Religions of Ancient India

Louis Renou (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

2016
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-8818-7 (ISBN)

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This book is based on the inaugural Jordan Lecture Comparative Religion in 1951 and offers a survey of religious movements in India, past and present. Renou discusses the Veda, its rise and fall, and the state of studies of Vedic ritual, liturgy, mythology, magic, speculative thought, and secular discipline; the contribution of Vedic Upanishads to Hinduism; the Mahabharata; the expansion of Hinduism, its fertility and battle myths, eroticism, legends of the gods, cosmogonic speculations, and theories of transmigration and ‘liberation’; its doctrine of meditation and exercises of Yoga; Hinduism’s mosaic of sects and independent groups and their attitude to the caste system. The volume concludes with a presentation on Jainism, the ascetic, non-violent sect that has adapted to modern society.

Louis Renou was Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Literature at the Sorbonne, France.

First Lecture Vedism I
Second Lecture Vedism II
Third Lecture Hinduism I
Fifth Lecture Hinduism II
Sixth Lecture Hinduism III
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.10.2016
Reihe/Serie	Religious Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 236 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10	1-4742-8818-9 / 1474288189
ISBN-13	978-1-4742-8818-7 / 9781474288187
Zustand	Neuware