Science and the Indian Tradition
When Einstein Met Tagore
This new text is a detailed study of an important process in modern Indian history. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, India experienced an intellectual renaissance, which owed as much to the influx of new ideas from the West as to traditional religious and cultural insights. Gosling examines the effects of the introduction of Western science into India, and the relationship between Indian traditions of thought and secular Western scientific doctrine. He charts the early development of science in India, its role in the secularization of Indian society, and the subsequent reassertion, adaptation and rejection of traditiona…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-134-14332-0
- EAN: 9781134143320
- Produktnummer: 14827846
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'922 KB
- Abbildungen: 18 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 1 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 17 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Dr David L. Gosling is the principal of Edwardes College, Peshawar University, Pakistan, and also teaches ecology in the University of Cambridge, where he was the first Spalding Fellow at Clare Hall. He has been the Director of Church and Society of the World Council of Churches, and is the author of Religion and Ecology in India and Southeast Asia.
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