Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion

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Annotation Preface Robert Cummings Neville.- Introduction Purushottama Bilimoria and Andrew B. Irvine.- Surveying the Scene.- 1. A Subaltern/Postcolonial Critique of the Comparative Philosophy of Religion Purushottama Bilimoria.- 2. Uneasy Intersections: Postcolonialism, Feminism, and the Study of Religions Grace M. Jantzen.- 3. Philosophy of Religion as Border Control: Globalization and the Decolonization of the Love of Wisdom (philosophia) Richard King.- 4. The Third Eye and Two Ways of (Un)knowing: Gnosis, Alternative Modernities, and Postcolonial Futures Makarand Paranjape.- 'India'.- 5. Mispredicated Identity and Postcolonial Discourse Bibhuti S. Yadav.- 6. On the Death of the Pilgrim: The Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Jarava Lal Mehta Thomas B. Ellis.- 7. Western Idealism Through Indian Eyes: A Cittamitra Reading of Berkeley, Kant and Schopenhauer Jay L. Garfield.- 8. An Approximate Difference: Proximity and Oppression in the West's Encounter with Sikhism Navdeep Mandair.- 9. Max Muller and Textual Management: A Postcolonial Perspective Sharada Sugirtharajah.- 10. The Orientalism of E B Havell Debashish Banerji.- 'America'.- 11. The Meaning and Function of Religion in an Imperial World Nelson Maldonado-Torres.- 12. Cultural Participation and Postcoloniality: A U.S. Case Study Andrew B. Irvine.- 13. Imperial Somatics and Genealogies of Religion: How We Never Became Secular Eduardo Mendieta.- 14. Post-Colonial Contribution to the Jewish Conception of 'the Other' in Postmodern/Multicultural/Subaltern Americas Santiago H. Slabodsky.- 15. The Enduring Enchantment: The Epistemic Privilege of Modernity, and Where to Go from Here Walter D. Mignolo.- Response and Afterword Kenneth Surin.- Index.