The Lotus and the Sword: Lectures of an Angry Indologist

Scheepers, Alfred

ISBN 10: 9077787003 / ISBN 13: 9789077787007

Published by Olive Press, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lotus and the Sword: Lectures of an Angry Indologist
• Publisher: Olive Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9077787003
• ISBN 13: 9789077787007
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Eastern Philosophy

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Synopsis

This volume contains a series of bold philosophical lectures attacking the New Age movement that has penetrated the academic world and society at large. These arguments demonstrate the dangers of a merely empathic approach to life, the pitfalls of religion, and the function of religion in social repression. Drawing eye-opening comparisons between New Age spirituality, Western thought and religion, and Indian philosophy, the work concludes that there is no religious liberation in abstraction from the social dimension--there is no equivalent word for "enlightenment" in traditional Indian philosophy.

About the Author

Alfred Scheepers has worked for the India Institute in Amsterdam and as a teacher of Indian philosophy for several yoga schools in Holland. He is the director of Olive Press and secretary of the Association of Independent Publishers in Holland (VZU).