title: Seeing Through Texts: Doing Theology Among the Srivaisnavas of South India (SUNY Series, Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions)
author: S.J. Francis X. Clooney
description: "Clooney has turned an analysis of Satakopan's Tiruvaymoli, a theology treatise in the form of a long sensual poem about a girl's love for God, into seductive contemporary theology. In this work, Clooney has established himself as our most passionate, discriminating, deferential, and subtle comparative theologian." -- Robert C. Neville, Boston University<br /><br />"I find Clooney's notion of 'reading through texts' to be a very powerful idea that should be of interest to a large audience of textual scholars, and not only South Asianist scholars. I also find Clooney's formulation and exploration of the issues incumbent on the project of doing comparative theology and reading texts from a comparative perspective to be very engaging. His representation of the great Tamil religious poem Tiruvaymoli is quite successful in giving the reader a good sense of the qualities of this text and an appreciation of its considerable merits." -- Norman Cutler, University of Chicago
zlib_text: THE
  PHILOSOPHY OF JNANADEVA
  B. P, BAHIRAT, M.A.
  POPULAR BOOK DEPOT
  Lamington
  Road,
  Bombay
  7
  
  B. P. BAHIRAT
  First Impression:
  February 1956
  Printed by
  Published by
  M. R. SIRUR,
  .
  G. R. BHATKAL,
  at Sirur Printing Press,
  for Popular Book Depot,
  Khetwadi 12th Lane,
  Lamington Road,
  Bombay 4.
  Bombay 7.
  
  TO
  SHRI DADA MAHARAJA
  WITH
  VENERATION,
  LOVE
  AND
  GRATITUDE.
  qttarst fafx stat
  |
  feat caus ore?
  |
  St S aiste ay a ser
  oarfersca
  — TAT, Pe—-299,
  MAY THE DARKNESS OF SIN DISAPPEAR, AND
  THE
  SUN
  OF
  TRUE
  RELIGION
  SHINE
  UPON
  THE WORLD.
  MAY ALI THE DESIRES OF ALL
  LIVING BEINGS BI FULFILLED.
  —
  Jnaneshwari, xvIlII-1796.
  
  PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
  It is gratifying to note that a second edition of this
  work is called for within a short period of its first edition.
  It indicates a sympathetic understanding and appreciation
  on the part of the readers, of the philosophy of the greatest
  and beloved saint of Maharashtra.
  I have taken the opportunity of making some verbal
  improvements and adding the Appendix