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Some postcolonial theorists argue that the idea of a single system of belief known as "Hinduism" is a creation of nineteenth-century British imperialists. Andrew J. Nicholson introduces another perspective: although a unified Hindu identity is not as ancient as some Hindus claim, it has its roots in innovations within South Asian philosophy from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. During this time, thinkers treated the philosophies of Vedanta, Samkhya, and Yoga, along with the worshippers of Visnu, Siva, and Sakti, as belonging to a single system of belief and practice. Instead of seeing such groups as separate and contradictory, they re-envisioned them as separate rivers leading to the ocean of Brahman, the ultimate reality.Drawing on the writings of philosophers from late medieval and early modern traditions, including Vijnanabhiksu, Madhava, and Madhusudana Sarasvati, Nicholson shows how influential thinkers portrayed Vedanta philosophy as the ultimate unifier of diverse belief systems. This project paved the way for the work of later Hindu reformers, such as Vivekananda, Radhakrishnan, and Gandhi, whose teachings promoted the notion that all world religions belong to a single spiritual unity. In his study, Nicholson also critiques the way in which Eurocentric concepts—like monism and dualism, idealism and realism, theism and atheism, and orthodoxy and heterodoxy—have come to dominate modern discourses on Indian philosophy.

Hinduism --- -294.5 --- 294.5 Hindoeïsme--(in strikte zin) --- 294.5 Hindoeïsme:--verder in te delen zoals 291.1/.8 --- Hindoeïsme--(in strikte zin) --- Hindoeïsme:--verder in te delen zoals 291.1/.8 --- Religions --- Brahmanism --- History. --- India --- Intellectual life. --- Hinduism - History. --- Hinduism -- History. --- India - Intellectual life. --- India -- Intellectual life. --- 294.5 --- History --- Intellectual life --- Hinduism - History --- India - Intellectual life

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There is a steady and growing scholarly, as well as popular interest in Hindu religion – especially devotional (bhakti) traditions as forms of spiritual practice and expressions of divine embodiment. Associated with this is the attention to sacred images and their worship.Attending Krishna's Image extends the discussion on Indian images and their worship, bringing historical and comparative dimensions and considering Krishna worship in the context of modernity, both in India and the West. It focuses on one specific worship tradition, the Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, as it develops and sustains itself in two specific locales. By applying the comparative category of ‘religious truth’, the book provides a comprehensive understanding of a living religious tradition. It successfully demonstrates the understanding of devotion as a process of participation with divine embodiment in which worship of Krishna’s image is integral.

Chaitanya (Sect) --- Religious life --- Bhakti. --- Bhakti-marga --- God (Hinduism) --- Religion --- Chaitnaya (Sect) --- Hindu sects --- Rituals. --- Worship and love --- Bhakti --- 294.5*92 --- 294.5*92 Vaisnavisme: Chaitanya; Bhagavata-purana --- Vaisnavisme: Chaitanya; Bhagavata-purana --- Rituals

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This new offering in the comprehensive collection of Panikkar's work brings together in one volume the English-language versions of the most crucial texts of the Indian Sacred Scriptures. As part of his lifelong goal to bring "East and West together" in conversation about the sacred and the holy, Panikkar takes here selections from the oldest Hindu hymns, including from the Rig Veda, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, and finally from the Upanishads, the mystical and philosophical culmination of the Vedas. (Publisher).

Hindu literature --- History and criticism. --- 294.5 --- 2 PANIKKAR, RAIMUNDO --- 2 PANIKKAR, RAIMUNDO Godsdienst. Theologie--PANIKKAR, RAIMUNDO --- Godsdienst. Theologie--PANIKKAR, RAIMUNDO --- 294.5 Hindoeïsme--(in strikte zin) --- 294.5 Hindoeïsme:--verder in te delen zoals 291.1/.8 --- Hindoeïsme--(in strikte zin) --- Hindoeïsme:--verder in te delen zoals 291.1/.8 --- History and criticism --- Hindu literature - History and criticism.

