The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism

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The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism ...

Blackwell Companions to Religion TheBlackwell Companions to Religion series presents a collection of the most recent scholarship ...

The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism Edited by Gavin Flood ...

Copyright © 2003 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd Editorial arrangement, selection and introduction © 2003 by Gavin Flood Introductio ...

To the memory of Norman Cutler and Wilhelm Halbfass ...

Contents Contributors x Preface and Acknowledgments xii Introduction: Establishing the Boundaries Gavin Flood 1 Part I Theoretic ...

Textual Traditions in Regional Languages 144 7 Tamil Hindu Literature Norman Cutler 145 8 The Literature of Hinduism in Malayala ...

19 The Science of Medicine Dominik Wujastyk 393 Philosophy and Theology 410 20 Hinduism and the Proper Work of Reason Jonardon G ...

Contributors John Brockingtonis Professor of Sanskrit, Department of Sanskrit, University of Edinburgh, UK. Francis Clooney, SJi ...

Freda Matchettis Honorary Research Fellow, Religious Studies Department, University of Lancaster, UK. Vasudha Narayanan is Profe ...

Preface and Acknowledgments The purpose of this volume is to make available to a wide audience some of the most recent scholarsh ...

this volume is on text and different readings of text, although some relate text to material history where this is possible and ...

Introduction: Establishing the Boundaries Gavin Flood That religion is still of central importance in today’s world can hardly b ...

Hinduism. The answers to these questions will depend upon the historical period in question and the methods employed in their st ...

goes way beyond academic formulations and arguments in the academy into the politics of cultural identity and questions about po ...

that tradition stems from textual, written revelation, and that a religion is nec- essarily coherent. But in spite of these crit ...

cies operate in three interrelated realms, namely discourse (va ̄da), ritual (yajña, pu ̄ja ̄), and narrative (itiha ̄sa). Disco ...