The Religious Culture of India
Power, Love and Wisdom
Part of Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions
- Author: Friedhelm Hardy, University of London
- Date Published: December 2005
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521023443
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This study conducts a lively and innovative exploration of the traditional Indian religions and cultures that have both fascinated and puzzled the West for centuries. The author uses a great variety of sources, and listens not only to what the learned philosopher or theologian in the classical Sanskrit texts has to say, but also to what folk cults express in stories, myths, and poetry. By focusing on the three universal human drives of power, love and wisdom, Hardy offers a colorful picture of the huge diversity that is Indian religion.
Read more- Written by one of the leading Western scholars of Indian religion
- Based on the prestigious Oxford Wilde Lectures
- A personal view of Indian culture, written with the educated non-specialist in mind
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"Rarely has there been such a comprehensive and thoroughly scholarly volume on the religions of India. Hardy has managed to bring together an excellent and much-needed synthesis that provides insights at multiple layers of Indian religion and culture....This volume is brilliantly written and deeply conceived....highly recommended..." Choice
See more reviews"I highly recommend this book as a resource for understanding the complexity of Indian imaginations through literature and as a creative stimulus to one's own imagination." Journal of Religion
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- Date Published: December 2005
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521023443
- length: 628 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 36 mm
- weight: 0.905kg
- contains: 24 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I. Power: the Challenges of the External World:
1. Consulting the oracle once again
2. Oceans of milk and treacle
3. Navigating the sea of earthly existence
4. Safe havens
5. Violence, aggression and heroism
6. Manipulating space, time and matter. 7. Entering forbidden realms
8. Unleashing the powers of the self
Part II. Love: the Rhythms of the Interior World:
9. The missing colour
10. The landscape of the heart
11. The deadly weapons of Mara
12. Beyond the fleeting moment
13. Cosmic desire
14. Love abiding in stone
15. The melting of the heart
16. Return to the world
Part III. Wisdom: Commuting within One World
17. All the valleys filled with corpses
18. Strategic initiatives
19. Encompassing the galaxies
20. The all-pervasive mind
21. Striking a balance
22. Beyond prosaic words
23. Irreducible particulars
24. The head in the world
Notes
Index.
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