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Caste
Christophe Jaffrelot
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Caste Introduction Caste is one of the key concepts of Indian civilization. It gives the civilization most of its sociocultural distinctiveness...
Christianity, Hinduism and
Chad Bauman, Arun Jones, Brian Pennington, Joseph Prabhakar Dayam, Michelle Voss Roberts
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Hinduism and Christianity Introduction Christian communities have existed in India since at least the 4th century ce, the likely result of rel...
Classes of Beings
Danielle Feller
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Classes of Beings Introduction Besides gods, men, and beasts, Hinduism, including its earlier phase Vedism, contains a whole array of semidivine ...
Cosmogony
Alf Hiltebeitel
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Cosmogony Introduction Hinduism has numerous cosmogonies and no single or standard cosmogony. Earlier cosmogonies tend to supply pieces of later ...
Cosmology
Luis González-Reimann
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Cosmology Introduction This article deals with Hinduism’s views of the spatial structure and organization of the world as well as the world’s t...
Death
Ariel Glucklich
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Death Introduction Like every other religion, Hinduism has treated the subject of death as one of the major concerns of human life, both as an ...
Defining Hinduism
Laurie Patton
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Defining Hinduism Introduction The terms “Hinduism” and “Hindu” are notoriously difficult to define, and partly because of this ambiguity these...
Dharma
Alf Hiltebeitel
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Dharma Introduction Dharma is a term distinctive to South Asian civilization. It is a concept that dictates appropriate behaviors necessary to ...
Diaspora Hinduism
Frank Korom
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Diaspora Hinduism Introduction The study of global diasporas has grown considerably over the past thirty years. The interest in studying di...
Ecology
Christopher Key Chapple
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Ecology Introduction The contemporary problems of environmental degradation have not gone unnoticed by adherents and scholars of the Hindu faith....
Ganga
Kelly D. Alley, Georgina Drew
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Ganga Introduction The Ganga (or Ganges) River is iconic in Hindu philosophy, myth, and ritual and also in ecological sciences and climate chan...
Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism
Ravi M. Gupta
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism Introduction The Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava tradition, also known as Caitanya Vaiṣṇavism, began in Bengal with Kṛṣṇa Caitanya in the ...
Geography of Hinduism
Alf Hiltebeitel
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Geography of Hinduism Introduction The classification of contemporary “world religions” into the two categories of missionary religions (Budd...
Goddess
Perundevi Srinivasan
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Goddess Introduction Goddess worship is one of the most important signposts of the cultural landscape of Hinduism. Goddesses are predomin...
Gṛhya Rites
Timothy Lubin
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Gṛhya Rites Introduction The Vedic religion primarily involved veneration of a wide range of divinities by means of formulaic prayers (mantra...
Harivaṃśa
Simon Brodbeck
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Harivaṃśa Introduction The Harivaṃśa collectively designates three books that the Sanskrit Mahābhārata calls khilas (supplements, complements,...
Hinduism and Buddhism
Greg Bailey
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Hinduism and Buddhism Introduction Buddhism and Hinduism were never discrete religio-cultural systems, even if they are often taken as such. Mo...
Historical Traditions in Hindu Texts
Adam Bowles
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Historical Traditions in Hindu Texts Introduction “Hinduism has no sense of history,” or so it has been commonly thought in much of the schola...
Holy Persons
David Gordon White
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Holy Persons Introduction Given the fact that there is no term in Sanskrit or in the modern languages of South Asia that corresponds exactly ...
Iconography
Chandreyi Basu
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Iconography Introduction At a basic level, iconography involves description, identification, and classification of artworks as a means of stu...
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