Download or read book Imagined Hinduism written by Geoffrey A Oddie and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2006-04-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an exploration of the emergence and refinement of the idea of Hinduism as it developed among British Protestant missionaries in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The text traces the growing use of the term 'Hinduism' as a category and label that has come to dominate the way scholars think about Indian religions.
Download or read book Imagining Hinduism written by Sharada Sugirtharajah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-02-24 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Hinduism is an indispensable guide to an immensely significant new understanding of the Hindu faith - that it exists largely as a construct of the Western imagination.
Download or read book The Goddess written by Mandakranta Bose and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how Hindus think about divinity in its feminine aspect, as the supreme creative energy of the cosmos. That energy is a single abstract idea but manifests itself in many forms, each imagined as a goddess with particular powers and functions.
Download or read book Rethinking Religion in India written by Esther Bloch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically assesses recent debates about the colonial construction of Hinduism. Written by experts in their field, the chapters present historical and empirical arguments as well as theoretical reflections on the topic, offering new insights into the nature of the construction of religion in India.
Download or read book Was Hinduism Invented written by Brian K. Pennington and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a large body of previously untapped literature, including documents from the Church Missionary Society and Bengali newspapers, Brian Pennington offers a fascinating portrait of the process by which "Hinduism" came into being. He argues against the common idea that the modern construction of religion in colonial India was simply a fabrication of Western Orientalists and missionaries. Rather, he says, it involved the active agency and engagement of Indian authors as well, who interacted, argued, and responded to British authors over key religious issues such as image-worship, sati, tolerance, and conversion.
Download or read book Picturing the Goddess written by Zo Newell and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Imagined Religious Communities written by Romila Thapar and published by . This book was released on 2005* with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hinduism written by Cassie Coleman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-05 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the Hindu Religion with its fascinating Rituals and History This book has eye-opening information about Hinduism that will help you to understand the religion, the Gods, beliefs, rituals and how it has evolved over time. Does Hinduism really have many Gods? Why do Hindus worship the cow? How about the dot... why do they wear it near the middle of their forehead? Why are they forbidden to eat meat...' These are just a few of the countless questions many people ask or wonder about Hinduism, and, whether you are a Hindu or not, there must be questions you may be desiring to get answers to as regards to the Hindu culture/practices, religion or even their history. Hinduism is special and has a lot of material, perhaps because it is the oldest known religion in the world. It therefore provides a lot to learn, and you do not want to miss out on ANYTHING in our journey through Hinduism as we explore the main aspects of Hinduism including the Gods, culture, the structure of their society, beliefs and so on. Did you know that the supreme spirit in Hinduism is believed to be both male and female? Well, you will discover more than you ever imagined exists in Hinduism and by the end of this book, you'll know a lot about a religion that has over one billion followers worldwide. This book will cover these topics and more: A Comprehensive Background and the History of Hinduism The Hindu Gods and Goddesses The Lesser Divinities The Main Tenets of Hinduism The Hindu Rites of Passage The Common Question Asked About Hinduism A Comparison Between Buddhism and Hinduism And more! Get the book now and learn more about Hinduism
Download or read book Heathen Hindoo Hindu written by Michael J. Altman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, there are more than two million Hindus in America. But before the twentieth century, Hinduism was unknown in the United States. But while Americans did not write about "Hinduism," they speculated at length about "heathenism," "the religion of the Hindoos," and "Brahmanism." In Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu, Michael J. Altman argues that this is not a mere sematic distinction-a case of more politically correct terminology being accepted over time-but a way that Americans worked out their own identities. American representations of India said more about Americans than about Hindus. Cotton Mather, Hannah Adams, and Joseph Priestley engaged the larger European Enlightenment project of classifying and comparing religion in India. Evangelical missionaries used images of "Hindoo heathenism" to raise support at home. Unitarian Protestants found a kindred spirit in the writings of Bengali reformer Rammohun Roy. Popular magazines and common school books used the image of dark, heathen, despotic India to buttress Protestant, white, democratic American identity. Transcendentalists and Theosophists imagined the contemplative and esoteric religion of India as an alternative to materialist American Protestantism. Hindu delegates and American speakers at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions engaged in a protracted debate about the definition of religion in industrializing America. Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu is a groundbreaking analysis of American representations of religion in India before the turn of the twentieth century. Altman reorients American religious history and the history of Asian religions in America, showing how Americans of all sorts imagined India for their own purposes. The questions that animated descriptions of heathens, Hindoos, and Hindus in the past, he argues, still animate American debates today.
