"In India: A Sacred Geography, renowned Harvard scholar Diana Eck offers an extraordinary spiritual journey through the pilgrimage places of the world's most religiously vibrant culture and reveals that it is, in fact, through these sacred pilgrimages that India's very sense of …
India" explores the sacred places of India, taking the reader on an extraordinary trip through the beliefs and history of this rich and profound place.
India" explores the sacred places of India, taking the reader on an extraordinary trip through the beliefs and history of this rich and profound place.
"India" explores the sacred places of India, taking the reader on an extraordinary trip through the beliefs and history of this rich and profound place.
The idea that India is a Hindu majority nation rests on the assumption that the vast swath of its population stigmatized as 'untouchable' is, and always has been, in some meaningful sense, Hindu. But is that how such communities understood themselves in the past, or how they und…
The idea that India is a Hindu majority nation rests on the assumption that the vast swath of its population stigmatized as 'untouchable' is, and always has been, in some meaningful sense, Hindu. But is that how such communities understood themselves in the past, or how they und…
A major contribution towards the ongoing debates on the nature and history of Hinduism in India.
Hinduism in India: modern and contemporary movements
Is Hinduism coherent, or should it be viewed as a conglomeration of many distinctive traditions? What were (or are) its most important and central teachings? When did the idea of 'Hinduism' first arise and what have been the consequences? What were the effects of British rule on…
Hinduism in India: modern and contemporary movements
Hinduism in India: modern and contemporary movements
A major contribution toward the ongoing debates on the nature and history of Hinduism in India. Is Hinduism coherent, or should it be viewed as a conglomeration of many distinctive traditions? What were (or are) its most important and central teachings? When did the idea of "Hin…
Hinduism in India
A major contribution toward the ongoing debates on the nature and history of Hinduism in India. Is Hinduism coherent, or should it be viewed as a conglomeration of many distinctive traditions? What were (or are) its most important and central teachings? When did the idea of "Hin…