Hinduism: past and present/ (Record no. 147654)
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| fixed length control field | 03986nam a2200169Ia 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780691089539 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 294.5 |
| Item number | MIC/H |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Michaels, Axel |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Hinduism: past and present/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Axel Michaels |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Princeton: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Princeton University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2004. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xvii, 429 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. ; |
| Dimensions | 24 cm. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Theoretical and historical foundations. <br/>1. Theoretical foundations --<br/>Is India different? --<br/>The identificatory habitus --<br/>What is Hinduism? --<br/>Hinduism and Hindu-ness --<br/>Religion and Dharma --<br/>Hindu religions and Hindu religiosity --<br/>Great and little Hinduism --<br/>Continuity and change --<br/>2. Historical foundations --<br/>Epochs in the history of religions --<br/>First epoch : Prevedic religions --<br/>Second epoch : Vedic religion --<br/>Third epoch : ascetic reformism --<br/>Fourth epoch : classical Hinduism --<br/>Fifth epoch : sects of Hinduism --<br/>Sixth epoch : modern Hinduism --<br/>Religious literature --<br/>Vedic literature --<br/>The literature of the ascetic reformation --<br/>The literature of classical Hinduism --<br/>The literatures of the Hindu sects --<br/>Literatures of modern Hinduism. Religion and society. 3. Stages of life and rites of passage --<br/>Initiation --<br/>The salvational goal of initiation --<br/>The second birth --<br/>Pre-rites --<br/>Tonsure --<br/>Natural birth, ritual birth, new birth --<br/>The sacred thread --<br/>Consecration of the ascetic, consecration of the student, consecration of the man --<br/>Childhood and socialization --<br/>The early years --<br/>Parentage and the "Oceanic feeling" --<br/>Sacred fatherhood --<br/>Wedding and matrimony --<br/>The wedding --<br/>The daughter as gift --<br/>Kinship, alliance, and descent --<br/>The situation of the woman --<br/>Death and life after death --<br/>The Brahmanic ritual of dying and death --<br/>Ancestor worship --<br/>Widow-burning and religiously motivated suicide --<br/>The ban on killing and Ahiṃsā --<br/>Karma and rebirth --<br/>Mortality and immortality --<br/>4. The social system --<br/>Social stratification --<br/>The caste society --<br/>Segmentation --<br/>Social contacts --<br/>Greeting --<br/>Touching --<br/>Eating --<br/>Purity and impurity --<br/>Religious and social hierarchy --<br/>Priests and the supremacy of the Brahmans --<br/>Religious and economic centrality --<br/>Hierarchies of the gift --<br/>5. Religiosity --<br/>The idea of god and the pantheon --<br/>Equitheism and homotheism --<br/>Viṣṇu, Kṛṣṇa and the centrality of the gods --<br/>Śiva in the great and little traditions --<br/>Gan̜eśa and the miracle --<br/>Wild and mild goddesses --<br/>Elements of religiosity --<br/>Prayer --<br/>Looks --<br/>Ritual acts --<br/>Ritualism --<br/>The Brahmanic-Sanskritic morning ritual --<br/>Divine worship (pūjā) --<br/>Sacrifice --<br/>Devotionalism and theistic traditions --<br/>Bhakti movements --<br/>The grace of the gods --<br/>Spiritualism and mysticism --<br/>The identification doctrine of the Upaniṣads --<br/>The psycho-physical identifications of Sāṃkhya and yoga --<br/>Śaṃkara's doctrine of nonduality --<br/>Special features of Indian mysticism --<br/>Heroism and kingship --<br/>Ākhāṛās : religious centers of strength --<br/>Power and authority of the king --<br/>King and ascetic. From descent to transcendence. 6. Religious ideas of space and time --<br/>Religious awareness of space --<br/>Spaces and directions as sacred powers --<br/>Pilgrimage sites and their hierarchy --<br/>Astrology and the cosmic place of man --<br/>Religious and scientific concepts of space --<br/>Religious awareness of time --<br/>Ancient Indian cosmogonies --<br/>Creation in classical mythology --<br/>The doctrine of the ages of the world --<br/>Cyclical and linear time : the calendar --<br/>Unity of space and time : festivals --<br/>Religious and scientific ideas of time --<br/>7. Immortality in life --<br/>Asceticism : life in transcendence --<br/>Ascetic practice and sects --<br/>Asceticism and sacrifice --<br/>The salvation of identifications --<br/>The socioreligious function of norms of purity --<br/>Descent and autonomy --<br/>The logic of the identifications --<br/>The "theology" of the Hindu religions : identity of god and man. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Hinduism |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Religion |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | General Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession number | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Koha item type |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 28/08/2016 | 294.5 MIC/H | P02312 | 01/08/2023 | 06/06/2023 | General Books |