Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu

Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 201
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ISBN-10 : 9780190654924
ISBN-13 : 0190654929
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu by : Michael J. Altman

Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu is a groundbreaking analysis of American representations of religion in India before the turn of the twentieth century. Before Americans wrote about "Hinduism," they wrote about "heathenism," "the religion of the Hindoos," and "Brahmanism." Americans used the heathen, Hindoo, and Hindu as an other against which they represented themselves. The questions of American identity, classification, representation and the definition of "religion" that animated descriptions of heathens, Hindoos, and Hindus in the past still animate American debates today.

The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity

The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 469
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ISBN-10 : 9780195340136
ISBN-13 : 0195340132
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity by : Chad V. Meister

This substantial volume of thirty-three original chapters covers the full range of issues in religious diversity. An indispensable guide for scholars and students, its essays make novel contributions and are crafted by recognized experts who represent a wide variety of religious and philosophical perspectives and backgrounds.

What is Hinduism?

What is Hinduism?
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 119
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ISBN-10 : 8123709277
ISBN-13 : 9788123709277
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis What is Hinduism? by : Mahatma Gandhi

A selection of Gandhiji s articles drawn mainly from his contributions to young india, the Harijan and the Navjivan on Hinduism. Written on different occassions, these articles present a picture of hindu dharma I all its richness, comprehensiveness and sensitivity to the existential delimmas of human existence.

The Religious Sects of the Hindus

The Religious Sects of the Hindus
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 182
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105046852427
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Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis The Religious Sects of the Hindus by : John Murdoch

Handbook of Hinduism in Europe (2 vols)

Handbook of Hinduism in Europe (2 vols)
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 1677
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ISBN-10 : 9789004432284
ISBN-13 : 9004432280
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Handbook of Hinduism in Europe (2 vols) by :

The Handbook of Hinduism in Europe portrays and analyses Hindu traditions in every country in Europe. It presents the main Hindu communities, religious groups, forms and teachings present in the continent and shows that Hinduism have become a major religion in Europe.

Hinduism, TM, and Hare Krishna

Hinduism, TM, and Hare Krishna
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Publisher : Zondervan
Total Pages : 94
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ISBN-10 : 9780310703914
ISBN-13 : 0310703913
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Hinduism, TM, and Hare Krishna by : J. Isamu Yamamoto

This is one volume of a series of brief books on contemporary religious movements, comparing what they believe with Christian doctrine and explaining effective ways of witnessing to their adherents.

The Hindus

The Hindus
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 808
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ISBN-10 : 1594202052
ISBN-13 : 9781594202056
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis The Hindus by : Wendy Doniger

An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions, The Hindus elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds. The Hindus brings a fascinating multiplicity of actors and stories to the stage to show how brilliant and creative thinkers have kept Hinduism alive in ways that other scholars have not fully explored. In this unique and authoritative account, debates about Hindu traditions become platforms to consider history as a whole.

Hindu View of Christ

Hindu View of Christ
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Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : 1497827086
ISBN-13 : 9781497827080
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Hindu View of Christ by : Swami Akhilananda

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1919 Edition.

Hinduism Before Reform

Hinduism Before Reform
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9780674988224
ISBN-13 : 0674988221
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Hinduism Before Reform by : Brian A. Hatcher

A bold retelling of the origins of contemporary Hinduism, and an argument against the long-established notion of religious reform. By the early eighteenth century, the Mughal Empire was in decline, and the East India Company was making inroads into the subcontinent. A century later Christian missionaries, Hindu teachers, Muslim saints, and Sikh rebels formed the colorful religious fabric of colonial India. Focusing on two early nineteenth-century Hindu communities, the Brahmo Samaj and the Swaminarayan Sampraday, and their charismatic figureheads—the “cosmopolitan” Rammohun Roy and the “parochial” Swami Narayan—Brian Hatcher explores how urban and rural people thought about faith, ritual, and gods. Along the way he sketches a radical new view of the origins of contemporary Hinduism and overturns the idea of religious reform. Hinduism Before Reform challenges the rigid structure of revelation-schism-reform-sect prevalent in much history of religion. Reform, in particular, plays an important role in how we think about influential Hindu movements and religious history at large. Through the lens of reform, one doctrine is inevitably backward-looking while another represents modernity. From this comparison flows a host of simplistic conclusions. Instead of presuming a clear dichotomy between backward and modern, Hatcher is interested in how religious authority is acquired and projected. Hinduism Before Reform asks how religious history would look if we eschewed the obfuscating binary of progress and tradition. There is another way to conceptualize the origins and significance of these two Hindu movements, one that does not trap them within the teleology of a predetermined modernity.