The Hinduism Omnibus

The Hinduism Omnibus

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Author: Nirad C Chaudhuri
Madeleine Biardeau/D F Pocock
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 910
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195664116

Description

Although South Asia is the original homeland of Hinduism, its adherents, counted in millions, are today found in many parts of the world. For centuries, the religion has attracted the attention of scholars both at home in South Asia and abroad and has inspired a wide spectrum of approaches. The four books brought together in this omnibus consider Hinduism from various angles: as a personal experience, as a rich textual tradition, and as a body of belief and practice.

Nirad C Chaudhuri’s Hinduism: A Religion to Live By is a wholly original exposition of Hinduism, focusing on Hindu religion psychology and behaviour. Rejecting familiar assumptions about early Hinduism, Chaudhuri examines temple and image worship, as well as the three major cults of Shiva, Krishna, and the Mother Goddess.

Madeleine Biardeau’s Hinduism: The Anthropology of a Civilization offers interpretation of the epics, traditional customs, and social norms. Using evidence from archaeological monuments and literary texts, the book brings to light the underlying unity beneath the bewildering diversity of this living tradition.

Mind, Body and Wealth: Belief and Practice in an Indian village by D F Pocock examines Hinduism as a body of belief and practice. Based on fieldwork in Gujarat, the study is distinguished by an eye for detail and a capacity for empathy, as well as by literary felicity.

Finally. T N Madan’s Non-Renunciation: Themes and Interpretation of Hindu Culture presets religion as inseparable from secular life. Focusing on the householder’s life in Hindu society, Madan deals with asceticism, eroticism, altruism, and death as elaboration of the main theme. The book constitutes a reading of Hindu tradition as a rich and sensible philosophy of life in this world.

Contents

Publisher’s Note

Introduction –T N Madan

HINDUISM: A RELIGION TO LIVE BY

Explanations

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction: What is Hinduism?

Historical

Descriptive

Analytical

Bibliography

Index

HINDUISM: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF A CIVILIZATION

Introduction

Man and the Absolute

The Four Goals of Man

Salvation Through Deeds: The Yogin Warrior

The Universe of bhakti

Desireless Activity

Divine Loves

Hinduism and the Future

Notes

Glossary

MIND, BODY AND WEALTH: A STUDY OF BELIEF AND PRACTICE IN AN INDIAN VILLAGE

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introductory-Brothers are Rivals

The Evil Eye-Envy and Greed

Goddess Cults-Status and Change

The Old Pattern- Purity with Impurity

A Vaishnavite Sect – the Way of Grace

A Reformed Sect – the Satsang

The Contemporary Need –Guruji

Appendix 1: Morality and Non-Violence

Appendix 2: Selections from the Shikshapatri of Swami Narayan

Glossary

Index

NON-RENUNCIATION: THEMES AND INTERPRETATION OF HINDU CULTURE

Preface to the Paperback Edition

Acknowledgements

A Note on Transliteration

Introduction: Intimation of the Good Life

Domesticity and Detachment

Auspiciousness and Purity

Asceticism and Eroticism

The Desired and the Good

Living and Dying

Appendix: A Note on the Epigraphs

References

Index