The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Flood, Gavin

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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. * * Comprehensively covers the textual traditions of Hinduism * Features four coherent sections covering theoretical issues, textual traditions, science and philosophy, and Hindu society and politics * Reflects the trend away from essentialist understandings of Hinduism towards tradition and regional-specific studies * Includes material on Hindu folk religions and stresses the importance of region in analyzing Hinduism * Ideal for use on university courses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 616
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470998687
• Artikelnr.: 38190361

Autorenporträt

Gavin Flood is Head of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Stirling. Among his publications are Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of Religion (1999), An Introduction to Hinduism (1996), and Body and Cosmology in Kashmir OEaivism (1993).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors.

Preface.

Introduction: Establishing the Boundaries.

Part I: Theoretical Issues.

Part II: Text and Tradition.

The Sanskrit Textual Traditions.

Textual Traditions in Regional Languages.

Major Historical Developments.

Regional Traditions.

Part III: Systematic Thought.

The Indian Sciences.

Philosophy and Theology.

Part IV: Society, Politics, and Nation.

Index

Rezensionen

"This collection offers a new way to parse the multiple entrywaysinto the vast arena of Hinduism. Using the general divisionalcategories of theoretical issues, text and tradition, systematicthought, and society, politics and nation, Flood has achievedsignificant breadth in disciplines, subjects and historicalperspectives." Choice

"This is a most welcome, timely, and authoritative assessment ofthe entire field of study, a most commendable response to anenormous challenge." Journal of ContemporaryReligion

"It effectively serves to condense the proliferation ofscholarship on Hinduism... The approach is interdisciplinary andplaces Hinduism not within a sphere of its own, but within a largercontext, reading it as a dynamic product of historical globalexchange. The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism also has animportant section devoted to the Indian Sciences (language,mathematics, astrology, astronomy and medicine) which collectivelydestabilize colonialism's claim that Hinduism was arbitraryand irrational. ... A handsome addition to academic andpersonal libraries." Asian Studies Review