Listening to the discussions in class on Hinduism and how to teach it -- it strikes me that it might be really useful to start by getting students to assemble from their own knowledge and from google, a description of Hindu beliefs and practices.
Then, actually assign a translation of the Rig Veda, and then start asking questions about the gods and world that we can actually infer from the verses that have survived.
That is how I would get a conversation going on Hinduism as having evolved over about three and a half millennia...
Doniger is a terrific translator, this is relatively inexpensive.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Rig-Veda-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140449892/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1373642115&sr=8-3&keywords=wendy+doniger
Then, actually assign a translation of the Rig Veda, and then start asking questions about the gods and world that we can actually infer from the verses that have survived.
That is how I would get a conversation going on Hinduism as having evolved over about three and a half millennia...
Doniger is a terrific translator, this is relatively inexpensive.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Rig-Veda-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140449892/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1373642115&sr=8-3&keywords=wendy+doniger
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