Download or read book Handbook of Hinduism in Europe 2 vols written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 1677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Rational Refutation of the Hindu Philosophical Systems written by Nehemiah Nilakantha Gore and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Imagined Manuv d written by Shashi Shekhar Sharma and published by books catalog. This book was released on 2005 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes a very significant contribution to the study of the Dharmasastras. The texts belonging to the Dharmasastric tradition - both sutra and smrti - have been studied and evaluated with deep sensitivity and critical acumen. The historical context in which the Sutras and Smrti works were compiled, and the role these works played in the socio-cultural life of the Hindus have been highlighted with great clarity.
Download or read book The Place of Devotion written by Sukanya Sarbadhikary and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The anthropology of Hinduism has amply established that Hindus have strong involvement with sacred geography. The Hindu sacred topography is dotted with innumerable pilgrimage places, and popular Hinduism is abundant with spatial imaginings. Thus Shiva and his partner, the mother goddess, live in the Himalayas, goddesses descend on earth as beautiful rivers, the goddess Kali's body parts are imagined to have fallen in various sites of Hindu geography sanctifying them as sacred centres, and yogis meditate in forests. Bengal similarly has a thriving culture of exalting sacred centres and pilgrimage places, one of the most important among them being the Navadvip-Mayapur sacred complex, Bengal's greatest site of guru-centred Vaishnavite pilgrimage and devotional life. The main question my book seeks to answer is what sites and senses of place beyond physical geographical ones can do to our notions of space/place, affect, and sanctity. While the contemporary anthropology of place and embodiment, following Edward Casey's philosophy (1993), is dominated by the idea of body-in-place, my book seeks to extend his formulations by also analysing cultural constructions and experiences of place in the body, mind etc. Traveling through both exterior and interior landscapes, I show that the practitioner inhabits Krishna's world through every daily religious practice. The synaesthesia that results from the overlap of these different planes of experience confirms the intensely transformative power of Vaishnava ritual processes"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book A Manual of Hindu Pantheism written by G. A. Jacob and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THERE INTRODUCTORY STANZA. To the Self, existent, intelligence, bliss, impartite, beyond the range of speech and thought, the substrate of all, I resort for the attainment of the desired thing.* * Emancipation. NOTES ON INTRODUCTORY STANZA. "All philosophy strives after unity. It is its aim, its task, to reduce complexity to simplicity, the many to the one." The Upanishads tell us that this was the aim of Indian philosophers, and they not always Brahmans, in very early times. In the Mundaka, for example, it is related that the illustrious son of Sunaka approached the sage Angiras with due ceremony, and inquired of him what that was which, being known, all things would be known. He was told in reply that the wise regard "the invisible, intangible, unrelated, colourless one, who has neither eyes nor ears, neither hands nor feet, eternal, all-pervading, subtile and undecaying, as the source of all things." This is, of course, Brahma, the so-called Absolute of the Vedanta, the Self of the verse before us; and the system then evolved from the inner consciousness of those early thinkers, but modified it would seem by Sankaracharya, and so stereotyped by his successors, continues to the present day; and not only so, but whilst the other five schools have well-nigh ceased to exert any appreciable influence, this "has overspread the whole land, overgrown the whole Hindu mind and life." In this opening verse Brahma is described as I. Existent (sat). The Vedanta postulates three kinds of existence, which it terms true (paramarthika), practical (vyavaharika), and apparent (pratibhasika). Brahma is the sole representative of the first. The second includes Iswara, individual souls, heaven, hell, and all phenomena. These are said to be imagined by ignorance, and to have no more true existence than things seen in a dream; but men have practical dealings with them as if they truly existed, so they are admitted to exist practically or conventionally. The third class comprises such things as a mirage, nacre mistaken for silver, or a snake imagined in a rope, which are the result of some defect, such as short-sight, &c, in addition to ignorance. Yet it is believed that "when a man on seeing nacre, takes it for silver, apparent silver is really produced!" All these then are, from certain standpoints, real existences; but, to him who has true knowledge, the first alone is real. This theory of existences is intended to explain away the finite and establish the infinite; but it cannot be admitted to have been successful. The existence of an invisible Being, who is entirely out of relation to the world, and devoid of apprehension, will, activity, and all other qualities, cannot possibly be established.
