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Produktdetails

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Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.12.2015

Verlag

Oxford University Press

Seitenzahl

682

Maße (L/B/H)

23,4/15,6/4 cm

Gewicht

975 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-045510-1

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.12.2015

Verlag

Oxford University Press

Seitenzahl

682

Maße (L/B/H)

23,4/15,6/4 cm

Gewicht

975 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-045510-1

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Libri GmbH
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DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: On Hinduism

    • Introduction: Foreword into the Past

    • A Chronology

    • I. On Being Hindu

    • Hinduism by Any Other Name

    • Are Hindus Monotheists or Polytheists?

    • Three (or More) Forms of the Three (or More) - Fold Path in Hinduism

    • The Concept of Heresy in Hinduism

    • Eating Karma

    • Medical and Mythical Constructions of the Body in Sakskrit Texts

    • Death and Rebirth in Hinduism

    • Forgetting and Re-awakening to Incarnation

    • Assume the Position: The Fight over the Body of Yoga

    • The Toleration of Intolerance in Hinduism

    • The Politics of Hinduism Tomorrow

    • II. Gods, Humans and Anti-Gods

    • Saguna and Nirguna Images of the Deity

    • You Can't Get Here from There: The Logical Paradox of Hindu Creation Myths

    • Together Apart: Changing Ethical Implications of Hindu Cosmologies

    • God's Body, or, the Lingam Made Flesh: Conflicts over the Representation of Shiva

    • Sacrifice and Subsitution: Ritual Mystification and Mythical Demystification in Hinduism

    • The Scrapbook of Undeserved Salvation: The Kedara Khanda of the Skanda Purana

    • III. Women and Other Genders

    • Why Should a Brahmin Tell You Whom to Marry?: A Deconstruction of the Laws of Manu

    • Saranyu/Samjna: The Sun and the Shadow

    • The Clever Wife in Indian Mythology

    • Rings of Rejection and Recognition in Ancient India

    • The Third Nature: Gender Inversions in the Kamasutra

    • Bisexuality and Transsexuality Among the Hindu Gods

    • Transsexual Transformations of Subjectivity and Memory in Hindu Mythology

    • IV. Kama and other Seductions

    • The Control of Addiction in Ancient India

    • Reading the Kamasutra: It Isn't All About Sex

    • The Mythology of the Kamasutra

    • From Kama to Karma: The Resurgence of Puritanism in Contemporary India

    • V. Horses and Other Animals

    • The Ambivalence of Ahimsa

    • Zoomorphism in Ancient India: Humans More Bestial Than Beasts

    • The Mythology of Horses in India

    • The Submarine Mare in the Mythology of Shiva

    • Indra as the Stallion's Wife

    • Dogs as Dalits in Indian Literature

    • Sacred Cows and Beefeaters

    • VI. Illusion and Reality in the Hindu Epics

    • Impermanence and Eternity in Hindu Epic, Art and Performance

    • Shadows of the Ramayana

    • Women in the Mahabharata

    • The History of Ekalavya

    • VII. On Not Being Hindu

    • "I Have Scinde": Orientalism and Guilt

    • Doniger O'Flaherty on Doniger

    • You Can't Make an Omelette

    • The Forest-Dweller

    • Appendix I: Limericks on Hinduism

    • Appendix II: Essays on Hinduism by Wendy Doniger

    • List of Abbreviations

    • Notes

    • Bibliography

    • Index