On Hinduism.
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, USA,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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, |
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| Item Description: | God's body, or, the lingam made flesh: conflicts over the representation of shiva. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (681 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780199360086 0199360081 9781306426411 1306426413 |