<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-:2fo" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au gmail-Ao" style="display:block"><div id="gmail-:2fk" class="gmail-Am gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" tabindex="1" style="direction:ltr;min-height:240px" aria-controls=":2ih"><div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-:27e" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au gmail-Ao"><div id="gmail-:27a" class="gmail-Am gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" tabindex="1" style="direction:ltr;min-height:240px" aria-controls=":2a7"><div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-:sn" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au gmail-Ao"><div id="gmail-:sr" class="gmail-Am gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Corpo da mensagem" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" tabindex="1" style="direction:ltr;min-height:240px" aria-controls=":1oe"><div id="gmail-:vm" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au gmail-Ao"><div id="gmail-:vq" class="gmail-Am gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Corpo da mensagem" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" tabindex="1" style="direction:ltr;min-height:240px" aria-controls=":1n1"><div id="gmail-:17i" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au gmail-Ao"><div id="gmail-:17e" class="gmail-Am gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Corpo da mensagem" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" tabindex="1" style="direction:ltr;min-height:240px" aria-controls=":1j6"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">INDIAN
RELIGIONS AND THE CONCEPT OF GOD</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">An Online
Workshop</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Feb 13, 9:00-10:30am
CET and 3:00-4:30pm CET. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Feb 14, 3:00-4:30pm
CET</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/hJNLC71R2NTmkGp2YTN8nAq?domain=logicandreligion.com" style="color:blue">https://www.logicandreligion.com/</a></span><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">vaishnava-concept-of-god</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><br>
The purpose of the online workshop <b>INDIAN RELIGIONS AND THE CONCEPT OF
GOD</b> is to explore Indian concepts of God from a global philosophical perspective.
Accepting that there are different conceptions of divinity among the Indian
religious and philosophical traditions, we might pose the following questions:
How can these concepts of God be philosophically characterized?  Are the Indian traditions’ concepts of God
really monotheistic in the Western sense of the term? Or are they closer to
panentheism, henotheism or polytheism? What divine properties do the traditions
ascribe to their respective divinity? What is their relationship with Western
philosophical accounts of God? Each speaker in the workshop will explore a
concept of God in one of the main Indian traditions or texts.<br>
<br>
The workshop will be held on Zoom. There will be no fee for participation.
Registration however will be required (via </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Fr6EC81V0PTjRNvWgfoVdJd?domain=logicandreligion.com" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">www.logicandreligion.com/vaishnava-concept-of-god</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">).</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The workshop is part of “A Philosophical Approach to the Vaiṣṇava
Concept of God,” a project funded by the John Templeton Foundation through the
Global Philosophy of Religion Project, hosted by the University of Birmingham (</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/X9wQC6XQ4LfoKLO7JTm3FzD?domain=global-philosophy.org/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://www.global-philosophy.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><br>
<b>List of Talks:</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Feb 13, 2023 (Monday) – 9am
CET</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">09:00 am CET (Berlin) | midnight
PST (Los Angeles) | 05:00 am UTC-3 (Brasília) | 08:00 am UTC (London) | 01:30
pm IST (New Delhi)</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Jessica Frazier (Oxford University, UK)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Beyond Theism: Vedantic Images
and Arguments for a God Beyond Being </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Bindu Puri (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Gandhi on God:Debating the purva paksa</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;text-indent:49.6pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;text-indent:49.6pt">Ithamar Theodor (Zefat Academic College, Israel)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Concept of God in the Bhagavad-gita: a Personalistic
approach</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Feb 13, 2023 (Monday) – 3pm
CET</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">03:00 pm CET (Berlin) | 06:00
am PST (Los Angeles) | 11:00 am UTC-3 (Brasília) | 02:00 pm UTC (London) | 07:30
pm IST (New Delhi)</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Purushottama Bilimoria (Purushottama Centre for Indian
Philosophy & Culture, XX)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Gods and Godless Divinity: polyphony of panenpsychic
omniscience, effervescent and hermaphrodite devatās, in Indian philosophy of
religion</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jonathan Edelmann (University of Florida, USA)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Happiness and the Hierarchy of Being: Jīva Gosvāmin
and Aquinas on the Ultimate Goal</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sthaneshwar Timalsina (San Diego State University, USA)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">God, Isvara and the Brahman</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Feb 14, 2023 (Tuesday) – 3pm
CET<br>
</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">03:00 pm CET (Berlin) | 06:00 am PST (Los Angeles) | 11:00
am UTC-3 (Brasília) | 02:00 pm UTC (London) | 07:30 pm IST (New Delhi)</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">David Lawrence (The University of North Dakota, USA)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Philosophical Concept of God in Late Nondual
Kashmiri Śaivism</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Christopher Chapple (</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Loyola Marymount University, USA</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Panentheism in the
Bhagavad Gita</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Alan Herbert (Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Characterising the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Concept of God as
the Possessor of Śaktis</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="gmail-font8" style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-color11"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Organizational
Committee:</span></b></span></p><p class="gmail-font8" style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Alan Herbert (Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK)</span></p><p class="gmail-font8" style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Ricardo Sousa Silvestre </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">(Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil) </span></p><p class="gmail-font8" style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Gabriel Reis de Oliveira </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">(Pontifical
Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>