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Contemplative Studies and Hinduism - Meditation, Devotion, Prayer, and Worship (Hardcover)
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Contemplative Studies and Hinduism - Meditation, Devotion, Prayer, and Worship (Hardcover)
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This book is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the
major types and categories of Hindu contemplative praxis. It
explores diverse spiritual and religious practices within the Hindu
traditions and Indic hermeneutical perspectives to understand the
intricate culture of meditative communion and contemplation,
devotion, spiritual formation, prayer, ritual, and worship. The
volume extends and expands the conceptual reach of the fields of
Contemplative Studies and Hindu Studies. The chapters in the volume
cover themes in Hindu contemplative experience from various texts
and traditions including classical Samkhya and Patanjali Yoga, the
Bhagavata Purana, the role of Sadhana in Advaita Vedanta, Srividya
and the Sricakra, the body in Tantra, the semiotics and illocution
of Gaudiya Vaisnava sadhana, mantra in Mimamsa, Vaisnava liturgy,
as well as cross-cultural reflections and interreligious
comparative contemplative praxis. The volume presents indigenous
vocabulary and frameworks to examine categories and concerns
particular to the Hindu contemplative traditions. It traces
patterns that cut across Hindu traditions and systems and discusses
contrasting methods of different theological/philosophical schools
evincing a strong plurality in Hindu religious thought and
practice. The volume provides intra-religious comparisons that
reveal internal complexity, nuances, and a variety of contemplative
states and transformative practices that exist under the rubric of
Hindu practices of interiority and reflection. With key insights on
forms and functions of the contemplative experience along with
their theologies and philosophies, the volume suggests new
hermeneutical directions that will advance the field of
contemplative studies. This book will be useful to scholars and
researchers of religious and theological studies, contemplative
studies, Hindu studies, consciousness studies, yoga studies, Indian
philosophy and religion, sociology of religion, philosophy of
religion, comparative religion, and South Asian studies, as well as
general readers interested in the topic.
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