2nd Edition
The Hindu Religious Tradition A New Historical, Anthropological, and Philological Approach
Preface
Introduction
1. The Beginnings of Indian Culture
2. The First Indian Villages and Cities
3. Indus Valley Religion: Exploring The Remains Of India’s First Urban Culture
4. Post-Urban Indian Cultures prior to the Āryans
5. The Foundations of Hindu Synthesis of Āryan and Non-Āryans Religion
6. Early Vedic Religion
7. The Āraṇyakas and Upaniṣads
8. Āryans and Dravidians
9. The Development of Non-Vedic India
10. Challenges and Changes: The Persians and the Greeks Enter India
11. The New Brāhmaṇical Synthesis: Yoga, Theism, and Āsrama
12. Indo-Greeks and Synthesis in the Hindu Epics
13. Śakas, Sātavāhanas, and the Early Purāṇas
14. Kushāns, Guptas, and the Emergence of Hindu Theism
15. The Continuing Hindu Tradition
Index
Biography
Thomas J. Hopkins was Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College, USA.
Graham M. Schweig is Professor and Director of Studies in Religion at Christopher Newport University, Virginia, and Distinguished Teaching and Research Faculty at the Center for Dharma Studies, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA.
