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Hindu Images and their Worship with special reference to Vaisnavism

A philosophical-theological inquiry

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

AvJulius Lipner

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Hinduism comprises perhaps the major cluster of religio-cultural traditions of India, and it can play a valuable role in helping us understand the nature of religion and human responses to life. Hindu image-worship lies at the core of what counts for Hinduism – up-front and subject to much curiosity and misunderstanding, yet it is a defining feature of this phenomenon.This book focuses on Hindu images and their worship with special reference to Vaiṣṇavism, a major strand of Hinduism. Concentrating largely, but not exclusively, on Sanskritic source material, the author shows in the course of the book that Hindu image-worship may be understood via three levels of interpretation: the metaphysical/theological, the narratival or mythic, and the performative or ritual. Analysing the chief philosophical paradigm underlying Hindu image-worship and its implications, the book exemplifies its widespread application and tackles, among other topics such as the origins of image-worship in Hinduism, the transition from Vedic to image worship, a distinguishing feature of Hindu images: their multiple heads and limbs. Finally, with a view to laying the grounds for a more positive dialogic relationship between Hinduism and the "Abrahamic" faiths, which tend to condemn Hindu image-worship as "idolatry", the author examines the theological explanation and justification for embodiment of the Deity in Hinduism and discusses how Hinduism might justify itself against such a charge.Rich in Indological detail, and with an impressive grasp of the philosophical and theological issues underlying Hindu material culture, and image-worship, this book will be of interest to academics and others studying theology, Indian philosophy and Hinduism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-04-19
Mått156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt521 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Hindu Studies Series
Antal sidor258
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781138291133

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Introduction: On the Object and Scope of our InquiryPart 11. "The heathen in his blindness….": Methodological Considerations2. In Retrospect: The Trajectory of Image-Worship in the Light of Yāmuna’s Āgamaprāmāṇya3. On Conceptualizing the Foundations of Hindu Image-Worship4. The Sāṃkhya Paradigm re-configured and re-imagined: Three Further IllustrationsPart 25. The Art of the Possible: On Establishing a Convention6. Hindu dharma and the Making of Images7. On the Sense and Sensibility of Hindu Religious Art8. Deity Embodied: a Theological Consideration of the Form, Worship and Meaning of Hindu Images

"In this volume, Julius J. Lipner offers a learned and detailed examination of Hindu images particularly, as the title suggests, in the Vaiṣṇava tradition. He reﬂects on them by way of a close reading of relevant texts, with attention to aesthetic, philosophical, religious, and theological implications. Underlying this study is Lipner’s keen sensitivity to the long history of Christian and Western hostility to idols, grounded in a sad history, in the deep-rooted religious dispositions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and in large part in grave misunderstanding of what Hindus actually do and mean by their worship. His richly nuanced, multifaceted study of images and their worship is a ﬁne effort to remedy such misunderstanding, drawing as much as possible on Hindu sources, classical and modern, in order to counter a long history of confusion and suspicion. Rigorous in his scholarly standards throughout, Lipner also demonstrates comparative empathy, the "desire to open channels of communication in relationships of true reciprocity,"."Francis X. Clooney, International Journal of Hindu Studies (2019)