I am a Hindu, but know very little of Vedas, Upanishads, the rituals, the festivals, and all the other things that I see being done everyday. This book links all these up telling us how they came to be and how they are related and make sense. This is a serious book. Every chapter took a double read to absorb well.
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Hindus (The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices) 1st Edition
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Julius Lipner
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Hindus is an introduction to the evolution, multidimensional nature and influences of Hinduism. Julius Lipner explores the religion as a family of religions rather that a monlithic entity. His approach is thematic and considers various topics such as the staus of women, the role of tradition and the narrative quality of Hindu faith. Born and raised in India, Lipner draws on his experience to explain what it means to be a Hindu in a changing world.
- ISBN-100415051827
- ISBN-13978-0415051828
- Edition1st
- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication dateAugust 15, 1998
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions5.75 x 1.25 x 8.75 inches
- Print length392 pages
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"Julius Lipner's book is scholarly but at the same time very readable guide to Hinduism - a religion which is all to often misunderstood and mispresented." -- Mark Tully, former BBC Dehli Correspondent
"This book is quite simply the best book I have read on Hinduism in a long time." -- Girish Karnad, Indian playwright
"This book is quite simply the best book I have read on Hinduism in a long time." -- Girish Karnad, Indian playwright
About the Author
Julius J. Lipner is Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. His is the author of The Face of the Truth (1986) and co-author of Hindu Ethics (1989).
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- Publisher : Routledge; 1st edition (August 15, 1998)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 392 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0415051827
- ISBN-13 : 978-0415051828
- Item Weight : 1.1 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.75 x 1.25 x 8.75 inches
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Lipner will absolutely stand out as the ONE book to get for a thorough, if for some too dense or "academic" in style, investigation of what it has meant and now means "to be a Hindu." If you read your T.S. Eliot when you were younger and still kick yourself that you don't know what the Upanishads really are, and you know Oppenheimer repeated "I am the destroyer of worlds" that time but just haven't gotten around the finding the locus classicus: You are obviously very interested in Hinduism, but haven't had the time to bone up on it. Read this book while you are re-reading the Bhagavad Gita (not an Upanishad and careful that you don't just call it an "epic.". The depth of Lipner's knowledge of his massive subject is plain to the careful reader on every page.