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As the forerunners of Indian modernization, the community of Bengali intellectuals known as the Brahmo Samaj played a crucial role in the genesis and development of every major religious, social, and political movement in India from 1820 to 1930. David Kopf launches a comprehensive generation- to-generation study of this group in order to understand the ideological foundations of the modern Indian mind. His book constitutes not only a biographical and a sociological study of the Brahmo Samaj, but also an intellectual history of modern India that ranges from the Unitarian social gospel of Rammohun Roy to Rabindranath Tagore's universal humanism and Jessie Bose's scientism. From a variety of biographical sources, many of them in Bengali and never before used in research, the author makes available much valuable information. In his analysis of the interplay between the ideas, the consciousness, and the lives of these early rebels against the Hindu tradition, Professor Kopf reveals the subtle and intricate problems and issues that gradually shaped contemporary Indian consciousness. What emerges from this group portrait is a legacy of innovation and reform that introduced a rationalist tradition of thought, liberal political consciousness, and Indian nationalism, in addition to changing theology and ritual, marriage laws and customs, and the status of women.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Bengal (India) -- Intellectual life. --- Brahma-samaj. --- India -- Intellectual life. --- Intellectuals -- India -- Bengal. --- Intellectuals --- Brahma-samaj --- South Asia --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Brahmasabba --- Brahmiyasamaj --- Brahmosomaj --- Intelligentsia --- 294.5*96 --- Arya Samaj: Dayananda Saravati. Neo-Hindoeïsme: Ramakrishna; Vivekananda --- Bengal (India) --- -Arya Samaj: Dayananda Saravati. Neo-Hindoeïsme: Ramakrishna; Vivekananda --- 294.5*96 Arya Samaj: Dayananda Saravati. Neo-Hindoeïsme: Ramakrishna; Vivekananda --- -Brahmasabba --- India --- Intellectual life. --- Persons --- Social classes --- Specialists --- Hinduism

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Explicitly acknowledging its status as a strī-śūdra-veda (a Veda for women and the downtrodden), the Mahābhārata articulates a promise to bring knowledge of right conduct, fundamental ethical, philosophical, and soteriological teachings, and its own grand narrative to all classes of people and all beings. Hiltebeitel shows how the Mahābhārata has more than lived up to this promise at least on the ground in Indian folk traditions. In this three-part volume, he journeys over the overlapping terrains of the south Indian cults of Draupadī (part I) and Kūttāṇṭavar (part II), to explore how the Mahābhārata continues to be such a vital source of meaning, and, in part III, then connects this vital tradition to wider reflections on prehistory, sacrifice, myth, oral epic, and modern theatre. This two volume edition collects nearly three decades of Alf Hiltebeitel’s researches into the Indian epic and religious tradition. The two volumes document Hiltebeitel’s longstanding fascination with the Sanskrit epics: volume 1 presents a series of appreciative readings of the Mahābhārata (and to a lesser extent, the Rāmāyaṇa), while volume 2 focuses on what Hiltebeitel has called “the underground Mahābhārata,” id est, the Mahābhārata as it is still alive in folk and vernacular traditions. Recently re-edited and with a new set of articles completing a trajectory Hiltebeitel established over 30 years ago, this work constitutes a definitive statement from this major scholar. Comprehensive indices, cross-referencing, and an exhaustive bibliography make it an essential reference work. For more information on the first volume please click here .

Mahābhārata --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 294.5 --- 294.58 --- 294.58 Heilige boeken uit het Hindoeïsme: Mahabharata; Bhagavatgita; Dharma Sutra; Sutra's; Purana's --- Heilige boeken uit het Hindoeïsme: Mahabharata; Bhagavatgita; Dharma Sutra; Sutra's; Purana's --- Hindoeïsme:--verder in te delen zoals 291.1/.8 --- Mahābhārata --- Makhabkharata --- Mahabarat --- Mahabarātah --- Hinduism. --- Religions --- Brahmanism --- Mahābhārata. --- Mah --- MAH --- Mahabharata