Research Catalog

Title

The strides of Vishnu : Hindu culture in historical perspective / Ariel Glucklich.

Author

Glucklich, Ariel.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Description

xiii, 241 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.

Summary

"Books about Hinduism often begin by noting the immense size and complexity of the subject. Hinduism is vast and diverse, they say. Or it doesn't exist at all - Hinduism is merely a convenient (and foreign) term that masks a plurality of traditions. In either case, readers are discouraged by the thought that they are getting only a tiny sample or a shallow overview of something huge and uniquely difficult." "This book is designed to be accessible and sophisticated, holding the reader's interest in the dynamic sequence of ideas through time and place. Each of the 12 chapters combines historical material with key religious, scientific, and philosophical ideas, supported by substantial quotations from scriptures and other texts. Historic places and persons are fleshed out as actors in a narrative about the relation of the sacred to ordinary existence as it is mediated through arts, sciences, rituals, and philosophical ideas. Although many books introduce the Hindu tradition, this is the first with a broad historical and cultural focus that emphasizes archaeological as well as textual evidence."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

• Hinduism and culture > History
• India > Civilization

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-224) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1 The Dig and the Temple 13 -- 2 Sacred Knowledge and Indian Origins 25 -- 3 A City Where the Rivers Meet 43 -- 4 King Janaka's Contest 59 -- 5 Vedic Science The Grammar of Reality 71 -- 6 Kanishka and Krishna 91 -- 7 Performing Arts and Sacred Models 109 -- 8 The Second Rationality 129 -- 9 Maps and Myths in the Matsya Purana 145 -- 10 Shankara and Kumarila Between Brahman and Dharma 163 -- 11 Devotion and Knowledge The Indo-Muslim Centuries 181 -- 12 The Eternal Dharma 197.

ISBN

• 9780195314052 (alk. paper)
• 0195314050 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007009300

OCLC

85822620

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library