Author: Geoffrey A Oddie
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This is an exploration of the emergence and refinement of the idea of Hinduism as it developed among British Protestant missionaries in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The text traces the growing use of the term 'Hinduism' as a category and label that has come to dominate the way scholars think about Indian religions.
Imagined Hinduism
Author: Geoffrey A Oddie
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This is an exploration of the emergence and refinement of the idea of Hinduism as it developed among British Protestant missionaries in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The text traces the growing use of the term 'Hinduism' as a category and label that has come to dominate the way scholars think about Indian religions.
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This is an exploration of the emergence and refinement of the idea of Hinduism as it developed among British Protestant missionaries in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The text traces the growing use of the term 'Hinduism' as a category and label that has come to dominate the way scholars think about Indian religions.
Imagining Hinduism
Author: Sharada Sugirtharajah
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134517203
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Imagining Hinduism is an indispensable guide to an immensely significant new understanding of the Hindu faith - that it exists largely as a construct of the Western imagination.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134517203
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Imagining Hinduism is an indispensable guide to an immensely significant new understanding of the Hindu faith - that it exists largely as a construct of the Western imagination.
Imagined Religious Communities?
Author: Romila Thapar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hinduism
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hinduism
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Why I Am a Hindu
Author: Shashi Tharoor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1787380459
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Hinduism is one of the world's oldest and greatest religious traditions. In captivating prose, Shashi Tharoor untangles its origins, its key philosophical concepts and texts. He explores everyday Hindu beliefs and practices, from worship to pilgrimage to caste, and touchingly reflects on his personal beliefs and relationship with the religion. Not one to shy from controversy, Tharoor is unsparing in his criticism of 'Hindutva', an extremist, nationalist Hinduism endorsed by India's current government. He argues urgently and persuasively that it is precisely because of Hinduism's rich diversity that India has survived and thrived as a plural, secular nation. If narrow fundamentalism wins out, Indian democracy itself is in peril.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1787380459
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Hinduism is one of the world's oldest and greatest religious traditions. In captivating prose, Shashi Tharoor untangles its origins, its key philosophical concepts and texts. He explores everyday Hindu beliefs and practices, from worship to pilgrimage to caste, and touchingly reflects on his personal beliefs and relationship with the religion. Not one to shy from controversy, Tharoor is unsparing in his criticism of 'Hindutva', an extremist, nationalist Hinduism endorsed by India's current government. He argues urgently and persuasively that it is precisely because of Hinduism's rich diversity that India has survived and thrived as a plural, secular nation. If narrow fundamentalism wins out, Indian democracy itself is in peril.
Imagining Religious Communities
Author: Jennifer B. Saunders
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190941227
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Imagining Religious Communities tells the story of the Gupta family through the personal and religious narratives they tell as they create and maintain their extended family and community across national borders. Based on ethnographic research, the book demonstrates the ways that transnational communities are involved in shaping their experiences through narrative performances. Jennifer B. Saunders demonstrates that narrative performances shape participants' social realities in multiple ways: they define identities, they create connections between community members living on opposite sides of national borders, and they help create new homes amidst increasing mobility. The narratives are religious and include epic narratives such as excerpts from the Ramayana as well as personal narratives with dharmic implications. Saunders' analysis combines scholarly understandings of the ways in which performances shape the contexts in which they are told, indigenous comprehension of the power that reciting certain narratives can have on those who hear them, and the theory that social imaginaries define new social realities through expressing the aspirations of communities. Imagining Religious Communities argues that this Hindu community's religious narrative performances significantly contribute to shaping their transnational lives.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190941227
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Imagining Religious Communities tells the story of the Gupta family through the personal and religious narratives they tell as they create and maintain their extended family and community across national borders. Based on ethnographic research, the book demonstrates the ways that transnational communities are involved in shaping their experiences through narrative performances. Jennifer B. Saunders demonstrates that narrative performances shape participants' social realities in multiple ways: they define identities, they create connections between community members living on opposite sides of national borders, and they help create new homes amidst increasing mobility. The narratives are religious and include epic narratives such as excerpts from the Ramayana as well as personal narratives with dharmic implications. Saunders' analysis combines scholarly understandings of the ways in which performances shape the contexts in which they are told, indigenous comprehension of the power that reciting certain narratives can have on those who hear them, and the theory that social imaginaries define new social realities through expressing the aspirations of communities. Imagining Religious Communities argues that this Hindu community's religious narrative performances significantly contribute to shaping their transnational lives.
Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu
Author: Michael J. Altman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190654929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu is a groundbreaking analysis of American representations of religion in India before the turn of the twentieth century. Before Americans wrote about "Hinduism," they wrote about "heathenism," "the religion of the Hindoos," and "Brahmanism." Americans used the heathen, Hindoo, and Hindu as an other against which they represented themselves. The questions of American identity, classification, representation and the definition of "religion" that animated descriptions of heathens, Hindoos, and Hindus in the past still animate American debates today.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190654929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu is a groundbreaking analysis of American representations of religion in India before the turn of the twentieth century. Before Americans wrote about "Hinduism," they wrote about "heathenism," "the religion of the Hindoos," and "Brahmanism." Americans used the heathen, Hindoo, and Hindu as an other against which they represented themselves. The questions of American identity, classification, representation and the definition of "religion" that animated descriptions of heathens, Hindoos, and Hindus in the past still animate American debates today.
Hinduism
Author: Cassie Coleman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781952191404
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Did you know that the supreme spirit in Hinduism is believed to be both male and female? Well, you will discover more than you ever imagined exists in Hinduism and by the end of this book, you'll know a lot about a religion that has over one billion followers worldwide.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781952191404
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Did you know that the supreme spirit in Hinduism is believed to be both male and female? Well, you will discover more than you ever imagined exists in Hinduism and by the end of this book, you'll know a lot about a religion that has over one billion followers worldwide.
How I Became a Hindu
Author: David Frawley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hindu converts from Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Autobiography of Vedic scholar converts from Christianity.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hindu converts from Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Autobiography of Vedic scholar converts from Christianity.
Rethinking Religion in India
Author: Esther Bloch
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135182795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Critically assesses recent debates about the colonial construction of Hinduism. Written by experts in their field, the chapters present historical and empirical arguments as well as theoretical reflections on the topic, offering new insights into the nature of the construction of religion in India.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135182795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Critically assesses recent debates about the colonial construction of Hinduism. Written by experts in their field, the chapters present historical and empirical arguments as well as theoretical reflections on the topic, offering new insights into the nature of the construction of religion in India.
Handbook of Hinduism in Europe (2 vols)
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004432280
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1677
Book Description
The Handbook of Hinduism in Europe portrays and analyses Hindu traditions in every country in Europe. It presents the main Hindu communities, religious groups, forms and teachings present in the continent and shows that Hinduism have become a major religion in Europe.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004432280
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1677
Book Description
The Handbook of Hinduism in Europe portrays and analyses Hindu traditions in every country in Europe. It presents the main Hindu communities, religious groups, forms and teachings present in the continent and shows that Hinduism have become a major religion in Europe.