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  1. Hinduism Essay: History, Beliefs and Culture

    Hinduism is the world's oldest organized religion existing for 4500 years. Based on the prehistoric Vedic text, it is a faith in constant change. Populated by an infinite amount of gods, the belief system is open to adopting any of the gods produced by younger religions. Reincarnation and Karma are the primary mechanisms of Hinduism.

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    Review Essay The Triumph of the Hindu Right Freedom of Speech and Religious Repression in Modi's India By Ananya Vajpeyi September/October 2014 Published on August 11, 2014 Play Download Article On Hinduism . By WENDY DONIGER. Oxford University Press, 2014, 680 pp. $39.95. The Hindus: An Alternative History. By WENDY DONIGER.

  3. Comparative Study of Hinduism

    As this introduction suggests, the bibliography on the "comparative study of Hinduism" can be placed in three categories. First, the perceptions of Hinduism recorded by "outsiders" such as Muslim travelers, Christian missionaries, and British colonial administrators. Second, the various forms of "critical insider" responses ...

  4. Religion in India: Tolerance and Segregation

    This study is Pew Research Center's most comprehensive, in-depth exploration of India to date. For this report, we surveyed 29,999 Indian adults (including 22,975 who identify as Hindu, 3,336 who identify as Muslim, 1,782 who identify as Sikh, 1,011 who identify as Christian, 719 who identify as Buddhist, 109 who identify as Jain and 67 who identify as belonging to another religion or as ...

  5. Criticism of Hinduism

    (January 2021) Early opposition Some of the earliest criticism of Brahminical texts, including the Vedas and especially the Dharmashastras, comes from the Sramana (or renunciate) traditions, including Buddhism and Jainism. Sramana scholars viewed Brahminical philosophy as "heretical."

  6. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's Views on Religion: A Sociological Analysis

    From such a standpoint, Dr. Ambedkar embarked on a critique wherein Hinduism, more specifically Hindu religious scriptures, emerged as a hegemonic system which deprived a section of the population of their 'humanity' ( manuski ). All the same it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed.

  7. Hegel's Criticism of Hinduism

    Article Metrics Get access Abstract In his Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion Hegel critically refers to Hinduism as 'The Religion of Imagination' or, in another translation, 'The Religion of Phantasy'.

  8. Overview Essay

    Hinduism: Devotional Love of the World. David L. Haberman, Indiana University Originally published in the Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology. There is an outright assault on virtually every aspect of Earth's ecosystems these days: rivers are severely polluted, forests are razed at alarming rates, and mountains are demolished for a variety of industrial purposes.

  9. Hegel's Criticism of Hinduism: A Response

    Abstract. This paper offers a response to Hegel's critique of Hinduism as explicated by Jon Stewart, by drawing on a variety of textual sources which are normative for Hinduism. In a first section, Hegel's idea that the Hindu conception of the divine is too abstract to provide meaningful content is challenged by explicating the role of the ...

  10. Debates in Indian Philosophy: Classical, Colonial, and Contemporary

    Savarkar distinguishes 'Hinduism' from 'Hindutva.' Hinduism is a religion. ... this should not prevent my voicing a few critical remarks about Debates in Indian Philosophy. My first criticism is that the focus is entirely on Indian philosophers who are Hindu. This gives the misleading impression that Hindu philosophers are the only figures of ...

  11. Book Review: Essays in Hindu Theology. By Anantanand Rambachan

    Volume 34 Article 12 2021 Book Review: Essays in Hindu Theology. By Anantanand Rambachan Julius J. Lipner University of Cambridge Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jhcs Recommended Citation Lipner, Julius J. (2021) "Book Review: Essays in Hindu Theology.

  12. Hinduism

    Hinduism, major world religion originating on the Indian subcontinent and comprising several and varied systems of philosophy, belief, and ritual.Although the name Hinduism is relatively new, having been coined by British writers in the first decades of the 19th century, it refers to a rich cumulative tradition of texts and practices, some of which date to the 2nd millennium bce or possibly ...

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    Doniger sets herself the ambitious task of writing "a narrative alternative to the one constituted by the most famous texts in Sanskrit.". As she puts it, "It's not all about Brahmins ...

  15. Hindu Philosophy

    Hindu philosophy, thus understood, not only includes the philosophical doctrines present in Hindu texts of primary and secondary religious importance, but also the systematic philosophies of the Hindu schools: Nyāya, Vaiśeṣika, Sāṅkhya, Yoga, Pūrvamīmāṃsā and Vedānta. In total, Hindu philosophy has made a sizable contribution to ...

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    Acts 10:34-35 I. Status Questionis A. An Ecumenical Problem Vine of the most encouraging phenomena of our time is a sincere world wide desire for mutual understanding, a genuine thirst for universality. Geography and history have left behind the limited dimensions of the past, and encompass a field that is becoming ever more universal in scope.

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    The author tackles Kashmir, Hindu nationalism and the dangers of being outspoken in this startling collection of essays Ashish Ghadiali Mon 19 Oct 2020 02.00 EDT Last modified on Tue 20 Oct 2020 ...

  18. Why I am Not a Hindu: A Sudra Critique of Hindutva Philosophy, Culture

    '[In our childhood] all of us, the Dalitbahujans of India never heard the word 'Hindu' -- not as a word, nor as the name of a culture, nor as the name of the religion.' This is one of the provocative statements from the author who identifies himself as a dalitbahujan, a member of the 'exploited and suppressed majority' of Indians. Writing with passionate anger laced with sarcasm on the ...

  19. [PDF] "Hinduism" and the History of "Religion": Protestant

    The claim that Hinduism is not a religion, or not a single religion, is so often repeated that it might be considered an axiom of research into the religious beliefs and practices of the Hindus, were it not typically ignored immediately after having been stated.

  20. Hindu Ethics : A Historical and Critical Essay

    Hindu Ethics: A Historical and Critical Essay. John McKenzie. H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922 - Ethics - 267 pages. 0 Reviews. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified .

  21. Veer Savarkar: Ideologue of Hindutva

    Vinayak Damodar ("Veer") Savarkar can, with some justice, be described as the inspirational force behind the resurgence of militant Hinduism in contemporary India. His fame has been on the ascendancy since the Hindu right captured power in India less than a decade ago, and lately he has been lionized in the film "Veer Savarkar" by the ...

  22. The Family in India: Critical Essays

    The Family in India. : A. M. Shah. Orient Blackswan, 1998 - Family & Relationships - 173 pages. This collection of essays on the family in India covers a wide range of theoretical methodological, substantive and policy issues. Professor Shah s work challenges many popularly held beliefs about the family in India.

  23. Manusmriti: An Analysis

    Manu-smriti is one of the most important and authoritative legal texts followed in Hinduism. ... A Book Review 'Tamas' is a 1974 novel by author Bhisham Sahni which covers the story of a riot ...

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