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Index
Cover page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction to the Series
Introduction: A History of Hindu Practice
1. Theories of Practice
2. Vedic Sacrifice
3. Hindu Pūjā
4. Tantric Practice
5. Yoga
6. Devotion into Modernity
I. Textual Sources
1. Ritual, Ascetic, and Meditative Practice in the Veda and Upaniṣads
1. The Veda: Text, Textuality, and Practice
2. Early Vedic Ritual
3. Ascetics and Asceticism in Ṛgveda
4. Visionary Composition versus Memory Performance
5. Vedic Ritual and Magic Practices
6. The Śrauta Sacrificial System as Ritual Practice
7. The Vedic Ritualist and the Ascetic Renouncer
8. Beyond the Ritual Veda
9. The Upaniṣads: Secret Teaching and Solitary Quest for Liberation
10. The Afterlife of Vedic Ritual Practice
2. Historical Context of Early Asceticism
1. Asceticism in Greater Magadha
2. Brahmanical Asceticism
3. The Meeting of the Two Traditions
4. Asceticism and Power
5. Asceticism and Human Nature
3. Religious Practices in the Sanskrit Epics
1. Sacrifice and Other Rituals
2. Tapas (Asceticism)
3. Specific Ascetic Practices
4. Popular Religious Practices
5. Yoga
6. Bhakti
7. Conclusion
II. Histories Of Practice
4. The Early History of Renunciation
1. ‘Going Forth’: The Pravrajita
2. Ascetic Organizations
3. Origins of the Pravrajita
4. Clash of Values: Vedic and Renunciatory Ideals
5. Theology of Renunciation: Saṃnyāsa and Tyāga
6. Institutionalization of Renunciation: The Āśrama System
7. Texts on Renunciation
8. Issues of Gender
9. Conclusion
5. The Later Institution of Renunciation
1. Histories
2. Structures
3. Materiality and Transcendence
4. Places and Practices
5. The Contemporary Institution
6. Conclusion: Into the Present
6. Measuring Innovation: Genesis and Typology of Early Pūjā
1. The Genesis of Pūjā Ritual
2. Pūjā: Āryan or Non-Āryan?
3. Pūjā in the Gṛhyapariśiṣṭas
4. Pūjā in the Baudhāyanagṛhyaśeṣasūtra
5. The Arrangement of the Ritual Space
6. The Typology of Offering and Ritual Goals of Adoration
7. Haṭhayoga’s Early History: From Vajrayāna Sexual Restraint to Universal Somatic Soteriology
1. Haṭhayoga in Buddhist Texts
2. Śaiva Names for Haṭhayoga
3. Haṭhayoga as Physical Yoga Broadly Conceived
4. The Methods of Haṭhayoga
5. The Results of Success in Haṭhayoga
8. The Quest for Liberation-in-Life: A Survey of Early Works on Haṭha- and Rājayoga
1. Corpus of Early Haṭha- and Rājayoga
2. General Remarks on the Early History of Rājayoga
3. Rājayoga and Liberation-in-Life
4. Rājayoga and Liberation in the Haṭhapradīpikā
5. Concluding Remarks
9. Practice in the Tantric Religion of Śiva
1. Daily Ritual (Nitya-Karma)
2. Occasional Ritual (Naimittika-Karma)
3. Ritual for a Desired Purpose (Kāmya-Karma)
4. Bhakti and Temple Worship
5. Possession
6. The Sādhaka and Transgression
7. Śaiva Meditation
8. Models of the Person
10. Vaiṣṇava Practice
1. Bhakti
2. Vedic Sacrifice (Yajña)
3. Image Worship (Arcana)
4. Praise (Kīrtana)
5. Meditation (Dhyāna, Smaraṇa)
11. Theatre as Religious Practice
1. Practices
2. Origins
3. The Rites of Theatre
4. The Analogy of Drama as Ritual
5. Theatre, Aesthetic Emotion, and Spiritual Experience
6. Conclusions
12. Sounding Out the Divine: Musical Practice as Theology in Samāj Gāyan
1. Music and Vaiṣṇava Culture
2. Ritual Sound in the Rādhāvallabh Sampradāy
3. Accessing the Goddess Through Her Feet
4. Conclusion
13. Women’s Observances: Vratas
1. Vrata in Historical Context
2. What Constitutes a Vrata?
3. Why Do Hindus Perform Vratas?
III. Religious Practice and Politics in Modern Hinduism
14. Gandhi, Hinduism, and Humanity
1. Caste and the Limits of Humanity
2. From Conversion to Humanitarianism
3. Outside the Species
4. God Disposes
15. Legal Yoga
1. Yoga in Indian Public Schools
2. Legal Yoga in the US: Religious and Not Religious
3. Conclusion: Yoga, Diversity, and Secularism
16. The Modern Spirit of Yoga: Idioms and Practices
1. Introduction and Overview
2. The Emergence of Modern Yoga
3. The Idioms of Modern Yoga
4. Methodological Pointers
5. The Practices of Modern Yoga
6. Concluding Remarks
17. Gurus in Contemporary Hindu Practice
1. Teacher, Mediator, and Image of the Divine
2. Consciousness and the Descent of Power
3. The Overwhelming Love of the Blissful Mother
4. The Master’s Human Behaviour and His Radiant Inner Form
5. Gurus and Disciples in Practice
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