"This book is based on the inaugural Jordan Lecture Comparative Religion in 1951 and offers a survey of religious movements in India, past and present. Renou discusses the Veda, its rise and fall, and the state of studies of Vedic ritual, liturgy, mythology, magic, speculative t…
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Recasting Caste confronts the mainstream sociology of caste at its root: Louis Dumont's Homo Hierarchicus and its main source, Max Weber's distinction between class and status. Conventional wisdom on caste is idealist, and most students of the subject therefore exaggerate ritual…
Hinduism in India
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A major contribution toward the ongoing debates on the nature andhistory of Hinduism in India.
Hinduism in India
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Introduction / Greg Bailey -- Hinduism Contextualized / Greg Bailey -- Rituals / Axel Michaels -- The Mahābhārata and Dharma / Adam Bowles -- Mythology / Greg Bailey -- Religious Pathways : Social and Ritual Activity (karman), Knowledge (jñana), and Devotion (bhakti) / Angelika …
A major contribution toward the ongoing debates on the nature and history of Hinduism in India Hinduism in India: The Early Period covers the major thematic and historical aspects of Hinduism in ancient and medieval India, emphasising primarily on belief structures, rituals, the…
Hinduism in India
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Type: Book
Introduction / Greg Bailey -- Hinduism Contextualized / Greg Bailey -- Rituals / Axel Michaels -- The Mahābhārata and Dharma / Adam Bowles -- Mythology / Greg Bailey -- Religious Pathways : Social and Ritual Activity (karman), Knowledge (jñana), and Devotion (bhakti) / Angelika …
Hinduism in India
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Type: Book
A major contribution toward the ongoing debates on the nature and history of Hinduism in India.
Devotional Sovereignty: Kingship and Religion in India investigates the shifting conceptualization of sovereignty in the South Indian kingdom of Mysore during the reigns of Tipu Sultan (r. 1782-1799) and Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (r. 1799-1868). Tipu Sultan was a Muslim king famou…
Kiyokazu Okita explores the historical development of a Hindu devotional movement in early modern South Asia. He provides a rigorous philological analysis of Sanskrit texts, which is combined with a detailed examination of the specific historical circumstances which led to their…
