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Author : Ram Gopal
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Vedas
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Barbara A. Holdrege
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438406954
Enlarges our understanding of the term "scripture" through a comparative study of Veda and Torah.
Author : Denise Cush,Catherine Robinson,Michael York
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1130 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135189785
The Encyclopedia of Hinduism contains over 900 entries reflecting recent advances in scholarship which have raised new theoretical and methodological issues as well as identifying new areas of study which have not been addressed previously. The debate over the term 'Hinduism' in the light of post-Orientalist critiques is just one example of how once standard academic frameworks have been called into question. Entries range from 150-word definitions of terms and concepts to 5,000-word in-depth investigations of major topics. The Encyclopedia covers all aspects of Hinduism but departs from other works in including more ethnographic and contemporary material in contrast to an exclusively textual and historical approach. It includes a broad range of subject matter such as: historical developments (among them nineteenth and twentieth century reform and revival); geographical distribution (especially the diaspora); major and minor movements; philosophies and theologies; scriptures; deities; temples and sacred sites; pilgrimages; festivals; rites of passage; worship; religious arts (sculpture, architecture, music, dance, etc.); religious sciences (e.g. astrology); biographies of leading figures; local and regional traditions; caste and untouchability; feminism and women's religion; nationalism and the Hindu radical right; and new religious movements. The history of study and the role of important scholars past and present are also discussed. Accessibility to all levels of reader has been a priority and no previous knowledge is assumed. However, the in-depth larger entries and the design of the work in line with the latest scholarly advances means that the volume will be of considerable interest to specialists. The whole is cross-referenced and bibliographies attach to the larger entries. There is a full index.
Author : Farah Godrej
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199782079
Cosmopolitan Political Thought asks the question of what it might mean for the very practices of political theorizing to be cosmopolitan. It suggests that such a vision of political theory is intimately linked to methodological questions about what is commonly called comparative political theory--namely, the turn beyond ideas and modes of inquiry determined by traditional Western scholarship. It is therefore an argument for applying the idea of cosmopolitanism--understood in a particular way--to the discipline of political theory itself. As Farah Godrej argues, there are four crucial components of this cosmopolitan intervention: the texts under analysis, the methods for interpreting non-Western texts and ideas, the application of these ideas across geographical and cultural boundaries, and the deconstruction of Eurocentrism. In order to be genuinely cosmopolitan, Godrej states, political theorists must reflect on their perspectives inside and outside various traditions and immerse themselves in foreign ideas, languages, histories, and cultures--ultimately relocating themselves within their disciplinary homes. The result will be a serious challenge to accepted solutions to political life.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Mikhail Mikhailov
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789856701873
Author : Laurie L. Patton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110812756
RGVV (History of Religion: Essays and Preliminary Studies) brings together the mutually constitutive aspects of the study of religion(s)—contextualized data, theory, and disciplinary positioning—and engages them from a critical historical perspective. The series publishes monographs and thematically focused edited volumes on specific topics and cases as well as comparative work across historical periods from the ancient world to the modern era.
Author : Susanne Hoeber Rudolph,Lloyd I. Rudolph
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : William K. Mahony
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791435792
Provides an accessible introduction to the Vedic religious world by focusing on the role of divine and human imagination in sacred texts.
