Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism
Manish Modi
BRILL'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HINDUISM
Editor-in-Chief: Knut A. Jacobsen
Editors
Helene Basu
Angelika Malinar
Vasudha Narayanan
2010-2014 27 x 18 cm 5188 pages Hardback 12 kilos
Set of 6 books
₹ 1,51,000 (€1,524 / $2,180}
The six-volume Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism - with the first volume published in 2009 and completed in 2014 with Vol. 6 - is thematic, presenting the latest research on all the main aspects of the Hindu Dharma in original essays written by the world’s foremost scholars of Hinduism.
On Hinduism
Hinduism is both an ancient historical tradition and a living tradition flourishing in the contemporary world.
Hinduism is a conglomerate of regional religious traditions and at the same time a global world religion.
Hinduism is an oral tradition, yet one with a huge number of sacred texts at its basis.
Hinduism is both a religious identity and an object of academic scholarship.
Salient features of this Encyclopedia
It aims at a balanced and even-handed view of Hinduism.
It explicitly adopts an interdisciplinary and pluralistic approach.
It is illustrated with maps and photographs.
It presents the learned philosophical and theological traditions of Hinduism as well as its many folk traditions.
It covers the spread of Hinduism over the last two hundred years to all the continents as well as the interaction of Hinduism with other religions.
It portrays the various responses of Hindu traditions to several contemporary issues of great relevance today, such as feminism, human rights, egalitarianism, bioethics, and so on.
Titles of the six volumes:
I. Regions, Pilgrimage, Deities
2. Sacred Texts, Ritual Traditions, Arts, Concepts
3. Society, Religious Specialists, Religious Traditions, Philosophy
4. Historical Perspectives, Poets/Teachers/Saints, Relation to Other Religions and Traditions, Hinduism and Contemporary Issues
5. Religious Symbols, Hinduism and Migration, Some Modern Religious Groups and Teachers
6. Indices
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