Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Volume Two
Sacred Texts, Ritual Traditions, Arts, Concepts
Edited by Knut A. Jacobsen (Editor-in-Chief), University of Bergen, and Helene Basu, University of Münster, Angelika Malinar, University of Zürich, Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida (Associate Editors)
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Readership
All those interested in religions in South Asia, the history of Hindu tradition, as well as Indologists and historians of religions.
Reviews
... this is a magnificent work of real scholarship. (...) Our congratulations should go to Brill for continuing to publish books like this (...). Major scholarly reference libraries, and all academic libraries catering for work in oriental studies, anthropology, comparative religion or comparative philosophy, should seriously consider this for acquisition.
Martin Guha, Reference Reviews, Vol. 25, 4 (2011)
Martin Guha, Reference Reviews, Vol. 25, 4 (2011)
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The Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Ancient Kashmir and Its Influences is a stylistic study of the corpus of stone sculpture, mostly fragmentary, in the Sri Pratap Singh Museum in Srinagar, and elsewhere in Kashmir, in comparison with other examples in collections both in India and abroad.
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This handbook provides an indispensable reference guide to most aspects of the history of India’s railways. The secondary literature is surveyed, primary sources identified, statistical and cartographic data discussed, and a massive bibliography made available.
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In this publication devotional songs of the South Indian composers Tyāgarāja, Muttusvāmi Dīkṣitar and Śyāma Śāstri are presented in a detailed Western music notation. The introductory chapters contain general cultural information, biographical details as well as the original song texts with an ...
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This book highlights the specificities of Indian portraiture in sculpted and painted images, its relationship with divine images and aims, with the help of textual and epigraphical references, to understand the development of Indian imagery. It questions also the social and religious ...
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This book deals with the confrontation of Buddhism and Brahmanism in India. Both depended on support from the royal court, but Buddhism had less to offer in return than Brahmanism. Buddhism developed in a manner to make up for this.
€212.00$275.00
Volume Three offers 1643 annotated records on publications regarding the art and archaeology of South Asia, Central Asia and Tibet selected from the ABIA Index database at www.abia.net which were published between 2002 and 2007.
€249.00$346.00
Volume IV of Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism: History, Biographies, Relations, Issues presents a historical overview of Hinduism, covering significant periods from the Indus Civilization to contemporary India. This volume will cover the sections Historical Perspectives; Poets, Teachers, and ...
€256.00$332.00
Religions, Pilgrimage, Deities has two main focal points. First, it presents the regional traditions of Hinduism with articles on the Indian states and main regions of India and on regions outside India that are significant in the history of Hinduism. In addition, it has entries on sacred space ...
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This magnificently illustrated study of a vast amount of South Asian animal stone sculptures provides an art history covering almost four and a half thousand years, analyzing the art historical, archeological and cultural context of animals in society.
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