Tracing the Absence of Faith
Deconstruction, Hermeneutics, and the Gaudiya
Vaishnava Faith
978-3-639-08266-1
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2008-09-25
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This dissertation seeks to draw the theistic
tradition of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, a 16th century
devotional Hindu sect, into dialogue with two
Western theoretical approaches—Deconstruction and
Deconstruction.
The issue of faith figures prominantly and a serves
as the linchpin that connects these diverse
discourses which are drawn from different cultural
and historical contexts. While faith connects, it
also challenges the boundaries and axioms of these
individual fields of knowledge, offering a unique
comparative examination of this contemporary topic.
Using the rubric of postmodernity and the principles
of identity and difference, this dissertation argues
that the ancient theological doctrine of the Gaudiya
faith, acintya-bhedabheda-tattva, meaning
simultaneously oneness and difference, underscores
how faith comes to be experienced not as an identity
but as a difference from God. Faith as lack as
understood by this medieval theistic school brings
it closer to the postmodern view of faith
articulated by Jacques Derrida.
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