Download or read book Hinduism According to Gandhi written by Radhisu M and published by Orient Paperbacks. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical interpretation of the oldest living tradition by one of the greatest thinker-philosopher of the twentieth century. Hinduism has always been more than just a religion; it is a comprehensive way of life, a tradition by which people can live. In spite of its all inclusive character, it has a metaphysical core that is timeless and is intended to interpret reality to its people, to make life more meaningful, to provide them with a framework for their individual and social existence, and finally address their longing for ultimate freedom and salvation. Going beyond the accepted and the historical boundaries of Hinduism, Gandhi identifies its acceptable and unacceptable overtones and associations, and gives expression to its humane nature and beliefs — an interpretation every bit original and to be accepted on its own terms.

Download or read book The Essence of Hinduism written by Durga Das Basu and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Demystifying Brahminism and Re Inventing Hinduism written by Satya Shri and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Religion is a tool in the hands of the oppressor against the oppressed solely because he frames the commandments and calls them the God’s’, is an apt description of the Hindu social order. The book rips open the raw nerve of Hinduism—its invidious castes, positioned as a ‘God-ordained’ institution, commandeered by its freebooter priestly class while clandestinely establishing its religious, social and political hegemony through interpolation of its pristine and effulgent scriptures. The author boldly analyses this imbroglio through a microscopic analysis of these and more related issues: • How priests controlled the Hindu religious, social, educational and political apparatus? • How the dominant priestly class fractured the society into mutually antagonistic subordinated hierarchical segments, and ruled it by reserving all elite jobs for itself? • How the fiendish priesthood emasculated shudras by depriving them of the ‘shaastra and shastra’ (education and arms) and made them permanent ‘village servant classes’? • How the pretensions of attaining siddhis through 'meditation and penances' established priests as the ‘gods on earth’ for their assertions of ‘purity and effulgence’? • How ‘karma’, ‘reincarnation’ and ‘84-lakhs births’ theories were devised to justify fatalism and hierarchical gradation of varnas? • Can India be rightfully called the ‘vishvaguru’ and the mother of all civilisations? • How Buddhism effeminated Hindus and made them the doormats for the ruthless? • Why Hindus had to abandon their own, to adop foreign institutions of governance? • Why Hinduism should become a universal and proselytising faith and fight demographic challenges posed by Islam and Christianity?

Download or read book A Brief Introduction To Hinduism written by A. L. Herman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "“I have read Arthur Herman’s Introduction to Hinduism with considerable interest and pleasure. It is bold and innovative, clearly written, well organized, and quite provocative.” —Eliot Deutsch University of Ha wail at Manoa "

Download or read book Popular Hinduism written by L. S. S. O'Malley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1935, this volume provides a discussion of the structures of belief and practice in popular Hinduism. Taking into account the complexity of Hinduism, and its position as a composite religion of many diverse elements, the text goes on to find certain common elements which draw together its various aspects. The relationship between Hinduism and social organisation is also considered, with detailed discussion regarding the importance of the caste system. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in historical interpretations of Hinduism and religious studies in general.

Download or read book Hinduism Reconsidered written by Günther-Dietz Sontheimer and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed papers presented at the 9th European Conference of Modern South Asian Studies at Wihelmsfeld in 1986.

Download or read book The Life of Hinduism written by John Stratton Hawley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-12-04 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Life of Hinduism' collects a series of essays that present Hinduism as a vibrant, truly 'lived' religion. The text offers a glimpse into the multifaceted world of Hindu worship, life-cycle rites, festivals, performances, gurus, and castes.

Download or read book Hinduism and Buddhism written by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and published by Golden Elixir Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents in many ways the most complete achievement of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947). -- Back cover.

Download or read book Transformed Hinduism written by Emile P. Berg and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Br hmanism and Hind ism Or Religious Thought and Life in India written by Sir Monier Monier-Williams and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Essence of Hinduism written by Mahatma Gandhi and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hinduism written by Swami Vivekananda and published by Sri Ramakrishna Math. This book was released on with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five lectures by Swami Vivekananda that define Hinduism as a universal religion and explain its common bases, philosophy and the four yogas.

Download or read book Vedantic Hinduism in Colonial Bengal written by Victor A. van Bijlert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which modern Hindu identities were constructed in the early nineteenth century. It draws parallels between sixteenth and eventeenth Cecntury Protestantism and the rise of modernity in the West, and the Hindu reformation in the nineteenth century which contributed to the rise of Vedantic Hindu modernity discourse in India. The nineteenth century Hindu modernity, it is argued, sought both individual flourishing and collective emancipation from Western domination. For the first time Hinduism began to be constructed as a religion of sacred texts. In particular, texts belonging to what could be loosely called Vedanta: Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita. In this way, the main protagonists of this Vedantist modernity were imitating Western Protestantism, but at the same time also inventing totally novel interpretations of what it meant to be Hindu. The book traces the major ideological paths taken in this cultural-religious reformation from its originator Rammohun Roy up to its last major influence, Rabindranath Tagore. Bringing these two versions of modernity into conversation brings a unique view on the formation of modern Hindu identities. It will, therefore, be of great interest to scholars of religious, Hindu and South Asian studies, as well as religious istory and interreligious dialogue.

Download or read book Source Book Modern Hinduism written by Glyn Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in the year 2004, Source Book Modern Hinduism is a valuable contribution to the field of Asian Studies.

Download or read book A Critical Study of Hinduism written by Sarasvati Chennakesavan and published by New York : Asia Publishing House. This book was released on 1974 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hinduism and Modernity written by David Smith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examination of Hinduism in the context of modernity will be of interest to all students of Hinduism, as well as to those interested in the sociology and history of religion. It shows Hinduism to be a highly dynamic world-view which challenges western notions of modernity. The book considers a broad range of topics including women, the caste system, the self, divinities and gurus. It also contains up-to-date discussions of modern Hindu culture and beliefs.· Modernity and Hinduism· India and the Juggernaut of Modernity· Hinduism Ancient and Modern· Islam and Hinduism· The Western Discovery of Hinduism· Hinduism and Orientalism· Woman Caste (Aurat Jati) and the Gender of Modernity· Kali East and West· The Gods Of Hinduism and the Idols of Modernity· The Image of the Self· Gurus· Modernity and Hindu Nationalism· Hinduism and the Global Future

Download or read book Hinduism and Women written by Mallādi Subbamma and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the Hinduism through the ages and its attitude towards Hindu women.