This paradox can be traced to the history of Hinduism. Hindu texts and practices suggest the simultaneous existence of polytheism and what seems to be monotheism, but some Hindus find it insulting to be called polytheists. APPENDIX II ESSAYS ON HINDUISM BY WENDY DONIGER.Impermanence and Eternity in Hindu Epic, Art and Performance.Illusion and Reality in the Hindu Epics.

The Submarine Mare in the Mythology of Shiva.Zoomorphism in Ancient India: Humans More Bestial than the Beasts.From Kama to Karma: The Resurgence of Puritanism in Contemporary India.Reading the Kamasutra: It Isn't all about Sex.The Control of Addiction in Ancient India.Transsexual Transformations of Subjectivity and Memory in Hindu Mythology.Bisexuality and Transsexuality among the Hindu Gods.The Third Nature : Gender Inversions in the Kamasutra.Rings of Rejection and Recognition in Ancient India.Why should a Brahmin tell you Whom to Marry?: A Deconstruction of the Laws of Manu.The Scrapbook of Undeserved Salvation: The Kedara Khanda of the Skanda Purana.Sacrifice and Substitution: Ritual Mystification and Mythical Demystification in Hinduism.God's Body, or, the Lingam made Flesh: Conflicts Over the Representation of Shiva.Together Apart: Changing Ethical Implications of Hindu Cosmologies.You can'T get here from there: The Logical Paradox of Hindu Creation Myths.The Toleration of Intolerance in Hinduism.Assume the Position: The Fight Over the Body of Yoga.Forgetting and Re-Awakening to Incarnation.Medical and Mythical Constructions of the Body in Sanskrit Texts.Three (or more) Forms of the Three (or more)вЂ“Fold Path in Hinduism.

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