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Hinduism: A Cultural Perspective 2/e
David R. Kinsley
Published February 1993 by Prentice Hall
Copyright 1993, 208 pp., Paper
ISBN: 0-13-395732-2
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Summary

The reference provides an overview of the Hindu religious tradition and describes the essence of the Hindu vision of reality. KEY TOPICS:Provides a historical and analytical discussion of Hindu mythology, art, rituals, and social structure; gives extended portraits of important Hindu thinkers and saints; offers a fuller picture of the role of women in the Hindu religious tradition; shows how the concepts of Dharama and Moksha conflict with one another and how the Hindu tradition insists upon both concepts as essential in fulfilling human destiny. MARKET:A valuable reference for courses in Asian Religion, Theology, and Asian Philosophy.
Features

  • deals historically and analytically with many facets of Hindu culture: art, mythology, ritual, and social structure.
  • provides detailed descriptions of specific rituals and extended portraits of important Hindu thinkers and saints.
  • provides a full picture of the role of women and of female imagery in the Hindu religious tradition.
  • focuses equally on the concepts of dharma (social duty) and moksha (release from the material and social world).
  • provides diagrams and a detailed case study of the Hindus in Mysore State to illustrate how purity and pollution regulate the interactions between different castes.
Table of Contents

I. AN OVERVIEW OF THE HINDU TRADITION.

1. Introduction: Benares.

2. History.

3. Dissent within the Hindu Religious Tradition.

4. Hinduism and the Arts.

II. AN ANALYSIS OF THE HINDU TRADITION.

5. Central Hindu Beliefs.

6. Worship in the Hindu Tradition.

7. Sacred Female Imagery and Women's Religious Experience in Hinduism.

8. Hindu Social Structure.

9. Symbols and Structures: A Concluding Analysis.

Bibliography.

Glossary.

Index.



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