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Krakow June 2016 Volume 6 Number 1

b i a n n u a l p h i l o s o p h i c a l j o u r n a l

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Department of Philosophy and Sociology Pedagogical University of Cracow

Leading theme of the issue:

Academic study of religion in South Asia

Special volume in the memory of

Professor Joseph T. O’Connell

Co-ordinating editor

Marzenna Jakubczak

Guest editors

Asha Mukherjee & Åke Sander

Verification of English

Douglas Smith Willcox Andrew Lorraine

Cover design

© Janusz Krupiński

Editing & proof

Agencja Wydawnicza MS Marta Stęplewska & Editors of the Argument: Biannual Philosophical Journal

Typesetting and outline design

Studio ANATTA www.anatta.pl

On-line version design

Mariusz Szkółka Marcelina Klimkowska Marzenna Jakubczak

www.argument-journal.eu

p-ISSN 2083-6635

e-ISSN 2084-1043

Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Pedagogical University of Cracow Department of Philosophy and Sociology

Printed in Poland

Contents / Spis treści

EDITORS’ INTRODUCTIONS / WSTĘPY REDAKTORÓW Marzenna JAKUBCZAK

Introduction to the issue . . . 5

Asha MUKHERJEE

Foreword to special volume in the memory of Professor Joseph T. O’Connell . . . 11

Åke SANDER

A brief overview of the research interest and works of Joseph T. O’Connell . . . 15

OBITUARY / POŻEGNANIE Amir HUSSAIN

Professor Joseph T. O’Connell: A remembrance . . . 19

ARTICLES AND TREATISES / ARTYKUŁY I ROZPRAWY Arvind SHARMA

The case for introducing the study of religion in India . . . 21

Asha MUKHERJEE

Comparative religion as an academic study in contemporary India . . . 31

Abrahim H. KHAN

Tagore and the academic study of religion . . . 39

Sonia SIKKA

The role of philosophy in the academic study of religion in India . . . 55

Lori G. BEAMAN

A focus on getting along: respect, caring and diversity . . . 81

Ferdinando SARDELLA

The concept of ‘transcendence’ in modern Western philosophy and in twentieth century

Hindu thought . . . 93

Åke SANDER, Clemens CAVALIN, Sushil KUMAR

Changing views at Banaras Hindu University on the Academic Study of Religion:

A first report from an on-going research project . . . 107

Gregory D. ALLES

Kept in translation: Adivasi cultural tropes in the Pragat Purushottam Sanstha . . . 143

REPORTS / SPRAWOZDANIA Md. Abu SAYEM

The nature of the academic study of religion in Dhaka University and the role

ARTICLES AND TREATISES / ARTYKUŁY I ROZPRAWY Paweł SAJDEK

Śabda in the ancient Indian grammarians’ doctrines . . . 183 Justyna FIGAS-SKRZYPULEC

Krytyka nauki przez odniesienie do holizmu wiedzy w myśli Seyyeda Hosseina Nasra

oraz Ismaila al-Faruqiego . . . 195

Magda RADWAŃSKA

Grupy religijne jako kolektywy myślowe. Próba zastosowania teorii Ludwika Flecka

w socjologii religii . . . 209

Joanna LUC

Odpowiedź Lowe’a na argument Ramseya przeciwko rozróżnieniu

uniwersalia–indywidua . . . 223

BOOK REVIEWS & NOTES / RECENZJE KSIĄŻEK I NOTY

Maria Jarosz, Samobójstwa. Dlaczego teraz?

(Szymon BRÓDKA) . . . 239

Włodzimierz Julian Korab-Karpowicz, Traktat polityczno-filozoficzny

(Katarzyna HAREMSKA) . . . 249

Włodzimierz Julian Korab-Karpowicz, Traktat polityczno-filozoficzny

(Paweł KŁOCZOWSKI) . . . 253

Piotr Warzoszczak, Fikcjonalizm modalny

(Jan WAWRZYNIAK) . . . 255 Contributors . . . 259 Autorzy tomu . . . 261

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The editors of the volume express their gratitude to William Radice for providing

the permission to use the poem and to Kathy O’Connell, wife of Joe, for all her

support for this project and providing the wonderful photo of Joe.

Joseph T. O’Connell (1940–2012)

IN MEMORIAM

rather than a stone, a tree —

rather than the rain’s tears engraving slowly

runnels in the stone,

let there be life-giving waters, so that trees,

rooted in a life nobly completed, can grow and burgeon —

titling, soaring, branching free