Two new books on Hinduism

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Two new books on Hinduism

 

 

Arvind Sharma (ed.). The Study of Hinduism. University of South

Carolina

Press 2003. pp. xii, 315

 

Contains:

A. Sharma: What is Hinduism?

 

E.J. Sharpe: The Study of Hinduism: The Setting

 

A. Sharma: Method in the Study of Hinduism

 

S. W. Jamison and M. Witzel: Vedic Hinduism.

 

(NB: written in 1992/95; for the longer version (1992), see my website:

PDF: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/vedica.pdf

HTML: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/VedicHinduism.htm )

 

A. Hiltebeitel: India's Epics: Writing, Orality, and Divinity

 

G. Bailey: The Puranas: A Study in the Development of Hinduism

 

M. Eder: The Bhagaravadgita and Classical Hinduism

 

Ph. Lutgendorf: Medieval Devotional Traditions. An Annotated Survey of

Recent Scholarship

 

R.D. Baird: Modern Hinduism

 

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A few months ago a large vol. on Hinduism was released:

 

Gavin Flood (ed.). The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism. Oxford/Malden MA:

Blackwell 2002 pp. xiii, 599

 

Contains 27 articles:

 

G. Flood: Introduction

 

Pt. I: Theoretical Issues

 

G. Vishvannathan : Colonialism and the Construction of Hinduism

S. Smith : Orientalism and Hinduism

 

Pt. II: Text and Tradition

 

The Sanskrit Textual Traditions

 

M. Witzel : Vedas and Upanisads

L. Rocher : The Dharmasastras

J. Brockington: The Sanskrit Epics

F. Matchett: The Puranas

 

Textual Traditions in Regional languages

 

N. Cutler : Tamil Hindu Literature

R. Freeman : The Literature of Hinduism in Malayalam

N. M. Martin : North Indian Devotional Literature

 

Major Historical Developments

 

G. Flood: The Saiva Traditions

G. Colas : The History of Vaisnava Traditions: An Esquisse

P. Olivelle : The Renouncer Tradition

T.N. Madan : The Householder Tradition in Hindu Society

 

Regional Traditions

 

R. Freeman : The Teyyam Tradition of Kerala

T. Pintchman : The Month of Kartik and Woman's Ritual Devotion to Krishna

in Benares

 

Pt. III Systematic Thought

 

The Indian Sciences

 

F. Staal : Introduction

F. Staal : The Science of Language

T. Hayashi : Indian Mathematics

M. Yano : Calendar, Astrology, and Astronomy

D. Wujastyk : The Science of Medicine

 

Philosophy and Theology

 

J. Ganeri : Hinduism and the Proper Work of Reason

F. Clooney : Restoring "Hindu Theology" as a Category in Indian

Intellectual Discourse

A. Padoux : Mantra

 

Part IV Society, Politics, and Nation

 

D. Quigley : On the Relationship between Caste and Hinduism

D. Killingley : Modernity, Reform and Revival

C. Ram-Prasad : Contemporary Political Hinduism

S. Ramaswamy : The Goddess and the Nation: Subterfuges of Antiquity, the

Cunning of Modernity

V. Narayan : Gender in a Devotional Universe

 

 

 

 

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Dept. of Sanskrit & Indian Studies,

Harvard University

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