London: Shanti Sadan, 1980. — 268 p. The Shankara Source Book contains writings by Shri Sankara, arranged systematically by subject. Shri Shankara was a great philosopher-sage who expressed the non-dual teachings in such a complete and satisfactory way that his formulation has been followed by authentic teachers of the non-dual tradition ever since. Most of his writings are in...
University of Chicago Press, 2016. — 280 p. Historians of religion have examined at length the Protestant Reformation and the liberal idea of the self-governing individual that arose from it. In Spiritual Despots , J. Barton Scott reveals an unexamined piece of this story: how Protestant technologies of asceticism became entangled with Hindu spiritual practices to create an...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 363 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–876702–2 The Oxford History of Hinduism: The Goddess provides a critical exposition of the Hindu idea of the divine feminine, or Devī, conceived as a singularity expressed in many forms. With the theological principles examined in the opening chapters, the book proceeds to describe and expound historically how individual...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 330 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–879083–9 The Oxford History of Hinduism: Modern Hinduism focuses on developments resulting from movements within the tradition as well as contact between India and the outside world through both colonialism and globalization. Divided into three parts, part one considers the historical background to modern...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 1022 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–879083–9 The Oxford History of Hinduism: Modern Hinduism focuses on developments resulting from movements within the tradition as well as contact between India and the outside world through both colonialism and globalization. Divided into three parts, part one considers the historical background to modern...
Brill, 2023. — XVI, 827 p. — (Brill's Indological Library 56/1). Sanātana Gosvāmin’s Haribhaktivilāsa (ca. 1540) describes the normative ritual life of a Vaiṣṇava devotee. As it is one of the first Sanskrit texts of Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava tradition begun by Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya (1486–1533) it presents a fascinating meeting between this ecstatic new religious movement and older,...
Colombo: M. D. Gunasena & Co. Ltd., 1957. — 210 p. The Pre-Buddhist Period. The Buddhist Era. Tamil Conquests of Ceylon and the Rise of the Independent Tamil Kingdom of Jaffna. The Occupation of Ceylon by European Powers. Objects of Worship. Temples and Temple Ritual. Festivals and Pilgrimages. Caste. Customs. Astrology, Auspicious Days and Magic. Modern Movements. Illustrations.
Princeton University Press, 2016. — 218 p. Saiva liturgy is performed in a world that oscillates: a world permeated by the presence of Siva, where humans live in a condition of bondage and where the highest aim of the soul is to attain liberation from its fetters. In this account of Indian temple ritual, Richard Davis uses medieval Hindu texts to describe the world as it is...
De Gruyter, 2016. — 234 p. This book is a pioneering attempt to understand the prehistory of Hinduism in South Asia. Exploring religious processes in the Deccan region between the eleventh and the nineteenth century with class relations as its point of focus, it throws new light on the making of religious communities, monastic institutions, legends, lineages, and the ethics...
Penguin Books, 2010. — 800 p. — ISBN: 978-1-101-02870-4. An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth, The Hindus offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions. Hinduism does not lend itself easily to a strictly chronological account. Many of its central texts cannot be reliably dated within a century; its central tenets arise...
Penguin, 2010. — 800 p. — ISBN: 978-1-101-02870-4. Editorial Reviews . "This is history as great entertainment! Unlike the usual, arid accounts of dynasties, Wendy Doniger's double vision of Hinduism is about women, merchants, lower castes, animals, spirits and , of course, Dead Male Brahmins. This lively, earthy account explains why ancient India is the world's richest...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 336 p. Scholars of Vedic religion have long recognized the centrality of ritual categories to Indian thought. There have been few successful attempts, however, to bring the same systematic rigor of Vedic Scholarship to bear on later "Hindu" ritual. Excavating the deep history of a prominent ritual category in "classical" Hindu texts, Geslani...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 336 p. Scholars of Vedic religion have long recognized the centrality of ritual categories to Indian thought. There have been few successful attempts, however, to bring the same systematic rigor of Vedic Scholarship to bear on later "Hindu" ritual. Excavating the deep history of a prominent ritual category in "classical" Hindu texts, Geslani...
Harvard University Press, 2020. — 336 p. A bold retelling of the origins of contemporary Hinduism, and an argument against the long-established notion of religious reform. By the early eighteenth century, the Mughal Empire was in decline, and the East India Company was making inroads into the subcontinent. A century later Christian missionaries, Hindu teachers, Muslim saints,...
