This book explores Hindu religion from a global perspective and investigates the presence of Hindu religious traditions and some of their diversity worldwide....Loe edasi...
Hindu Customs and their Origins (1937) primarily examines the topic of caste in India, looking at the ancient ideas of the origins of caste and testing modern theories through a critical examination. It also looks at the veneration for the ox and co...Loe edasi...
First published in 1948, Hinduism presents an introductory outline of the story of Hinduism from the earliest times, and paves the way for further and more detailed study, as well as interests the general reader....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1977, The Hindu Religious Tradition provides a detailed exploration into the different doctrines regarding the nature of Religious Reality and the many paths of search for this Reality within the Hindu religion....Loe edasi...
This book represents the first attempt to study an ancient network of pilgrimage sites, known as Shakti Pithas, dedicated to the Hindu goddess Sati in an art historical and political context. During the nineteenth century these sites were re-imagine...Loe edasi...
This book explores the cross- and trans-cultural dialectic between Tantra and intersecting magical and shamanic phenomena associated with vernacular religions across Monsoon Asia. It will be of interest to South Asian religions, Tantric traditions,...Loe edasi...
Himanshu Prabha Ray, Salila Kulshreshtha, Uthara Suvrathan
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Oct-2022, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003097709)
This handbook is a comprehensive study of the archaeology, social history, and the cultural landscape of the Hindu temple. Perhaps the most recognizable of the material forms of Hinduism, temples are lived, dynamic spaces that are significant sites...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Aug-2022, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003298106)
This book presents an original and comprehensive reading of the contemporary Mauritian society. It discusses the genesis of the Mauritian multicultural society; religious and cultural transformations; the cult of Kalimai; building of social relation...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Aug-2022, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003298137)
This book presents an overview of the transformation of Mauritian Hinduism against the backdrop of globalisation. It discusses themes such as popular cults; temples and associative strategies of social integration; ritual innovations in politics and...Loe edasi...
A concise introduction to the long history of religion in the encounter between America and India. Ideal for students and scholars approaching the topic for the first time, the book includes sections in each chapter that provide useful theoretical t...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on dual belonging within Hindu-Christian contexts. This book will be of interest to academics in the fields of Hindu Studies and Christian theology, Hindu-Christian comparative theology, religious pluralism, interreligious relation...Loe edasi...
First Published in 1959, Hinduism written specifically for the modern readers describes and interprets one of the worlds chief religions. Swami Nikhilananda provides a brief account of Hinduism in both its theoretical and its practical aspects....Loe edasi...
This collection explores Digital Hinduism and consequentially studies how Hinduism is expressed in the digital sphere and how Hindus utilise digital media....Loe edasi...
This book provides a rigorously researched, critically comparative introduction to yoga. It recognizes the importance of contemporary understandings of yoga and, at the same time, provides historical context and complexity to modern and pre-modern d...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2020, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003094456)
This volume is a systematic and comprehensive introduction to one of the most read texts in South Asia, the Bhagavad-gita. It brings together themes such as the Gitas structure, the history of its exegesis, its acceptance by different traditions wit...Loe edasi...
This book addresses a gap in the scholarly debate around defining Hinduism by demonstrating the role of online discourses in generating and projecting images of Hindu religion and culture. It surveys a wide range of propaganda, websites and social m...Loe edasi...
The Dancing God charts the sensational and historic journey of de-provincialising and popularising Hindu dance in Australia. Ideal for anyone with an interest in global dance, this is an in-depth study of how a unique dance form evolved in the meeti...Loe edasi...
This volume examines several theoretical concerns of embodiment in the context of Asian religious practice. Looking at both subtle and spatial bodies, it explores how both types of embodiment are engaged as sites for transformation, transaction and...Loe edasi...
