|
|
Product Description
Indian Religions is an expansive collection of the key written and oral texts by spiritual teachers from South Asia, covering 3,500 years and all the major traditions-Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, and "new" Indian religions.
The volume provides clear translations of extracts from original documents and texts from most of the well-known and many of the lesser-known individuals and traditions. Overlapping parts and sections each comprise a historically and thematically defined stage of a tradition. The reader is thus able to follow the chronological development of the various traditions without isolating them from one another. Each section includes a context-setting introduction which provides historical, cultural, and textual background. A general introduction lays the foundations for the text's theoretical framework and approach.
Indian Religions is the most complete and best-organized anthology of Indian religious/spiritual texts published to date. It serves as an introduction to the history of religions in South Asia, and will appeal to readers interested in India and Eastern religions as well as students of religion and South Asian culture.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- Yoga Ph.D.: Integrating the Life of the Mind and the Wisdom of the Body
- Incarnations: A History of India in Fifty Lives
- Defining a Nation: India on the Eve of Independence, 1945 (Reacting to the Past)
- Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals: with On a Supposed Right to Lie because of Philanthropic Concerns (Hackett Classics)
- Roots of Yoga (Penguin Classics)
- Indian Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
*If this is not the "Indian Religions: A Historical Reader of Spiritual Expression and Experience" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link
.
Details were last updated on Sep 26, 2024 02:45 +08.
