TRADITION AND INNOVATION: association of christian philosophers of india

INDEX

A priori 46, 49, 51, 52, 208

Abelard, Peter 229

Abhishiktananda 235

Absolutism 52, 325

Absolutization 157

Acculturation 40

Ahimsa, an all-sided sword 277

Akhda 410-411

Alienation 209, 211, 417

Amalorpavadass, D. S. 235

Ambedkar effect 352

Ambedkar, B. R. 329-354, 366, 369, 377, 381, 384

American Civil War 461

American Right 240

Amnesty 65, 77, 93

Anarchist 269

Antithesis 61, 144, 145, 206

Antyodaya 280

Aquinas, Thomas 50, 55, 119, 178, 230, 242, 244, 248-250, 256, 296-297

Aristotle 50, 55, 154, 170, 171, 177-178, 185, 199, 230, 239, 261, 296, 297-299

Arius 228

Arjuna 187, 487

Aryabhatta 295

Aryans 325, 375, 388

Ashari puja 405

Athanasius 229

Atheism 269, 272, 373, 376, 378, 386, 388

Atma bodha 280

Atmasukham 364

Augustine, St. 121, 126, 184, 239, 241, 242, 363

Authenticity 10, 13, 20, 21, 24, 150, 186, 201-223, 225, 262

Baba, Satya Sai 319

Baghut puja 405

Baidha/Kobiraj 419

Barth, Karl 232, 242, 255

Becoming 18, 21, 28, 31, 46, 136, 145, 146, 242, 321

Being-in-the-world 88, 216

Beliefs 13, 36-39, 59, 99, 153, 162, 170, 197, 211, 320, 324, 377-378, 410, 482, 488

Bellarmine, Cardinal 298

Benedict XVI, Pope 194-195, 246

Bentham, Jeremy 104, 179, 476

Bergson, on memory 67

Bhagavadgita 187, 370, 467

Bible 243, 259, 272, 298

Bor pahari puja 405

Brahmanical superiority 335

Brahminism 338, 344, 374, 376-377, 386

Brahmins, Hegemony of 333

Brahmobandhav Upadhyay 234

Buddha 306, 332, 349-351, 355

Buddhism and Hinduism 351

Calcutta School of Indology 235

Capabilities Approach 370, 454, 479-481

Capability 370, 371, 451, 454, 479-480, 493

Capitalism, logic of 245, 251

Caste 58, 106, 110, 151, 155, 213, 254, 270, 310, 330, 332, 333

Caste political raj 342

Categorical Imperative 180, 208, 467, 483, 484

Categorisation 154

Census, Caste-based 345-346

Census, Tribal 396

Certainty 3-5, 19, 159-161, 191, 302-303, 396

Chala paccho 405

Chando baba 404-405

Change 2-3, 7, 9, 35-36, 55, 57-59, 119, 145, 172, 184, 211, 226-227, 234, 261, 296-297, 305-306, 310, 324, 330-331, 347-348, 364, 369, 411-412

Change and Christian missionaries 413-414

Change and continuity 412

Change in Dalit politics 346, 352

Change of religion 335, 347-348, 350

Change, climatic 411

Change, justice enhancing 464

Change, necessary 423

Change, reluctance to 364

Change, social 422

Charles Darwin 198, 217, 300

Chimeras 40

Chopra, Deepak 193

Chordewa 405

Christian 10, 33, 81, 84, 101, 121, 171-172, 184, 220, 230, 238, 243-245-246, 297, 300

Christian and Muslim 235, 344, 380

Christian doctrine 225-266

Christian existentialist 220

Christian ideal 133, 185, 189, 208, 220-221

Christian liturgy 226

Christian morality 183-184

Christian philosophizing 10-11, 15, 33-34, 171-172

Christian Tribals 395-426

Christian West 234

Christianity 171, 220, 226-227, 231, 236, 258-260, 271, 418

Christianity and Democracy 186-187

Christianity and democracy 187

Christianity and Gandhi 278

Christianity and Vaishnavism 234-235

Christianity, creedal 247

Christianity, Tridentine 234

Class struggle 147

Collective forgetting 92-93

Collective minds 92

Collectivity 32, 280

Collingwood 118-140

Colonial 4, 314, 355-356, 362-363, 365-366, 369

Colonial modernity 356

Communalist 269

Communication 66, 68, 76, 77, 91, 98, 101, 104, 108, 154, 233, 256, 427-450, 485, 487, 490

Communication and strategic action 433-434, 436-437, 445-446

Communicative competence 427, 429, 430, 432-433, 436, 443

Community consciousness 355

Comparative approach 455, 464, 476, 498

Comte 132, 133

Condorcet, Caritat 128, 469

Conflict 3, 41, 144, 146, 150-152, 158, 162, 163, 204, 212, 217, 230, 236, 285, 293, 294, 298, 300, 323, 325, 343, 345, 374, 428, 431, 433, 443, 493

