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Dance and Hinduism
Katherine Zubko
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2019-10-30
Dance and HinduismIntroductionDance is a central practice in Hinduism across a variety of contexts, mythological narratives, and time periods. Gods su...
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...
Deities
Danielle Feller
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Deities Introduction Traditionally, the Hindu pantheon is supposed to consist of thirty-three gods (most commonly termed devas in Sanskrit): “...
Democracy in India
Rajeshwari Deshpande, Suhas Palshikar
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
Democracy in IndiaIntroductionScholarly interest in India’s democratic politics has shifted from curiosity and skepticism to robust comparisons and po...
Devī Māhātmya
Raj Balkaran
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2022-01-12
Devī MāhātmyaIntroductionThe Sanskrit narrative text Devī Māhātmya—“The greatness of the Goddess” (also known as Durgā Saptaśatī and Caṇḍī Pāṭha, henc...
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...
Digital Hinduism
Juli Gittinger
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
Digital HinduismIntroductionAnthony Giddens has described globalization as an “intensification” and “compression” of time and space—nowhere is this mo...
Draupadī
Emily T. Hudson
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2017-09-27
DraupadīIntroductionDraupadī is the central heroine of the classical Sanskrit epic the Mahābhārata, which tells the tale of a fratricidal war between ...
Durgā
Bihani Sarkar
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2019-05-29
DurgāIntroductionDurgā—goddess of war; slayer of demons; bestower of victory; savior in dangers; keeper of sacred Order; guardian of fortresses; dispe...
Eckankar
Andrea Diem
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2018-10-25
EckankarIntroductionPaul Twitchell (b. 1909–d. 1971) officially founded Eckankar in 1965. However, a couple of years prior he had published several ar...
Ecology in Hinduism
Christopher Key Chapple, Pankaj Jain
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Ecology in HinduismIntroductionThe contemporary problems of environmental degradation have not gone unnoticed by adherents and scholars of the Hindu f...
Education and Hinduism
Nita Kumar
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
Education and HinduismIntroductionWe may approach the topic “Education and Hinduism” through two overlapping perspectives. In the first, we would take...
Eknāth
Jon Keune
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
EknāthIntroductionEknāth (Ekanāth, Ekanātha) was a Brahmin saint-poet and vernacular intellectual who lived in mainly in the town of Paiṭhaṇ (known in...
Epics, Vernacular Oral
Aditya Malik
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Vernacular Oral Epics Introduction Vernacular oral epics occur in local and regional contexts all over the Indian subcontinent, engaging a ran...
Epistemology (Pramāṇas)
Matthew R. Dasti, Malcolm Keating
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2016-04-28
Epistemology (Pramāṇas)IntroductionIn classical Hindu philosophy and classical Indian thought more generally, questions of epistemology, rationality, ...
Ethics
Amod Lele
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
Ethics Introduction All attempts to discuss “ethics in Hinduism” should proceed with caution, because neither of these terms had any indigenou...
European Constructions
Robert A. Yelle, Joydeep Bagchee, Lorenz Trein
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
European ConstructionsIntroductionThe phrase “European constructions of Hinduism” is one that has acquired meaning only since the late 20th century, i...
Festivals
Amanda Lucia
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2016-11-28
FestivalsIntroductionThe annual calendar for Hindus is punctuated with festivals; it is often said, “twelve months, thirteen festivals” or similarly “...
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