Blackwell Companion to Hinduism

Informationen zum Autor Gavin Flood is Head of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Stirling. Among his publications are Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of Religion (1999), An Introduction to Hinduism (1996), and Body and Cosmology in Kashmir OEaivism (1993). Klappentext This volume presents the most recent scholarly thinking about Hinduism in an accessible way. It provides a forum for the best scholars in the world to make their views and research available to a wider audience. While comprehensively covering the textual traditions of Hinduism, the volume also includes material on Hindu folk religions and stresses the importance of region in analyzing Hinduism. In doing so, it reflects the current move away from essentialist understandings of Hinduism and towards traditionally and regionally specific studies. The Companion as a whole spans the entire field of Hindu studies and is divided into four coherent sections: theoretical issues, textual traditions, theologies, and Hindu society and politics. Zusammenfassung This companion presents the most recent scholarly thinking about Hinduism in an accessible way. It provides a forum for some of the best scholars in the world to make their views and research available to a wider audience.

Product details

• Authors: Gavin Flood, Gavin D. Flood, FLOOD GAVIN D
• Assisted by: Gavin Flood (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.01.2003
• EAN: 9780631215356
• ISBN: 978-0-631-21535-6
• No. of pages: 616
• Series: Blackwell Companions to Religion; Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion; Blackwell Companions to Religi; Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion; WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions