The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Hinduism

by Jack Miles (Editor), Wendy Doniger (Editor)

The Norton Anthology of World Religions offers a beautifully designed library of more than 1,000 primary texts, accompanied by headnotes, annotations, glossaries, maps, illustrations, chronologies, and a dazzling general introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Miles. This collection “will unsettle some current certainties about the nature of faith and, in so doing, may help its readers arrive at a nuanced and accurate perception of our predicament in this dangerously polarized world” (Karen Armstrong, New York Times).
Unprecedented in scope and approach, The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Hinduism brings together over 300 texts from 1500 B.C.E. to the present, organized chronologically and by region. The volume features Jack Miles’s illuminating General Introduction—“How the West Learned to Compare Religions”—as well as Wendy Doniger’s “The Zen Diagram of Hinduism,” a lively primer on the history of Hinduism in relation to geography, language, gender, sexuality, class, folk traditions, and the politics of empire.

Genres: Religion, Hinduism, India, Nonfiction

784 pages, Paperback

First published February 15, 2015

About the author

Jack Miles (b. 1942) is an American author and winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. His work on religion, politics, and culture has appeared in numerous national publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times.

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Reviews

[Joanna Tierno · Rating 4 out of 5]

It took me a long time to finish but its packed with information.

[Josh Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

The content is all really interesting, obviously, but the selection process has just left too many passages that are too short. Quite often the introduction to a passage is longer than the passage itself. I would have preferred a smaller number of longer texts. I understand that creating an anthology will always have either the problem i've named or the opposite one to some extent, but there is a middle ground that hasn't been reached here.

[Erik Steevens · Rating 5 out of 5]

A massive and valuable piece of work!!! Very recommended for all who is "seeker" ...