Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Characterizing Religious Experience
- Part II Religious Experience in Traditional Monotheism
- Part III Religious Experience Outside Traditional Monotheism
- 7 Religious Experience in Ancient Confucianism and Daoism
- 8 Religious Experience in Buddhism
- 9 Rāmānuja’s Eleventh Century Hindu Theology of Religious Experience
- Part IV Prominent Themes and Challenges
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
9 - Rāmānuja’s Eleventh Century Hindu Theology of Religious Experience
An Informative, Performative, Transformative Discourse
from Part III - Religious Experience Outside Traditional Monotheism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 June 2020
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Characterizing Religious Experience
- Part II Religious Experience in Traditional Monotheism
- Part III Religious Experience Outside Traditional Monotheism
- 7 Religious Experience in Ancient Confucianism and Daoism
- 8 Religious Experience in Buddhism
- 9 Rāmānuja’s Eleventh Century Hindu Theology of Religious Experience
- Part IV Prominent Themes and Challenges
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
Summary
Clooney focus on Ramanuja on religious experience as based in the contemplation of Hindu scripture, in tradition, and in ritual practice, and as offering a vision of the divine and of union of the human self with the divine. He suggests that Ramanuja’s work provides an “integrated Vedanta” that supplies the cognitive and affective components for one to move toward an intense spiritual existence in life.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience , pp. 208 - 236Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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