Scarecrow Press, 2011. — 390 p. Hinduism is the world's third largest religion and still growing. It is the oldest major religion with a tradition reaching back millennia and having many notable peaks and periods of glory. It has influenced and been affected by other world religions, including Islam and Buddhism, as well as Christianity. Despite repeated attempts to contain it, it...
Brill, 2012. — 296 p. — (Brill's Indological Library, Volume: 39). — ISBN-13 9789004217546. — ISBN-10 9004217541. This book studies the early development of Skanda-Kārttikeya’s Hindu cult from its earliest textual and material sources to the end of the Gupta Empire in the north of India. The text argues that Skanda’s early ‘popular’ cult is found in Graha and Mātṛ traditions...
Routledge, 2018. — 164 p. The Great Goddess, in her various puranic and tantric forms, is often figured as sitting on a corpse which is identified as Shiva-as-shava (God Shiva, the consort of the Devi and an iconic representation of the Absolute without attributes, the Nirguna Brahman). Hence, most of the existing critical works and ethnographic studies on Shaktism and the...
Columbia University Press, 2010. — 266 p. 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...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 464 p. - Offers a comprehensive overview of the religion of the Rigveda in its historical context - Provides an up-to-date study of the oldest Indian religion, the ancestor of Hinduism - Draws pertinent comparisons between the religion of the Rigveda and other early religions - Provides new insights into the study of comparative religion This...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 464 p. - Offers a comprehensive overview of the religion of the Rigveda in its historical context - Provides an up-to-date study of the oldest Indian religion, the ancestor of Hinduism - Draws pertinent comparisons between the religion of the Rigveda and other early religions - Provides new insights into the study of comparative religion This...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 572 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–870260–3 Through pointed studies of important aspects and topics of dharma in Dharmasastra, this comprehensive collection shows that the history of Hinduism cannot be written without the history of Hindu law. Part one provides a concise overview of the literary genres in which Dharmasastra was written with attention to...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 1721 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–870260–3 Through pointed studies of important aspects and topics of dharma in Dharmasastra, this comprehensive collection shows that the history of Hinduism cannot be written without the history of Hindu law. Part one provides a concise overview of the literary genres in which Dharmasastra was written with attention to...
Oxford University Press, 1998. — 704 p. — (Scholar's edition). This is the full edition of the early Upanisads, the central scriptures of Hinduism. Featuring Patrick Olivelle's acclaimed new English translation (Oxford, 1996), it also includes the complete Sanskrit text, as well as variant readings, scholarly emendations, and explanations of Olivelle's choices of particular...
SAGE Publications, 2018. — 336 p. Is the history of Hinduism, the history of brahmanas from rigvedic times to the present? Or, does the story of Hinduism begin with the descriptions of the ancient roots as revealed by archaeological findings and the evidence from present day tribal, village and regional cultures? This book looks at both. The history of Brahmanas, tracing their...
Routledge, 2022. — 516 p. This handbook is a comprehensive study of the archaeology, social history and the cultural landscape of the Hindu temple. Perhaps the most recognizable of the material forms of Hinduism, temples are lived, dynamic spaces. They are significant sites for the creation of cultural heritage, both in the past and in the present. Drawing on historiographical...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 306 p. This book challenges the view, common among Western scholars, that precolonial India lacked a tradition of military philosophy. It traces the evolution of theories of warfare in India from the dawn of civilization, focusing on the debate between Dharmayuddha (Just War) and Kutayuddha (Unjust War) within Hindu philosophy. This debate...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 306 p. This book challenges the view, common among Western scholars, that precolonial India lacked a tradition of military philosophy. It traces the evolution of theories of warfare in India from the dawn of civilization, focusing on the debate between Dharmayuddha (Just War) and Kutayuddha (Unjust War) within Hindu philosophy. This debate...
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1968. — 264 p. Im Mittelpunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit steht die Frage nach dem Ursprung des Gottes Brhaspati. Diesem Thema sind die anderen zur Sprache kommenden Probleme untergeordnet. Manche von ihnen verdienen eine eingehendere Untersuchung als sie hier geboten wurde. Zwar sind die Brhaspati/Brahmanaspati-Lieder des Rgveda vollständig...
Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona, 1987. — 134 p. Letures delivered at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute in 1984. In tbe first lecture s solution of the tborny problem of Apala's skin is proposed. Tbe other two lectures offer tentativa answers on problems related to the situoation of the women in Vedic India. I Tbe Affliction of Apala (Rigveda 8. 91), II...
