RELG 012. The History, Religion, and Culture of India I: From the Indus Valley to the Hindu Saints

A study of the religious history of India from the ancient Indo-Aryan civilization of the north to the establishment of Islam under Moghul rule. Topics include the ritual system of the Vedas, the philosophy of the Upanishads, the rise of Buddhist and Jain communities, and the development of classical Hindu society. Focal themes are hierarchy, caste and class, purity and pollution, gender, untouchability, world renunciation, and the construction of a religiously defined social order.
Humanities.

1 credit.

Eligible for ASIA
Catalog chapter: Religion
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion

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