The Hindu Traditions
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Author | : Mark W. Muesse |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1451414005 |
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Renowned lecturer from The Teaching Company, Mark W. Muesse brings readers into an encounter with the world's oldest living religious tradition, known as Hinduism. Muesse's brief survey, challenges the perception of Hinduism as one religious tradition, showing how wonderfully rich and diverse this 5,000-year old story truly is. He traces the vast history and practices of classic and diverse traditions, moving from the origins in the Indus Valley up through classic and contemporary periods. Muesse exhibits a keen sense of the myriad spiritualities associated with Hinduism, demonstrating how the religious tradition is both monotheistic and polytheistic.
Author | : Prem P. Bhalla |
Publisher | : Pustak Mahal |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Hinduism |
ISBN | : 812230902X |
Download Hindu Rites, Rituals, Customs and Traditions Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Rites, rituals and customs play a major role in the life of every person, irrespective of religious affiliations.Right from the time of birth, till a person's passing away and even after it, rites and rituals follow a Hindu, much like a shadow. This book outlines all these practices from the sunrise to the sunset years. It makes for an enlightening reading for Hindus as well as non-Hindus.
Author | : Knut A. Jacobsen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2013-03-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1136240314 |
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Salvific space is one of the central ideas in the Hindu traditions of pilgrimage, and concerns the ability of space, especially sites associated with bodies of water such as rivers and lakes, to grant salvific rewards. Focusing on religious, historical and sociological questions about the phenomenon, this book investigates the narratives, rituals, history and structures of salvific space, and looks at how it became a central feature of Hinduism. Arguing that salvific power of place became a major dimension of Hinduism through a development in several stages, the book analyses the historical process of how salvific space and pilgrimage in the Hindu tradition developed. It discusses how the traditions of salvific space exemplify the decentred polycentrism that defines Hinduism. The book uses original data from field research, as well as drawing on main textual sources such as Mahābhārata, the Purāṇas, the medieval digests on pilgrimage places (tīrthas), and a number of Sthalapurāṇas and Māhātmyas praising the salvific power of the place. By looking at some of the contradictions in and challenges to the tradition of Hindu salvific space in history and in contemporary India, the book is a useful study on Hinduism and South Asian Studies.
Author | : K V Singh |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2015-11-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9385890042 |
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Why is the tulsi considered sacred? What is the significance of namaste? Why do Hindus light a lamp before performing a ritual? Why is it forbidden to sleep facing the south? Why do Hindus chant 'shanti' three times after performing a rite? Millions of Hindus the world over grow up observing rites, rituals and religious practices that lie at the heart of Hinduism, but which they don't know the significance of. Often the age-old customs, whose relevance is lost to modern times, are dismissed as meaningless superstitions. The truth, however, is that these practices reveal the philosophical and scientific approach to life that has characterized Hindu thought since ancient times; it is important to revive their original meanings today. This handy book tells the fascinating stories and explains the science behind the Hindu rites and rituals that we sometimes follow blindly. It is essential reading for anyone interested in India's cultural tradition.
Author | : Mandakranta Bose |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2010-01-19 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1135192588 |
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This book accounts for the origin and evolution of the nature and roles of women within the Hindu belief system. It explains how the idea of the goddess has been derived from Hindu philosophical ideas and texts of codes of conduct and how particular models of conduct for mortal women have been created. Hindu religious culture correlates philosophical speculation and social imperatives to situate femininity on a continuum from divine to mortal existence. This creates in the Hindu consciousness multiple - often contradictory - images of women, both as wielders and subjects of authority. The conception and evolution of the major Hindu goddesses, placed against the judgments passed by texts of Hindu sacred law on women’s nature and duties, illuminate the Hindu discourse on gender, the complexity of which is compounded by the distinctive spirituality of female ascetic poets. Drawing on a wide range of Sanskrit texts, the author explains how the idea of the goddess has been derived from Hindu philosophical ideas and also from the social roles of women as reflected in, and prescribed by, texts of codes of conduct. She examines the idea of female divinity which gave rise to models of conduct for mortal women. Instead of a one-way order of ideological derivation, the author argues that there is constant traffic between both ways the notional and the actual feminine. This book brings together for the first time a wide range of material and offers fresh stimulating interpretations of women in the Hindu Tradition.
Author | : Akshoy Kumar Mazumdar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 896 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Hinduism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Thomas J. Hopkins |
Publisher | : Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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Comprehensive survey of Hindu development from the Indus civilization to the present. -- From product description.
Author | : Trinath Mishra |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Death |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mahatma Gandhi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Hinduism |
ISBN | : 9788123709277 |
Download What is Hinduism? Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Gavin Flood |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 019873350X |
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An authoritative collection on the history of Hindu religious practices. Hindu Practice considers traditions of asceticism, yoga, and devotion, including dance and music, developed in Hinduism over long periods of time.