23/05/2022

GOD AND VAISNAVISM

An Online Workshop

23-26 May 2022, 3.00-5.30pm CEST

www.logicandreligion.com/vaishnava-concept-of-god

The purpose of the online workshop God and Vaisnavism is to locate the Vaisnava concept of God within a global philosophical framework. Each speaker in the workshop will explore a concept of God in one of the main Vaisnava traditions or texts. The main question to be addressed is: What is the Vaisnava concept of God? Or more specifically: What attributes does God possess according to particular textual sources and traditions in Vaisnavism? There will also be more general talks on philosophy and the concept of God. 

The workshop will be held on Zoom. There will be no fee for participation. Registration however will be required (via www.logicandreligion.com/vaishnava-concept-of-god).

 

The workshop is part of “A Philosophical Approach to the Vai??ava Concept of God,” a project funded by the John Templeton Foundation through the Global Philosophy of Religion Project, hosted by the University of Birmingham (https://www.global-philosophy.org). The workshop is supported by the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and the Institute for Vaishnava Studies.

List of Talks:

·  Varieties of Theism, Benedikt Göcke (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)

·  Thinking about God, Graham Oppy (Monash University, Australia)

·  Philosophical Issues with the Concept of God, Rebecca Chan (San José State University, USA)

·  The Concept of God in the Bhavagad G?t?: A Panentheistic Account, Ricardo Silvestre (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil) and Alan Herbert (Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK)

·  Form and Beauty: God in the Bhagavata Pur??a, Edwin Francis Bryant (Rutgers University, USA)

·  Reflections on P?ñcar?tra Conceptions of Deity, Gavin Flood (University of Oxford, UK)

·  Expounding God’s Singularity in the Mah?bh?rata Epic, Angelika Malinar (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

·  The ??v?r concept of God: A Look at To??ara?ippo?i ??v?r's and Maturakavi ??v?r's Objects of Worship, Suganya Anandakichenin (University of Hamburg, Germany)

·  The Concept of God in Madhva’s Tatva-vada, Shrinivasa Varakhedi (Central Sanskrit University, India) and Srinivasa Kumar Acharya (Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India)

·  Non-theism and Theism in the Nimb?rka Samprad?ya, Vijay Ramnarace (Georgetown University, USA)

·  God in Pu??im?rga, Frederick M. Smith (University of Iowa, USA)

·  A Polyvalent Concept of God in the Caitanya Vai??ava Tradition, Alan Herbert (Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK) and Ricardo Silvestre (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil)

·  Harmonizing the Personal God with the Impersonal Brahman: Situating Sri Ramakrishna vis-à-vis Vai??ava Ved?nta Traditions, Swami Medhananda (Ramakrishna Institute of Moral and Spiritual Education, India)

·  God as the Supreme Teacher: Swami Prabhupada’s Modern Gau??ya Vai??ava Mission to Reveal ‘The Supreme Personality of Godhead’, Kenneth R. Valpey (Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK)

·  R?m?nuja’s ?r? Vai??ava Concept of God, Arindam Chakrabarti (University of Hawaii, USA)

Organizational Committee:

·  Alan Herbert (Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK)

·  Ricardo Sousa Silvestre (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil) 

·  Gabriel Reis de Oliveira (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)