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Hinduism : past and present /
Hinduism is currently followed by one-fifth of humankind. Far from a monolithic theistic tradition, the religion comprises thousands of gods, a complex caste system, and hundreds of languages and dialects. Such internal plurality inspires vastly ranging rites and practices amongst Hinduism's hu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2004.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Theoretical and historical foundations. 1. Theoretical foundations
- Is India different?
- The identificatory habitus
- What is Hinduism?
- Hinduism and Hindu-ness
- Religion and Dharma
- Hindu religions and Hindu religiosity
- Great and little Hinduism
- Continuity and change
- 2. Historical foundations
- Epochs in the history of religions
- First epoch : Prevedic religions
- Second epoch : Vedic religion
- Third epoch : ascetic reformism
- Fourth epoch : classical Hinduism
- Fifth epoch : sects of Hinduism
- Sixth epoch : modern Hinduism
- Religious literature
- Vedic literature
- The literature of the ascetic reformation
- The literature of classical Hinduism
- The literatures of the Hindu sects
- Literatures of modern Hinduism.
- Religion and society. 3. Stages of life and rites of passage
- Initiation
- The salvational goal of initiation
- The second birth
- Pre-rites
- Tonsure
- Natural birth, ritual birth, new birth
- The sacred thread
- Consecration of the ascetic, consecration of the student, consecration of the man
- Childhood and socialization
- The early years
- Parentage and the "Oceanic feeling"
- Sacred fatherhood
- Wedding and matrimony
- The wedding
- The daughter as gift
- Kinship, alliance, and descent
- The situation of the woman
- Death and life after death
- The Brahmanic ritual of dying and death
- Ancestor worship
- Widow-burning and religiously motivated suicide
- The ban on killing and Ahiṃsā
- Karma and rebirth
- Mortality and immortality
- 4. The social system
- Social stratification
- The caste society
- Segmentation
- Social contacts
- Greeting
- Touching
- Eating
- Purity and impurity
- Religious and social hierarchy
- Priests and the supremacy of the Brahmans
- Religious and economic centrality
- Hierarchies of the gift
- 5. Religiosity
- The idea of god and the pantheon
- Equitheism and homotheism
- Viṣṇu, Kṛṣṇa and the centrality of the gods
- Śiva in the great and little traditions
- Gan̜eśa and the miracle
- Wild and mild goddesses
- Elements of religiosity
- Prayer
- Looks
- Ritual acts
- Ritualism
- The Brahmanic-Sanskritic morning ritual
- Divine worship (pūjā)
- Sacrifice
- Devotionalism and theistic traditions
- Bhakti movements
- The grace of the gods
- Spiritualism and mysticism
- The identification doctrine of the Upaniṣads
- The psycho-physical identifications of Sāṃkhya and yoga
- Śaṃkara's doctrine of nonduality
- Special features of Indian mysticism
- Heroism and kingship
- Ākhāṛās : religious centers of strength
- Power and authority of the king
- King and ascetic.
- From descent to transcendence. 6. Religious ideas of space and time
- Religious awareness of space
- Spaces and directions as sacred powers
- Pilgrimage sites and their hierarchy
- Astrology and the cosmic place of man
- Religious and scientific concepts of space
- Religious awareness of time
- Ancient Indian cosmogonies
- Creation in classical mythology
- The doctrine of the ages of the world
- Cyclical and linear time : the calendar
- Unity of space and time : festivals
- Religious and scientific ideas of time
- 7. Immortality in life
- Asceticism : life in transcendence
- Ascetic practice and sects
- Asceticism and sacrifice
- The salvation of identifications
- The socioreligious function of norms of purity
- Descent and autonomy
- The logic of the identifications
- The "theology" of the Hindu religions : identity of god and man.