Author: Gavin Flood
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: blackwell, religion, companions, hinduism, companion
Number of Pages: 616
Published: 2005-06-17
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 1405132515
ISBN-13: 9781405132510

An ideal resource for courses on Hinduism or world religions, this accessible volume spans the entire field of Hindu studies. It provides a forum for the best scholars in the world to make their views and research available to a wider audience. Comprehensively covers the textual traditions of Hinduism Features four coherent sections covering theoretical issues, textual traditions, science and philosophy, and Hindu society and politics Reflects the trend away from essentialist understandings of Hinduism towards tradition and regional-specific studies Includes material on Hindu folk religions an

Author: Gavin Flood
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: religious, studies, cassell, religion, rethinking, study, phenomenology
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1999-10-01
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0304705705
ISBN-13: 9780304705702

The aims of this book are to examine the interface between religious studies, critical social theory and cultural theory and to argue for a discourse within religious studies which draws from, and contributes to, wider intellectual debates in the humanities and social sciences. In the context of postmodern criticism, the book seeks to address or revisit the central questions: what is it to understand religion in the contemporary world in which relativism and perspectivalism prevail and an overarching trans-cultural rationality has been severely critiqued?; can a deep understanding of religions

Author: Gavin D. Flood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: introduction, religion, hinduism
Number of Pages: 359
Published: 1996-07-13
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 0521438780
ISBN-13: 9780521438780

This book provides a much-needed thematic and historical introduction to Hinduism, the religion of the majority of people in India. Dr. Flood traces the development of Hindu traditions from ancient origins and the major deities to the modern world. Hinduism as both a global religion and a form of nationalism are discussed. Emphasis is given to the tantric traditions, which have been so influential; to Hindu ritual, more fundamental than belief or doctrine; and to Dravidian influences. It introduces some debates within contemporary scholarship.

Author: Gavin Flood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: tradition, memory, subjectivity, ascetic
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 2005-01-10
List price: $37.99
ISBN-10: 052160401X
ISBN-13: 9780521604017

Focusing on Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism, this book argues that asceticism must be understood within the boundaries of tradition. It exemplifies a completely new paradigm for comparative religion which seeks to avoid a problematic universalism on the one hand and an area-specific relativism on the other. The volume’s original contribution to methodology will be influential in the future development of comparative religious studies.

Author: Gavin D. Flood
Publisher: Foundation Books
Keywords: hinduism, introduction
Published: 2004-10-15
List price: $26.50
ISBN-10: 8175960280
ISBN-13: 9788175960282

This book provides a much needed thematic and historical introduction to Hinduism, the religion of the majorty of people in India

Author: Gavin Flood
Publisher: Akal Ediciones Sa
Keywords: spanish, hinduism, hinduismo
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-06-30
List price: $73.95
ISBN-10: 8446028395
ISBN-13: 9788446028390

Author: Gavin D. Flood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: spanish, hinduismo
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2002-05-20
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 8483230321
ISBN-13: 9788483230329

Partiendo de las pregunta ’Qué es el hinduismo?’ el Dr. Flood sigue las huellas del desarrollo de las tradiciones hindúes desde sus primeros momentos, pasando por el estudio de las divinidades principales, hasta desembocar en la materialización de la religión en el mundo actual. Estudia el hinduismo a la par como religión mundial y como forma de nacionalismo, prestando especial atención a las tradiciones tántricas más influyentes, al ritual hindú y a las influencias dravídicas de la India meridional. Asimismo, el autor introduce grandes temas a la propia naturaleza del hi