Congar, Yves 231, 232, 234, 235, 236, 255

Conscience 21, 79, 115, 166, 277, 460, 461, 465

Consciousness 52, 71, 72, 80, 84, 135, 139, 147, 154, 159, 165, 166, 172, 173, 187, 199, 207, 212, 233, 238, 257, 317, 327, 361, 364, 430, 434, 438

Consciousness, critical 172

Consciousness, Hindu 307

Consciousness, Indian national 468

Consciousness, moral 173, 196, 280, 473, 499

Consequentialism 180-181, 454

Consequentialism 454

Consequentialist position 451, 454

Consequentialist, postmodern 408, 499

Conservatism 310, 313, 325

Conservatism, Hindu 313-316

Context, change in 227

Context-dependency 87, 88

Contextual theologies 239, 251-253

Continuity and change 412

Contractarian approach 465

Contradiction 146-147, 167, 494

Conventions 99, 103, 170, 245, 310, 313

Copernican 297-298

Cosmology, Aristotelian-Ptolemaic 297

Cosmology, biblical 297

Council of Trent 298

Critical 62, 66, 72-82, 87, 89, 97, 100, 103, 106, 107-108, 118, 121, 133, 168, 172, 174, 241, 253, 270, 296, 310, 342, 357

Critical interpretation 253

Critical theory (theology) 238

Cultural nationalism 314

Culture 4, 8, 25, 28, 30, 31, 36, 37-38, 74, 91, 94, 95, 101, 102-103, 119, 137, 157, 162, 167, 172, 173, 174, 197, 198, 209, 226, 226, 235, 243, 252, 282, 314, 324, 327, 384, 407, 409, 412, 420, 423, 438, 447

Culture and Indian life 283, 295, 299, 307, 308, 310, 311, 312, 316-317, 320-321, 326, 368

