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Author(s): Sushil Mittal (editor), Gene Thursby (editor)
ISBN(s): 9780203939734, 0415301262
Edition: 1
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Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1138491985

ISBN 13: 9781138491984

Author:  Sushil Mittal

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.

Table of contents: 

1: Art
Problems of Definition
Icons in Worship
Affinities Between Sound, Forms, and Ideas
Material Embodiment of the Divine
Hinduism through Study of Hindu Art
Notes
References Cited
2: Body
The Ritual Body
The Ascetic Body
The Purity Body
The Devotional Body
Concluding Reflections
Notes
References Cited
3: Cinema
Seeing
Hearing
Tasting
Telling
Concluding Reflections
Notes
References Cited
4: Cognitive Science
Cognitive Theories of Religion
Concluding Reflections
References Cited
5: Colonialism
Privileging Textual Knowledge
Hermeneutical Presuppositions
Colonial and Missionary Perceptions of Hinduism
Hinduism as a Problematic Category
References Cited
6: Diaspora
Patterns of Hindu Migration
Hindu Attitudes to Migration
The Perpetuation and Transmission of Culture
Hindu Identities in the Diaspora
Topics for Further Study
References Cited
7: Ecology
Possibilities and Potential Resources
Problematics
Gandhi and Current Developments
Concluding Reflections
References Cited
8: Ethnography
Encountering Hinduism
Representing Hinduism
Experiencing Hinduism
References Cited
9: Ethnosociology
Ethnic- and Ethno-Disciplines
Ethnosociology Constructed
Critics of Ethnosociology
Ethnosociology and the Study of Hinduism
Note
References Cited
10: Exchange
Reciprocity
Redistribution: Honor and Power in Hindu Worship
Disposal: Kings, Brāhmaṇas, and the Meaning of Dāna
Intercaste Exchanges
Self and World—Transactional Worldview
Concluding Reflections
References Cited
11: Experience
Experience in the Vedas and Upaniṣads
Experience in Yoga Tradition
Experience in Tantric Tradition
Experience in Bhakti Tradition
Critiques
References Cited
12: Fiction
Hinduism in Early Indian Fiction (1855–1955)
Narrative Experiments in Contemporary Literature
Concluding Reflections
References Cited
13: Gender
Gendered Power
Gendered Practice
Notes
References Cited
14: Intellect
Sāṃkhya and Yoga
Vaiśeṣika and Nyāya
Mīmāṃsā
Vedānta
Concluding Reflections
References Cited
15: Kinship
Divine and Human Social Organization
Marriage and Social Hierarchy
Gender and Ritual Authority
Divine and Human Reproduction and Sexuality
Renunciation, Devotion, and Attachment
Death and Social Regeneration
Concluding Reflections
References Cited
16: Law
Law as an Instrument of Hindu Ethical Formation
Law as Command in the Hindu Religious Imagination
Law as an Affirmation of the Ordinary in Hinduism
Hindu Law as a System
Notes
References Cited
17: Memory
Modern Memory Theory
Memory Studies and Hinduism
Notes
References Cited
18: Myth
History
German Romanticism and the Study of Myth
F. Max Müller
Late Nineteenth-Century Developments
The Study of Vedic Mythology
The Study of Post-Vedic Mythology: Epic and Purāṇa
Concluding Reflections
Notes
References Cited
19: Nationalism
Ideas of Hinduism and India under Colonialism
Early Nationalism and Hinduism
Election-Based Separatism
Gandhi
Hindu Nationalism and Hindutva
Proliferation of Sectarian and Caste-Based Separatism
Sectarian Politics and Partition of India
Note
References Cited
20: Orientalism
Religious Constructions of the Hindu Other
Colonialist Constructions of the Hindu Other
Romantic Orientalism: East Enriches and Mystifies West
Hindu Responses to Oppressive Colonial Constructs
Assessments of Said’s Concept of Orientalism
Concluding Reflections
References Cited
21: Postcolonialism
Critical Categories
Orientalism and After
Colonial Constructions
Community and History
Nation and Modernity
References Cited
22: Psychoanalysis
A Brief Overview
Interpretation of Hinduism
References Cited
23: Ritual
Hindu Ritual’s Contribution to the Study of Religion
Looking Ahead
Concluding Reflections
References Cited
24: Romanticism
Romantic Myth Theory
Romantic Literature
Romantic Indology
Concluding Reflections
References Cited
25: Sacred
Defining Sacred in the Abrahamic Religious Traditions
Defining the Hindu Concept of Sacred
Concluding Reflections
Notes
References Cited
26: Stratification
Models of Stratification in India’s Classical Texts
British Administrative Decisions Regarding India’s Stratification
Addressing Stratification in Independent India
India’s Stratification Viewed Through Different Conceptual Frameworks
References Cited
27: Structuralism
Lévi-Strauss
Structuralism and Hinduism
Postmodernism and Deconstruction
Derrida
Hinduism and Deconstruction
Structuralism and Deconstruction
References Cited
28: Subaltern
What is “the Subaltern”?
Hinduism in Subaltern Studies
The Subaltern in Hindu Studies

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