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What is Hinduism?

- A Student's Introduction

  • Format
  • Bog, paperback
  • Engelsk

Beskrivelse

This book is an engaging introduction to the complex religious tradition of Hinduism. Central to its focus is demonstrating the fundamental diversity within Hinduism through the multiplicity of its core beliefs and traditions.

Chapters are divided into four historical categories – Vedic, Ascetic, Classical, and Contemporary Hinduism – with each examining one deity alongside one key term, serving as a twin focal point for a more complex discussion of related key texts, ideas, social structures, religious practices, festivals, and concepts such as ritual and sacrifice, music and devotion, and engagement and renunciation. The organization of this book requires that we see deities as not simply divine individuals who preside over one part of the Hindu world, but that each deity operates as a larger cultural category whose related persons, concepts, and practices provide a vivid lens through which Hindu devotees see and continue to readapt to the world in which they live.

With study questions, glossaries, and lists of key contemporary figures, this book is an essential and comprehensive resource for students encountering the multiplicity of Hinduism for the first time.

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal210
  • Udgivelsesdato17-05-2024
  • ISBN139781138326088
  • Forlag Routledge
  • FormatPaperback
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  • Vægt453 g
  • coffee cup img
    10 cm
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    15,6 cm
    23,4 cm

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