Religious Thought and Life in India: Vedism, Brahmanism and Hinduism
Monier-Williams, M.
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Book ID : 11888
ISBN-10 : 81-7069-052-8 / 8170690528
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
1974
Edition :
Language : English
An account of the religions of the Indian peoples. Based on a life's study of their literature and on personal investigations in their own country; xii, 520p., 23 cm. (Originally published in 1883, London)
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- Introductory Observations; I. Vedism; II. Brahmanism; III. Hinduism, General Observations; IV. Saivism; V. Vaishnavism; VI. Vaishnavism, Minor Sects and Reforming Theistic Movements; VII. Saktism, or Goddess-worship; VIII. Tutelary and Village Deities; IX. Demon-worship and Spirit-worship; X. Hero-worship and Saint-worship; XI. Death, Funeral Rites, and Ancestor-worship; XII. Worship of Animals, Trees, and Inanimate Objects; XIII. The Hindu Religion in Ancient Family-life; XIV. The Hindu Religion in Modern Family-life; XV. Religious Life of the Orthodox Hindu Householder; XVI. Hindu Fasts, Festivals, and Holy Days; XVII. Temples, Shrines, and Sacred Places; XVIII. Caste in Religion to Trades and Industries; XIX. Modern Hindu Theism, Rammohan Roy; XX. Modern Hindu Theism, Rammohan Roy's Successors.
