Product Description

The Hindu World is the most complete, authoritative and up-to-date one-volume guide to Hindu faith and culture available today.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #805952 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 672 pages

From the Back Cover

The Hindu World is the most complete, authoritative and up-to-date one-volume guide to Hindu faith and culture available today. Written by the world's leading scholars on Hinduism, its twenty-four chapters explore the history, philosophy and practice of one of the world's great religious traditions.

The Hindu World offers new insights into all aspects of Hindu life, ranging from the devotional texts of the Vedas and Ramayana to current perspectives on dharma and kama, temple architecture, sacred food, ritual, caste, cosmic philosophy, history and modernization. This is an ideal reference for students and scholars of Hinduism.

About the Author

Sushil Mittal is an Associate Professor and the director of the Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence at James Madison University in Virgina. Gene Thursby is an Associate Professor at the University of Florida. They have also co-edited Religions of South Asia (2006), published by Routledge.

Julius Lipner, Laurie L. Patton, James L. Fitzgerald, Robert and Sally Goldman, Velcheru Narayana Rao, Gavin Flood, Kathleen M. Erndl, Francis X. Clooney and Tony K. Stewart, David N. Lorenzen, Barbara A. Holdredge, Hartmut Scharfe, Dermot Killingley, Klaus K. Klostermaier, Herman W. Tull, Mary McGee, McKim Marriott, Walter O. Kaelber, R. S. Khare, Susan S. Wadley, Vasudha Narayanan, James Lochtefeld and Surinder M. Bhardwaj, Mahadev M. Deshpande, John A. Grimes, Randy Koetzli and Alf Hiltebeitel