قراءات إضافية
الفصل الأول
An excellent resource for the study of Hinduism will be
the forthcoming eighteen-volume Encyclopedia of Hinduism
and Indic Religions, a project of the India Heritage Research
Foundation. Useful current articles include ‘Hinduism’ by Alf Hiltebeitel in the
Encyclopedia of Religion (ed. Mircea
Eliade, London and New York: Macmillan, 1987), vol. vi, 633–60, and “Hinduism”
by Simon Weightman in A New Handbook of Living
Religions (ed. John Hinnells, Oxford: Blackwell, 1997). A
periodical with a focus on Hinduism is the International
Journal of Hindu Studies (Internet address:
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/ijhs/).
Introductory books by ‘insiders’: Nirad Chaudhuri, Hinduism: A Religion to Live By (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1979); T. N. Madan (ed.), Religion in
India (Oxford and Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1991);
Anantanand Rambachan, The Hindu Vision
(Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1992); K. M. Sen, Hinduism (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961); Arvind Sharma,
Hinduism for Our Times (Oxford and Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 1996).
Recent introductions by ‘outsiders’: Gavin Flood, An Introduction to
Hinduism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996); Klaus
Klostermaier, A Survey of Hinduism (New York:
State University of New York Press, 1989).
Two useful books introducing aspects of the debate on early India:
Romila Thapar, Interpreting Early India
(Oxford and Delhi: Oxford University
Press, 1992); Asko Parpola, Deciphering the Indus Script (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1994).
الفصل الثاني
Novels and stories by Hindus are invaluable as a source of
information about Hinduism and Hindu society. In addition to Gods, Demons and Others and The Guide by R. K. Narayan, there are many others by authors
including Mulk Raj Anand, Kamala Markandaya, U. R. Anantha Murthy, Anita Desai,
and Gita Mehta.
Books on revelation and tradition: A. L. Basham, The Origins and Development of Classical Hinduism
(Boston: Beacon, 1989); T. J. Hopkins, The Hindu
Religious Tradition (Encino, CA: Dickenson, 1971); K. Sivaraman
(ed.), Hindu Spirituality: Vedas Through
Vedanta (New York: Crossroad, 1989)—this is also useful for
Chapter 3; Brian K. Smith, Reflections on Resemblance,
Ritual, and Religion (New York and Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1989); M. Stutley and J. Stutley,
A Dictionary of Hinduism: Its Mythology, Folklore and
Development, 1500 BC–AD 1500 (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul,
1977).
الفصل الثالث
Introductions to Indian philosophy: M. Hiriyanna, Outlines of Indian Philosophy (London: George Allen
and Unwin, 1958); Ninian Smart, Doctrine and Argument in
Indian Philosophy (London: Allen and Unwin, 1964). Selected
verses by Shankara, Ramanuja, and Madhva: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Charles
A. Moore (eds.), A Sourcebook in Indian
Philosophy (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1967).
Translations of other Hindu scriptures: Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty
(ed.), Textual Sources for the Study of
Hinduism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988); Ainslee
T. Embree (ed.), Sources of Indian Tradition,
vol. i, 2nd edn. (New York: Columbia University Press,
1988).
For further discussion on karma and
yoga, see Rambachan, The Hindu
Vision, Sharma, Hinduism for Our
Times, Flood, An
Introduction to Hinduism, and Klostermaier,
A Survey of
Hinduism.
الفصل الرابع
Retellings in English of stories of the gods and goddesses: Amar
Chitra Katha, Rama, Tales of the Mother Goddess,
Mahabharata (all India Book House); C. Rajagopalachari, Ramayana (Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1962);
Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty, Hindu Myths
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975); Serinity Young (ed.), An
Anthology of Sacred Texts by and about Women (London: Pandora,
1993).
Rama, Sita, and the Devi in contemporary Hinduism: John Stratton
Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff (eds), Devi: Goddesses of
India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996);
Jacqueline Suthren Hurst, Sita’s Story
(Norwich: Chansitor Publications, 1997); Paula Richman (ed.), Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in
South Asia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991); Mark
Tully, No Full Stops in India, Chapter 4:
‘The Rewriting of the Ramayan’ (London:
Penguin Books,
1991).
On the place of the Ramayana in
Hindu nationalism: Peter van der Veer, Religious
Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1994).
