Research Catalog

Title

Contemplative studies and Hinduism : meditation, devotion, prayer, and worship / edited by Rita D. Sherma and Purushottama Bilimoria.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sherma, Rita DasGupta
• Bilimoria, Purusottama

Description

xiv, 213 pages : illustrations (black and white); 25 cm

Summary

This book is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Hindu contemplative praxis. It explores diverse spiritual and religious practices within the Hindu traditions and Indic hermeneutical perspectives to understand the intricate culture of meditative communion and contemplation, devotion, spiritual formation, prayer, ritual, and worship. The volume extends and expands the conceptual reach of the fields of Contemplative Studies and Hindu Studies. The chapters in the volume cover themes in Hindu contemplative experience from various texts and traditions including classical Samkhya and Patanjali Yoga, the Bhagavata Purana, the role of Sadhana in Advaita Vedanta, Srividya and the Sricakra, the body in Tantra, the semiotics and illocution of Gaudiya Vaisnava sadhana, mantra in Mimamsa, Vaisnava liturgy, as well as cross-cultural reflections and interreligious comparative contemplative praxis. The volume presents indigenous vocabulary and frameworks to examine categories and concerns particular to the Hindu contemplative traditions. It traces patterns that cut across Hindu traditions and systems and discusses contrasting methods of different theological/philosophical schools evincing a strong plurality in Hindu religious thought and practice. The volume provides intra-religious comparisons that reveal internal complexity, nuances, and a variety of contemplative states and transformative practices that exist under the rubric of Hindu practices of interiority and reflection.With key insights on forms and functions of the contemplative experience along with their theologies and philosophies, the volume suggests new hermeneutical directions that will advance the field of contemplative studies.

Subject

• Hinduism
• Samadhi

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 21-3932

ISBN

• 9781138583740
• 113858374X

OCLC

1205594251

Title

Contemplative studies and Hinduism : meditation, devotion, prayer, and worship / edited by Rita D. Sherma and Purushottama Bilimoria.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Sherma, Rita DasGupta, editor.

Bilimoria, Purusottama, editor.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781000195064

Research Call Number

JFE 21-3932