This book reports on excavations at Paithan in India revealed the development of two early Hindu temples from the 4th century to the 9th: the key formative phase of Hinduism. The temples started as small shrines but were elaborated into formal temples. In relation to these chang…
"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…
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
A major contribution toward the ongoing debates on the nature andhistory of Hinduism in India.
Hinduism in India
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
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
A major contribution toward the ongoing debates on the nature and history of Hinduism in India.
"This book explores the ways in which modern Hindu identities were constructed in the early Nineteenth Century. It draws parallels between Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Protestantism and the rise of modernity in the West, and the Hindu reformation in the Nineteenth Century w…
"This book explores the ways in which modern Hindu identities were constructed in the early Nineteenth Century. It draws parallels between Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Protestantism and the rise of modernity in the West, and the Hindu reformation in the Nineteenth Century w…
"This book explores the ways in which modern Hindu identities were constructed in the early Nineteenth Century. It draws parallels between Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Protestantism and the rise of modernity in the West, and the Hindu reformation in the Nineteenth Century w…
"This book explores the ways in which modern Hindu identities were constructed in the early Nineteenth Century. It draws parallels between Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Protestantism and the rise of modernity in the West, and the Hindu reformation in the Nineteenth Century w…
"This book explores the ways in which modern Hindu identities were constructed in the early Nineteenth Century. It draws parallels between Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Protestantism and the rise of modernity in the West, and the Hindu reformation in the Nineteenth Century w…