Culture and living tradition 242, 422

Culture and normativity 39-42, 58, 60, 63, 227, 447

Culture and shaping of memory 70

Culture, Brahmanic 287, 326

Culture, Catholic 322

Culture, critique 243, 296, 313

Culture, immortal 326

Culture, material 95-96

Culture, Mohenjadaro-Harappa 295

Culture, Tribal 420, 423-424

Culture-based values 74, 288

Culture-making 367, 395, 410

Cultures, outdated 324

Dalit identity 342

Dalit political rights 343

Dalits and Muslims 344

Dalits, Hinduise 349

Daridranarayan 280

Dasein 19-21, 25-26, 206, 216-217

de Chardin, Teilhard

De Lubac, Henri 197, 232, 250, 255, 300

De Nobili, Roberto 234

De Revolutionibus Orbium Celestium 297

De Smet, Richard 235

Deconstruction 148, 159, 161

Dei Verbum232, 234, 255

Deleuze, Gilles 246

Democracy 109, 187, 196, 332, 346, 347, 448, 455, 485, 498, 500

Democracy 110, 196, 347, 448, 455, 475, 485, 487, 498

Democracy and Christianity 186-187

Democracy, alternative 498

Democracy, institutional 468, 500

Democracy, liberal 346

Democracy, representative 448

Democracy, social 332

Derrida, Jacques 103, 143, 159-160, 161, 222, 239, 246, 251

Descartes 117, 299, 368

Descriptive 65, 66, 82

Determinism and freedom 47, 169

Development of doctrine 227, 262

Devi Sadhana 319

Dewan 400

Dharmes 404-405

Dhumkuria 398

Dialectic 13, 23, 64, 133, 135, 143-164, 256, 257, 313, 325, 327, 355, 361-362

Dialectical dynamism 325

Dialogical 152, 193, 441

Dialogue, rejected by Radical Orthodoxy 251

Difference, identity and 32, 143-164

Dilthey, Wilhelm 123, 130-132

Discourse (Foucault) 149

Discourse (Habermas) 433

Discourse 69, 73, 84, 117, 148, 150, 168, 325, 358, 367

Discourse and tradition 107-108, 325

Discourse, colonial 362

Discourse, construction of 155

Discourse, dominant 156

Discourse, ethical 466

Discourse, open-ended 73, 76

Discourse, philosophical 114

Discourse, social 69, 84, 359

Divinization 157

Doctrines, reformulation of 234-235, 237

Dogma, Hindu 337

Dogma/dogmatism 7, 13, 196, 232-234, 238-239, 243, 256, 310, 313, 320, 396

Dogmatic council 226

Dogmatic slumber, Dravidian 386

Dogmatic theology 225, 227, 230, 255

Dogmatism, political 157

Dravidian Dogmatic slumber 386

Dravidians 374-375, 380, 383, 384, 386, 388

Dreamy conservative (Gandhi) 269

Duns Scotus 244

Dynamic, tradition-innovation (Amartya Sen) 451-500

Dynamic, tradition-innovation (Christian) 225-266

Dynamic, tradition-innovation (Gandhian) 267-291

Dynamic, tradition-innovation (Hindu) 307-328

Dynamic, tradition-innovation 203, 206

Eastern mysticist (Gandhi) 269

Ecology 410

Economic and political conversion 333

Economic discrimination 339

Economics (Tribal) 416-418

Economics 131, 194, 196, 287, 455-457, 474, 499

Economics, applied 454

Economics, global 452-453

Eddington, Arthur 301, 304

Education of the heart (Gandhi) 282

Educational uplift of the Dalits 341

Egology 155

Einstein, Albert 301-303

Enculturation 15, 31

Endogenous 57, 61

Enlightenment (Kant) 483

Enlightenment 95, 108, 127, 156, 172, 196, 251, 259, 289, 319, 363, 454

Enlightenment and emancipation 329, 331, 352-353

Enlightenment critique of religion 240

Enlightenment, European 60, 363

Epistemology 114, 125, 145, 481-482

Ethical nihilism 167

Ethical religion 280

Ethics 168, 170, 193, 196, 204, 290, 397, 456-457, 481, 482, 488, 500

Ethics and economics 457-458

Ethics, absolute 182-188

Ethics, based on religion 175-177

Ethics, categorical imperative (Kant) 180-182, 184, 484

Ethics, existentialism 187

Ethics, Natural Law 178

Ethics, rational basis 173

Ethics, situation 183-184

Ethics, teleological 171-172

Ethics, utilitarian 179-180

Ethics, virtue 185-186

Euclid 296

Euthanasia 305

Euthyphro 171

Exclusion 149, 152, 161, 269, 315

Exigencies 1, 10, 89, 210, 229, 237

Existence (thrownness) 21

Existence and choice 24

Existence and freedom 21

Existence and givenness 22-23

Existence, authentic 201-223

Existence, fragmented 26, 28

Existence, innovative 24, 27, 206, 427, 429

Existence, not a category 20

Existence, social 24, 46, 466

Existence, tribal 410

Existence, value-based 148, 452

Existence-philosophy 154

Existentialism 17, 131, 154, 186-187, 201-223

Experience, of the people 252

Experience, religious 231, 233

Exploitative inequality 350

Expression, creative 17

Expression, self- 201-223, 284

Expression, symbolic 76, 131

Facere veritatem 241, 256

Faith and culture 226

Fanatic 271, 286, 287

Fanatic, Hindu 314

Fanatic, religious 375, 231

Fidelity 189

Fidelity and development of doctrine 261-262

‘Flat world’ 63

Forgetting 65-86, 92-93, 312

Forgiveness 54, 77, 80-81, 82, 258

Form of Hindukaran 349

Foucault, Michel 103-104, 115, 131, 148-149, 244

Freedom 13-14, 15, 19, 21, 36, 43-44, 47, 83, 115, 135, 157, 160, 169, 181, 187, 191, 192, 194-195, 215, 277, 295, 311, 329, 337, 342, 345, 347, 349, 479, 493

Freedom and conversion 337, 349-350

Freedom and tradition 44-45

Freedom struggle (India) 219, 275

Freedom, authentic 187, 215

Freedom, civic 136

Freedom, individual 119, 135, 208, 351, 454

Freedom, infringement upon 158

Freedom, intellectual 299, 446-447

Freedom, social 330, 331-332, 337

Freedom, women’s 389

Fundamentalism 240

Fundamentalism, Hindu 58

Fundamentalism, patriotic 285

Fundamentalist 57, 240, 243, 253, 269, 271, 478, 497

Gadamer, Hans-Georg 131, 260, 446

Galileo 295, 296, 298-299

Gami 406

Gandhi, autobiography 363

Gandhi, Dreamy conservative 269

Gandhi, Eastern mysticist 269

Gandhi, Education of the heart 282

Gandhi, fast-unto-death 342-343, 348-349, 355, 363, 366, 369, 373, 381, 382-383

Gandhi, indifference to Periyar 382-383

Gandhi, M. K. 25, 209, 218, 219, 267-291, 306, 312, 440

Gandhi, Rahul 421-422

Gaze of tradition 104-105

Geo-Centrism 170

Geschichte 47

Givenness 9, 13, 15, 16, 18, 21-28, 30, 33, 36, 45, 159

Goal of communication 443-444

God is truth 274

God never plays dice 303

God talk 299

Graded inequality 336

Grand narratives 157-158, 245

Greek mythology 387

Griffiths, Bede 235

Guru 5, 316-319, 323, 325

Guru, Narayana 355-372, 378

Gurukulam 382

Habermas, Jürgen 72, 108-109, 427-450

Habitus 94

Hedonism 179, 196

Hegel 46, 52, 120, 121, 124-127, 130, 133, 135-136, 144-146

Hegemony 98-101, 103, 109, 110, 287, 333, 485, 498

Hegemony of Brahmins 333

Heidegger, Martin 16, 18-21, 24-27, 30, 61, 83, 131, 159, 186, 204, 207, 213, 216-217, 221, 239, 261

