On Hinduism is a penetrating analysis of many of the most crucial and contested issues in Hinduism, from the Vedas to the present day. In a series of 63 connected essays, it discusses Hindu concepts of polytheism, death, gender, art, contemporary puritanism, non-violence, and much more.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction: Foreword into the Past
- A Chronology
- I. On Being Hindu
- Hinduism by Any Other Name
- Are Hindus Monotheists or Polytheists?
- Three (or More) Forms of the Three (or More) - Fold Path in Hinduism
- The Concept of Heresy in Hinduism
- Eating Karma
- Medical and Mythical Constructions of the Body in Sakskrit Texts
- Death and Rebirth in Hinduism
- Forgetting and Re-awakening to Incarnation
- Assume the Position: The Fight over the Body of Yoga
- The Toleration of Intolerance in Hinduism
- The Politics of Hinduism Tomorrow
- II. Gods, Humans and Anti-Gods
- Saguna and Nirguna Images of the Deity
- You Can't Get Here from There: The Logical Paradox of Hindu Creation Myths
- Together Apart: Changing Ethical Implications of Hindu Cosmologies
- God's Body, or, the Lingam Made Flesh: Conflicts over the Representation of Shiva
- Sacrifice and Subsitution: Ritual Mystification and Mythical Demystification in Hinduism
- The Scrapbook of Undeserved Salvation: The Kedara Khanda of the Skanda Purana
- III. Women and Other Genders
- Why Should a Brahmin Tell You Whom to Marry?: A Deconstruction of the Laws of Manu
- Saranyu/Samjna: The Sun and the Shadow
- The Clever Wife in Indian Mythology
- Rings of Rejection and Recognition in Ancient India
- The Third Nature: Gender Inversions in the Kamasutra
- Bisexuality and Transsexuality Among the Hindu Gods
- Transsexual Transformations of Subjectivity and Memory in Hindu Mythology
- IV. Kama and other Seductions
- The Control of Addiction in Ancient India
- Reading the Kamasutra: It Isn't All About Sex
- The Mythology of the Kamasutra
- From Kama to Karma: The Resurgence of Puritanism in Contemporary India
- V. Horses and Other Animals
- The Ambivalence of Ahimsa
- Zoomorphism in Ancient India: Humans More Bestial Than Beasts
- The Mythology of Horses in India
- The Submarine Mare in the Mythology of Shiva
- Indra as the Stallion's Wife
- Dogs as Dalits in Indian Literature
- Sacred Cows and Beefeaters
- VI. Illusion and Reality in the Hindu Epics
- Impermanence and Eternity in Hindu Epic, Art and Performance
- Shadows of the Ramayana
- Women in the Mahabharata
- The History of Ekalavya
- VII. On Not Being Hindu
- "I Have Scinde": Orientalism and Guilt
- Doniger O'Flaherty on Doniger
- You Can't Make an Omelette
- The Forest-Dweller
- Appendix I: Limericks on Hinduism
- Appendix II: Essays on Hinduism by Wendy Doniger
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
