Author: Jan GondaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Haviryajnah Somah: the Interrelations of the Vedic Solemn Sacrifices Sankhayana Srautasutra 14, 1-13
Author: Jan GondaOn Hinduism
Author: Wendy DonigerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019936009X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 681
Book Description
In this magisterial volume of essays, Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted herself for half a century. This series of interconnected essays and lectures surveys the most critically important and hotly contested issues in Hinduism over 3,500 years, from the ancient time of the Vedas to the present day. The essays contemplate the nature of Hinduism; Hindu concepts of divinity; attitudes concerning gender, control, and desire; the question of reality and illusion; and the impermanent and the eternal in the two great Sanskrit epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Among the questions Doniger considers are: Are Hindus monotheists or polytheists? How can atheists be Hindu, and how can unrepentant Hindu sinners find salvation? Why have Hindus devoted so much attention to the psychology of addiction? What does the significance of dogs and cows tell us about Hinduism? How have Hindu concepts of death, rebirth, and karma changed over the course of history? How and why does a pluralistic faith, remarkable for its intellectual tolerance, foster religious intolerance? Doniger concludes with four concise autobiographical essays in which she reflects on her lifetime of scholarship, Hindu criticism of her work, and the influence of Hinduism on her own philosophy of life. On Hinduism is the culmination of over forty years of scholarship from a renowned expert on one of the world's great faiths.
Index India
Author: Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Author: The International Who's who 1983-84
Author: Who's whoPublisher:
ISBN: 9780905118864
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1556
Book Description
The International Who's Who, 1991-92
Author: 55 1991-92Publisher: Europa Publications (PA)
ISBN: 9780946653706
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1826
Book Description
Book Review Index
Author: Gary C. TarbertPublisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN: 9780810305755
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
Books in Print Supplement
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2576
Book Description
Beyond Dialogue
Author: John B. Cobb Jr.Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725206870
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Christian Reflection about other religions has often misinterpreted the truth of the other Ways. The Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of churches stress that Christians can gain an appreciative understanding of other traditions only through meaningful dialogue with believers of other faiths. This book, however, emphasizes the need for Christians to go beyond dialogue, to reach for a mutual transformation of Christianity and other religions. By way of example, the author explores with originality the Christian encounter with Mahayana Buddhism. He offer an original view of how Christianity and Buddhism can appropriately transform one another when both partners are truly respected as equal. Both contributing, both benefiting. John Cobb boldly challenges us "to hear in an authentic way the truth which the other has to teach us" and to be transformed by that truth.