A survey of Hinduism

Description: This third edition of the classic text updates the information contained in the earlier editions, and includes new chapters on the origins of Hinduism; its history of relations with Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam; Hindu science; and Hindu measures of time. The chronology and the bibliography have been updated as well. A comprehensive survey of the Hindu tradition, the book deals with the history of Hinduism, the sacred writings of the Hindus, the Hindu worldview, and the specifics of the major branches of Hinduism Vaisnavism, Saivism, and Saktism. It also focuses on the geographical ties of Hinduism with the land of India, the social order created by Hinduism, and the various systems of Hindu thought. Klaus K. Klostermaier describes the development of Hinduism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including present-day political Hinduism and the efforts to turn Hinduism into a modern world religion. A unique feature of the book is its treatment of Hinduism in a topical fashion, rather than by chronological description of the development of Hinduism or by summary of the literature. The complexities of Hindu life and thought are thus made real to the reader, and Hindus will recognize it as their own tradition. -- from back cover

Table of Contents: List of Illustrations
Preface to the Third Edition
List of Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation
Introduction
PART I HINDUISM: SOURCES AND WORLDVIEW
Chapter One The Beginnings of Hinduism
Chapter Two Hindu Dharma: Orthodoxy and Heresy in Hinduism
Chapter Three The Veda: Revelation and Scripture in Hinduism
Chapter Four Itihasa Purana: The Heart of Hinduism
Chapter Five The Bhagavadgita
Chapter Six The World of the Hindu
Chapter Seven The Many Gods and the One God of Hinduism
PART II TRIMARGA: THE THREE HINDU PATHS TO LIBERATION
Chapter Eight The Path of Works: Karmamarga
Chapter Nine Purity and Merit: The Twin Concerns of Karmamarga
Chapter Ten Samskaras: The Hindu Sacraments
Chapter Eleven The Path of Knowledge: Jnanamarga
Chapter Twelve Atman and Brahman: Self and All
Chapter Thirteen Karma, Vidya, Moksa: Liberation from Rebirth
Chapter Fourteen The Path of Loving Devotion: Bhaktimarga
Chapter Fifteen Lord Visnu and His Devotees
Chapter Sixteen Siva: The Grace and the Terror of God
Chapter Seventeen Devi: The Divine Mother
Chapter Eighteen Mudalvan, Murukan, Mal: The Great Gods of the Tamils
PART III THE STRUCTURAL SUPPORTS OF HINDUISM
Chapter Nineteen The Divine Presence in Space and Time: Murti, Tirtha, Kala
Chapter Twenty The Hindu Social Order: Caturvarnasramadharma
Chapter Twenty-One Samnyasa: The Highest Hindu Aspiration
Chapter Twenty-Two Stridharma: The Position of Women in Hinduism
Chapter Twenty-Three Hindu Structures of Thought: The Saddarsanas
Chapter Twenty-Four Hindu Logic and Physics: Nyaya-Vaigesika
Chapter Twenty-Five Hindu Metaphysics and Psychology: Samkhya-Yoga
Chapter Twenty-Six Hindu Theology, Old and New: Mimamsa and Vedanta
PART IV HINDUISM ENCOUNTERING THE "OTHER"
Chapter Twenty-Seven Hinduism and Buddhism
Chapter Twenty-Eight Hinduism and Christianity in India
Chapter Twenty-Nine Hindus and Muslims in India
Chapter Thirty Hindu Reforms and Reformers
Chapter Thirty-One Mahatma Gandhi: A Twentieth-Century Karmayogi
Chapter Thirty-Two Hindutva--Hinduism--Hindu dharma
PART V MISCELLANY
Chapter Thirty-Three India and the West
Chapter Thirty-Four Hinduism and Science
Chapter Thirty-Five Hinduism and Ecology
Chapter Thirty-Six Hindu Measures of Time
Chapter Thirty-Seven Indian Chronology
Maps, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index

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