The Blackwell companion to Hinduism / edited by Gavin Flood.

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Other Authors: Flood, Gavin D., 1954-
Language:English
Published: [Malden, Mass.] : Blackwell Publishing, [2007?]
Series:Blackwell companions to religion.
Subjects:
Hinduism.
Electronic books.
Genre:
Electronic books.
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Physical Description:1 electronic text : html.
Online version of the print edition publ. in 2003 as part of the series: Blackwell companions to religion.
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction: Establishing the boundaries / Gavin Flood
  • PART I. THEORETICAL ISSUES
  • Colonialism and the construction of Hinduism / Gauri Viswanathan
  • Orientalism and Hinduism / David Smith
  • PART II. TEXT AND TRADITION
  • Vedas and upaniṣads / Michael Witzel
  • Dharmaśāstras / Ludo Rocher
  • Sanskrit epics / John Brockington
  • Purāṇas / Freda Matchett
  • Tamil Hindu literature / Norman Cutler
  • Literature of Hinduism in Malayalam / Rich Freeman
  • North Indian Hindi devotional literature / Nancy M. Martin
  • Śaiva traditions / Gavin Flood
  • History of Vaiṣṇava traditions: an esquisse / Gérard Colas
  • Renouncer tradition / Patrick Olivelle
  • Householder tradition in Hindu society / T.N. Madan
  • Teyyam tradition of Kerala / Rich Freeman
  • Month of kārtik and women's ritual devotions to Krishna in Benares / Tracy Pintchman
  • PART III. SYSTEMATIC THOUGHT
  • Introduction ; Science of language / Frits Staal
  • Indian mathematics / Takao Hayashi
  • Calendar, astrology, and astronomy / Michio Yano
  • Science of medicine / Dominik Wujastyk
  • Hinduism and the proper work of reason / Jonardon Ganeri
  • Restoring "Hindu theology" as a category in Indian intellectual discourse / Francis Clooney
  • Mantra / André Padoux
  • PART IV. SOCIETY, POLITICS, AND NATION
  • On the relationship between caste and Hinduism / Declan Quigley
  • Modernity, reform, and revival / Dermot Killingley
  • Contemporary political Hinduism / C. Ram-Prasad
  • Goddess and the nation: subterfuges of antiquity, the cunning of modernity / Sumathi Ramaswamy
  • Gender in a devotional universe / Vasudha Narayanan.