Interfaith Dialogue and Mystical Consciousness in India

Interfaith Dialogue and Mystical Consciousness in India

Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Aurobindo, the Hari-Hara Mystery, and the Hindu-Christian Encounter

Portilla, Isaac

Taylor & Francis Ltd

01/2025

272

Dura

9781032782058

Pré-lançamento - envio 15 a 20 dias após a sua edição

Descrição não disponível.
Abstract

Introduction

Preliminary Sections

1. Exploring an Inter-religious Future

2. Interfaith Dialogue and Mystical Consciousness

3. Reflections on the Trinity

4. The Hindu-Christian Context

Special Section: Toward an Integrative Hermeneutical Phenomenology

Introduction

1. The Importance of the Study of Religion: Flood's Contribution to Hermeneutical Phenomenology

2. The Importance of the Circumstance and Historical Context: Ortega y Gasset in Conversation with Heidegger, Gadamer, and Dilthey

3. The Importance of Symbols and Narrative: Ricoeur's Hermeneutical Phenomenology and Its Application to the Study of Religion

4. The Importance of a Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity: Toward a Balanced Hermeneutical Phenomenology

5. The Importance of Phenomenology, Witness Consciousness, and Non-dual Consciousness: Reconsidering Husserl's Project

Final Thoughts: Envisioning an Integrative Hermeneutical Phenomenology

Chapter 1. Sri Ramana Maharshi and Sri Aurobindo in Context

1.1. The Tradition of the Rishi

1.2. The Hindu Context: Sacred Landscapes, Avatars, and Karma

1.3. Worldly and Divine: Thresholds, Politics, and War

Chapter Reflections

Chapter 2. Sri Ramana Maharshi and Sri Aurobindo: An Inquiry Focused on Mystical Experience

2.1. Sri Ramana Maharshi: Experiences and Realizations

2.2. Sri Aurobindo: Experiences and Realizations

2.3. Comparative Analysis of Ramana and Aurobindo

Chapter Reflections

Chapter 3. The Hari-Hara Mystery and Other Intra-Hindu Explorations

3.1. The Hari-Hara Mystery and the Hindu Triad(s)

3.2. The Ramana-Aurobindo Leela as an Enactment of the Hari-Hara Mystery (and the Triad)

3.3. The Role of the Devotee in the Ramana-Aurobindo Leela

Chapter Reflections

Chapter 4. Hindu-Christian Interfaith Explorations

4.1. I AM and Embodiment

4.2. Matter and Descent

4.3. Mystic Fire: The Primordial Experience

Chapter Reflections

Chapter 5. Existential Interfaith: A Practical Framework

5.1. First Characteristic: Meeting in Being

5.2. Second Characteristic: Experiential Inquiry

5.3. Third Characteristic: Focus on Truest Meaning

Conclusions:

A Different Narrative

Summary and Development of Ideas and Findings

Essential Interfaith Insights

Reflections on Method and Future Research

Concluding Thoughts

Note on Texts

Sanskrit Transliteration

Index
Este título pertence ao(s) assunto(s) indicados(s). Para ver outros títulos clique no assunto desejado.
Hinduism;Christianity;interfaith;mythical;mythos;Saints;Sri Ramana Maharshi;Sri Aurobindo;Spirituality and religion;Asian religion