The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631215352 ISBN 13: 9780631215356

Verlag: Blackwell Publishers, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

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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"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." Choice "This is a most welcome, timely, and authoritative assessment of the entire field of study, a most commendable response to an enormous challenge." Journal of Contemporary Religion "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. The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism 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." Asian Studies Review

Reseña del editor:

This volume presents the most recent scholarly thinking about Hinduism in an accessible way. It provides a forum for the best scholars in the world to make their views and research available to a wider audience. While comprehensively covering the textual traditions of Hinduism, the volume also includes material on Hindu folk religions and stresses the importance of region in analyzing Hinduism. In doing so, it reflects the current move away from essentialist understandings of Hinduism and towards traditionally and regionally specific studies. The Companion as a whole spans the entire field of Hindu studies and is divided into four coherent sections: theoretical issues, textual traditions, theologies, and Hindu society and politics.

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• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0631215352
• ISBN 13: 9780631215356
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 616
• Herausgeber: Flood Gavin