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List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I - The Theory of Life Itself
- 1: Theory and Philosophy of Life
- 2: The Emergence of Religion
- 3: Sacrifice
- Part II - Religious Civilizations
- 4: The Sacrificial Imaginary: Indic Traditions
- 5: The Chinese Traditions
- 6: The Greek and Abrahamic Traditions
- Part Three - Philosophies of Life Itself
- 7: Philosophies of Life
- 8: The Philosophy of Life as a Field of Immanence
- 9: The Phenomenology of Life
- 10: Bare Life and the Resurrection of the Body
- 11: Religion and the Bio-Sociology of Transformation
- Epilogue: Religion and the Post Human
- Bibliography
About the author
Gavin Flood is Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion at the University of Oxford, Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, and Yap Kim Hao Visiting Professor of Comparative Religious Studies at Yale-NUS Singapore. His publications include The Truth Within: A History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism (2013), The Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in Our Strange World (2012), and The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory, and Tradition (2004). He is also the General Editor of The Oxford History of Hinduism series.
Summary
This book firstly presents an account of how the category life has been understood by religions in the history of Indian, Chinese, and European/Middle Eastern civilizations and secondly how those religions can be explained in terms of life.
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This is a really engaging book and a healthy reading for those who tread paths of science, philosophy, and religion and try to bring them together for the benefit of these three areas of knowledge. Indeed, this book reveals the fecundity of that transdisciplinary approach, and it even suggests a model for possible attempts to combine those interacting fields.
