Theology, Imagination and the Arts
Dr Jessica Frazier’s work explores alternative worldviews, both Continental and Asian, to those that currently dominate modern Western philosophy and religion. She is a Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Kent. Her publications include Reality, Religion and Passion: Truth and Ethics in Hans-Georg Gadamer and Rupa Gosvami (Lexington Books), The Bloomsbury Companion to Hindu Studies (Bloomsbury), the forthcoming Gadamer on Religion (Routledge ‘Key Thinkers in the Study of Religion’ series) and Hindu Worldviews: Theories of Self, Ritual and Divinity (Bloomsbury), as well as various chapters on philosophy of religion in comparative perspective. She is the editor of The Concept of Categories in Indian Philosophy: Thinking Inside the Box (Ashgate), and Managing Editor of the Journal of Hindu Studies (Oxford Journals), as well as a frequent contributor to BBC programmes in the areas of religion and Asian thought.
When Gadamer directed his attention to the topic of beauty in his celebrated 1977 essay The Relevance of the Beautiful, he was turning back…