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708Abstract: The present paper seeks to explore the emotional structures that make human beings afraid of death in solitude, the feelings that necessitate the imagining of a peopled death, a death accompanied by fellow humans, gods, or God. In order to do this I take up the works of two great thinkers of the East and the West, and place them on a comparativist spectrum. The discussion covers many areas, including the polytheistic imaginations of ancient Greece and eighth century India, in the conte…Read more
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42Living without God: A Multicultural Spectrum of Atheism, Springer Nature, SingaporeSpringer Nature. 2022.This book deals with the intricate issue of approaching atheism—methodologically as well as conceptually—from the perspective of cultural pluralism. What does ‘atheism’ mean in different cultural contexts? Can this term be applied appropriately to different religious discourses which conceptualize God/gods/Goddess/goddesses (and also godlessness) in hugely divergent ways? Is my ‘God’ the same as yours? If not, then how can your atheism be the same as mine? In other words, this volume raises the …Read more
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22An Al-rich metallic glass with a large supercooled liquid regionPhilosophical Magazine 87 (2): 281-290. 2007.
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18Atheisms: Plural Contexts of Being GodlessSophia 60 (3): 497-514. 2021.This special issue of Sophia, titled Living without God: A Multicultural Spectrum of Atheism, deals with the intricate issue of approaching atheism—methodologically as well as conceptually—from the perspective of cultural pluralism. What does ‘atheism’ mean in different cultural contexts? Can this term be applied appropriately to different religious discourses which conceptualize God/gods/Goddess/goddesses in hugely divergent ways? Or would that rather be a sort of hegemonic homogenization of al…Read more
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Banaras Hindu universityResearcher
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Areas of Interest
Metaphilosophy |
Metaphysics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Asian Philosophy |