This title was first published in 2002. This book builds on
contemporary discussion of 'mysticism' and religious experience by
examining the process and content of 'religious knowing' in
classical and modern Advaita. Drawing from the work of William
Alston and Alvin Plantinga, Thomas Forsthoefel examines key streams
of Advaita with special reference to the conditions, contexts, and
scope of epistemic merit in religious experience. Forsthoefel
uniquely employs specific analytical categories of contemporary
Western epistemologies as heuristics to examine the cognitive
dimension of religious experience in Indian Vedanta. Showing the
developing nuances in the analysis of religious experience in the
thought of Shankara and his immediate disciples (Suresvara and
Padmapada) as well as in the teaching of Ramana Maharshi, an
understudied but important South Indian saint of the 20th century,
this book offers a substantial contribution to studies of Indian
philosophy as well as to contemporary philosophy of religion. Using
the tools of exegesis and comparative philosophy, Forsthoefel
argues for a careful justification of claims following religious
experience, even if such claims involve, as they do in the Advaita,
a paradoxical 'knowing beyond knowledge'.
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