Heidegger’s ontology 216

Heliocentric 297-299

Herder, Gottfried 119, 121, 125, 134, 138

Heresy 298-299

Hermeneutics 29, 114, 161, 236-239, 255, 260, 429

Hermeneutics, ontological 29

Heterogeneity 158

Hindu consciousness 307

Hindu mythology 388

Hindu nationalism 315

Hindu scriptures and Periyar 389-390

Hindu synthesis 313

Hinduise Dalits 349

Hinduism 227, 267, 270, 272, 278, 281, 307-328, 332, 348, 350, 378

Hinduism and Brahminism 338, 376

Hinduism and Buddhism 351

Hinduism and caste system 335, 360

Hinduism, evils of 349-350, 379

Hinduism, repudiation of 335

Hindutva 314-315, 374, 385, 388

Hippolytus 228

Historizing 25-26

History 4, 16, 26, 30, 35-36, 40-41, 44, 47, 55, 68, 70, 76, 89, 91, 113-141, 120, 162, 170, 173, 177, 183, 209, 226, 245, 251, 297, 306, 314, 321-322, 472, 484

History and agency 119

History and fiction 69

History as myth 295

History as remembrance 131

History moulds future 114

History of Indian philosophy 283, 308, 323, 325-326

History of philosophy 144, 456

History of science 294, 303

History, a legitimator 99

History, Augustine 121, 363

History, critical approach 121, 122, 124

History, dialectic 135-136, 144

History, doctrinal (Christianity) 227, 253, 260, 278

History, empirical 128

History, European 204

History, evolutionary 38, 78

History, Hegel 135-136

History, Herder 134

History, legitimacy 116-118

History, Malabranche 140

History, Marxist 128, 144

History, not a process 41

History, objectivity 123

History, philosophy of 125-129, 132, 136, 137-138

History, purpose of 134, 213

History, rewriting 140

History, Thomistic 119

History, Toynbee 137

History, universal (Vico) 120, 137

Hobbes 466, 471, 473

Horizon 7, 10, 11, 15, 18, 22, 29-30, 32, 63, 90, 92, 108, 352-353, 482

Human desperation 205, 212

Humanism 171, 197, 247, 391

Ideal speech situation 427, 429, 430, 431-432, 443

Idealism, philosophical 146

Idealism, transcendental 52

Identification 150-156

Identity 10, 13, 18, 23-24, 27-28, 31-32, 33, 42, 52, 54, 59-60, 64, 65, 66, 68-69, 72, 83, 143-164, 234, 363, 395, 412, 414-415, 421, 423

Identity and continuity 396

Identity and tradition 195, 324, 424

Identity of God 404

Identity, Dalit 396, 415-416, 423

Identity, distortion of 430

Identity, dysfunctional 79-80

Identity, feminine or masculine 153

Identity, Hindustani 321

Identity, innate or constructed 152, 155

Identity, loss of 314

Identity, marginalized 156

Identity, pluralistic 156

Identity, political 332, 342, 365-366

Identity, religious 360

Identity, self- 160, 162, 321, 442

Identity, social 74, 150, 153-155

Identity, tribal 396, 423

Identity, Vedic 322

Inculturation, theology of 15, 31, 234-235, 251-252

Indian Christian 10-11, 14, 15, 33-34, 84, 110, 251-252, 376, 391

Indian national consciousness 468

Indigenous modernity 355-372

Indigenous religions 315

Individuality 15, 18, 221

Individuality and sociality 32-33

Indus Valley civilization 325

Informational focus 480

Injustice 333

Injustice and poverty 239

Injustice of globalization 496

Injustice to Dalits 345

Injustice, causes 464, 470

Injustice, economic 388

Injustice, manifest 453

Injustice, social 279, 390, 451-500

Innovation 1-11, 13-14, 15-34, 41, 57-64, 113, 143, 165, 167-168, 170, 201-223, 225-266, 267-291, 369-371, 395, 396, 399

