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The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion 1. Aufl.
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45,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Wiley-Blackwell |
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| Veröffentl.: | 15.04.2008 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780470998687 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 624 |
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An ideal resource for courses on Hinduism or world religions, this accessible volume spans the entire field of Hindu studies. It provides a forum for the best scholars in the world to make their views and research available to a wider audience. <br /> <ul> <li style="list-style: none"><br /> </li> <li>Comprehensively covers the textual traditions of Hinduism<br /> </li> <li>Features four coherent sections covering theoretical issues, textual traditions, science and philosophy, and Hindu society and politics<br /> </li> <li>Reflects the trend away from essentialist understandings of Hinduism towards tradition and regional-specific studies<br /> </li> <li>Includes material on Hindu folk religions and stresses the importance of region in analyzing Hinduism<br /> </li> <li>Ideal for use on university courses.</li> </ul>
<p>Contributors x</p> <p>Preface and Acknowledgments xii</p> <p>Introduction: Establishing the Boundaries 1<br /> <i>Gavin Flood</i></p> <p><b>Part I Theoretical Issues 21</b></p> <p>1 Colonialism and the Construction of Hinduism 23<br /> <i>Gauri Viswanathan</i></p> <p>2 Orientalism and Hinduism 45<br /> <i>David Smith</i></p> <p><b>Part II Text and Tradition 65</b></p> <p><b>The Sanskrit Textual Traditions 67</b></p> <p><br /> 3 Vedas and Upanisads 68<br /> <i>Michael Witzel</i></p> <p>4 The Dharmaúâstras 102<br /> <i>Ludo Rocher</i></p> <p>5 The Sanskrit Epics 116<br /> <i>John Brockington</i></p> <p>6 The Purânas 129<br /> <i>Freda Matchett</i></p> <p><b>Textual Traditions in Regional Languages 144</b></p> <p>7 Tamil Hindu Literature 145<br /> <i>Norman Cutler</i></p> <p>8 The Literature of Hinduism in Malayalam 159<br /> <i>Rich Freeman</i></p> <p>9 North Indian Hindi Devotional Literature 182<br /> <i>Nancy M Martin</i></p> <p><b>Major Historical Developments 199</b></p> <p>10 The Saiva Traditions 200<br /> <i>Gavin Flood</i></p> <p>11 History of Vaisnava Traditions: An Esquisse 229<br /> <i>Gérard Colas</i></p> <p>12 The Renouncer Tradition 271<br /> <i>Patrick Olivelle</i></p> <p>13 The Householder Tradition in Hindu Society 288<br /> <i>TN Madan</i></p> <p><b>Regional Traditions 306</b></p> <p>14 The Teyyam Tradition of Kerala 307<br /> <i>Rich Freeman</i></p> <p>15 The Month of Kârtik and Women's Ritual Devotions to Krishna in Benares 327<br /> <i>Tracy Pinchman</i></p> <p><b>Part III Systematic Thought 343</b></p> <p><b>The Indian Sciences 345</b></p> <p>Introduction 346<br /> <i>Frits Staal</i></p> <p>16 The Science of Language 348<br /> <i>Frits Staal </i></p> <p>17 Indian Mathematics 360<br /> <i>Takao Hayashi</i></p> <p>18 Calendar, Astrology and Astronomy 376<br /> <i>Michio Yano</i></p> <p>19 The Science of Medicine 393<br /> <i>Dominik Wujastyk</i></p> <p><b>Philosophy and Theology 410</b></p> <p>20 Hinduism and the Proper Work of Reason 411<br /> <i>Jonardon Ganeri</i></p> <p>21 Restoring "Hindu Theology" as a Category in Indian Intellectual Discourse 447<br /> <i>Francis Cloone. SJ</i></p> <p>22 Mantra 478<br /> <i>André Padoux</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Society, Politics, and Nation 493</b></p> <p>23 On the Relationship between Caste and Hinduism 495<br /> <i>Declan Quigley</i></p> <p>24 Modernity, Reform and Revival 509<br /> <i>Dermot</i> <i>Killingley</i></p> <p>25 Contemporary Political Hinduism 526<br /> <i>C Ram Prasad</i></p> <p>26 The Goddess and the Nation Subterfuges of Antiquity, the Cunning of Modernity 551<br /> <i>Sumathi Ramaswamy</i></p> <p>27 Gender in a Devotional Universe 569<br /> <i>Vasudha Narayanan</i></p> <p>Index 588</p>
“This collection offers a new way to parse the multiple entryways into the vast arena of Hinduism. Using the general divisional categories of theoretical issues, text and tradition, systematic thought, and society, politics and nation, Flood has achieved significant breadth in disciplines, subjects and historical perspectives.” <i><b>Choice</b></i> <br /> <p><br /> </p> <p>“This is a most welcome, timely, and authoritative assessment of the entire field of study, a most commendable response to an enormous challenge.” <b><i>Journal of Contemporary Religion</i></b><br /> </p> <p>“It effectively serves to condense the proliferation of scholarship on Hinduism... The approach is interdisciplinary and places Hinduism not within a sphere of its own, but within a larger context, reading it as a dynamic product of historical global exchange. <i>The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism</i> also has an important section devoted to the Indian Sciences (language, mathematics, astrology, astronomy and medicine) which collectively destabilize colonialism’s claim that Hinduism was arbitrary and irrational. … A handsome addition to academic and personal libraries.” <b><i>Asian Studies Review</i></b></p>
<b>Gavin Flood</b> is Head of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Stirling. Among his publications are <i>Beyond Phenomonology: Rethinking the Study of Religion</i> (1999), <i>An Introduction to Hinduism</i> (1996), and <i>Body and Cosmology in Kashmir Œaivism</i> (1993).
An ideal resource for courses on Hinduism or world religions, this accessible volume spans the entire field of Hindu studies. It provides a forum for the best scholars in the world to make their views and research available to a wider audience. <br /> <ul> <li style="list-style: none"><br /> </li> <li>Comprehensively covers the textual traditions of Hinduism<br /> </li> <li>Includes material on Hindu folk religions and stresses the importance of region in analyzing Hinduism<br /> </li> <li>Reflects the current move away from essentialist understandings of Hinduism towards tradition and regional-specific studies<br /> </li> <li>Features four coherent sections covering theoretical issues, textual traditions, science and philosophy, and Hindu society and politics.</li> </ul>
"This collection offers a new way to parse the multiple entryways into the vast arena of Hinduism. Using the general divisional categories of theoretical issues, text and tradition, systematic thought, and society, politics and nation, Flood has achieved significant breadth in disciplines, subjects and historical perspectives." <i><b>Choice</b></i> <br /> <p>"This is a most welcome, timely, and authoritative assessment of the entire field of study, a most commendable response to an enormous challenge." <i><b>Journal of Contemporary Religion</b></i><br /> </p> <p>“It effectively serves to condense the proliferation of scholarship on Hinduism... The approach is interdisciplinary and places Hinduism not within a sphere of its own, but within a larger context, reading it as a dynamic product of historical global exchange. <i>The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism</i> also has an important section devoted to the Indian Sciences (language, mathematics, astrology, astronomy and medicine) which collectively destabilize colonialism’s claim that Hinduism was arbitrary and irrational. … A handsome addition to academic and personal libraries.” <b><i>Asian Studies Review</i></b></p>
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