Two new books on Hinduism

[Michael Witzel]

Two new books on Hinduism


Arvind Sharma (ed.).  The Study of Hinduism.  University of  South
Carolina
Press 2003.   pp. xii, 315

Contains:
A. Sharma: What is Hinduism?

E.J. Sharpe:  The Study of Hinduism: The Setting

A. Sharma: Method in the Study of Hinduism

S. W. Jamison and M. Witzel:  Vedic Hinduism.

(NB: written in 1992/95; for the longer version (1992), see my website:
PDF: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/vedica.pdf
HTML: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/VedicHinduism.htm )

A. Hiltebeitel: India's Epics: Writing, Orality, and Divinity

G. Bailey: The Puranas: A Study in the Development of Hinduism

M. Eder: The Bhagaravadgita and Classical Hinduism

Ph. Lutgendorf:  Medieval Devotional Traditions. An Annotated Survey of
Recent Scholarship

R.D. Baird: Modern Hinduism

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A few months ago a large vol. on Hinduism  was released:

Gavin Flood (ed.). The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism. Oxford/Malden MA:
Blackwell  2002  pp. xiii, 599

Contains 27 articles:

G. Flood: Introduction

Pt. I:  Theoretical Issues

G. Vishvannathan :  Colonialism and the Construction of Hinduism
S. Smith : Orientalism and Hinduism

Pt. II:    Text and Tradition

The Sanskrit Textual Traditions

M. Witzel  : Vedas and Upanisads
L. Rocher : The Dharmasastras
J. Brockington:  The Sanskrit Epics
F. Matchett: The Puranas

Textual Traditions in Regional languages

N. Cutler : Tamil Hindu Literature
R. Freeman :  The Literature of Hinduism in Malayalam
N. M. Martin : North Indian Devotional Literature

Major Historical Developments

G. Flood: The Saiva Traditions
G. Colas : The History of Vaisnava Traditions: An Esquisse
P. Olivelle : The Renouncer Tradition
T.N. Madan : The Householder Tradition in Hindu Society

Regional Traditions

R. Freeman : The Teyyam Tradition of Kerala
T. Pintchman : The Month of Kartik and Woman's Ritual Devotion to Krishna
in Benares

Pt. III Systematic Thought

The Indian Sciences

F. Staal :  Introduction
F. Staal : The Science of Language
T. Hayashi : Indian Mathematics
M. Yano :  Calendar, Astrology, and Astronomy
D. Wujastyk :  The Science of Medicine

Philosophy and Theology

J. Ganeri : Hinduism and the Proper Work of Reason
F. Clooney : Restoring "Hindu Theology" as  a Category in Indian
Intellectual Discourse
A. Padoux :  Mantra

Part  IV  Society, Politics, and Nation

D. Quigley : On the Relationship between Caste and Hinduism
D. Killingley : Modernity, Reform and Revival
C. Ram-Prasad : Contemporary Political Hinduism
S. Ramaswamy : The Goddess and the Nation: Subterfuges of Antiquity, the
Cunning of Modernity
V. Narayan : Gender in a Devotional Universe




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