الفصل الخامس
Most general books, such as those by Rambachan The Hindu Vision, Flood, An
Introduction to Hinduism, and Klostermaier, A Survey of Hinduism, contain accounts of Hindu
worship, including puja and pilgrimage. See
also Christopher Fuller, The Camphor Flame: Popular
Hinduism and Society in India (Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1992).
The other books listed here are excellent for gaining
an understanding of the way the divine is perceived and expressed in Hindu
iconography and architecture: Diana Eck, Darsan: Seeing
the Divine Image in India (Chambersburg, PA: Anima, 1981); George
Michell, The Hindu Temple: An Introduction to its
Meaning and Forms (Chicago and London: Chicago
University Press, 1988); Alistair
Shearer, The Hindu Vision: Forms of
the Formless (London: Thames and Hudson, 1993).
الفصل السادس
Examples of bhakti poetry can be
found in the books of readings by Embree (Sources of
Indian Tradition) and O’Flaherty (Textual
Sources for the Study of Hinduism). Orientalist accounts of
Hinduism are presented in P. J. Marshall, The British
Discovery of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1970). The lectures and writings of neo-Hindu
reformers are quoted extensively in Glyn Richards, A Sourcebook of Modern Hinduism (London: Curzon
Press, 1985).
For discussions of American transcendentalism in the
nineteenth century with reference to India,
see Arthur Christy, The Orient in American
Transcendentalism (New York:
Columbia University Press, 1932) and
Carl T. Jackson, The Oriental Religions and American
Thought: Nineteenth-century
Explorations (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
1971).
For the history of the period, see H. Kulke and D. Rothermund,
A History of India (London and New York:
Routledge, 1990), and for religious movements and personalities, see Flood,
An Introduction to Hinduism, for a brief
account. A useful book on sati is the one
edited by J. S. Hawley (ed.), Sati, the Blessing and the
Curse: The Burning of Wives in India (New York and Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1994). See also ‘The Deorala Sati’ in Tully, ibid. A useful
introduction to Gandhi is provided by Bhikhu Parekh’s Gandhi (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1997).
الفصل السابع
On women: Kishwar, Madhu, and Ruth Vanita (eds.), In Search of Answers: Indian Women’s Voices from
Manushi (London: Zed Books, 1984, reprinted New Delhi: Horizon
India Books, 1991); Radha Kumar, The History of Doing:
An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in
India, 1800–1990 (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1993); Julia Leslie
(ed.), Roles and Rituals for Hindu Women
(London: Pinter Press, 1991); Sara S. Mitter, Dharma’s
Daughters (New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991);
Susie Tharu and K. Lalita (eds), Women Writing in India,
600 BC to the Early Twentieth Century (London: Pandora Press,
1991).
On dalits: Barbara R. Joshi (ed.),
Untouchable: Voices of the Dalit Liberation
Movement (London: Zed Books, 1984); Mark Juergensmeyer, Religion as Social Vision: The Movement Against
Untouchability (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982);
Dilip Hiro, The Untouchables of India, Report
no. 26 (Minority Rights Group, 1975). See also ‘Ram Chander’s Story’ in Tully,
No Full Stops in
India.
الفصل الثامن
Books on Hindus and Hinduism beyond India: Richard Burghart (ed.),
Hinduism in Great Britain: The
Perpetuation of Religion in an Alien
Cultural Milieu (London: Tavistock, 1987); John Y. Fenton,
Transplanting Religious Traditions: Asian Indians in
America (New York: Praeger, 1988); Robert Jackson and Eleanor
Nesbitt, Hindu Children in Britain
(Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books, 1993); Hugh Tinker, The
Banyan Tree: Overseas Emigrants from India, Pakistan, and
Bangladesh (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977); Steven
Vertovec, Hindu Trinidad: Religion, Ethnicity and
Socio-economic Change (London: Macmillan Caribbean, 1992);
Raymond Brady Williams (ed.), A Sacred Thread: Modern
Transmission of Hindu Traditions in India and Abroad
(Chambersburg, PA: Anima, 1992).
Internet address of Hinduism
Today:
www.HinduismToday.kauai.hi.us/ashram/htoday.
North American Hindu organizations are listed on the following web
site: http://www.hindunet.org/.
الفصل التاسع
The general books and articles referred to for Chapter 1 all contain
discussions of the meaning of ‘Hinduism’. An additional book presenting a range
of contemporary perspectives is Hinduism
Reconsidered edited by G. D. Sontheimer and H. Kulke (Delhi:
Manohar, 1991).
