The Life of Hinduism

List of Illustrations ix

A Note on Transliteration xi

Introduction 1

part i worship

1 The Experience: Approaching God 33

Stephen P. Huyler

2 The Deity: The Image of God 42

Diana L. Eck

3 The Miraculous: The Birth of a Shrine 53

Shrivatsa Goswami and Margaret H. Case

part ii the life cycle

4 Marriage: Women in India 63

Doranne Jacobson

CONTENTS