Reflections on Victoria Harrison’s Eastern Philosophy of Religion
Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
Abstract
Victoria Harrison’s Eastern Philosophy of Religion is a short book which seeks to guide scholars who
are unfamiliar with some of the basic philosophical discourses original to Jainism, Hinduism, Taoism,
Confucianism and Buddhism. The ‘Eastern,’ in the title of Harrison’s book refers to the philosophic-religious
ideas peculiar to these philosophical traditions. I explore the contents of this book as a scholar committed to
facilitating intellectual exchanges between philosophers of religion in the African traditions and the ones
mentioned earlier. This is because some of these ideas she explores parallel some reflections which hitherto, I
assumed to be original to African philosophy of religion. Specifically, I outline how the discourses on
personhood, immortality and Jaina perspectival pluralism share similarities and can be more appreciated when
assessed from an African perspective. Based on this conviction, I call to divest philosophy of religion away from
Christian-and eurocentric assumptions so that it can attain a truly global character.
Article Details
JWP is an open access journal, using a Creative Commons license. Authors submitting an article for publication to JWP agree on the following terms:
- The Author grants and assigns to the Press the full and exclusive rights during the term of copyright to publish or cause others to publish the said Contribution in all forms, in all media, and in all languages throughout the world.
- In consideration of the rights granted above, the Press grants all users, without charge, the right to republish the Contribution in revised or unrevised form, in any language, and that it carries the appropriate copyright notice and standard form of scholarly acknowledgement as applicable under the CC-BY license.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.