Religious Experience In The Hindu Tradition

Author : June McDaniel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783039210510
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Experience in the Hindu Tradition written by June McDaniel and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Special Issue of Religions brings together a talented group of international scholars who have studied and written on the Hindu tradition. The topic of religious experience is much debated in the field of Religious Studies, and here, we present studies of the Hindu religious experience explored from a variety of regions and perspectives. Our intention is to show that the religious experience has long been an important part of Hinduism, and should not be dismissed or considered as irrelevant. As a body of scholarship, these articles refine our understanding of the range and variety of religious experience in Hinduism. In addition to their substantive contributions, the authors also show important new directions in the study of the third-largest religion in the world, with over one billion followers.

Author : June McDaniel
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3039210505
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Experience in the Hindu Tradition written by June McDaniel and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Religious Experience in the Hindu Tradition that was published in Religions

Author : Craig Martin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317545699
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Experience written by Craig Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many regard religious experience as the essence of religion, arguing that narratives might be created and rituals invented but that these are always secondary to the original experience itself. However, the concept of "experience" has come under increasing fire from a range of critics and theorists. This Reader presents writings from both those who assume the existence and possible universality of religious experience and those who question the very rhetoric of "experience". Bringing together both classic and contemporary writings, the Reader showcases differing disciplinary approaches to the study of religious experience: philosophy, literary and cultural theory, history, psychology, anthropology; feminist theory; as well as writings from within religious studies. The essays are structured into pairs, with each essay separately introduced with information on its historical and intellectual context. The ultimate aim of the Reader is to enable students to explore religious experience as rhetoric created to authorize social identities. The book will be an invaluable introduction to the key ideas and approaches for students of Religion, as well as Sociology and Anthropology. CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Desjarlais, Diana Eck, William James, Craig Martin, Russell T. McCutcheon, Wayne Proudfoot, Robert Sharf, Ann Taves, Charles Taylor, Joachim Wach, Joan Wallach Scott, Raymond Williams

Author : Stephen E. Gregg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317047435
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swami Vivekananda and Non-Hindu Traditions written by Stephen E. Gregg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hindu thinker Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) was and remains an important figure both within India, and in the West, where he was notable for preaching Vedanta. Scholarship surrounding Vivekananda is dominated by hagiography and his (mis)appropriation by the political Hindu Right. This work demonstrates that Vivekananda was no simplistic pluralist, as portrayed in hagiographical texts, nor narrow exclusivist, as portrayed by some modern Hindu nationalists, but a thoughtful, complex inclusivist. The book shows that Vivekananda formulated a hierarchical and inclusivistic framework of Hinduism, based upon his interpretations of a four-fold system of Yoga. It goes on to argue that Vivekananda understood his formulation of Vedanta to be universal, and applied it freely to non-Hindu traditions, and in so doing, demonstrates that Vivekananda was consistently critical of ‘low level’ spirituality, not only in non-Hindu traditions, but also within Hinduism. Demonstrating that Vivekananda is best understood within the context of ‘Advaitic primacy’, rather than ‘Hindu chauvinism’, this book will be of interest to scholars of Hinduism and South Asian religion and of South Asian diaspora communities and religious studies more generally.

Author : Urmila Mohan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004419136
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clothing as Devotion in Contemporary Hinduism written by Urmila Mohan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urmila Mohan draws on her ethnography of Hindu devotional practices in Iskcon, India, to explore cloth and clothing as “efficacious intimacy”, that is, embodied processes that shape practitioners as devotees, connecting them with the divine and the larger community.

Author : Maxine Berntsen
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887066627
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Experience of Hinduism written by Maxine Berntsen and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents multi-faceted images of religious experience in the Marathi-speaking region of India. In addition to Irawati Karve's classic, "On the Road," about her pilgrimage to Pandharpur, there are three essays by Karve that appear in English for the first time. Here is possession by gods and ghosts, an actual sermon by an inspired saint in the traditional bhajan style, and an autobiographical account of the religious nationalism of the militant R.S.S. These are engaging, true-to-life accounts of the lives of individual Hindus. Essays and imaginative literature, a poem, and a short story interplay the ideas, concepts, personalities, practices, rituals, and deities of Hinduism in a surprisingly coherent manner.

Author : Arthur Alger Crozier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cauliflower written by Arthur Alger Crozier and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Judith Margaret Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Men and Gods in a Changing World written by Judith Margaret Brown and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harold Coward
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9788120811584
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hindu-Christian Dialogue: Perspectives and Encounters written by Harold Coward and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House. This book was released on 1993 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOR SALE IN SOUTH ASIA ONLY

Author : Jerald D. Gort
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9780802805058
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Sharing Religious Experiences written by Jerald D. Gort and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: