"Kripal failed to take seriously the duty of the interpreter to question his own suppositions and prejudices and to seek the historical, cultural and linguistic horizon of the texts he interpreted.ā Freedholm concurs with several other critics of Kaliās Child, that āit is entirely plausible and probable that Kripalās interpretation has far more to do with his own ālife-world and categoriesā than it does with that of Ramakrishna.ā Adding, āIn any case, I donāt think it is possible to appeal to Gadamer as a justification for such a hermeneutical methodology . . . I think Gadamer and any serious student of hermeneutics would find Kripalās methodology to be seriously flawed.ā"
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David Freedholm in Antonio de Nicolas, Krishnan Ramaswamy, and Aditi Banerjee (eds.) (2007), Invading the Sacred: An Analysis Of Hinduism Studies In America (Publisher: Rupa & Co., p. 457
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