The Blackwell companion to Hinduism / edited by Gavin Flood.

Oxford : Blackwell, 2003.

xiii, 599 pages ; 26 cm.

Colonialism and the construction of Hinduism / Gauri Viswanathan -- orientalism and Hinduism / David Smith -- Vedas and upaniṣads / Michael Witzel -- Dharmaśāstras / Ludo Rocher -- Sanskrit epics / John Brockington -- Purāṇas / Freda Matchett -- Tamil Hindu literature / Norman Cutler -- Literature of Hinduism in Malayalam / Rich Freeman -- North Indian Hindi devotional literature / Nancy M. Martin -- Śaiva traditions / Gavin Flood -- History of Vaiṣṇava traditions: an esquisse / Gérard Colas -- Renouncer tradition / Patrick Olivelle -- Householder tradition in Hindu society / T. N. Madan -- Teyyam tradition of Kerala / Rich Freeman -- Month of kārtik and women's ritual devotions to Krishna in Benares / Tracy Pintchman -- Science of language / Frits Staal -- Indian mathematics / Takao Hayashi -- Calendar, astrology, and astronomy / Michio Yano -- Science of medicine / Dominik Wujastyk -- Hinduism and the proper work of reason / Jonardon Ganeri -- Restoring "Hindu theology" as a category in Indian intellectual discourse / Francis Clooney -- Mantra / Andrés Padoux -- On the relationship between caste and Hinduism / Declan Quigley -- Modernity, reform, and revival / Dermot Killingley -- Contemporary political Hinduism / C. Ram-Prasad -- Goddess and the nation: subterfuges of antiquity, the cunning of modernity / Sumathi Ramaswamy -- Gender in a devotional universe / Vasudha Narayanan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.