Rāmānuja’s Eleventh Century Hindu Theology of Religious Experience

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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

Francis X. Clooney

Edited by

Paul K. Moser and

Chad Meister

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Paul K. Moser: Affiliation:
Loyola University, Chicago
Chad Meister: Affiliation:
Bethel University, Indiana

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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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Religious experience Hinduism Ramanuja Vedanta Scripture Tradition Ritual Non-duality

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Information: The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience , pp. 208 - 236

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