Koenraad Elst

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Meera Nanda against Hinduism and its friends: (8) Voice of India's true identity

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Meera Nanda, the microbiologist turned philosopher of science, focuses her best work on a topic properly belonging to a science philosoph...
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Meera Nanda against Hinduism and its friends: (7) Hindu and Flemish nationalism

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Meera Nanda, the slanderer, says I have one foot in Flemish nationalism and one foot in Hindu nationalism ( 2009). And of course I have wr...
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Sunday, April 29, 2012

George Thompson as a case study in racist Invasionism

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On the internet discussion list of the Religion in South Asia (RISA) chapter of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), September 2011 sa...
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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Meera Nanda against Hinduism and its friends: (6) Koenraad Elst's real identity

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As a bad loser, Meera Nanda tries to score points on the side. She avoids the main fight, which is the irrational basis of Christianity an...
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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Another secularist whitewash of Islam

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A Professor of South Asian History at Trinity College Hartford, Connecticut, Vijay Prashad, commented on French India-based journalist F...
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Sunday, April 22, 2012

The Huffington Post debate on A.K. Ramanujan

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A.K. Ramanujan's essay Three Hundred Ramayanas has elicited a debate misstating the issues. The problem with the essay is not that it...
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Koenraad Elst
Koenraad Elst (°Leuven 1959) distinguished himself early on as eager to learn and to dissent. After a few hippie years he studied at the KU Leuven, obtaining MA degrees in Sinology, Indology and Philosophy. After a research stay at Benares Hindu University he did original fieldwork for a doctorate on Hindu nationalism, which he obtained magna cum laude in 1998. As an independent researcher he earned laurels and ostracism with his findings on hot items like Islam, multiculturalism and the secular state, the roots of Indo-European, the Ayodhya temple/mosque dispute and Mahatma Gandhi's legacy. He also published on the interface of religion and politics, correlative cosmologies, the dark side of Buddhism, the reinvention of Hinduism, technical points of Indian and Chinese philosophies, various language policy issues, Maoism, the renewed relevance of Confucius in conservatism, the increasing Asian stamp on integrating world civilization, direct democracy, the defence of threatened freedoms, and the Belgian question. Regarding religion, he combines human sympathy with substantive skepticism.
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