Asian Philosophies and the Idea of Religion

1 Introduction- Sonia Sikka & Ashwani Peetush; 2 Faith, Reason, and Practice in Buddhist Traditions-WilliamEdelglass; 3 Faith and/or/as Enlightenment: Rethinking Religion from the Perspective of Japanese Buddhism -Bret W. Davis; 4 Faith & its Derivatives: Knowledge, Conduct and Liberation in Jainism.-Anne Vallely; 5 Enlightening the unEnlightened: The Exclusion of Advaita Vedanta from the Western Philosophical Canon-Ashwani Kumar Peetush; 6 Ruism and the Category of Religion: Or, What to Do About the Confucians?-Sarah Mattice and Paul Carelli; 7 Faith, Reason, and the Paradox of Wu-Wei in the Zhuangzi-Julianne Chung; 8 Medium of Many Messages: Roles of Aesthetic Discourse in Religion and Philosophy- Gordon Davis; 9 Reason and Faith on the Path to the Transcendent in Plotinus-Catherine Collobert; 10 Trusting the daimonion: Faith and Reason in the case of Socrates and Beyond-Anna Laennstroem; 11 Thoughtful Seekers Among the Spiritual but not Religious-Sonia Sikka; 12 Between Faith and Reason: Feminist Contemplative Pedagogy-Erin McCarthy; 13 An Immanent World of Wonder: Nonreligion and Emerging Worldviews-Lori Beaman