The Development of Hinduism

M. M. Ninan

Madathil Mammen Ninan, Jun 23, 2008 - Religion - 432 pages

This book is a study of development of Hinduism from the ashes of Vedic religion under various influences of local and foreign religions and philosophies. Under the strangle of atheistic sciences of Buddhism and Jainism the reeling Vedics found new resources from the monotheistic religion of Christianity brought in by St.Thomas along with other local religions, cults, hero worship and occult practices. It deals extensivly on the formation of Vaisnavism of today and the real philosophy and purport of Krishna cults.

What people are saying

User Review -

This book is a poor-quality, fictional and non-scholarly account of Hinduism by a self-publishing author who is ill-qualified by education to write such a book. The author talks about some Indian religions as "atheistic science", something only a clueless person who has neither read any major original Indian manuscript nor completed basic foundational studies would write. The book is loaded with misinformation and poor writing everywhere. It cooks up and serves fringe theories that we do not find in books by scholars who have studied Hinduism or history of Hinduism for decades. Read books by Gavin Flood, Kim Knott, Klaus Klostermaier, Arvind Sharma and such scholars instead. 

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absolute rubbish, there are so many superficial inaccuracies here, the book is litred with false reading and claims.

Contents

• THE VEDIC RELIGION: 1
• THE PROBLEM OF THE DATE OF RIG VEDA CHAPTER 3 TIME LINE: 43
• THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SANSKRIT: 90
• POST CHRISTIAN HINDU GODS: 104
• THE DEVELOPMENT OF MONOTHEISM AND THE DOCTRINES OF KARMA AND REINCARNATION: 109
• PURANAS TEMPLES AND THEIR DATES: 125
• THE DECLINE OF VEDISM AND THE THE RISE OF RATIONALISM: 137
• THE COMING OF THOMAS: 155
• THE COMING OF THE GNOSTIC ARYANS MANICHEAN CHAPTER 11 TRIMURTHY: 184
• VAISHNAVISM: 207
• THE CONCEPT OF AGES: 212
• THE CONCEPT OF AVATARS: 221
• GITA AS IT: 325
• KALKI AVATAR: 366
• SAIVISM: 378
• SAKTISM: 402
• KALABHRA INTERREGNUM: 417

About the author

Prof. M.M.Ninan is a Professor of Theoretical Physics by profession. He has travelled extensively in various universities of the world -Ethiopia, Ghana, Jamaica, Sudan, Yemen, India and the USA.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Development of Hinduism
• Author: M. M. Ninan
• Publisher: Madathil Mammen Ninan, 2008
• ISBN: 1438228201, 9781438228204
• Length: 432 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Hinduism / History