[INDOLOGY] Publication Announcement

[Andrew Nicholson]

Dear list members,

I am pleased to announce that my first book, *Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy
and Identity in Indian Intellectual History, *is now available in an
affordable paperback edition from Columbia University Press.

In addition, if you enter the discount code UNINIC when ordering the
paperback edition from the Columbia University Press website you will
receive $8.40 off the normal list price of $28.

For more information on the contents of the book, please click on the link
or see below.

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14986-0/

Warmest season's greetings,
Andrew
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Andrew J. Nicholson
Associate Professor
SUNY Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5343  USA
Tel: (631) 632-4030  Fax: (631) 632-4098
http://sbsuny.academia.edu/AndrewNicholson

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Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History
Paper, 280 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14987-7
$28.00 / £19.50

*Winner of the Book Award for Best First Book in the History of Religions,
American Academy of Religion*

Some postcolonial theorists argue that the idea of a single system of
belief known as "Hinduism" is a creation of nineteenth-century British
imperialists. Andrew J. Nicholson introduces another perspective: although
a unified Hindu identity is not as ancient as some Hindus claim, it has its
roots in innovations within South Asian philosophy from the fourteenth to
seventeenth centuries. During this time, thinkers treated the philosophies
of Vedanta, Samkhya, and Yoga, along with the worshippers of Visnu, Siva,
and Sakti, as belonging to a single system of belief and practice. Instead
of seeing such groups as separate and contradictory, they re-envisioned
them as separate rivers leading to the ocean of Brahman, the ultimate
reality.

Drawing on the writings of philosophers from late medieval and early modern
traditions, including Vijnanabhiksu, Madhava, and Madhusudana Sarasvati,
Nicholson shows how influential thinkers portrayed Vedanta philosophy as
the ultimate unifier of diverse belief systems. This project paved the way
for the work of later Hindu reformers, such as Vivekananda, Radhakrishnan,
and Gandhi, whose teachings promoted the notion that all world religions
belong to a single spiritual unity. In his study, Nicholson also critiques
the way in which Eurocentric concepts—like monism and dualism, idealism and
realism, theism and atheism, and orthodoxy and heterodoxy—have come to
dominate modern discourses on Indian philosophy.


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