Innovation and history 114

Innovation in science 293-306

Innovation n Hinduism 307-328

Innovations in Tribal life 411-421, 423, 424, 451-500

Innovative meaning 35-56, 61-62

Institutional fixation 476

Instrumental 65, 66, 68, 72, 82-84, 478, 499

Instrumental rationality 73, 440, 459

Instrumentalism 440

Interface 64, 75

Internationalism 246

Irigaray 240, 251

Islam 58, 295-297, 374

Istorein 47

Izhava 359, 360, 365, 367, 370-371

Jesus 219-221, 231, 232, 238, 244, 252, 256, 306, 355

Jesus and Pharisees 375

Jesus on the cross 101

Jesus, crucified 245

Jesus, liberator 376

Jesus, mystery of 253

Jesus, resurrection 258

John Paul II, Pope 240, 242, 246, 299

Judaism 226, 375

Judgment 50, 60, 173, 180, 184, 232, 259, 455, 480, 486, 492, 494

Justice, transcendental view 468, 470, 472, 477

Kadleta 407

Kant, categorical imperative 180-182

Kant, epistemological error 53

Kant, Immanuel 46, 50, 116, 125, 127, 208, 215, 458, 466-467

Kant, transcendent and transcendental 51-52

Kant’s categories 50

Kantian antinomies 145

Kantian dialectic 144

Kantian ethics 184, 483-484

Kantian, post- 202

Karma 351, 407

Kerala 140, 177, 356-357, 359

Kerala, developmentalism 370

Kerala, indigenous modernity 358, 362, 363

Khap Panchayat 57, 58, 400, 415

Knowledge 28, 29, 47, 64, 116-117, 125, 129, 161, 166, 175, 198, 232, 236, 259, 369, 434-437, 447, 456, 460, 478, 480-481