Brill, 2020. — 221 p. — (Currents of Encounter 62). In The European Encounter with Hinduism Jan Peter Schouten offers an account of European travellers coming into contact with the Hindu religion in India. From the thirteenth century on, both traders and missionaries visited India and encountered the exotic world of Hindus and Hinduism. Their travel reports reveal how Europeans...
Routledge, 2018. — 377 p. The Mahāvidyās are the representative Tantric feminine pantheon consisting of ten goddesses. It is formed by divergent religious strands and elements: the mātṛ and yoginī worship, the cult of Kālī and Tripurasundarī, Vajrayāna Buddhism, Jain Vidyādevīs, Śaiva and Vaiṣṇava faith, Śrīvidyā, the Brahmanical strand of Puranic traditions, etc. This volume...
Ian Randle Publishers, 2011. — 335 p. Hinduism is the second largest socio-religious denomination in Trinidad and Tobago, yet much of the fundamental dimensions of Trinidad Hinduism remain undocumented and a virtual enigma for most of the non-Hindu population. In The Ramayana Tradition and Socio-Religious Change in Trinidad, 1917-1990, Sherry-Ann Singh, demystifies Hindu...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 256 p. Narasimha is one of the least studied major deities of Hinduism. Furthermore, there are limited studies of the history, thought, and literature of middle India. Lavanya Vemsani redresses this by exploring a range of primary sources, including classical Sanskrit texts (puranas and epics), and regional accounts (sthalapuranas), which include...
М.: Наука, 1977. — 327 с. В монографии освещаются некоторые этапы развития индуизма, прослеживаются этногенетические корни его основных культов и описываются наиболее широко практикуемые формы обрядовой и ритуальной практики индусов как в древности, так и в современной Индии
М.: Наука, 1977. — 327 с. В монографии освещаются некоторые этапы развития индуизма, прослеживаются этногенетические корни его основных культов и описываются наиболее широко практикуемые формы обрядовой и ритуальной практики индусов как в древности, так и в современной Индии
М.: Наука. Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1969. — 416 с. Книга чешских индологов рассказывает о возникновении и развитии одной из самых древних религий на земле - индуизма, его учении, мифологии, обрядности, о взаимовлияниях индуизма и ислама и многом другом.
М.: Наука. Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1969. — 416 с. Книга чешских индологов рассказывает о возникновении и развитии одной из самых древних религий на земле - индуизма, его учении, мифологии, обрядности, о взаимовлияниях индуизма и ислама и многом другом.
Минск: БГУ, 2014. — 327 с.
В монографии исследуется жречество, его функции и положение в обществе в том виде, в котором они дошли до нас в древнейшем индийском письменном памятнике — Ригведе. Основной целью данной работы автор видит реконструкцию ригведийских институтов Arya, adhvaryu, brahman, hotar, purohita, varNa и rASTraи их исторического значения. Определен период и...
М.: Наука, 1981. — 184 с. Своеобразный вариант буржуазной реформации религии отмечен в странах Востока. Здесь протекают сложные процессы, связанные, в частности, с сохранением в экономической и социальной сферах традиционных институтов, а также с огромным влиянием религии на общественную жизнь и общественное сознание. Религиозное мировоззрение в этих странах охватывает...
М.: Наука, 1981. — 184 с. Своеобразный вариант буржуазной реформации религии отмечен в странах Востока. Здесь протекают сложные процессы, связанные, в частности, с сохранением в экономической и социальной сферах традиционных институтов, а также с огромным влиянием религии на общественную жизнь и общественное сознание. Религиозное мировоззрение в этих странах охватывает...
Научное издание. – Воронеж: 2017. – 282 с. – ISBN: 978-5-9907439-3-9 В данной книге опубликованы две научные работы Семененко А.А. Суть содержания каждой из этих работ отражена в её названии. Семененко А.А. Другая Ригведа. Культы Женского Начала, Матери и Йони и формирование культа Лингама в Ригведе (изд. 2-е, испр. и доп.) Приложения Агравала П.К. Богиня–Мать в доисторический...
Пер. с англ. Т. Штыковой, О. Штыковой, С. Штыковой. – Минск: Звезды Гор, 2006. – 300 с. В Учении Вивекананды собраны мысли великого индийского философа и подвижника из его различных трудов о религии, науке, образовании, семье и миссии женщины. Для широкого круга читателей, интересующихся мировыми религиозными учениями и восточной философией. На русском языке книга публикуется...
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