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	Hinduism: Past and Present by Axel Michaels, Barbara Harshav (Translator) 4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1998 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nepal: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present 3.57 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Klassiker der Religionswissenschaft: Von Friedrich Schleiermacher bis Mircea Eliade 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Buddha: Leben, Lehre, Legende 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Homo Ritualis: Hindu Ritual and Its Significance for Ritual Theory really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Die Kunst des einfachen Lebens: eine Kulturgeschichte der Askese 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — expected publication 20014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Images of the Body in India: South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performativity by Axel Michaels (Editor), Christoph Wulf (Editor) 2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The making of a statue: Lost-wax casting in Nepal really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Der Hinduismus: Geschichte und Gegenwart (Beck Paperback 6520) (German Edition) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Emotions in Rituals and Performances: South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performativity by Axel Michaels (Editor), Christoph Wulf (Editor) did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“From this perspective, the phrase often heard in India—“all the same”—signifies not a lack of conceptual acuity or an exaggerated need for leveling, but rather a code of Hindu religious identity and a basic form of the Identificatory Habitus. The concept of habitus has the advantage of not reducing the “whole,” on the one hand, while preventing an overemphasis on details, the places, the historical uniqueness, on the other.19 It thus counters a favorite objection against comprehensive analyses of Hinduism, that they cannot encompass the multiplicity of India because they want to know either too much or too little: too much because they see one single thought prevailing everywhere; too little because, for the sake of particular principles, there is much they overlook.”
― Axel Michaels, Hinduism: Past and Present

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“in this, however, is not only a matter of a convincing argument, but also of æsthetics. In a certain respect, the Identificatory Habitus is only old wine in new bottles. Indian society has repeatedly been defined as holistic, encompassing the opposites, inclusive, integrative, producing similarities—by Max Weber, Louis Dumont, Paul Hacker, Jan Heesterman, McKim Marriott, Sudhir Kakar, Brian K. Smith, and others. They have all emphasized another soul, structure, way of thinking, or code with regard to India. They have all tried to grasp the “essence” of India. The danger of constructing and imagining such a personal India—the main criticism of Ronald Inden27—is certainly not to be denied, nor is the danger of seeing this other India as a deviation from the West or drawing an overly harmonious image of India: Women or Untouchables see the alleged solidarity of the caste system less harmoniously than Dumont does.28 But anyone who intends to avoid completely the danger of Orientalism, and”
― Axel Michaels, Hinduism: Past and Present

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