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Doniger: On Hinduism

Doniger, Wendy:
On Hinduism / Wendy Doniger. - New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. - xx, 660 S.
ISBN 978-0-19-936007-9
US$ 39,95 / £ 25,99 (Hardback)
DDC: 294.5

Beschreibung
In this magisterial volume of essays, Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted herself for half a century. This series of interconnected essays and lectures surveys the most critically important and hotly contested issues in Hinduism over 3,500 years, from the ancient time of the Vedas to the present day.
   The essays contemplate the nature of Hinduism; Hindu concepts of divinity; attitudes concerning gender, control, and desire; the question of reality and illusion; and the impermanent and the eternal in the two great Sanskrit epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Among the questions Doniger considers are: Are Hindus monotheists or polytheists? How can atheists be Hindu, and how can unrepentant Hindu sinners find salvation? Why have Hindus devoted so much attention to the psychology of addiction? What does the significance of dogs and cows tell us about Hinduism? How have Hindu concepts of death, rebirth, and karma changed over the course of history? How and why does a pluralistic faith, remarkable for its intellectual tolerance, foster religious intolerance?
   Doniger concludes with four concise autobiographical essays in which she reflects on her lifetime of scholarship, Hindu criticism of her work, and the influence of Hinduism on her own philosophy of life. On Hinduism is the culmination of over forty years of scholarship from a renowned expert on one of the world's great faiths. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Introduction: Foreword into the Past. vii
A Chronology of Hinduism. xviii
I. ON BEING HINDU
   Hinduism by Any Other Name. 3
   Are Hindus Monotheists or Polytheists? 10
   Three (or More) Forms of the Three (or More)-Fold Path in Hinduism. 21
   The Concept of Heresy in Hinduism. 36
   Eating Karma. 70
   Medical and Mythical Constructions of the Body in Sanskrit Texts. 78
   Death and Rebirth in Hinduism. 87
   Forgetting and Re-awakening to Incarnation. 107
   Assume the Position: The Fight over the Body of Yoga. 116
   The Toleration of Intolerance in Hinduism. 126
   The Politics of Hinduism Tomorrow. 142
II. GODS, HUMANS AND ANTI-GODS
   Saguna and Nirguna Images of the Deity. 151
   You Can't Get Here from There: The Logical Paradox of Hindu Creation Myths. 157
   Together Apart: Changing Ethical Implications of Hindu Cosmologies. 170
   God's Body, or, the Lingam Made Flesh: Conflicts over the Representation of Shiva. 192
   Sacrifice and Subsitution: Ritual Mystification and Mythical Demystification in Hinduism. 207
   The Scrapbook of Undeserved Salvation: The Kedara Khanda of the Skanda Purana. 233
III. WOMEN AND OTHER GENDERS
   Why Should a Brahmin Tell You Whom to Marry?: A Deconstruction of the Laws of Manu. 259
   Saranyu/Samjna: The Sun and the Shadow. 269
   The Clever Wife in Indian Mythology. 288
   Rings of Rejection and Recognition in Ancient India. 301
   The Third Nature: Gender Inversions in the Kamasutra. 314
   Bisexuality and Transsexuality Among the Hindu Gods. 330
   Transsexual Transformations of Subjectivity and Memory in Hindu Mythology. 342
IV. KAMA AND OTHER SEDUCTIONS
   The Control of Addiction in Ancient India. 363
   Reading the Kamasutra: It Isn't All About Sex. 371
   The Mythology of the Kamasutra. 381
   From Kama to Karma: The Resurgence of Puritanism in Contemporary India. 396
V. HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS
   The Ambivalence of Ahimsa . 409
   Zoomorphism in Ancient India: Humans More Bestial Than Beasts. 426
   The Mythology of Horses in India. 438
   The Submarine Mare in the Mythology of Shiva. 452
   Indra as the Stallion's Wife. 473
   Dogs as Dalits in Indian Literature. 488
   Sacred Cows and Beefeaters. 501
VI. ILLUSION AND REALITY IN THE HINDU EPICS
   Impermanence and Eternity in Hindu Epic, Art and Performance. 509
   Shadows of the Ramayana. 523
   Women in the Mahabharata. 537
   The History of Ekalavya. 547
VII. ON NOT BEING HINDU
   "I Have Scinde": Orientalism and Guilt. 559
   Doniger O'Flaherty on Doniger. 569
   You Can't Make an Omelette. 572
   The Forest-Dweller. 577
Appendix I: Limericks on Hinduism. 579
Appendix II: Essays on Hinduism by Wendy Doniger. 582
List of Abbreviations. 590
Notes. 591
Bibliography. 627
Index. 649

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Autorin
WENDY DONIGER is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago and the author of over 30 books, most recently The Hindus: An Alternative History. Profile page. Wikipedia [en].

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References

  1. Doniger, Wendy (2014).  On Hinduism. xx, 660 S.