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On Hinduism de Wendy Doniger

On Hinduism

Autor Wendy Doniger
en Limba Engleză Hardback – mar 2013
On Hinduism contains a list of related essays that aim to explore the various concerns that are connected to Hinduism. These matters are as relevant today as they were in the olden times of the Vedas. The book raises many longstanding questions such as what changes have come in the Hindu beliefs concerning death, rebirth and Karma over so many years? In what way can a remorseful Hindu gain salvation? What do animals like dogs and cows mean to Hinduism? Why do are Hindus have conflicting ideas of Ahimsa?
The book also gives readers an understanding of how and under what conditions a religion that embraces a plethora of cultures and races also promotes intolerance on so many levels. The book culminates with a string of autobiographical essays by the author.
On Hinduism is a convincing study of one of the greatest faiths in the world. The book gives readers a better grip on the ancient and multifaceted religion that is Hinduism.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789382277071
ISBN-10: 9382277072
Pagini: 682
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 44 mm
Greutate: 1.26 kg
Editura: Repro India Limited

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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.

Recenzii

For anyone seeking a deeper and more nuanced understanding of Hinduism, this book is a must read.
Clear and direct this will stand as a reliable resource to return to frequently.
On Hinduism is a treat. For those who already know and admire Wendy Doniger's work, this is a handy (if hefty) compendium of many of her essays.... For those who are reading her for the first time, the book is a marvellous introduction to the multiple ways that Hinduism can be approached and understood through the stories that it tells.... In short, the book is a winner on all counts.
Doniger really is a surprising writer. When you are not busy being astounded by her knowledge of the religion and its history, you are left wondering at the beautiful stories she culls out from ancient Hindu texts, and the unexpected connections she draws between pieces which appear centuries apart from each other. But the picture she paints is always complete, and the analysis she draws always fulfilling.
These lively essays, flowing from Wendy Doniger's decades-long encounter with Hinduism, show us what can happen when an extraordinary mind takes up an even more extraordinary subject. The constant freshness of her insights, the remarkable range of her reading, her eye for gender, and her unrivalled ability to enter and enact a story-all this is revealed over and over as we turn these pages. A collection to honor and celebrate.
This is a wonderful book, written with the grace and humor we have come to expect from Professor Doniger. There is an energy to the writing that carries the reader along. The book succeeds in presenting the complex and contentious range of cultural forms we call 'Hinduism' in a way that explains their complexity while identifying their uniting features. This book is a treat and pleasure to read.

Notă biografică

Wendy Doniger [O'Flaherty] graduated from Radcliffe College and received her Ph. D. from Harvard University and her D. Phil. from Oxford University. She has been a full professor in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago since 1978 and is the author of many translations of Sanskrit texts as well as books about Hindu mythology and cross-cultural mythology, particularly about illusion, animals, gender, and sex, most recently The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade, The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was, and The Hindus: An Alternative History.

Cuprins

  • Introduction: Foreword into the Past
  • A Chronology
  • I. On Being Hindu
  • Hinduism by Any Other Name
  • Are Hindus Monotheists or Polytheists?
  • Three (or More) Forms of the Three (or More) - Fold Path in Hinduism
  • The Concept of Heresy in Hinduism
  • Eating Karma
  • Medical and Mythical Constructions of the Body in Sakskrit Texts
  • Death and Rebirth in Hinduism
  • Forgetting and Re-awakening to Incarnation
  • Assume the Position: The Fight over the Body of Yoga
  • The Toleration of Intolerance in Hinduism
  • The Politics of Hinduism Tomorrow
  • II. Gods, Humans and Anti-Gods
  • Saguna and Nirguna Images of the Deity
  • You Can't Get Here from There: The Logical Paradox of Hindu Creation Myths
  • Together Apart: Changing Ethical Implications of Hindu Cosmologies
  • God's Body, or, the Lingam Made Flesh: Conflicts over the Representation of Shiva
  • Sacrifice and Subsitution: Ritual Mystification and Mythical Demystification in Hinduism
  • The Scrapbook of Undeserved Salvation: The Kedara Khanda of the Skanda Purana
  • III. Women and Other Genders
  • Why Should a Brahmin Tell You Whom to Marry?: A Deconstruction of the Laws of Manu
  • Saranyu/Samjna: The Sun and the Shadow
  • The Clever Wife in Indian Mythology
  • Rings of Rejection and Recognition in Ancient India
  • The Third Nature: Gender Inversions in the Kamasutra
  • Bisexuality and Transsexuality Among the Hindu Gods
  • Transsexual Transformations of Subjectivity and Memory in Hindu Mythology
  • IV. Kama and other Seductions
  • The Control of Addiction in Ancient India
  • Reading the Kamasutra: It Isn't All About Sex
  • The Mythology of the Kamasutra
  • From Kama to Karma: The Resurgence of Puritanism in Contemporary India
  • V. Horses and Other Animals
  • The Ambivalence of Ahimsa
  • Zoomorphism in Ancient India: Humans More Bestial Than Beasts
  • The Mythology of Horses in India
  • The Submarine Mare in the Mythology of Shiva
  • Indra as the Stallion's Wife
  • Dogs as Dalits in Indian Literature
  • Sacred Cows and Beefeaters
  • VI. Illusion and Reality in the Hindu Epics
  • Impermanence and Eternity in Hindu Epic, Art and Performance
  • Shadows of the Ramayana
  • Women in the Mahabharata
  • The History of Ekalavya
  • VII. On Not Being Hindu
  • "I Have Scinde": Orientalism and Guilt
  • Doniger O'Flaherty on Doniger
  • You Can't Make an Omelette
  • The Forest-Dweller
  • Appendix I: Limericks on Hinduism
  • Appendix II: Essays on Hinduism by Wendy Doniger
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index