Hindu Perspectives on Evolution: Darwin, Dharma, and design/
Cheever Mackenzie Brown
- 1st ed.
- London: Routledge, 2012.
- xii,276 p.
1 Introduction: Design and Darwin in the Hindu Dharma traditions PARTI The classical background 2 Creationism and evolutionism in the ancient and classical traditions 3 Manifestation and apparent design in the Advaita Vedanta of ^ahkara 4 Theism and atomistic design in the Nyaya-Vaise§ika of Udayana 5 Design discounted in the Visi§tadvaita Vedanta of Ramanuja FART II The colonial period 6 Design and Darwin in the colonial period 7 The Vedantic Deism of Rammohan Roy 8 Design and the intuitive theism of Debendranath Tagore 9 Design and the religious evolutionism of Keshab Chandra Sen 10 The Modem Vedic Creationism of Dayananda Saraswati 11 The Modem Advaitic Evolutionism of Swami Vivekananda 12 The Integrative EvolOtionism of Sri Aurobindo Ghose PART III The post-colonial period 13 Design and Darwin in the post-colonial period 14 Design and Darwin in the contemporary Hindu world 15 Conclusion: What role for Brahma?