Author : John Stratton Hawley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 32,55 MB
Release : 2006-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0520249143
'The Life of Hinduism' collects a series of essays that present Hinduism as a vibrant, truly 'lived' religion. The text offers a glimpse into the multifaceted world of Hindu worship, life-cycle rites, festivals, performances, gurus, and castes.
Author : Gavin Flood
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 019873350X
An authoritative collection on the history of Hindu religious practices. Hindu Practice considers traditions of asceticism, yoga, and devotion, including dance and music, developed in Hinduism over long periods of time.
Author : Wendy Doniger
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 29,83 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781594202056
An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions, The Hindus elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds. The Hindus brings a fascinating multiplicity of actors and stories to the stage to show how brilliant and creative thinkers have kept Hinduism alive in ways that other scholars have not fully explored. In this unique and authoritative account, debates about Hindu traditions become platforms to consider history as a whole.
Author : Wendy Doniger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 19,94 MB
Release : 2014-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0199360073
On Hinduism is a penetrating analysis of many of the most crucial and contested issues in Hinduism, from the Vedas to the present day. In a series of 63 connected essays, it discusses Hindu concepts of polytheism, death, gender, art, contemporary puritanism, non-violence, and much more.
Author : Sitansu S. Chakravarti
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788120808997
This is a book on Hinduism designed to explain many South Asian practices, some not confined to Hindus only, that have very often been misunderstood in North America. The book contains essential information on standard Hindu sacraments and rituals, on dress codes, customs and festivals, on worship practices and sacred images. It provides a sampler of prayers, points for reflection and liturgical formulae. It notes peculiarities of emigre Hindu experience in the United States and Canada and incorporates insights from the author`s experience as a Hindu chaplain. The book has been written in response to requests for information from hospitals, ethnic squads in police forces, schools and boards of education, chaplains, social workers, and Hindus themselves. It will be helpful to students as well.
Author : Bansi Pandit
Publisher : New Age Books
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 30,35 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Hinduism
ISBN : 9788178220079
Author : Manu V. Devadevan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 18,88 MB
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 311051737X
This book is a pioneering attempt to understand the prehistory of Hinduism in South Asia. Exploring religious processes in the Deccan region between the eleventh and the nineteenth century with class relations as its point of focus, it throws new light on the making of religious communities, monastic institutions, legends, lineages, and the ethics that governed them. In the light of this prehistory, a compelling framework is suggested for a revision of existing perspectives on the making of Hinduism in the nineteenth and the twentieth century.
Author : Richard S. Weiss
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0520973747
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The Emergence of Modern Hinduism argues for the importance of regional, vernacular innovation in processes of Hindu modernization. Scholars usually trace the emergence of modern Hinduism to cosmopolitan reform movements, producing accounts that overemphasize the centrality of elite religion and the influence of Western ideas and models. In this study, the author considers religious change on the margins of colonialism by looking at an important local figure, the Tamil Shaiva poet and mystic Ramalinga Swami (1823–1874). Weiss narrates a history of Hindu modernization that demonstrates the transformative role of Hindu ideas, models, and institutions, making this text essential for scholarly audiences of South Asian history, religious studies, Hindu studies, and South Asian studies.
Author : Brian A. Hatcher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 31,84 MB
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 113504631X
Hinduism in the Modern World presents a new and unprecedented attempt to survey the nature, range, and significance of modern and contemporary Hinduism in South Asia and the global diaspora. Organized to reflect the direction of recent scholarly research, this volume breaks with earlier texts on this subject by seeking to overcome a misleading dichotomy between an elite, intellectualist "modern" Hinduism and the rest of what has so often been misleadingly termed "traditional" or "popular" Hinduism. Without neglecting the significance of modern reformist visions of Hinduism, this book reconceptualizes the meaning of "modern Hinduism" both by expanding its content and by situating its expression within a larger framework of history, ethnography, and contemporary critical theory. This volume equips undergraduate readers with the tools necessary to appreciate the richness and diversity of Hinduism as it has developed during the past two centuries.
Author : Trinath Mishra
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Death
ISBN :
