Religion in India: A Historical Introduction

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18 Max Weber, Religion in India(Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1958).
19 Peter Berger, The Sacred Canopy(Garden City, NJ: Anchor Books, 1969).
20 Rudolph Otto, The Idea of the Holy, Tr. J. W. Harvey (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1958).
21 Clifford Geertz, “Religion as a Cultural System” in W. A. Lessa and E. Z. Vogt,
eds,Reader in Comparative Religion(4th edn, New York: Harper and Row, 1979).
22 Otto, op. cit., p. 42f.


2 Sources of Indian Religion


1 M. L. K. Murty, “The God Narasimha in the Folk Religion of Andhra Pradesh,
South India” in Journal of the Society for South Asian Studies. Vol. 13 (1987),
pp. 179–88.
2 See, for example, H. D. Sankalia, Prehistory and Protohistory of India and Pakistan
(Bombay: University of Bombay Press, 1962), pp. 152–53.
3 F. R. Allchin, Neolithic Cattlekeepers of South India(Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1963).
4 Katheryn Linduff in conversation.
5 N. R. Banerjee, The Iron Age in India(Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1965),
pp. 55ff.
6 Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, “A Reassessment of the Theories of Racial Origins of
the People of the Indus Valley Civilization from Recent Anthropological
Data” in K. A. R. Kennedy and G. L. Possehl, eds, Studies in the Archeology and
Paleoanthropology of South Asia(New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies,
1984), pp. 99–107 and Katheryn Linduff in conversation.
7 Katheryn Linduff in conversation.
8 This interpretation of Indus Valley religion is summarized in A. Hiltebeitel and
T. Hopkins, “Indus Valley Religion” in M. Eliade, ed., Encyclopedia of Religion
(New York: Macmillan, 1986), Vol. VII, pp. 215–23.
9 See Irene Winter, “Idols of the King: Royal Images as Recipients of Ritual Action
in Ancient Mesopotamia” in Journal of Ritual Studies. Vol. 6, No. 1 (Winter,
1992), pp. 13–42.
10 D. P. Agrawal, “The Harappan Legacy: Break and Continuity” in Kennedy and
Possehl, 1984, p. 443.
11 See, for example, Ann Feldhaus, Water and Womanhood(New York: Oxford
University Press, 1995) and David Shulman, Tamil Temple Myths(Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1980).
12 A. L. Basham, The Origins and Development of Classical Hinduism(New York:
Oxford University Press, 1991), pp. 43–44.
13 Georges Dumezil, The Destiny of a Warrior, Tr. Alf Hiltebeitel (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1970).
14 These positions are summarized in full in Edwin Bryant, The Quest for the Origins
of Vedic Culture: The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate(Oxford and New York: Oxford
University Press, 2001).
15 S. Jamison, Sacrificed Wife, Sacrificer’s Wife: Women, Ritual and Hospitality in Ancient
India(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 30–31.
16 Brian K. Smith, Classifying the Universe(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994),
pp. 14 and 26ff.


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