Hindu Images and their Worship with special reference to Vaisnavism: A philosophical-theological inquiry: Routledge Hindu Studies Series
Autor Julius J. Lipneren Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 apr 2017
This book focuses on Hindu images and their worship with special reference to Vaiṣṇavism, a major strand of Hinduism. Concentrating largely, but not exclusively, on Sanskritic source material, the author shows in the course of the book that Hindu image-worship may be understood via three levels of interpretation: the metaphysical/theological, the narratival or mythic, and the performative or ritual. Analysing the chief philosophical paradigm underlying Hindu image-worship and its implications, the book exemplifies its widespread application and tackles, among other topics such as the origins of image-worship in Hinduism, the transition from Vedic to image worship, a distinguishing feature of Hindu images: their multiple heads and limbs. Finally, with a view to laying the grounds for a more positive dialogic relationship between Hinduism and the "Abrahamic" faiths, which tend to condemn Hindu image-worship as "idolatry", the author examines the theological explanation and justification for embodiment of the Deity in Hinduism and discusses how Hinduism might justify itself against such a charge.
Rich in Indological detail, and with an impressive grasp of the philosophical and theological issues underlying Hindu material culture, and image-worship, this book will be of interest to academics and others studying theology, Indian philosophy and Hinduism.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781138291133
ISBN-10: 1138291137
Pagini: 258
Ilustrații: 5 Halftones, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Hindu Studies Series
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1138291137
Pagini: 258
Ilustrații: 5 Halftones, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Hindu Studies Series
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
PostgraduateCuprins
Introduction: On the Object and Scope of our Inquiry
Part 1
1. "The heathen in his blindness….": Methodological Considerations
2. In Retrospect: The Trajectory of Image-Worship in the Light of Yāmuna’s Āgamaprāmāṇya
3. On Conceptualizing the Foundations of Hindu Image-Worship
4. The Sāṃkhya Paradigm re-configured and re-imagined: Three Further Illustrations
Part 2
5. The Art of the Possible: On Establishing a Convention
6. Hindu dharma and the Making of Images
7. On the Sense and Sensibility of Hindu Religious Art
8. Deity Embodied: a Theological Consideration of the Form, Worship and Meaning of Hindu Images
Part 1
1. "The heathen in his blindness….": Methodological Considerations
2. In Retrospect: The Trajectory of Image-Worship in the Light of Yāmuna’s Āgamaprāmāṇya
3. On Conceptualizing the Foundations of Hindu Image-Worship
4. The Sāṃkhya Paradigm re-configured and re-imagined: Three Further Illustrations
Part 2
5. The Art of the Possible: On Establishing a Convention
6. Hindu dharma and the Making of Images
7. On the Sense and Sensibility of Hindu Religious Art
8. Deity Embodied: a Theological Consideration of the Form, Worship and Meaning of Hindu Images
Notă biografică
Julius J. Lipner is Professor Emeritus of Hinduism and the Comparative Study of Religion in the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of a number of books, including Hindus: their religious beliefs and practices (2nd edition, Routledge, London, 2010).
Recenzii
"In this volume, Julius J. Lipner offers a learned and detailed examination of Hindu images particularly, as the title suggests, in the Vaiṣṇava tradition. He reflects on them by way of a close reading of relevant texts, with attention to aesthetic, philosophical, religious, and theological implications. Underlying this study is Lipner’s keen sensitivity to the long history of Christian and Western hostility to idols, grounded in a sad history, in the deep-rooted religious dispositions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and in large part in grave misunderstanding of what Hindus actually do and mean by their worship. His richly nuanced, multifaceted study of images and their worship is a fine effort to remedy such misunderstanding, drawing as much as possible on Hindu sources, classical and modern, in order to counter a long history of confusion and suspicion. Rigorous in his scholarly standards throughout, Lipner also demonstrates comparative empathy, the "desire to open channels of communication in relationships of true reciprocity,"."
Francis X. Clooney, International Journal of Hindu Studies (2019)
Francis X. Clooney, International Journal of Hindu Studies (2019)
Descriere
This book focuses on Hindu images and their worship with special reference to Vaiṣṇavism, a major strand of Hinduism. Concentrating largely, but not exclusively, on Sanskritic source material, the author shows in the course of the book that Hindu image-worship may be understood via three levels of interpretation: the metaphysical/theological, the narratival or mythic, and the performative or ritual.