Hugh Nicholson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3831199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hugh Nicholson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hugh |
| FAMILY NAME | Nicholson |
| SIGNATURE | NICHOLSON H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Coe College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Taylor’s Critique of Secularism from a Naturalist Perspective
This article argues that Charles Taylor’s apologetic for religious belief in A Secular Age—in particular, his argument for the equivalence of the closed and open interpretations of the “immanent frame” of nature—is persuasive to the extent that the reader shares Taylor’s conviction that human-level structures of meaning are not subject to the standards of truth and verification operative in the natural sciences. Absent this assumption, an accepta…
Buddhism, Cognitive Science, and the Doctrine of Selflessness: A Revolution in Our Self-Conception
The Illusion of Agency as a Mark of Ultimacy
This essay proposes that action unaccompanied by the usual feeling of conscious agency constitutes a “mark of ultimacy.” Characteristically religious statements of “agentless action” find support in social psychological and cognitive scientific research that calls into question the intuitive belief that conscious thought causes action. An awareness of the limits of our powers of will lies at the the core of those limit experiences that provide th…
Religion, Cognition, and the Myth of Conscious Will
Characteristic of the recent cognitive approach to religion ( CSR ) is the thesis that religious discourse and practice are rooted in an inveterate human propensity to explain events in terms of agent causality. This thesis readily lends itself to the critical understanding of religious belief as “our intuitive psychology run amok.” This effective restriction of the scientific critique of agent causality to notions of supernatural agency appears …
Templars and Hospitallers as Professed Religious in the Holy Land, by Jonathan Riley-Smith
Jonathan Riley-Smith has a well-established international reputation as a leading scholar of the crusades and of the order of the Hospital of St John, and has himself done much to encourage scholarship in these areas. This book summarises a lifetime’s research, focusing on certain aspects of the supra-national military religious orders of the Temple and the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. Commenting that scholars have tended to concentrate on t…
The Unanswered Questions and the Limits of Knowledge
The Spirit of Contradiction in the Buddhist Doctrine of Not-Self
An essay is presented discussing the various interpretations of the Theravāda Buddhist doctrine of "Not-self," or anattā. The author points out two contrasting manifestations of the teaching, including the "political-oppositional" form and the "spiritual-transformative" form. The relations between these paradigms are examined in depth through reference to works by Steven Collins, Richard Combrich, and Johannes Bronkhorst
Comparative Theology and the Problem of Religious Rivalry
This book concerns the problem of the ineluctability of ‘us’ versus ‘them’ relations in theological discourse. It argues that liberal theologies — from the Christian fulfillment theology of the nineteenth century to the pluralist theology of the twentieth — have sought to transcend this “political” dimension of religion only to see it reappear in the more subtle, though arguably more insidious form of unacknowledged exclusion or hegemonism. This …
Genealogy of the South Indian Deities: An English Translation of Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg's Original German Manuscript with a Textual Analysis and Glossary – By Daniel Jeyaraj
The Shift from Agonistic to Non-Agonistic Debate in Early Nyāya
Women, Crusading and the Holy Land in Historical Narrative
This is a thoroughly researched, scholarly survey of the role and depiction of royal and noble women in the crusades to the Middle East and the so-called ‘crusader states’ during the period 1095–1291. Dr Hodgson begins by defining her subject and what she means by ‘historical narratives’, considering questions of authorship and providing an overview of women as audience of these works, women's involvement in the crusade movement and medieval perc…
Comparative Theology After Liberalism
This article first identifies two reasons for the current marginality of the theological sub‐discipline of “comparative theology.” The first is an awareness of the imperialistic character of the universalist (inclusivist and pluralist) theologies of the recent past. The second is the assumption that Christianity's relations with other religious are extrinsic to Christian identity. Drawing on Kathryn Tanner's critique of postliberalism, it argues …
Two Apologetic Moments in Śaṅkara's Concept of Brahman
Divine Mother, Blessed Mother: Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary – Francis X. Clooney
Divine Mother, Blessed Mother: Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary – By Francis X. Clooney, SJ
A Correlational Model of Comparative Theology
Advaita Vedanta
