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Religions of Ancient India
Louis Renou
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Description for Religions of Ancient India
Hardback. Series: Religious Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRKP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 241 x 14. Weight in Grams: 368.
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; Hinduism's mosaic of sects and independent groups and their attitude to the ... Read more
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; Hinduism's mosaic of sects and independent groups and their attitude to the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Religious Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474288187
SKU
V9781474288187
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About Louis Renou
Louis Renou was Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Literature at the Sorbonne, France.
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