S. N. Balagangadhara

Cultures Differ Differently (eBook, ePUB)

Selected Essays of S.N. Balagangadhara
Redaktion: de Roover, Jakob; Rao, Sarika

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents essays by contemporary thinker and social scientist S. N. Balagangadhara which develop an alternative theoretical framework for a comparative study of Western and Asian cultures. It explores cultural difference in psychology, political theory, ethics, religion, sociology, translation, law, Indology, and philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000477733
• Artikelnr.: 62739319

Autorenporträt

S.N. Balagangadhara is former Professor in the Department of Comparative Science of Cultures at Ghent University, Belgium. He is the author of "The Heathen in His Blindness...": Asia, the West and the Dynamic of Religion (1994/2005) and Reconceptualizing India Studies (2012). In these books and other works, he has developed a research programme called 'Comparative Science of Cultures'.

Jakob De Roover is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Science of Cultures at Ghent University, Belgium. He is the author of Europe, India, and the Limits of Secularism (2015).

Sarika Rao is Assistant and a doctoral student in the Department of Comparative Science of Cultures at Ghent University, Belgium. Her research focuses on the secularisation of religion.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Studying Other Cultures in the twenty-first Century. Author's
Voice 1. Selfless Morality and the Moral Self 2. Knowing to Act and Acting
to Know 3. How to Speak for the Indian Traditions 4. Law, Religion and
Culture 5. Seven Problems in Translation: The Case of India 6. The Vedic
Society and a Brain Stasis 7. The Indology and Sociology of Varna 8.
Knowledge, Bullshit and the Study of India. Afterword