Download or read book The Idol and the Machine written by Joseph DeFalco Lamperez and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This project shows that Romantic writers compared the factory system to Indian theology and ritual, figuring Hinduism as a lens through which they imagined the Industrial Revolution. Texts that repurpose Hinduism in this way also suggest that manufacturing paganizes British imaginations and institutions, so that technology becomes the medium through which Britons identify with their religious others at the margins of empire. While we know that writers secularized Christianity in order to reimagine nature as a bulwark against manufacturing, depicting the industrial era as a fall from agrarian grace, my project shows that paganism and technology--the antitheses of the Christian and the natural--instead framed industrialism as a widespread conversion to pagan ways of feeling and acting. Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, Claudius Buchanan, William Ward, and Rudyard Kipling thus created new metaphors to fashion a poetic sensibility responsive to manufacturing, reframing Romanticism as a vital witness to the birth of modern technologies in the process. The introduction establishes the material and rhetorical foundations for depictions of pagan technology, the umbrella term that I use to refer to metaphors that blend manufacturing and Hinduism. I show that these figures respond to established patterns in pre-existing discourses of Hinduism and machinery even while blending them into a new gestalt. The first chapter shows that in The Curse of Kehama (1810) and his neglected Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society (1829), Southey implies that the Industrial Revolution amounts to a new breed of religious network. Likening the world order made possible by technologies to the cosmic ambitions of Kehama, his own tyrant-cum-demigod, the Colloquies suggests an allegorical reading of Southey's epic on Hinduism that explores how technological and imperial networks intertwine, while updating the age-old fear that technology deprives humans of divine grace. My second chapter shows that Wordsworth's Excursion (1815) describes religious and technological systems as the twinned offspring of his marriage of the mind and nature. The manufacturing system described in Book 8 appears no less pagan than the ancient religions detailed in Book IV. This comparison aestheticizes scientific enterprise, which otherwise becomes inimical to the imagination. Wordsworth's solution to a rationalizing age is thus to paganize technology. The third chapter, meanwhile, examines representations of the Indian god known as the Juggernaut in Buchanan's polemics and Shelley's The Triumph of Life (1822). Together, they present an unrecognized model of the imagination that affords visionary experience at the expense of enthrallment to invisible systems. I then claim that this model presides over other depictions of pagan technology. The conclusion examines two authors whose depictions of Hinduism and technology do not rely on metaphor. William Ward figures popular Hinduism as a technological system. This depiction of subaltern Indians affords them the dignity otherwise reserved for Europeans familiar with sophisticated machines. Yet where these machines emerge from--Ward himself, or Bengali subalterns--remains unclear. In "The Mark of the Beast" (1890) and "The Bridge-Builders" (1893), meanwhile, Rudyard Kipling represses the presence of pagan technologies, suggesting that technology neutralizes paganism, instead of acting as its medium. Thus, he seeks to undo the Romantic investment in the metaphors investigated throughout this dissertation"--Pages ix-x
Download or read book Jewish Approaches to Hinduism written by Richard G. Marks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores past expressions of the Jewish interest in Hinduism in order to learn what Hinduism has meant to Jews living mainly in the 12th through the 19th centuries. India and Hinduism, though never at the center of Jewish thought, claim a place in its history, in the picture Jews held of the wider world, of other religions and other human beings. Each chapter focuses on a specific author or text and examines the literary context as well as the cultural context, within and outside Jewish society, that provided images and ideas about India and its religions. Overall the volume constructs a history of ideas that changed over time with different writers in different settings. It will be especially relevant to scholars interested in Jewish thought, comparative religion, interreligious dialogue, and intellectual history.
Download or read book Hinduism and Hindi Theater written by Diana Dimitrova and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the representation of Hinduism through myth and discourse in urban Hindi theatre in the period 1880-1960. It discusses representative works of seven influential playwrights and looks into the ways they have imagined and re-imagined Hindu traditions. Diana Dimitrova examines the intersections of Hinduism and Hindi theatre, emphasizing the important role that both myth and discourse play in the representation of Hindu traditions in the works of Bharatendu Harishcandra, Jayshankar Prasad, Lakshminarayan Mishra, Jagdishcandra Mathur, Bhuvaneshvar, Upendranath Ashk, and Mohan Rakesh. Dimitrova’a analysis suggests either a traditionalist or a more modernist stance toward religious issues. She emphasizes the absence of Hindi-speaking authors who deal with issues implicit to the Muslim or Sikh or Jain, etc. traditions. This prompts her to suggest that Hindi theatre of the period 1880-1960, as represented in the works of the seven dramatists discussed, should be seen as truly ‘Hindu-Hindi’ theatre.