The Problem of Universals in Indian Philosophy
Apologetics and Philosophy in Mandana Miśra's Brahmasiddhi
Apologetics and Philosophy in Mandana Miśra's Brahmasiddhi
The Problem of Universals in Indian Philosophy
Advaita Vedanta
A Correlational Model of Comparative Theology
Divine Mother, Blessed Mother: Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary – Francis X. Clooney
Divine Mother, Blessed Mother: Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary – By Francis X. Clooney, SJ
Comparative Theology After Liberalism
This article first identifies two reasons for the current marginality of the theological sub‐discipline of “comparative theology.” The first is an awareness of the imperialistic character of the universalist (inclusivist and pluralist) theologies of the recent past. The second is the assumption that Christianity's relations with other religious are extrinsic to Christian identity. Drawing on Kathryn Tanner's critique of postliberalism, it argues …
Two Apologetic Moments in Śaṅkara's Concept of Brahman
Genealogy of the South Indian Deities: An English Translation of Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg's Original German Manuscript with a Textual Analysis and Glossary – By Daniel Jeyaraj
The Shift from Agonistic to Non-Agonistic Debate in Early Nyāya
Women, Crusading and the Holy Land in Historical Narrative
This is a thoroughly researched, scholarly survey of the role and depiction of royal and noble women in the crusades to the Middle East and the so-called ‘crusader states’ during the period 1095–1291. Dr Hodgson begins by defining her subject and what she means by ‘historical narratives’, considering questions of authorship and providing an overview of women as audience of these works, women's involvement in the crusade movement and medieval perc…
Comparative Theology and the Problem of Religious Rivalry
This book concerns the problem of the ineluctability of ‘us’ versus ‘them’ relations in theological discourse. It argues that liberal theologies — from the Christian fulfillment theology of the nineteenth century to the pluralist theology of the twentieth — have sought to transcend this “political” dimension of religion only to see it reappear in the more subtle, though arguably more insidious form of unacknowledged exclusion or hegemonism. This …
Templars and Hospitallers as Professed Religious in the Holy Land, by Jonathan Riley-Smith
Jonathan Riley-Smith has a well-established international reputation as a leading scholar of the crusades and of the order of the Hospital of St John, and has himself done much to encourage scholarship in these areas. This book summarises a lifetime’s research, focusing on certain aspects of the supra-national military religious orders of the Temple and the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. Commenting that scholars have tended to concentrate on t…
The Unanswered Questions and the Limits of Knowledge
The Spirit of Contradiction in the Buddhist Doctrine of Not-Self
An essay is presented discussing the various interpretations of the Theravāda Buddhist doctrine of "Not-self," or anattā. The author points out two contrasting manifestations of the teaching, including the "political-oppositional" form and the "spiritual-transformative" form. The relations between these paradigms are examined in depth through reference to works by Steven Collins, Richard Combrich, and Johannes Bronkhorst
The Illusion of Agency as a Mark of Ultimacy
This essay proposes that action unaccompanied by the usual feeling of conscious agency constitutes a “mark of ultimacy.” Characteristically religious statements of “agentless action” find support in social psychological and cognitive scientific research that calls into question the intuitive belief that conscious thought causes action. An awareness of the limits of our powers of will lies at the the core of those limit experiences that provide th…
Religion, Cognition, and the Myth of Conscious Will
Characteristic of the recent cognitive approach to religion ( CSR ) is the thesis that religious discourse and practice are rooted in an inveterate human propensity to explain events in terms of agent causality. This thesis readily lends itself to the critical understanding of religious belief as “our intuitive psychology run amok.” This effective restriction of the scientific critique of agent causality to notions of supernatural agency appears …
Buddhism, Cognitive Science, and the Doctrine of Selflessness: A Revolution in Our Self-Conception
Taylor’s Critique of Secularism from a Naturalist Perspective
This article argues that Charles Taylor’s apologetic for religious belief in A Secular Age—in particular, his argument for the equivalence of the closed and open interpretations of the “immanent frame” of nature—is persuasive to the extent that the reader shares Taylor’s conviction that human-level structures of meaning are not subject to the standards of truth and verification operative in the natural sciences. Absent this assumption, an accepta…
Philosophy (17 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Theology (10 works) · Religious studies (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Classics (5 works) · History (5 works)