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Caitanya
Tony K. Stewart
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Caitanya Introduction The biographical tradition dedicated to the Hindu god-man Kṛṣṇa Caitanya (or Krishna Chaitanya, born Viśvambhara Miśra, ...
Calendar
Klaus Klostermaier
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2015-03-30
Calendar Introduction The Indian name of the Hindu calendar is Pañcāngam (“five limbs”). It is of utmost practical importance for Hindus to de...
Cārvāka
Ramkrishna Bhattacharya
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
CārvākaIntroductionAlthough Cārvāka is a proper name, the Cārvāka, also called Lokāyata, has been used as the generic name for all schools and doctrin...
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...
Castes, Merchant
David Rudner
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2015-04-29
Merchant CastesIntroductionThe South Asian trading world that gave birth to merchant castes extends back in time to the Indus Valley Civilization and ...
Children and Childhood in Hinduism
Nita Kumar
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
Children and Childhood in HinduismIntroductionThe importance of the child in Hinduism cannot be emphasized enough and must be addressed at several lev...
Christianity, Hinduism and
Chad Bauman, Arun W. 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, Chiara Policardi
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Classes of BeingsIntroductionBesides gods, men, and beasts, Hinduism, including its earlier phase Vedism, contains a whole array of semidivine beings....
Comparative Study of Hinduism
Ankur Barua
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2017-03-30
Comparative Study of HinduismIntroductionThe comparative study of Hinduism encompasses three broad forms of conceptual enquiry, cultural imagination, ...
Consciousness and Cognition
Sangeetha Menon
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
Consciousness and CognitionIntroductionThe concepts of consciousness and cognition are central to Hindu philosophy. The major concepts that are relate...
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...
Dalits and Hinduism
Joel Lee, Kripanand Roy Komanapalli
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2022-03-23
Dalits and HinduismIntroductionThe vexed question of the relationship of Dalits to Hinduism provokes a range of responses depending on framing and dis...
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 ...
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