Knowledge hierarchy 63

Knowledge production 91, 439

Knowledge, a priori 51-52

Knowledge, forms of 121, 130, 159

Knowledge, historical 131, 138-139, 148

Knowledge, revealed 233, 245, 256

Knowledge, salvific 282-283

Knowledge, sources 60-61

Knowledge, theory of 125-125, 154

Knowledge, transcendental conditions 50

Knowledge, Vedic 318-319

Kotwar 400

Krishna 187, 388, 487-488

Krishna bhava 319

Kumaran Asan 365

Lajja 58

Legitimator 99

Leviathan 101

Levinas, Emmanuel 159, 246, 251

Liberal theology 231, 242-243, 247, 259

Life of self-respect 334

Lifeworld 434, 438-441, 444-445, 448

Logo-centrism 159

Lonergan, Bernard J. F. 250, 259, 262

Luther, Martin 230, 379

Lyotard, Jean-François 143, 157, 158, 239

Madait 395, 399-400

Magisterium, and development of doctrine 236, 262

Mahabharata 456, 489

Maritain 117, 126, 136

Marx and class struggle 157

Marx, Karl 96, 119, 124, 128, 131, 144, 147, 271, 439, 476

Marxist dialectic 144, 146-147

Material culture 38, 95-96

Materiality 90, 92, 96

Meaning 7-9, 17-18, 89-90, 92, 94, 98, 102, 106, 153, 160, 432, 443

Meaning in the Holocaust 131

Meaning of history 121, 125-126, 128, 134, 137

Meaning, biblical 259

Meaning, closure of 158

Meaning, constitutive 107, 119, 148, 155, 157, 161

Meaning, fixed 160-161

Meaning, innovative 35-56, 61-62

Meaningless 3, 53, 248, 391

Memory 36, 42, 65, 66, 70, 75, 78, 81, 82, 92, 113, 114, 166, 407, 421

Memory and tradition 48-49

Memory, habitual and recollective (Bergson) 67, 78-79

Memory, not mechanical 67

Memory, politics of 93-94

Memory, social 68, 88, 90-91, 92, 94-100

Meta-history 137

Metaphysics of presence 103, 159

Method, theological 236

Miasma of moral impurity 281

Militarist 269

Mill, John Stuart 179, 476

Mimesis 68-69, 73, 78

Missionaries, Christian 272, 411-412, 416, 420

Missionaries, Hindu 316

Missionaries, Protestant 357

Missionaries, western 308, 362-363

Mnemo-technologies 91

Modernism 231

Modernists 172, 233, 255

Modernity 156-157, 167, 244, 245, 247, 252, 288, 304, 310, 325, 326, 356

Modernity, colonial 356

Modernity, indigenous 355-372

Moral Absolutes 183

Moral consciousness 173, 196, 280, 473, 499

Muslim 99, 176, 271, 280, 284, 285, 335, 344, 348

Mysticism, engaged 238

Mystik und Politik 287

Myth (puranic) 320

Myth 38, 72, 89, 91, 246, 295, 387, 396

Myth and superstition 378

Myth as history 295

Myth-making 380

Mythology and Periyar 388

Mythology, Greek 387

Mythology, Hindu 388

Mythology, nationalist 157

Myths, religious 68, 380

Narayana Guru 355-372

Narrative 65, 69, 76, 78, 80, 81, 115, 117, 127, 135, 356

Narrative Christology 238

Narrative interpretation 130

Narrative theology 238-239, 242, 243, 256

Narrative, Christian 81

Narrative, little 259

Narrative, meta- 157-158, 259

Narrative, mnemonic 75

Narrative, scripture 243

Narratives, grand 157-158, 245

Narratives, historical 68, 72, 138

Narratives, mythological 72

Nationalism 15, 32-33, 99, 267, 284-285, 330

Nationalism, cultural 314

Nationalism, Hindu 315

Nationalist mythology 157

Natural Law 177-179, 184, 186, 195

Naturalism 171, 250

Naxal groups 341, 446

Nayakhani 407

Neolithic-revolution 92

Newman, John Henry 231, 255

Newton, Isaac 294, 301

Nicea, Council of 227, 229

Nichomachean Ethics (Aristotle) 177

Nietzsche, Friedrich 19, 31, 120, 159, 186, 208-210, 213-214, 221, 239, 241, 261, 465

Nihilism 214, 247-248

Nihilism, ethical 167

Niti 451, 454, 467-479

Nobel Prize 304, 452-453

Nobel, Alfred 543, 452

Non-consequentialism 180-181

Non-material culture 38

Normative 5, 36, 92, 227, 437, 438, 500

Normative tradition 37-42, 59-60, 65-66, 72, 73-82, 83

Normativity 07, 110, 480

Noumena 50

Nouvelle théologie 248, 252

Novatian 228

Nozick, Robert 478

Nyaya 451, 454, 467-479

Objective Justice 487-490

Ontology (Heidegger) 216

Ontology 206, 248, 492

Open Impartiality 481-487

Openness 9-10, 14, 23-28, 33, 102, 124, 148, 149, 157, 165-200, 206, 270, 281, 395-426, 477

Oppressive social systems 337

Origen 228-229

Overcoming 19, 31, 146, 317, 367

Overman 208-209, 214

Pahan 419

Palpu, Dr. 360, 365

Pancha 395, 399-400

Panchayati raj 415

Panikkar, Raimundo 235

Panopticon 104-105

Panrey 400

Paradigm of communication 427, 429, 430, 433-441

Paradosis 36

Parha federation 400

Parochialism 466-467, 486

Paul V, Pope 298

Periyar and atheism 376, 387, 388

Periyar and caste 379-380

Periyar and Gandhi 381-383

Periyar and Gandhi’s indifference 382-383

Periyar and Hindu scriptures 389-390

Periyar and mythology 388

Periyar and religion 386-389

Periyar and Vaikom satyagraha 382

Periyar, early life 378-381

Periyar, political life 381-386

Periyar, rationalist 375-376, 378, 380, 389

Periyar, Thanthai 373-394

Phagua 407

Pharisees 375

Phase, ‘dogmatic theology’ 225, 227, 230, 254

Phase, conciliar 225, 227-228

Phase, historical 225, 227, 230-235

Phase, postmodern 225, 227

Phase, scriptural 225, 227, 228

Phase, systematic 225, 227, 229

Phenomenology of Spirit (Hegel) 135

Phenomenology, Husserlian 29

Philosophizing 10-11, 14, 15, 33-34, 116, 171-172, 474

Philosophy of communication 427-450

Philosophy of history, critical 121, 123, 125, 170

Phronesis (Aristotle) 239, 261

Planck, Max 301-302

Pluralism 197, 236-237

Polarization 64

Political assertion 342

Political justice 352

Political rights 330, 342, 344

Political rights of Muslims 344

Political rights of the Dalits 343

Political struggle 275, 285, 382

Polymorphous man 269

Polysemic 102

Ponomosor 404, 405

Positionality 454, 481-487

Positivism 132, 138

Post-Christian world 197, 243, 261

Postmodern 5, 143, 144, 149, 154, 156-157, 167, 184, 225, 228, 235-254, 257, 259, 261, 391, 453, 464, 471, 496, 499

