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Hindus: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices: The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices

Autor Julius Lipner
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Julius Lipner’s Hindus is widely recognised as essential reading for everyone wishing to understand one of the world’s great religious traditions. Hinduism comprises the religion and culture of the great majority of the people of India, a country tipped to become a world superpower politically, economically and culturally in the course of the present century. The vast array of diverse beliefs and practices usually described as ‘Hindu’ has been notoriously difficult to corral under a single regulating theme. Julius Lipner provides not only a wide-ranging introduction to Hindu religious and cultural diversity but also suggests a way to characterize Hinduism as a distinct tradition that has survived and adapted to changing circumstances from ancient times to the present day. Lipner is a recognised authority on Hinduism's polycentric emphasis, and his book is based on a lifetime of research and personal experience of his subject.
In this thoroughly revised and substantially enlarged second edition, students of Hinduism will find more coverage of the debate about Hindu origins, the nature and practice of Hindu worship, the role of women, the scope of dharma and morality, Hindu philosophical thought and the use of reason, and the way caste functions.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415456777
ISBN-10: 0415456770
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Preface to the Second Edition  1. About ‘Hindu’, Hinduism and this Book  Part 1: Guiding Voices  2. The Voice of Scripture as Veda (I): Performing the Word  3. The Voice of Scripture as Veda (II): Discerning the Word  4. The Voice of Scripture as Veda and ‘Veda’  5. The Voice of Tradition: Smrti and its Divisions (I)  6. The Voice of Tradition: Smrti and its Divisions (II)  7. The Voice of Tradition: Caste and its Realities.  8. The Voice of Tradition: Itihasa and Sacred Narrative  9. The Voice of Tradition: Folklore and the Intellectual Heritage  10. The Voice of Experience  Part 2: Reason and Morality  11. A Story with a Tale  12. Morality and the Person: the Belief in Karma and Rebirth  Part 3: Images of Time, Space, and Eternity  13. Reckoning Time and ‘Progress’  14. The Sacred and its Forms  15. Ways, Means, and Ends  Concluding Postscript.  Select Glossary.  Bibliography.  Index

Recenzii

'A landmark in the study of the Hindu traditions when it was first published, Julius Lipner’s Hindus is now even more outstanding.  It incorporates the results of recent research (much of it by the author himself) in a substantially expanded and revised text, which brings clearly to the fore Lipner’s illuminating understanding of the Hindu traditions as polycentric.  More than ever this book is essential reading for anyone interested in them.' - John Brockington, University of Edinburgh, UK