Studying Hinduism: Key Concepts and Methods
This book is an indispensable resource for students and researchers wishing to develop a deeper understanding of one of the world's oldest and most multifaceted religious traditions. Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby, leading scholars in the field, have brought together a rich variety of perspectives which reflect the current lively state of the field. Studying Hinduism is the result of cooperative work by accomplished specialists in several fields that include anthropology, art, comparative liter…
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- Full title :Studying Hinduism : Key Concepts and Methods.
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This book is an indispensable resource for students and researchers wishing to develop a deeper understanding of one of the world's oldest and most multifaceted religious traditions. Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby, leading scholars in the field, have brought together a rich variety of perspectives which reflect the current lively state of the field. Studying Hinduism is the result of cooperative work by accomplished specialists in several fields that include anthropology, art, comparative literature, history, philosophy, religious studies, and sociology. Through these complementary and exciting approaches, students will gain a greater understanding of India's culture and traditions, to which Hinduism is integral. The book uses key critical terms and topics as points of entry into the subject, revealing that although Hinduism can be interpreted in sharply contrasting ways and set in widely varying contexts, it is endlessly fascinating and intriguing.
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- Publication Date:©2009
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Taylor and Francis
- Place of Publication:Florence
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2009
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (425 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780203939734, 0203939735
- oclc:on1048595923
- LC Classification:BL1108.2 ǂb S78 2008eb
- Dewey Decimal:294.5071
Table of Contents
Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Art -- 2 Body -- 3 Cinema -- 4 Cognitive Science -- 5 Colonialism -- 6 Diaspora -- 7 Ecology -- 8 Ethnography -- 9 Ethnosociology -- 10 Exchange -- 11 Experience -- 12 Fiction -- 13 Gender -- 14 Intellect -- 15 Kinship -- 16 Law -- 17 Memory -- 18 Myth -- 19 Nationalism -- 20 Orientalism -- 21 Postcolonialism -- 22 Psychoanalysis -- 23 Ritual -- 24 Romanticism -- 25 Sacred -- 26 Stratification -- 27 Structuralism -- 28 Subaltern -- Index.
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