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The Life of Hinduism

The Life of Hinduism

by John Hawley (Editor)  •  Vasudha Narayanan (Editor)

  • RELIGION
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 337 PAGES

This reader brings together dozens of essays, many well-known, by Indian and western scholars, including Stephen Huyler, Diana Eck, Doranne Jacobson, Sudhir Kakar and Sitansu Chakravarti. With chapters on worship, marriage and death, festivals, the Ramayana, gurus, Dalits and Brahmins, emigration, Hindu nationalism and tolerance.  (IDA374, $27.95)


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