Knowing beyond knowledge
Subtitle: epistemologies of religious experience in classical and modern Advaita
By: Thomas A. Forsthoefel.
Series: Ashgate world philosophies series
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Alderhot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Advaita.; Knowledge, Theory of.; Experience (Religion)
Description: "This book builds on contemporary discussion of 'mysticism' and religious experience by examining the process and content of 'religious knowing' in classical and modern Advaita. Drawing from the work of William Alston and Alvin Plantinga, Thomas Forsthoefel examines key streams of Advaita with special reference to the conditions, contexts, and scope of epistemic merit in religious experience. Forsthoefel uniquely employs specific analytical categories of contemporary Western epistemologies as heuristics to examine the cognitive dimension of religious experience in Indian Vedanta."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (183-195) and index.