{"title":"The Hindu Imagination and Imaginary Hinduisms","authors":"David Smith","doi":"10.1558/equinox.21458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.21458","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses the Hindu imagination, principally in the form of what might be called the classical Hinduism imagination, as found in the most famous and most aesthetically satisfying texts and images.","PeriodicalId":114494,"journal":{"name":"Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal","volume":"14 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131180146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shamanic Powers, Village Religion and Esoteric Exchange: How Far is Tantra a Specifically Indian Phenomenon?","authors":"Geoffrey Samuel","doi":"10.1558/equinox.21453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.21453","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter reconstructs some of the social context of the development of ‘Tantra,’ and in particular asks how Buddhist monks and lay practitioners came to adopt ‘extreme’ versions of Saiva (Kaula) practice as central parts of their own religious practice between the 8th and 12th centuries. These ‘extreme’ elements included the presence of fierce and terrifying deities, cremation-ground symbolism and explicit sexual elements. A variety of approaches to the development of these practices is discussed.","PeriodicalId":114494,"journal":{"name":"Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124836092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Philosophy of Religion from the Perspective of Indian Religions","authors":"K. Werner","doi":"10.1558/equinox.21448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.21448","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter points out the persisting inadequacy of the definitions and treatments of philosophy of religion in encyclopedias and monographs on the subject, manifested in their predominantly theistic orientation derived from the Judaeo-Christian tradition. Moreover it formulates a comprehensive picture of the tasks facing the subject of philosophy of religion and describes the ways in which Indian religions might enhance its treatment.","PeriodicalId":114494,"journal":{"name":"Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal","volume":"322 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121708383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Images of Samkara: Understanding the Other","authors":"Jacqueline Suthren Hirst","doi":"10.1558/equinox.21451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.21451","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter argues that a strategy of defining by negation, complementarity and mutual purification of terms, which Samkara uses in his own scriptural commentaries, can fruitfully be applied to the different methods which have been used for studying Samkara and his work. Taken individually, philosophical, traditional textual, socio-political and experiential approaches to Samkara's work tend to present radically different images of Samkara which say more about the interests of the particular exponent than about Samkara as an Advaitin teacher. Rather than favouring one approach over the others, a series of ‘portraits’ of exponents of Samkara is presented, each emblematic of one of the four approaches.","PeriodicalId":114494,"journal":{"name":"Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126858219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kumbha Melâ and the Media","authors":"Anna S. King","doi":"10.1558/equinox.21459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.21459","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter argues that contemporary media are diverse, overlapping but fragmented and that any kind of essentialist understanding is based on ideological rather than empirical considerations. It reveals the heterogeneity of media representations of Kumbha and suggests that the culture of the newsroom and of public discourse influences media reports as much as inherited colonial stereotypes.","PeriodicalId":114494,"journal":{"name":"Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115786949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theravada Revivalism in Nepal: Reflections on the Early Years","authors":"David N. Gellner","doi":"10.1558/equinox.21454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.21454","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the introduction of Theravada Buddhism into the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, between the 1920s and 1940s. The broad sociological contrasts between Theravada, on the one side, and the Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism traditionally followed by the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley, on the other, are described, as is the social context of Newar Buddhism and the varying appeal of the new form of Buddhism to different castes.","PeriodicalId":114494,"journal":{"name":"Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127534302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Walking in the Mother’s Footsteps: Dravidian Virgin Goddesses as Empowering Role Models for Women","authors":"A. Diesel","doi":"10.1558/EQUINOX.21460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/EQUINOX.21460","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter presents the ancient Dravidian virgin goddess tradition, which is very popular among the Tamil majority of South African Hindus and preserves a unique and possibly prepatriarchal form of religion which places women’s interests and suffering at centre stage. An examination of some of these goddess myths reveals stories of women, usually virtuous and faithful, who have suffered because of the demands of patriarchal traditions, and sometimes died or been killed, but have eventually been vindicated by being transformed into goddesses.","PeriodicalId":114494,"journal":{"name":"Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131633272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Time and the Sarvâstivâdins","authors":"D. Bastow","doi":"10.1558/EQUINOX.21450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/EQUINOX.21450","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter aims to enter into philosophical debate with early Buddhist arguments and theories about the nature of time, the interrelations between past, present and future. The basic argument analysed and assessed, concerns the metaphysical implications of the meditator’s ability to be ‘self-aware’ in his mindful ‘seeing’ of his own mental states; to see their nature; and also to see their future, their karmic consequences, and even their non-karmic potentiality of liberation.","PeriodicalId":114494,"journal":{"name":"Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal","volume":"356 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122805232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}