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Old Age and Hinduism
Usha Menon
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2018-10-25
Old Age and HinduismIntroductionAmong Hindus in India, the understandings and experiences of old age are refracted, to some degree, by cultural meanin...
Orientalists and Missionaries
Will Sweetman
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
Orientalists and MissionariesIntroductionThe best accounts of Hindu religious beliefs and practices to reach Europe before 1800 came overwhelmingly fr...
Pandas/Pilgrimage Priests
James Lochtefeld
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
Pandas/Pilgrimage PriestsIntroductionAt many North Indian Hindu pilgrimage sites, panda (from Sanskrit paṇḍita, “learned man”) is the most common name...
Pandharpur and Vitthal
Erik Reenberg Sand
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2019-06-26
Pandharpur and VitthalIntroductionPandharpur, with its main deity, Viṭṭhala (hereafter Vitthal), alias Viṭhobā or Pāṇḍuraṅga, is the most popular pilg...
Pandits/Wise Men
Brian Hatcher
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2017-08-23
Pandits/Wise MenIntroductionPandit, or more colloquially pundit, is one of those Indic words, like karma or mantra, that have found a home in the Engl...
Partition
Haimanti Roy
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2015-10-26
Partition Introduction The Partition of India in 1947 is one of the most significant events in South Asian history. It refers to the political...
Pārvatī
Ellen Goldberg
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Pārvatī Introduction Pārvatī (“daughter of the mountain,” also known as Umā) is considered one of the most beloved goddesses in the Hindu panth...
Peace, War, and Violence in Hinduism
Christopher Key Chapple
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Peace, War, and Violence in Hinduism Introduction To understand issues of peace and violence in Hinduism, one must take into account a ...
Pilgrimage
James Lochtefeld
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Pilgrimage Introduction Hindu pilgrimage not only has a long and venerable history in India but is also a vibrant religious practice in mod...
Political Hinduism
Christophe Jaffrelot
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Political Hinduism Introduction Hindu nationalism is one of the oldest ideological streams in India. It took shape in the 1920s soon after the fi...
Popular and Folk Hinduism
Frank Korom
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Popular and Folk Hinduism Introduction As a number of scholars have noted, Hinduism is difficult to define because people tend to see it as...
Possession
Frederick M. Smith
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Possession Introduction Possession is a phenomenon that occurs in a majority of the world’s cultures. It most often denotes that one or more pers...
Pradesh, Andhra
Lavanya Vemsani
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
Andhra PradeshIntroductionAndhra Pradesh is located in the middle region (Madhyadesha) of India, on the southeastern side, with the long coastline of ...
Pratyabhijñā
Marco Ferrante
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2022-02-21
PratyabhijñāIntroductionThe Sanskrit term Pratyabhijñā (“Recognition”) indicates a philosophical and theological tradition that flourished in Kashmir ...
Pūjā
Lynn Foulston
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
PūjāIntroductionThe term pūjā is most commonly translated as worship but also means offering and is replete with meaning and inference. Although stric...
Purāṇas
Greg Bailey
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
PurāṇasIntroductionThe Purāṇas constitute a body of literature, divided into several subcategories, dating from the 2nd century ce and continuing unti...
Puruṣārthas
Greg Bailey
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Puruṣārthas Introduction Puruṣārtha (meaning “goal of a man” or “aim of a person”) is a term normally used in the plural to define three sphere...
Rabindranath Tagore
Victor van Bijlert, Imre Bangha
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
Rabindranath TagoreIntroductionRabindranath Tagore (in Bengali: Rabīndranāth Ṭhākur; b. 1861–d. 1941) was born in Calcutta, the capital of British Ind...
Rādhā
Heidi Pauwels
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Rādhā Introduction Rādhā is the foremost of the gopīs, or milkmaids, of Braj (Vraja), where Krishna (Kṛṣṇa) is believed to have grown up incog...
Radhasoami Tradition
Mark Juergensmeyer, David Christopher Lane
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2018-05-24
Radhasoami TraditionIntroductionThe Radhasoami tradition can be traced back to the spiritual master Shiv Dayal Singh (honorifically titled Soamiji Mah...
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