Author : Roshen Dalal
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9788184757637
Your essential guide to the Vedas When were the Vedas written, and why? Who were the people who composed them? Where did they come from, how did they live? Questions, conjectures and debates go hand in hand with the Vedas, the sacred keystone texts of Hinduism. Now, noted historian Roshen Dalal sifts through centuries of information and research to present, in a straightforward and succinct manner, an account of the Vedas that is authoritative yet accessible, thus appealing to both scholars and lay readers. In this book, key insights into the Vedas are complemented by a celebration of the poetry that lies within the texts. Using socio-economic data and archaeological and linguistic research, the author introduces us to the Vedic era, enabling us to understand the culture and philosophy that produced these ancient and sublime texts. • Based on original research and numerous authoritative sources, including auxiliary texts and early commentaries • Appendices featuring selected hymns from all four Vedas, and listing all the hymns that make up the Rig Veda • Conveniently cross-referenced with a wealth of information
Author : Sanjay Sonawani
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781468957136
Whether Vedic people were indigenous habitants or emigrants is a hotly debated current issue. Both sides involved in the debate have been vehemently using the available evidences, with twists – caused at times due to sheer neglect and at times even fraudulently - to bring home their point of view, somehow. Nevertheless, what is the truth? Were there ever any migrations of so-called PIE language speakers, located at some hypothetical and yet uncertain homeland, to spread the language and culture? Are migrations necessary from any hypothetical homeland to result into a net of the languages? What was the geography of Rig Veda? Was the Avesta contemporaneous to the Rig Veda? Did any relation ever exist between the Vedic people and the Indus-Ghaggar civilisation? Is there any relationship between the Vedic religion and the modern Hindu religion? While answering to these vital questions, this book postulates a theory on the issue of the so-called IE languages and origins of the Vedic as well as the Zoroastrian religions. It diligently explains how the religious and cultural ethos of the Indus-Ghaggar Civilisation has flowed to us uninterrupted and exposes the schemes of the Vedicist scholars, who are attempting to claim its authorship!
Author : Rein Fernhout
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004669970
This book introduces a new approach to the comparative study of sacred texts - here the Christian Bible, the Islamic Koran, the Hindu Veda and the Buddhist Tipiaka. The author demonstrates that, in spite of their great differences, these works show a fundamental analogy.Considered as canonical within their own religious context, each text possesses absolute authority in comparison with other authoritative texts from their respective religious traditions. This fundamental analogy allows one to describe the growth and history of these canons, step by step, as a process that takes place in analogous phases that are clearly distinguishable. The author follows a strictly phenomenological method: he tries to understand the development of these canons in terms of a potential that lies within the phenomena themselves, i.e. the texts, while refraining in any way from assessing their claim to absolute authority. In part I the author describes the development from the 'revelation' of the texts to a climax with respect to reflection on the canons. This climax has been reached in all four cases. Part II investigates the crisis that these canons are currently undergoing as a consequence of the modern intellectual climate. Can we expect that this crisis will be overcome by the canons? And if so, will they be in a position of mutual exclusion or will they form a sort of unity such as, for example, the Old and New Testament in the Christian Bible? Finally the author traces what the religions themselves have postulated about the future of their respective canons. The result is surprising: the current crisis is only faint reflection of what, according to age-old predictions, awaits the canons in the future.
Author : Klaus G. Witz
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8120815734
This book attempts to let the universal Upanisadic knowledge and experience of Divinity and reality emerge from the original texts and make it accessible to a broader western oriented audience.The book is in text commentary format and uses the method of p
Author : K. Satchidananda Murty
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8120811054
The Ganadbharvad is a philosophical work in which there are profound discussions of eleven salient doctrines. In each of the discussions, one vital Tattva is taken up; and Lord Mahavir discusses it in great detail and clears the doubt of each Ganadhar with the result that each Ganadhar is fully convinced of the truth of the Lord`s argument and becomes his disciple. This book has been written so that people may read it and understand the meaning of the tattvas relating to the soul, the karmas, the five elements, next birth, bondage, deliverance etc. and so that they may realise the true phenomenon of this Universe, may cultivate the trust and may make endeavours to attain the liberations from samsar.
Author : Teotonio R. De Souza
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Conference. Indo Portuguese history
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Laurie L. Patton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520930889
This elegantly written book introduces a new perspective on Indic religious history by rethinking the role of mantra in Vedic ritual. In Bringing the Gods to Mind, Laurie Patton takes a new look at mantra as "performed poetry" and in five case studies draws a portrait of early Indian sacrifice that moves beyond the well-worn categories of "magic" and "magico-religious" thought in Vedic sacrifice. Treating Vedic mantra as a sophisticated form of artistic composition, she develops the idea of metonymy, or associational thought, as a major motivator for the use of mantra in sacrificial performance. Filling a long-standing gap in our understanding, her book provides a history of the Indian interpretive imagination and a study of the mental creativity and hermeneutic sophistication of Vedic religion.
