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Title: On Hinduism
Author: Wendy Doniger
Narrator: Avita Jay
Format: Unabridged
Length: 30 hrs and 52 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-01-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Buddhism & Eastern Religions
Publisher's Summary:
In this magisterial volume of essays, Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted herself for half a century. This series of interconnected essays and lectures surveys the most critically important and hotly contested issues in Hinduism over 3,500 years, from the ancient time of the Vedas to the present day.
The essays contemplate the nature of Hinduism; Hindu concepts of divinity; attitudes concerning gender, control, and desire; the question of reality and illusion; and the impermanent and the eternal in the two great Sanskrit epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Among the questions Doniger considers are: Are Hindus monotheists or polytheists? How can atheists be Hindu, and how can unrepentant Hindu sinners find salvation? Why have Hindus devoted so much attention to the psychology of addiction? What does the significance of dogs and cows tell us about Hinduism? How have Hindu concepts of death, rebirth, and karma changed over the course of history? How and why does a pluralistic faith, remarkable for its intellectual tolerance, foster religious intolerance?
Doniger concludes with four concise autobiographical essays in which she reflects on her lifetime of scholarship, Hindu criticism of her work, and the influence of Hinduism on her own philosophy of life. On Hinduism is the culmination of over 40 years of scholarship from a renowned expert on one of the world's great faiths.
Members Reviews:
Enjoyed
Enlightening.
Excellent!!!
This is it!
Five Stars
Very interesting
Don't waste your time
This book is a waste of time. There are so many better books written by Indologists who actually know what they write about, who actually can understand Sanskrit, and who actually can manage to publish a book without hundreds of errors. See also the excellent review of Vishal Agarwal which is very detailed and meticulous (google it, and there is also a review from Vishal Agarwal on this site).
Doniger has been criticized for her scholarship by Koenraad Elst, Michael Witzel, Nicholas Kazanas, Vishal Agarwal, Kalavai Venkat, Michel Danino, Stuart Sovatsky and in the book "Invading the Sacred" and the book "Academic Hinduphobia". Her use of psychoanalysis has also been criticized as being not appropriate to explain Dharmic cultures, and as largely pseudoscience (which it is).
For introductions to Hinduism, I recommend Alain Danielou, David Frawley, Will Durant (Our Oriental Heritage) or KlostermaiersHinduism: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides), or for a more scholarly work R.C. Majumdar, and Ram Swarup for essays on Hinduism.
Trishanku Svarga: illusory projections from a bright mind but with no basis in reality
EDIT: all page references in this review are to the Hardbound version (ISBN 9780199360079)
This is a long review of a long book. The review quotes the book relatively more than most reviews would. If your intent is to get my take on it and skip the details, scroll down to the bottom for the Cliff Notes version.
It was a very difficult task to write a review of On Hinduism. The first challenge is that it is not really a book â it is a collection of 43 essays from among 140 essays the author has published on Hinduism. These 43 have been selected and arranged in five broad themes. So the flow of the book, if there is one, is what the author intended to achieve.
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Title: On Hinduism
Author: Wendy Doniger
Narrator: Avita Jay
Format: Unabridged
Length: 30 hrs and 52 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-01-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Buddhism & Eastern Religions
Publisher's Summary:
In this magisterial volume of essays, Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted herself for half a century. This series of interconnected essays and lectures surveys the most critically important and hotly contested issues in Hinduism over 3,500 years, from the ancient time of the Vedas to the present day.
The essays contemplate the nature of Hinduism; Hindu concepts of divinity; attitudes concerning gender, control, and desire; the question of reality and illusion; and the impermanent and the eternal in the two great Sanskrit epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Among the questions Doniger considers are: Are Hindus monotheists or polytheists? How can atheists be Hindu, and how can unrepentant Hindu sinners find salvation? Why have Hindus devoted so much attention to the psychology of addiction? What does the significance of dogs and cows tell us about Hinduism? How have Hindu concepts of death, rebirth, and karma changed over the course of history? How and why does a pluralistic faith, remarkable for its intellectual tolerance, foster religious intolerance?
Doniger concludes with four concise autobiographical essays in which she reflects on her lifetime of scholarship, Hindu criticism of her work, and the influence of Hinduism on her own philosophy of life. On Hinduism is the culmination of over 40 years of scholarship from a renowned expert on one of the world's great faiths.
Members Reviews:
Enjoyed
Enlightening.
Excellent!!!
This is it!
Five Stars
Very interesting
Don't waste your time
This book is a waste of time. There are so many better books written by Indologists who actually know what they write about, who actually can understand Sanskrit, and who actually can manage to publish a book without hundreds of errors. See also the excellent review of Vishal Agarwal which is very detailed and meticulous (google it, and there is also a review from Vishal Agarwal on this site).
Doniger has been criticized for her scholarship by Koenraad Elst, Michael Witzel, Nicholas Kazanas, Vishal Agarwal, Kalavai Venkat, Michel Danino, Stuart Sovatsky and in the book "Invading the Sacred" and the book "Academic Hinduphobia". Her use of psychoanalysis has also been criticized as being not appropriate to explain Dharmic cultures, and as largely pseudoscience (which it is).
For introductions to Hinduism, I recommend Alain Danielou, David Frawley, Will Durant (Our Oriental Heritage) or KlostermaiersHinduism: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides), or for a more scholarly work R.C. Majumdar, and Ram Swarup for essays on Hinduism.
Trishanku Svarga: illusory projections from a bright mind but with no basis in reality
EDIT: all page references in this review are to the Hardbound version (ISBN 9780199360079)
This is a long review of a long book. The review quotes the book relatively more than most reviews would. If your intent is to get my take on it and skip the details, scroll down to the bottom for the Cliff Notes version.
It was a very difficult task to write a review of On Hinduism. The first challenge is that it is not really a book â it is a collection of 43 essays from among 140 essays the author has published on Hinduism. These 43 have been selected and arranged in five broad themes. So the flow of the book, if there is one, is what the author intended to achieve.