors Jay Garfield, Yale-NUS College, National University of Singapore; Smith College, Melbourne University, Australia; Central University of Tibetan Studies, India Editorial Assistants Sherah Bloor, Amy Rayner, Peter Yih Jing Wong The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Editorial Board Balbinder Bhogal, Hofstra University Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University Vrinda Dalmiya, University of Hawaii at Honolulu Gavin Flood, Oxford University Jessica Frazier, Kent University Kathleen Higgins, University of Texas at Austin Patrick Hutchings, Deakin University, University of Melbourne Morny Joy, Calgary University Parimal Patil, Harvard University Laurie Patton, Duke University Joseph Prabhu, Cal State LA Carool Kersten, King’s College, London Richard King, University of Glascow Arvind-Pal Mandair, University of Michigan Rekha Nath, University of Alabama Stephen Phillips, University of Texas at Austin Annupama Rao, Columbia University

The Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures focuses on the broader aspects of philosophy and traditional intellectual patterns of religion and cultures. The series encompasses global traditions, and critical treatments that draw from cognate disciplines, inclusive of feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial approaches. By global traditions we mean religions and cultures that go from Asia to the Middle East to Africa and the Americas, including indigenous traditions in places such as Oceania. Of course this does not leave out good and suitable work in Western traditions where the analytical or conceptual treatment engages Continental (European) or Cross-cultural traditions in addition to the Judeo-Christian tradition. The book series invites innovative scholarship that takes up newer challenges and makes original contributions to the field of knowledge in areas that have hitherto not received such dedicated treatment. For example, rather than rehearsing the same old Ontological Argument in the conventional way, the series would be interested in innovative ways of conceiving the erstwhile concerns while also bringing new sets of questions and responses, methodologically also from more imaginative and critical sources of thinking. Work going on in the forefront of the frontiers of science and religion beaconing a well-nuanced philosophical response that may even extend its boundaries beyond the confines of this debate in the West – e.g. from the perspective of the ‘Third World’ and the impact of this interface (or clash) on other cultures, their economy, sociality, and ecological challenges facing them – will be highly valued by readers of this series. All book