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Author(s): Klaus K. Klostermaier
ISBN(s): 9780791470817, 0791470814
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Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0791470822 

ISBN 13: 978-0791470824

Author: Klaus K. Klostermaier 

The third edition of this well-regarded introduction to Hinduism adds new material on the religion’s origins, on its relations with rival traditions, and on Hindu science.

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, Saivism, and Saktism. 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.

Table of contents:

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: Itihāsa-Purāṇa: The Heart of Hinduism
CHAPTER FIVE: The Bhagavadgītā
CHAPTER SIX: The World of the Hindu
CHAPTER SEVEN: The Many Gods and the One God of Hinduism

Part II: Trimārga: The Three Hindu Paths to Liberation
CHAPTER EIGHT: The Path of Works: Karmamārga
CHAPTER NINE: Purity and Merit: The Twin Concerns of Karmamārga
CHAPTER TEN: Saṃskāras: The Hindu Sacraments
CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Path of Knowledge: Jñānamārga
CHAPTER TWELVE: Ātman and Brahman: Self and All
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Karma, Vidyā, Mokṣa: Liberation from Rebirth
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Path of Loving Devotion: Bhaktimārga
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Lord Viṣṇu and His Devotees
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Śiva: The Grace and the Terror of God
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Devī: The Divine Mother
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Mudalvan, Murukan, Māl: The Great Gods of the Tamils

Part III: The Structural Supports of Hinduism
CHAPTER NINETEEN: The Divine Presence in Space and Time: Mūrti, Tīrtha, Kāla
CHAPTER TWENTY: The Hindu Social Order: Caturvarṇāśramadharma
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Saṃnyāsa: The Highest Hindu Aspiration
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Strīdharma: The Position of Women in Hinduism
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Hindu Structures of Thought: The Ṣaḍdarśanas
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Hindu Logic and Physics: Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Hindu Metaphysics and Psychology: Sāṁkhya-Yoga
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: Hindu Theology, Old and New: Mīmāṃsā and Vedānta

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: Mahātmā Gandhi: A Twentieth-Century Karmayogi
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: Hindūtva—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

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