The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism - Hardcover

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9780631215356: The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631215352 ISBN 13: 9780631215356

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003

An ideal resource for courses on Hinduism or world religions, this accessible volume spans the entire field of Hindu studies. It provides a forum for the best scholars in the world to make their views and research available to a wider audience.

Comprehensively covers the textual traditions of Hinduism
Features four coherent sections covering theoretical issues, textual traditions, science and philosophy, and Hindu society and politics
Reflects the trend away from essentialist understandings of Hinduism towards tradition and regional-specific studies
Includes material on Hindu folk religions and stresses the importance of region in analyzing Hinduism
Ideal for use on university courses.

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Book Description:

This volume presents the most recent scholarly thinking about Hinduism in an accessible way. It provides a forum for the best scholars in the world to make their views and research available to a wider audience. While comprehensively covering the textual traditions of Hinduism, the volume also includes material on Hindu folk religions and stresses the importance of region in analyzing Hinduism. In doing so, it reflects the current move away from essentialist understandings of Hinduism and towards traditionally and regionally specific studies. The Companion as a whole spans the entire field of Hindu studies and is divided into four coherent sections: theoretical issues, textual traditions, theologies, and Hindu society and politics.

About the Author:

Gavin Flood is Head of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Stirling. Among his publications are Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of Religion (1999), An Introduction to Hinduism (1996), and Body and Cosmology in Kashmir Œaivism (1993).

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