On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 17:27 +0530, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > Looks like Doniger is somebody whose scholarship disputed and has a fairly > strong inclination to favor a sexual interpretation of Hindu texts.
She seems inclined to use Freud, yes. > But as > the article below points out, this malaise has spread throughout US Hinduism > studies. > > http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Hinduism/2004/06/U-S-Hinduism-Studies-A-Question-Of-Shoddy-Scholarship.aspx?p=1 > > This particular excerpt from the article was enough to convince me that she > should be read with a pinch of salt - > > [University of Chicago professor Wendy Doniger has been quoted in the > Philadelphia Inquirer calling the Bhagavad Gita, a sacred Hindu text, "a > dishonest book" that "justifies war."] > You can add <http://ramesh-n-rao.sulekha.com/blog/post/2000/12/pursuing-the-gita.htm> to you collection of anti-Doniger screeds. "Bagger Vance" and "R. Junuh" indeed! Searching through the Philadelphia Inquirer's archives (from 1981 to present) failed to yield that infamous November 19, 2000 quote by Doniger about the Gita being "a dishonest book" and "not as nice a book as Americans think". I don't think many would disagree that it proclaims just wars to be justified.
