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Bloomsbury Religions of Ancient India (Religious Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections)

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Product Description This book is based on the inaugural Jordan Lecture Comparative Religion in 1951 and offers a survey of religious movements in India, past and present. Renou discusses the Veda, its rise and fall, and the state of studies of Vedic ritual, liturgy, mythology, magic, speculative thought, and secular discipline; the contribution of Vedic Upanishads to Hinduism; the Mahabharata; the expansion of Hinduism, its fertility and battle myths, eroticism, legends of the gods, cosmogonic speculations, and theories of transmigration and liberation; its doctrine of meditation and exercises of Yoga; Hinduisms mosaic of sects and independent groups and their attitude to the caste system. The volume concludes with a presentation on Jainism, the ascetic, non-violent sect that has adapted to modern society. About the Author Louis Renou was Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Literature at the Sorbonne, France.

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Brand: Bloomsbury
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 1474288189
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Asia > South Asia
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 06 October 2016
Listed Since: 12 April 2016

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