Exam Details

Subject Philosophy Of Religion
Paper
Exam / Course M.A. PHILOSOPHY (MAPY)
Department School of Interdisciplinary and Trans-Disciplinary Studies (SOITDS)
Organization indira gandhi national open university
Position
Exam Date December, 2015
City, State new delhi,


Question Paper

1. Explain the basic teachings of Raman Maharshi.
OR
Elaborate and explain the relation between myth, religion and philosophy.

2. Give an exposition of 'Religious -experience' and explain the various types of Religious -experience.
OR
Make a critical assessment of modern materialistic philosophy and its influence on religious thinking.

3. Answer any two of the following in about 250 words each

What are the important elements of worship and liturgy

God experience is generally "Mysterious awe-inspiring". Explain.

Make a critical assessment of Deism and its various facets.

Critically evaluate the cosmological arguments of St. Thomas Aquinas.

4. Answer any four of the following in about 150 words each

Explain the concept of ritual.

Describe Sankara's understanding of God.

What do you understand by Monotheism and Monism?

What is the philosophy of Irreligion?

Who are the philosophers known as 'Masters of Surpieion' and why?

Give the context of UN declaration of religious tolerance.

5. Write short notes on any five of the following in about 100 words each

Anthropie Principles

Zew -experience

The free will argument

Upasana and Prapatti

Symbolism of Threshold

Agnostieism

Univocal Language

Pragmatic Theism


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Subjects

  • Dalit Philosophy
  • Epistemology
  • Ethics
  • Gandhian Philosophy
  • Indian Philosophy
  • Logic
  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy Of Art (Aesthetics)
  • Philosophy Of Human Person
  • Philosophy Of Mind
  • Philosophy Of Religion
  • Philosophy Of Science And Cosmology
  • Philosophy Of Sri Aurobindo
  • Philosophy Of Technology
  • Research Methodology In Philosophy
  • Tribal Philosophy
  • Western Philosophy
  • World Religions