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A survey of Hinduism
Title
A survey of Hinduism / Klaus K. Klostermaier.
ISBN
0791470814
9780791470817
0791470822 (pbk)
9780791470824 (pbk)
Edition
3rd ed.
Published
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.
Physical Description
xviii, 700 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 14, 2008
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 611-660) and index.
Contents
List of illustrations
Preface to the Third Edition
List of abbreviations
Note on transliteration and pronunciation
Introduction
pt. 1. Hinduism : sources and worldview
ch. 1. The beginnings of Hinduism
ch. 2. Hindu Dharma : orthodoxy and heresy in Hinduism
ch. 3. The Veda : revelation and scripture in Hinduism
ch. 4. Itihāsa Purāna : the heart of Hinduism
ch. 5. The Bhagavadgītā
ch. 6. The world of the Hindu
ch. 7. The many gods and the one god of Hinduism
pt. 2. Trimārga : the three Hindu paths to liberation
ch. 8. The path of works : Karmamārga
ch. 9. Purity and merit : the twin concerns of Karmamārga
ch. 10. Saṃskāras: the Hindu sacraments
ch. 11. The path of knowledge : Jñānamārga
ch. 12. Ātman and Brahman : self and all
ch. 13. Karma, Vidyā, Mokṣa: liberation from rebirth
ch. 14. The path of loving devotion: Bhaktimārga
ch. 15. Lord Viṣṇu and his devotees
ch. 16. Śiva : the grace and the terror of God
ch. 17. Devī : the divine mother
ch. 18. Mudalvan, Murukan, Māl : the great gods of the Tamils
pt. 3. The structural supports of Hinduism
ch. 19. The divine presence in space and time : Mūrti, Tīrtha, Kāla
ch. 20. The Hindu social order : Caturvarṇāśramadharma
ch. 21. Saṃnyāsa : the highest Hindu aspiration
ch. 22. Strīdharma : the position of women in Hinduism
ch. 23. Hindu structures of thought : the Ṣaḍdarśanas
ch. 24. Hindu logic and physics : Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika
ch. 25. Hindu metaphysics and psychology : Sāṁkhya-Yoga
ch. 26. Hindu theology, old and new : Mīmāṃsā and Vedānta
pt. 4. Hinduism encountering the "other"
ch. 27. Hinduism and Buddhism
ch. 28. Hinduism and Christianity in India
ch. 29. Hindus and Muslims in India
ch. 30. Hindu reforms and reformers
ch. 31. Mahātmā Gandhi : a twentieth-century Karmayogi
ch. 32. Hindūtva, Hindusim, Hindu dharma
pt. 5. Miscellany
ch. 33. India and the West
ch. 34. Hinduism and science
ch. 35. Hinduism and ecology
ch. 36. Hindu measures of time
ch. 37. Indian chronology
Maps
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.
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