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2003

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:	Great world religions : Hinduism / Mark W. Muesse.
Edition:	2nd ed.
Publisher, Date:	Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., [2003] ©2003
Description:	2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (ii, 65 pages ; 22 cm).
Summary:	Provides an overview of Hinduism and discusses why Hinduism is perhaps the most diverse religion of all. Covers topics such as arranged marriages and the caste system, the Indus Valley Civilization, the sacred writings in the Vedas, the Bhagavad-gita, and the Upanishads, ritual purity rites, the Aryan language of Sanskrit, and Hinduism's rejection of the notion that there is but one path to the divine. Introduces Hinduism's wealth of gods, terms, and practices, such as Krishna, karma, guru, and yoga.
Series:	Great courses Great courses (DVD)
Subjects:	Vedas. Upanishads. Bhagavadgītā. Hinduism. Indus civilization. Indo-Aryans. India -- Religion.
Other Author:	Muesse, Mark W. (Mark William), 1957- Teaching Company.
Other Title:	Hinduism
Notes:	Course Number 6104: 12 lectures (30 minutes/lecture). Content supervisor, Maggie Lyons. Lecturer: Mark W. Muesse. DVD, region 1.
Contents:	Hinduism in the world and the world of Hinduism -- Early cultures of India -- World of the Veda -- From the Vedic tradition to classical Hinduism -- Caste -- Men, women, and the stages of life -- Way of action -- Way of wisdom -- Seeing God -- Way of devotion -- Goddess and her devotees -- lecture 12. Hinduism in the modern period.
ISBN:	1565857925 9781565857926 1565857925
Publisher Number:	PD6104
Other Number:	52999568
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
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Control Number:	318504
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Call Number:	GREAT DVD 294.5 Great wo

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