The Sacred Thread: Hinduism in Its Continuity and Diversity

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1996
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Hinduism is not just one particular approach to life. In this best-selling textbook John Brockington shows how Hinduism encompasses new dilemmas in traditional language and accommodates fresh insights to established viewpoints. Since its first publication The Sacred Thread has consistently proved an invaluable introduction to Hinduism.

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Hinduism is not just one particular approach to life. In this best-selling textbook John Brockington shows how Hinduism encompasses new dilemmas in traditional language and accommodates fresh insights to established viewpoints. Since its first publication The Sacred Thread has consistently proved an invaluable introduction to Hinduism.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 12 Jul 1996
ISBN 10: 0748608303
ISBN 13: 9780748608300

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An admirable survey which comes closer than any other to providing the novice student of Indian civilisation with a reasonable view of the major facets of the Hindu religion. In ten chapters Brockington provides an excellent survey of religious developments on the subcontinent from Harappa to the Hindu reform movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, introducing the reader to the broader philosophical and cultural dimensions of the Indian tradition as well. A work that is so finely and compactly written as to merit the highest praise both for the great erudition and scholarship that emanate from every page as well as for the concentrated effort obviously required to produce it. An admirable survey which comes closer than any other to providing the novice student of Indian civilisation with a reasonable view of the major facets of the Hindu religion. In ten chapters Brockington provides an excellent survey of religious developments on the subcontinent from Harappa to the Hindu reform movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, introducing the reader to the broader philosophical and cultural dimensions of the Indian tradition as well. A work that is so finely and compactly written as to merit the highest praise both for the great erudition and scholarship that emanate from every page as well as for the concentrated effort obviously required to produce it.

Author Bio

John Brockington is Reader in the Department of Sanskrit at the University of Edinburgh