Hindu Religious Tradition,9780822100225

Hindu Religious Tradition

by Hopkins, Thomas J.
ISBN13: 9780822100225
ISBN10: 0822100223
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1971-01-01
Publisher(s): Cengage Learning
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Summary

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Hindu development from the Indus civilization to the present.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Preface viii
Introduction 1(2)
The Aryans and Early Indian Culture
3(14)
The Indus Civilization
3(1)
The Indus Cities
4(1)
Indus Art
5(3)
The Continuation of Indus Culture
8(2)
The Coming of the Aryans
10(1)
The Gods of the Early Aryans
11(3)
The Aryan Fire Sacrifice
14(3)
The Creative Power of the Sacrifice
17(19)
Decline of the Vedic Gods
17(1)
The Expanded Role of Agni
17(2)
The Sounds of the Sacrifice
19(2)
Creation and the Sacrifice
21(4)
The Creative Power of Heat
25(2)
Ritual Magic and the Atharva Veda
27(1)
The Priest as Ritualist and Magician
28(3)
Knowledge and Ritual Purity
31(1)
The Ritual as Creator and Preserver of the Cosmos
32(1)
The Place of Man in the Cosmos
33(3)
The Upanishads
36(16)
The Search for the Self of Man
36(2)
Speculation in the Early Upanishads
38(2)
The Teaching of Yajnavalkya
40(3)
Being Alone Exists
43(2)
The Final Goal of the Upanishads
45(2)
The Religious Implications of Upanishadic Teaching
47(2)
Asceticism and the Vedic Tradition
49(1)
The Search for New Solutions
50(2)
Challenges and Change
52(12)
The Rise of Non-Vedic Movements
52(2)
The Ajivakas and Jains
54(1)
The Buddhist Rejection of the Vedic World View
55(2)
The Mauryan Empire
57(2)
Religion and Art in the Post-Mauryan Period
59(4)
Summary: The Challenge to Brahmanical Religion
63(1)
The New Brahmanical Synthesis
64(23)
Yoga in the Late Upanishads
64(3)
The Yoga of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras
67(2)
Theism in the Late Upanishads
69(4)
Karma and Dharma in the Brahmanical Tradition
73(1)
The Varnasrama-Dharma System
74(2)
Students and House-holders
76(2)
The Importance of Marriage
78(1)
Astrology in the Brahmanical System
79(2)
Beyond Householdership: The Path to Release
81(3)
The Success of the Brahmanical System
84(3)
The Religion of the Epics and Puranas
87(21)
Siva and Vishnu in the Epics
87(3)
The Bhagavad Gita
90(5)
The Origins of Puranic Theism
95(2)
The Pasupatas and Lakulisas
97(2)
Vaishnavite Sectarianism and the Vishnu Purana
99(1)
Creation and the Yugas
99(3)
Vishnu as Krishna Gopala
102(6)
Late Puranic Religion: The Full Tradition
108(23)
Theism under the Guptas and Their Successors
108(2)
Puja
110(2)
Sectarian Agamas and Tantra
112(1)
The Standardization of Images
113(2)
Tantric Practices in the Sectarian Agamas
115(2)
The New Devotionalism
117(2)
The Major Lines of Hindu Development
119(1)
Brahmanical Orthodoxy: Sankara and the Smarta Tradition
119(2)
Sectarian Theism: Ramanuja and the Sri-Vaishnava Sect
121(3)
Emotional Devotion: The Bhagavata Purana and Popular Poet-Saints
124(2)
Devi, the Saktas, and Tantra
126(5)
The Continuing Tradition
131(10)
Muslims and the West
131(2)
The Movements of Hindu Reform
133(3)
The Vitality of the Tradition
136(5)
Outline of the Development of Vedic Writings 141(1)
A Schematic Diagram of the Hindu Religious Tradition 142(1)
Selected Readings 143(7)
Index 150

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