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The Continuum Companion to Hindu Studies
The Continuum Companion to Hindu Studies offers the definitive guide to Hinduism and study in this area. The book covers all the most pressing and important themes and categories in the field - areas that have continued to attract interest historically as well as topics that have emerged more recently as active areas of research. Specially commissioned essays from an international team of experts reveal where important work continues to be done in the field and, valuably, how the various topics intersect through detailed reading paths. Featuring a series of indispensible research tools, including a detailed list of resources, chronology and diagrams summarizing content, this is the essential reference tool for anyone working in Hindu Studies.

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The Continuum Companion to Hindu Studies
The Continuum Companion to Hindu Studies offers the definitive guide to Hinduism and study in this area. The book covers all the most pressing and important themes and categories in the field - areas that have continued to attract interest historically as well as topics that have emerged more recently as active areas of research. Specially commissioned essays from an international team of experts reveal where important work continues to be done in the field and, valuably, how the various topics intersect through detailed reading paths. Featuring a series of indispensible research tools, including a detailed list of resources, chronology and diagrams summarizing content, this is the essential reference tool for anyone working in Hindu Studies.

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The Continuum Companion to Hindu Studies

The Continuum Companion to Hindu Studies

by Jessica Frazier (Editor)
The Continuum Companion to Hindu Studies

The Continuum Companion to Hindu Studies

by Jessica Frazier (Editor)

Overview

The Continuum Companion to Hindu Studies offers the definitive guide to Hinduism and study in this area. The book covers all the most pressing and important themes and categories in the field - areas that have continued to attract interest historically as well as topics that have emerged more recently as active areas of research. Specially commissioned essays from an international team of experts reveal where important work continues to be done in the field and, valuably, how the various topics intersect through detailed reading paths. Featuring a series of indispensible research tools, including a detailed list of resources, chronology and diagrams summarizing content, this is the essential reference tool for anyone working in Hindu Studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826499660
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 06/30/2011
Series: Bloomsbury Companions
Pages: 424
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Jessica Frazier is Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK, and is the author of Seeing is Believing: Caravaggio's Incredulity of St Thomas, in Art and Truth (forthcoming, Syracuse University Press).

Table of Contents

Foreword Gavin Ford
List of Contributors
Preface and Introduction
Part I: Introduction: New Visions of Hinduism
Part II: Key Themes: Reading Paths
Part III: The History of Hindu Studies
Part IV: Current Approaches: Articles on Key Themes
1. Hindu Cosmology, Angelika Malinar
Ascetic Traditions, Sondra Hausner
Tantric Traditions, Dominic Goodall and Harunaga Isaacson
Bhakti Traditions, Karen Prentiss Pechilis
Hindu Epics, Simon Brodbeck
Yoga and Samkhya, Knut Axel Jacobsen
Philosophical Traditions, David Lawrence
Hindu Society, Marie Lecomte-Tilouine
Hindu Visual Culture, Kenneth Valpey
Colonial Hinduism, Brian Hatcher
Part V: Regional Perspectives: Local Traditions
Part VI: Research Methods: From Manuscripts to Fieldwork
Part VII: Future Directions: Issues and Debates
Part VIII: Study Resources: Reading Lists, Sites and Sources
Bibliography
Index

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