Hindu Perspectives on Evolution: Darwin, Dharma, and Design
Hindu Perspectives on Evolution challenges some of the myths associated with the debate of creationism and evolutionism in the Hindu context by focusing on the Hindu religion's take on the question of evolution and design. The major aim of the book is to critically engage the notion of the natu...
| Published in: | Sociology of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2014
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Sociology of religion
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| Review of: | Hindu perspectives on evolution (London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2012) (Thomas, Renny)
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| Summary: | Hindu Perspectives on Evolution challenges some of the myths associated with the debate of creationism and evolutionism in the Hindu context by focusing on the Hindu religion's take on the question of evolution and design. The major aim of the book is to critically engage the notion of the natural coexistence of Hinduism and science. The principal argument of the book is that, “while those Hindus who denied and continue to deny Darwinism outright were and are relatively few, the apparent historical ease of assimilating modern science and evolutionary theory on the part of Hindus is misleading—indeed, an illusion” (5). The author engages with different schools of thought and periods to illustrate this. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/sru003 |