Postmodern theology 239

Postmodernism 138, 143, 156-157, 159, 172-173, 225, 236, 239-254, 261, 420

Power struggle 88

Pragmatic 73, 77, 433, 434-436, 446, 472

Pragmatic functions of memory 82

Preference utilitarianism 184

Presence 3, 90, 103, 159, 160

Presence, metaphysics of 103, 159

Propositionalism 242, 258

Protectionism 57, 63

Ptolemy 296-297

Public reasoning 451, 481, 484, 487, 495-496

Public sphere 74, 108-109, 152, 363-364, 440, 447-448

Puranic mythology 320

Quantum Mechanics 301-303

Questioning, dynamic of 7, 54, 105, 144, 225, 227, 261, 378, 453

Radhakrishnan, S. 118, 312

Radical conversions 329, 352

Radical Orthodoxy 239, 246-247, 248, 256

Radical Orthodoxy, anti-secular 251

Rahner, Karl 232-234, 236-237, 252, 255

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh 314

Rational enquiry 60-61, 64, 108

Rational Scrutiny 474, 481, 484, 498

Rationality, instrumental 73

Rationality, open 455

Rationality, theological 242

Rawls, John 466, 471, 473, 475, 476, 499

Realizational approach 451, 455, 481, 496

Recollection 48, 67, 78-79

Regionalism 15, 31-32

Reinterpretation 74, 79, 87-89, 102, 226-227

Reinterpretation, therapeutic 78

Relationship, broken 66, 82, 190

Relationship, communitarian 82

Relationships 4, 44, 63, 65, 66, 68, 72, 79, 81, 83, 107, 190-191, 432, 438

Relativism 184

Relativism, cultural 173

Relativism, ethical 165, 167, 185, 192, 195, 197

Religion 5, 53, 84, 114, 126, 137, 145, 162, 194, 197, 210, 227, 231, 239, 240, 242, 255, 269, 271-275, 322, 335, 418

Religion and ethics 175-176

Religion and politics 269

Religion and science 293-306

Religion as an institution 268

Religion, civil 197

Religion, conversion of 329, 347-351

Religion, cultural-linguistic model of 242-243

Religion, fragility of 257

Religion, Gandhian approach 267-291

Religion, modern 240

Religion, rationalist approach 243, 373-394

Religion, tribal 419-424

Religio-political freedom 332

Religio-political rights 331

Religious harmony 311

Religious struggle 329, 331

Remembering and forgetting 65-86

Renaissance 63, 133, 198, 295, 299, 356

Repetition 25, 68, 78-79, 80, 97

Repudiation of Hinduism 335

Retromodernity 366

Revelation 231, 232, 234, 238, 254, 255, 256, 261, 318

Revelation, Christian 237-238

Ricoeur, Paul 69, 76, 79, 80, 93, 130, 131

Roman Inquisition 298

Rootedness 2, 10, 13, 24, 26-27, 32-33, 45, 165-200, 267, 269-270, 275, 281, 306, 395-427, 422

