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The Foundations Of Living Faiths - An Introduction To Comparative Religion
Author: Haridas. Bhattacharyya

FOUNDATIONS OF LIVING FAITHS AN INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE RELIGION BY HARIDAS BHATTACHARYYA PROVOST, JAGANNAIH HALL AND HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF DACCA FIRST VOLUME PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA 1938 PRINTED IN INDIA PRINTED BY BHUPENDRALAL BANBKJEB AT THE CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY PRESS, SENATE HOUSE, CALCUTTA Be... more »g. No. 907B March, 1938-A TO THE SACRED MEMORY OF MY FATHER PANDIT RAMPRASANNA SRUTIRATNA BHATTACHARYYA WHOSE LIFE HAS EVER BEEN TOME AN IDEAL AND AN INSPIRATION wn ten 11 PEERAGE The invitation extended to me in 1932 by the Senate of the, University of Calcutta to deliver the Stephanos Nirnialendu ihosh Lectures for the year 1933 has enabled me to complete a long cherished project, namely, to write an Introduction to Comparative Religion for the benefit of my own students at the Dacca University and also students of other Universities who have to read Positive Religion as a part of their course in Philosophy of Religion. So far back as 1928-29, I contri buted to the Philosophical Quarterly published by the Indian Institute of Philosophy, Amalner, Bombay Presidency three papers on The Foundations of Living Faiths as a part of the opening chapter of my projected work. For one reason or other I could not continue that scries, and it is doubtful if this systematic work on that subject would have seen the light of day had not this timely offer come to me from my alma mater. In asking me to deliver the Lectures the University made a departure from the tradition established in the past. Up till then the Lectures had been invariably delivered by distin guished foreigners, all of whom had made their mark in their particular field of work by substantial productions. Although 1 had published a fairly large number of psychological, philo sophical and theological papers I did not have to my credit any large or systematic work and as I had not crossed the seas, whatever reputation I possessed as a writer and a speaker was confined within the limits of India. There was, in fact, no glamour of novelty about me for I belonged to the province and had received all my education in the University itself. To appoint such a person to what might not inaptly be called the Indian Gifford Lectureship required a good deal of confidence in my ability on the part of the Committee of Selection I am yiii PREFACE happy to think that the founder of the Lectureship, who at tended the meeting of the Selection Committee, shared the confidence which the members of that Committee reposed in me. Some of the members of the Committee had later on an opportunity of judging for themselves whether their choice was fully justified when they came to preside over my lectures my only regret is that the founder could not be present at any of the lectures on account of an illness at the time of their delivery. It is not for me to say to what extent 1 have succeeded in deserving the confidence of the University of Calcutta but 1 have spared neither labour nor thought in the discharge of my onerous duties as the lecturer with whom the University began the experiment of trying Indians for this work. I need not add how grateful 1 am to the Calcutta University for giving me this opportunity of expressing my thoughts on a subject which is of abiding interest to all thinking minds and of profound meaning for the spiritual life of every religious community. I am much flattered to think that the distinction of a fairly orthodox Brahmin being appointed to a Christian en dowment during the regime of a Muslim Vice-Chancellor should have fallen first on me. By a curious coincidence I had the unique privilege of being born in one of the greatest strongholds of Sanskrit learning and Hindu orthodoxy in Bengal, of being educated in one of the oldest Missionary Colleges of Calcutta, and of spending the greater part of my teaching career at one of the most important centres of Muslim culture in India...

ISBN-13: 9781406706444
ISBN-10: 1406706442
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 544
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Publisher: Baltzell Press
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