Religious Cosmologies

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We need to understand the world to find out who we are and what our destiny is.  This is because our story is situated within the narrative of creation.  Religious cosmologies have been attempts to provide the broad conceptual framework needed to define ourselves, our place in the world and our destiny.  They shape and mirror human culture.  The intellectual mapping of these conceptions plays an important role in capturing the spirit of various cultures.  Knowledge of the way various religio-cultural groups have defined themselves in relation to their understanding of the world is a powerful means of promoting understanding among cultures and building social and political harmony.  Religious Cosmologies is an attempt to do such a mapping.  It seeks to assemble under one title the various cosmological conceptions of different religious traditions with the hope that the knowledge it provides could be helpful in promoting better understanding among peoples.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Augustine Perumalil

Augustine Perumalil is a professor of philosophy at Satya Nilayam, Chennai.  He has done his PhD from Punjab University, Chandigarh, specializing in philosophy of religion and postdoctoral research in Loyola University, Chicago.  He has authored four books and a good number of articles in various national and international journals.  He is currently the director of Satya Nilayam Research Institute (affiliated to University of Madras) and the editor of Satya Nilayam, Chennai Journal of Intercultural Philosophy, a semiannual published in collaboration with the Vienna Society for Intercultural Philosophy.

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Title
Religious Cosmologies
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
9788184580075
Length
xiii+269p., Bibliography; Index; 23cm.
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