Overview
- Covers Hinduism in various parts of the world
- Examines Hindu practices as lived out in a modern life
- Takes into account the influence and role of the diaspora
Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of Indian Religions (EIR)
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About this book
This volume offers an overview of Hinduism as found in India and the diaspora. Exploring Hinduism in India in dynamic interaction, rather than in isolation, the volume discusses the relation of Hinduism with other religions of Indian origin and with religions which did not originate in India but have been a major feature of its religious landscape. These latter religions include Islam and Christianity and, to a lesser extent, Zoroastrianism and Judaism. The volume also covers Hinduism’s close association with Tribal Religions, sometimes called Primal Religions. As its second main theme, the volume examines the phenomenon of Hinduism in the diaspora. The Indian diaspora is now beginning to make its presence felt, both in India and abroad. In India, the Indian government annually hosts a diaspora event called Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD), in recognition of the growing importance of the twenty-million-strong diaspora. Although not all Indians are Hindus, most are, both in India and abroad, and a strong sense of Hindu identity is emerging among diasporic Hindus.
This volume fills the need felt by Hindus both in India and the diaspora for more knowledge about modern-day Hinduism, Hindu history and traditions. It takes into account three main aspects of Hinduism: that the active pan-Indian and diasporic language of the Hindus is English; that modern Hindus need a rational rather than a devotional or traditional exposition of the religion; and that they need information about and arguments to address the stereotypes which characterize the presentation of Hinduism in academia and the media, especially in the West.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Jeffery D. Long, Professor of Religion and Asian Studies, specializes in the religions and philosophies of India. He is the author of several books, including Hinduism in America: A Convergence of Worlds and Jainism: An Introduction, and numerous articles. He is also the editor of the series Explorations in Indic Traditions for Lexington Books. In 2018, he received the Hindu American Foundation’s Dharma Seva Award for his ongoing efforts to promote more accurate and culturally sensitive portrayals of Indic traditions in the American educational system and popular media. He has spoken in numerous venues, both national and international, including Princeton University, Yale University, the University of Chicago, and Jawaharlal Nehru University (in India), and has given three talks at the United Nations.
Professor Rita D. Sherma, PhD, is Director of the Mira and Ajay Shingal Center for Dharma Studies, Chair of Hindu Studies, and Associate Professor of Dharma Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA. She is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Dharma Studies. Dr. Sherma is the editor of a number of volumes on themes in Hindu Studies and Dharma Studies, and author of numerous academic articles in multi-author anthologies. She is the Vice President of the Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM), a scholarly association and forum for academic research on Dharma Studies. Her forthcoming publications include Hinduism and the Divine: An Introduction to Hindu Theology, and Ecology, Ethics, and Enlightenment: A Hindu Ecotheologyfont-family.
Professor Pankaj Jain is an internationally recognized academic leader in Sustainability, Jain Studies, Film Studies, and Diaspora Studies. He is the Head of the Department of Humanities & Languages and the Chair of The India Centre at FLAME University. Earlier, he was the founding co-chair of India Initiatives Groupand Associate Professor in the Departments of Philosophy & Religion and Anthropology at the University of North Texas, a tier-1 American university. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and an M.A. from Columbia University (both in Religious Studies). His B.E. was in Computer Science from Karnatak University. Prof. Jain has over twenty-five years of work experience in academia and industry.He is currently working on his fourth monograph, Modern Jainism: A Historical Approach, co-editing the Encyclopedia of Hinduism and a volume on Indian and Western Philosophical Concepts in Religion. He recently published his third monograph, Dharma in America: A Short History of Hindu-Jain Diaspora. His earlier monographs are award-winning Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities: Sustenance and Sustainability and Science and Socio-Religious Revolution in India: Moving the Mountains.
His articles have appeared in several academic journals and on the Huffington Post, Washington Post, Economic Times, Times of India, Speaking Tree, and Patheos. In addition, Dr. Jain is widely quoted in various American and Indian media outlets, including NBC, CBS, and BBC. In July 2020, the New York Times interviewed him, and in 2019 Morgan Freeman interviewed him in his National Geographic series The Story of God. He is a recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship for Environmental Leadership and Wenner-Gren Grant, among many other grants. In addition, he was nominated for the Sustainability Leadership Award from Memnosyne Institute.
Professor Madhu Khanna, Professor of Indic Religion, is a well-known scholar. At present she is Tagore National Fellow at the National Museum, New Delhi, where she is researching and preparing a definitive catalogue on the celebrated Tantra Art Collection. Until recently, she was the Director of the Centre for the Study of ComparativeReligions and Civilizations, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, where she now teaches courses in Hinduism, and cross-cultural studies in the areas of Religion & Gender and Religion & Ecology. She has been Bina and Haridas Choudhury distinguished Fellow (2013-14) in Asian and Comparative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco. She earned her PhD from Oxford University in Hindu Sakta Tantra. She has authored / edited seven books which include:The Śrīcakra: History, Ritual and Symbol of Goddess Tripurasundarī (forthcoming); Śāktapramodaḥ of Deva Nandan Singh (editor); Religions After September 11, Proceedings of an International Seminar (co-editor); The Subtle Body – An Illuminated Tantric Scroll; t-size: 14px;">Ṛta – The Cosmic Order, Proceedings of an International Seminar (editor); Yantra: The Tantric Symbol of Cosmic Unity, London 1989, The Tantric Way – Art, Science & Ritual (co-author) of which the last two have been translated into German, French, Italian, Korean and Dutch. She has written extensively on the theme of gender and religion and has been part of the South East Asian Network of Women’s Scholars on Gender and Religion sponsored by Henreich Boll Foundation. She is the Founding Member and Chairperson of Tantra Foundation, New Delhi.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hinduism and Tribal Religions
Editors: Jeffery D. Long, Rita D. Sherma, Pankaj Jain, Madhu Khanna
Series Title: Encyclopedia of Indian Religions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1188-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Humanities
Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1187-4Published: 24 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-1188-1Published: 27 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2542-7628
Series E-ISSN: 2542-7636
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 1822
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
Topics: Non-Western Philosophy, Christianity, Judaism, Comparative Religion, Cultural Studies