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Rethinking Hindu Identity [electronic resource] / Jha, D.N.

By: Series: Religion in culturePublication details: London : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (x, 100 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781845537180
  • 1845537181
  • 9781317490340
  • 1317490347
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rethinking Hindu Identity.DDC classification:
  • 294.5 23
LOC classification:
  • BL1202.J53 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Deconstructing Hindu identity -- 2. Tolerant Hinduism: evidence and stereotype -- 3. Holy cow: elusive identity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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  • digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Summary: The book provides an antidote to the virulent version of Hindu communalism and cultural chauvinism and seeks to expose the hollowness of the xenophobic claims about Hindu religious identity. It identifies some of the stereotypes about Hinduism and shows them to be without any basis in historical evidence. Contrary to the belief popularized by the Hindu jingoists, it shows that Hinduism, far from being eternal and monolithic, is the youngest of religions and that its supposed tolerant nature is a myth.
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Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Deconstructing Hindu identity -- 2. Tolerant Hinduism: evidence and stereotype -- 3. Holy cow: elusive identity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The book provides an antidote to the virulent version of Hindu communalism and cultural chauvinism and seeks to expose the hollowness of the xenophobic claims about Hindu religious identity. It identifies some of the stereotypes about Hinduism and shows them to be without any basis in historical evidence. Contrary to the belief popularized by the Hindu jingoists, it shows that Hinduism, far from being eternal and monolithic, is the youngest of religions and that its supposed tolerant nature is a myth.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-89) and index.

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