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Hindu iconoclasts : Rammohun Roy, Dayananda Sarasvati and nineteenth-century polemics against idolatry / Noel A. Salmond.
Van Pelt Library BL1274.592.R36 S24 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salmond, Noel A. (Noel Anthony), 1953-
- Series:
- Editions SR ; v. 28.
- Editions SR ; v. 28
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rammohun Roy, Raja, 1772?-1833.
- Rammohun Roy.
- Dayananda Sarasvati, Swami, 1824-1883.
- Dayananda Sarasvati.
- Idols and images--India--Worship--History--19th century.
- Idols and images.
- Worship (Hinduism).
- Worship.
- History.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 172 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Hindu Iconoclasts: An Anomaly? 1
- The Terminology of Images and Image-Rejection 7
- Theoretical Considerations 9
- 1 History of Image-Worship in India 13
- History of Images in India: Pre-Vedic, Vedic, and Post-Vedic 13
- The Great Medieval Theologians: Sankara and Ramanuja on Devotion and Image-Worship 26
- Precedents for Aniconism in Indian History 31
- 2 Rammohun Roy 43
- The Life of Rammohun Roy 43
- The Writings of Rammohun Roy 47
- The Legacy 61
- 3 Dayananda Sarasvati 65
- The Life of Dayananda Sarasvati 65
- The Writings: Satyarth Prakash 71
- Dayananda on Non-Arya Religions 85
- Aniconism and the Nation 89
- 4 Rammohun and Dayananda 91
- Possible Psychological Factors 91
- Historical and Social Influences on Rammohun and Dayananda 100
- Rammohun and Dayananda Compared 117
- 5 Hindu Iconoclasm: Cross-Cultural Dimensions? 119
- Universal Aspects of the Refusal of Images 119
- Image-Rejection, Religious Rationalization, and Modernization 125
- The Impact of Rammohun and Dayananda's Iconoclastic Call 134.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-166) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0889204195 :
- OCLC:
- 53305898
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