Indian Religions
Renaissance and Renewal: The Spalding Papers on Indic Studies
Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal, the latest collection of Spalding papers, celebrates the work of Ninian Smart in bringing together papers by some of the most eminent scholars within this field. The papers are concerned with cultural, religious, political or textual exchange and encounter, and therefore in concepts of rupture, revival, restoration, reformation and reformulation. The title of this book comes directly from Professor Klaus Klostermaier's paper which argues that the real Hindu Renaissance is happening now. However, the title also embraces the contemporary problematic of the study of Indian religions. There cannot ever h…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84553-169-0
- EAN: 9781845531690
- Produktnummer: 2336514
- Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 436 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.7 cm 818 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 818
Über den Autor
Anna S. King is Convenor of the Spalding Symposium and Senior Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Winchester. She trained as a social anthropologist at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology in Oxford and studied Hindi at the Oriental Faculty, Cambridge University. After initial research on Mircea Eliade, she carried out her first period of fieldwork on the pilgrimage priests of Hardwar, North India. She has since published research on the Dalits of India and on ISKCON's Caitanya Vaisnava tradition. She is editor with John Brockington (2005) of The Intimate Other: Love Divine in Indic Religions (Orient Longman).
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