Title

An Illusion of Conciliation: Religion and Science in Debendranath and Rabindranath Tagore

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Publication Date

2015

Abstract

In this chapter, I shall examine these cosmological narratives and underlying teleological and epistemological assumptions of the two Tagores to illuminate facets of the interaction of religion and science in colonial India that resulted in a highly spiritualized hermeneutic of science. This hermeneutic, based on a hierarchical model of two knowledges or sciences, raises questions about the alleged Tarorean reconciliation of modern science and their Upanishadic ideals.

Editor

István Keul

Publisher

Routledge

City

London

ISBN

9781138779662

Publication Information

Asian Religions, Technology and Science

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