The Blackwell companion to Hinduism [electronic resource] / edited by Gavin Flood.
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Establishing the boundaries / Gavin Flood
- PART I. THEORETICAL ISSUES
- Colonialism and the construction of Hinduism / Gauri Viswanathan
- Orientalism and Hinduism / David Smith
- PART II. TEXT AND TRADITION
- Vedas and upaniṣads / Michael Witzel
- Dharmaśāstras / Ludo Rocher
- Sanskrit epics / John Brockington
- Purāṇas / Freda Matchett
- Tamil Hindu literature / Norman Cutler
- Literature of Hinduism in Malayalam / Rich Freeman
- North Indian Hindi devotional literature / Nancy M. Martin
- Śaiva traditions / Gavin Flood
- History of Vaiṣṇava traditions: an esquisse / Gérard Colas
- Renouncer tradition / Patrick Olivelle
- Householder tradition in Hindu society / T.N. Madan
- Teyyam tradition of Kerala / Rich Freeman
- Month of kārtik and women's ritual devotions to Krishna in Benares / Tracy Pintchman
- PART III. SYSTEMATIC THOUGHT
- Introduction ; Science of language / Frits Staal
- Indian mathematics / Takao Hayashi
- Calendar, astrology, and astronomy / Michio Yano
- Science of medicine / Dominik Wujastyk
- Hinduism and the proper work of reason / Jonardon Ganeri
- Restoring "Hindu theology" as a category in Indian intellectual discourse / Francis Clooney
- Mantra / André Padoux
- PART IV. SOCIETY, POLITICS, AND NATION
- On the relationship between caste and Hinduism / Declan Quigley
- Modernity, reform, and revival / Dermot Killingley
- Contemporary political Hinduism / C. Ram-Prasad
- Goddess and the nation: subterfuges of antiquity, the cunning of modernity / Sumathi Ramaswamy
- Gender in a devotional universe / Vasudha Narayanan.