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Architecture
Adam Hardy
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Architecture Introduction Even without considering the vexed question of defining Hinduism, to define “Hindu architecture” is problematic becau...
Artha and Arthaśāstra
Timothy Lubin
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Artha and Arthaśāstra Introduction The term artha has a wide range of meanings in Sanskrit—aim, purpose, motive; object; goods, wealth; int...
Āśrama
Timothy Lubin
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
ĀśramaIntroductionThe concept of āśrama is one of the most often cited features of Hindu doctrine on how one should live one’s life. According to the ...
Astronomy and Mathematics
Kim Plofker
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Astronomy and MathematicsIntroduction“Astronomy” and “mathematics” are names of sciences in the Western intellectual tradition that have no exact coun...
Atharva Veda
Carlos Lopez
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Atharva Veda Introduction The Atharva Veda (or Atharvaveda, AV), the fourth Vedic collection and the second oldest Indian text, is distinguish...
Avatāra
Tracy Coleman
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Avatāra Introduction The term avatāra is derived from the Sanskrit ava√tṝ cross down or descend, thus commonly referring to a god’s “descent”...
Bengal and Surrounding Areas, Hinduism in
Rebecca Manring
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Hinduism in Bengal and Surrounding Areas Introduction Bengal constitutes the geographic region bounded on the north by the Himalayan range and...
Bhagavad Gita
Simon Brodbeck
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Bhagavad Gita Introduction The Bhagavad Gita is one of the supreme works of Sanskrit and indeed of all world literature. It is the most well-...
Bhakti
Tracy Coleman
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Bhakti Introduction The Sanskrit term “bhakti” is generally translated as “devotion” and refers to a variety of Hindu traditions in which dev...
Bhārat Mātā
Sumathi Ramaswamy
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Bhārat Mātā Introduction Bhārat Mātā (a Sanskrit phrase that literally translates as “India Mother”) is also widely known across India as “Mot...
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....
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