did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

We're the #1 textbook rental company. Let us show you why.

9780198745211

The Truth Within A History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism

by
  • ISBN13:

    9780198745211

  • ISBN10:

    0198745214

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2015-12-24
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Purchase Benefits

List Price: $55.47 Save up to $18.91
  • Rent Book $36.89
    Add to Cart Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping

    TERM
    PRICE
    DUE
    USUALLY SHIPS IN 3-5 BUSINESS DAYS
    *This item is part of an exclusive publisher rental program and requires an additional convenience fee. This fee will be reflected in the shopping cart.

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

Author Biography


Gavin Flood is Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion at Oxford University and the Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. Among his publications are An Introduction to Hinduism (CUP 1996), The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory, and Tradition (CUP 2004), and The Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in Our Strange World (Blackwell 2012).

Table of Contents


1. The Mountains of the Mind
Part I: History and Text
2. Prayer and Vision in the Middle Ages
3. Inwardness as Mystical Ascent
4. Inwardness and Visual Contemplation in Hinduism
5. A Hindu Philosophy of Inwardness
6. Inwardness Without Self
Part II: Theory
7. A Theory of Religious Inwardness
8. The Phenomenology of Inwardness
9. The Historical Self and Comparative Religion

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program