Broschiertes Buch

The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism

Beschreibung

An ideal resource for courses on Hinduism or world religions, this accessible volume spans the entire field of Hindu studies. It provides a forum for the best scholars in the world to make their views and research available to a wider audience. * Comprehensively covers the textual traditions of Hinduism * Includes material on Hindu folk religions and stresses the importance of region in analyzing Hinduism * Reflects the current move away from essentialist understandings of Hinduism towards tradition and regional-specific studies * Features four coherent sections covering theoretical issues, textual traditions, science and philosophy, and Hindu society and politics.

Autor

Gavin Flood is Head of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Stirling. Among his publications are Beyond Phenomonology: Rethinking the Study of Religion (1999), An Introduction to Hinduism (1996), and Body and Cosmology in Kashmir aivism (1993).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1141g
• ISBN-13: 9781405132510
• ISBN-10: 1405132515
• Artikelnr.: 22026085

Rezensionen

"This collection offers a new way to parse the multipleentryways into the vast arena of Hinduism. Using the generaldivisional categories of theoretical issues, text and tradition,systematic thought, and society, politics and nation, Flood hasachieved significant breadth in disciplines, subjects andhistorical perspectives." Choice

"This is a most welcome, timely, and authoritativeassessment of the entire field of study, a most commendableresponse to an enormous challenge." Journal ofContemporary Religion

"It effectively serves to condense the proliferation ofscholarship on Hinduism... The approach is interdisciplinary andplaces Hinduism not within a sphere of its own, but within a largercontext, reading it as a dynamic product of historical globalexchange. The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism also has animportant section devoted to the Indian Sciences (language,mathematics, astrology, astronomy and medicine) which collectivelydestabilize colonialism's claim that Hinduism was arbitraryand irrational. ... A handsome addition to academic andpersonal libraries." Asian Studies Review