Author : Glyn Richards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 26,77 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136099220
Published in the year 2004, Source Book Modern Hinduism is a valuable contribution to the field of Asian Studies.
Author : Glyn Richards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,71 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 113609914X
Published in the year 2004, Source Book Modern Hinduism is a valuable contribution to the field of Asian Studies.
Author : Richard S. Weiss
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 12,69 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 : Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 27,71 MB
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1400865069
Here are the chief riches of more than 3,000 years of Indian philosophical thought-the ancient Vedas, the Upanisads, the epics, the treatises of the heterodox and orthodox systems, the commentaries of the scholastic period, and the contemporary writings. Introductions and interpretive commentaries are provided.
Author : Wendy Doniger
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 15,40 MB
Release : 2004-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141903759
Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. Here in these seventy-five seminal myths are the many incarnations of Vishnu, who saves mankind from destruction, and the mischievous child Krishna, alongside stories of the minor gods, demons, rivers and animals including boars, buffalo, serpents and monkeys. Immensely varied and bursting with colour and life, they demonstrate the Hindu belief in the limitless possibilities of the world - from the teeming miracles of creation to the origins of the incarnation of Death who eventually touches them all.
Author : Brian A. Hatcher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 20,97 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 : Wendy Doniger
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 21,70 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Hindu literature
ISBN : 9780719018664
Author : Elaine M. Fisher
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 27,19 MB
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520966295
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By calling into question the colonial categories implicit in the term “sectarianism,” Fisher’s work excavates the pluralistic textures of precolonial Hinduism in the centuries prior to British intervention. Drawing on previously unpublished sources in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu, Fisher argues that the performance of plural religious identities in public space in Indian early modernity paved the way for the emergence of a distinctively non-Western form of religious pluralism. This work provides a critical resource for understanding how Hinduism developed in the early modern period, a crucial era that set the tenor for religion's role in public life in India through the present day.
Author : Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 2023-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781637545690
The ?igveda is the first book of humankind and the most sacred scripture of Hinduism. It also happens to be the most ill-understood book of our times. Despite the extensive study by academic and religious scholars, the purpose and meaning of the ?igveda and many ancient Hindu scriptures remain unclear. In this pathbreaking book, the discovery of the ?igveda as a book of ancient cosmology is described, and related to the seals of ancient Indus Valley Civilization, thereby challenging our perception of humanity."The Vedas have always been lauded as containing the secrets of cosmogenesis. Raja Roy in his remarkable book shows how this is true not only from the yogic vison but according to the latest insights of modern physics. The book takes the reader on a vast panoramic journey through the universe of matter, mind and human history as well."David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri), Director, American Institute of Vedic Studies"Roy presents a new framework for the understanding of the Vedic hymns from the point of view of physics and then he draws parallels with recent theories on the nature of the universe. We celebrate the new path he has hewn through the bush of old scholarship."Professor Subhash Kak, Oklahoma State University
Author : Jeffery D. Long
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0810879603
The Historical Dictionary of Hinduism relates the history of Hinduism through a chronology, an introductory essay, photos, an extensive bibliography, and over 1,000 cross referenced dictionary entries on Hindu terminology, names of major historical figures and movements, gods and goddesses, prominent temples, terms for items used in Hindu practice, major texts, philosophical concepts, and more. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Hinduism.