Rorty, Richard 245

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 363, 458, 466

Sabbath 376

Sadhanas 317

Samaj seva 280

Sameness 150, 151, 153, 156

Samuhik vivah 419

Sanatana dharma 270, 318, 320

Sangh-Parivar 314

Saraswati, Brahmananda 319

Sarhul 407-408

Sarna burhia 405

Sarpanch 400

Sartre, Jean-Paul 186, 187, 202, 207, 212, 215, 217

Sarvadharmasamanatva 274

Sarvodaya 280, 283

Sarvodaya samaj 283

Satya Sai Baba 319

Satyagraha 287-288, 382

Schillebeeckx, Edward 232, 234-235, 237-239, 252, 255-257

Science 53, 117, 186, 296, 434, 489

Science and myth 295

Science and religion 293-306

Science and technology 62-63, 319

Science and the church 300

Science of history 47, 116, 129, 132

Science of logic 50

Science, characteristics 294

Science, empirical 29, 60, 117, 248

Science, Jewish 301

Science, methodology of 294

Science, practical vs. theoretical 118, 129, 202

Science, Vedic 319

Scripture, cognitive dimension 258

Secularism 177, 246, 247, 269, 345, 353

Secularism, attacked by Radical Orthodoxy 247

Sedimentation 87-112

Self 20, 21, 52, 155, 186, 430

Self differentiation 105

Self Respect Movement (Periyar) 373, 375, 377, 383-385

Self-consciousness 154, 156

Self-critique 243

Self-destruction 288-289

Self-esteem 68, 152, 206, 251, 385

Self-expression, authentic 201-223, 256, 284

Selfhood 321

Self-identity 160, 442

Self-image 153, 321

Selfishness 284, 341, 352

Self-negation 46

Self-realization 280, 283

Self-reliance 282, 325

Self-respect and dignity 334, 335, 343, 390, 391

Self-restraint 176, 189, 317

Self-sacrifice 246

Sememe 101-102

Semic 100, 101, 110

Semionomic 102

Semiosis 98, 102, 110

Semiotic 88, 98, 100-110

Sen, Amartya 163, 451-500

Sendra 407

Shackles of Hindu religion 335, 339

Singbonga 404, 405

Single Source Theory 492-496

Situation Ethics 183, 184

Skills of communication 433

Smith, Adam 466-467, 469, 476

SNDP 355, 357, 362, 365

Social amnesia 90

Social discrimination 329, 330, 333, 373

Social justice 330, 453, 455, 466, 467, 495

Social memory 68, 88, 90-100

Social Relation 72, 107, 150, 430, 432, 438, 441

Social responsibility 280, 492

Social uplift 497

Sophists 170-171, 272

Soul of India 287

Soul-force 275

Speech as communicative action 444

Standpoint, of the poor 252, 262

Status quo 57, 58, 293, 294, 299, 341

Strategic 73-74, 84, 109, 275, 434, 436-437, 445-446

Struggle 19, 115, 203, 205, 211-222, 471, 497

Struggle against social discrimination 333-334

Struggle for hegemony 485

Struggle, class 147

Struggle, political 275, 285, 382

Struggle, power 88

Struggle, religious 329, 331

Subaltern 152, 254, 362, 366-368

Subjectivism 174-175

Subversive practices 93

Supernatural, and natural 400

Supernaturalism 171, 175, 350

Surrogate 304

Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 452

Swedesi 381

Synthesis 40, 137, 144-145, 206-207, 230-231, 234, 255, 311

Synthesis of Aquinas 296

Synthesis of East and West 311

Synthesis, Hindu 313

System of untouchability 338

System, Aristotelian 230, 298

System, caste 213, 334, 335, 343-344, 350, 374-394, 460-461, 463, 497

System, Copernican 298

System, educational 8

System, ethical 170-171, 173

System, extinct 2

System, heterodox 326

System, logonomic 100-101

System, political 4, 38, 401, 439

System, semionomic 102

System, social 37, 93, 150, 333, 336-337, 412

System, symbolic 97, 160

System, turn towards 299

System, value 99, 192, 201, 211, 289, 31

Technology 62-63, 194, 197, 206, 287, 294-295, 319

Teleological 113, 171-172

Tension 3, 13, 22, 64, 146, 250, 325, 363, 439, 444

Tertullian 228-229

Thanthai Periyar 373-394

The Idea of Justice (Amartya Sen) 451-500

The Origin of Species (Darwin) 217, 300

Theology, and interdisciplinarity 254

Theology, canonical-linguistic approach 259

Theology, hermeneutical 28-29, 33, 69, 130-131, 150, 235, 237, 239

Theology, narrative 238-239, 242, 243, 256

Theology, political 238-239

Theology, postliberal 242, 243, 259

Theology, post-postliberal 258

Theology, queen of sciences 254

Theory of communication 431

Therapy 79, 317, 431

Thomistic 119, 178, 244, 248-250, 256, 297

Totalization 157, 160

Toynbee, Arnold 124, 137, 196

Transcendence 35-56, 215, 397, 483

Transcendent 48-53, 81, 157, 198

Transcendental 29, 45, 49-53, 209, 287-288, 434, 453, 455, 456, 461, 463-464, 466-467, 469, 476

Transcendental institutionalism 470, 472, 475, 476, 477, 499

Transcendentalism 52, 453, 480

Transcendere 49

Transformation 5, 87-112, 144, 203, 330, 343, 356-357, 360, 373, 413, 448

Transplantation 304

Trans-religious conclusions 273

Tribals, Christian 395-427

Truth 46, 51, 73, 103, 116, 129, 160, 172, 195, 198, 218, 233, 248, 251, 259, 260, 293, 298, 312, 330, 432, 436

Truth and ahimsa 283

Truth and fact in history 122-123

Truth is God 274

Truth, Christian 257, 259

Truth, correspondence theory of 242, 248, 256

Truth, ethical value 193

Truth, experiment with (Gandhi) 267, 271-275, 288, 363

Truth, logical 175

Truth, metaphysical 52

Truth, necessary 52

Truth, non-ontological correspondence theory of 256

Truth, objective 123, 138

Truth, propositional 232, 240, 241, 256, 257, 260-261

Truth, received 215

Truth, religious 240-241, 248, 256, 274

Truth, scientific 240

Truth, search for 6, 8, 144

Truth, theological 247, 249

Truth, transcendent 198

Truth, universal 157

Truth-telling 66

Unchangeable institutions 480

Uncurbed critical scrutiny 483, 485

Unilinealism 96

Universal pragmatics 433, 434-436, 446, 447

Universalizability 467, 484

Untouchability, Problem of 284, 333-335, 337,-339, 351

Uplift of Dalits 280, 330, 332-333, 335, 341, 345, 497

Uplifting women 390

Urban VIII, Pope 298

Utilitarianism 179-180, 184

Utilitarianism, preferential 184

Vaikom satyagraha and Periyar 382

Vatican Council II 226, 232, 234-235, 248, 255, 300

Vedantic absolutism 325

Vedic culture 320-321, 326

Vedic Hinduism 323, 326

Vedic revivalism 311

Vedic ritualism 325

Vico, Giambasttita 120-121, 125, 126, 138

Victims, narratives of 246, 259

Virtue Ethics 185-186

Vivekananda 311, 313, 316

Ward, Graham 246, 250

Western activist 269

Westernization 309, 314

Wilfred, Felix 241, 251-252

Wittgenstein, Ludwig 239, 242, 261

Wollstonecraft, Mary 471

Women uplift 390

Yale School of Theology 242

Yogi, Mahesh 319

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Index: TRADITION AND INNOVATION