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Wendy Doniger has 104 books on Goodreads with 48220 ratings. Wendy Doniger’s most popular book is The Hindus: An Alternative History.
A scholar of Sanskrit and Indian textual traditions, her major works include The Hindus: An Alternative History; Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva; Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook; The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology; Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts; and The Rig Veda: An Anthology, 108 Hymns Translated from the Sanskrit...
Oct 14, 2000 · Erotic Spirituality and the Kamasutra: Master the Art of Cultivating Pleasure with India's Treasury of Erotic Love.
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Jul 20, 2023 · 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.
With immense skill Wendy Doniger illuminates those moments within the Hindu tradition that resist forces that would standardize or establish a canon. She brings a multiplicity of actors and stories to the stage to show how brilliant, creative—and often subversive—thinkers have kept Hinduism alive and dynamic through the ages.
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On Hinduism. Wendy Doniger. OUP USA, 2014 - History - 660 pages. In this magisterial volume of essays, Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which...
Nov 30, 2010 · --Gurcharan Das, author India Unbound "Wendy Doniger's enthralling and encyclopaedic book reveals her vision of a Hindu culture that is plural, varied, generous, and inclusive. Hinduism, in her view, is an intricate weave of the diverse localities and communities of Indian culture.
Mar 31, 2005 · Wendy Doniger is one of the foremost scholars of Hinduism in the world. With her inimitable insight and expertise Doniger illuminates those moments within the tradition that resist forces that would standardize or establish a canon.
An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions, The Hindus...
