Dharma and Halacha: comparative studies in Hindu-Jewish philosophy and religion

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Yudit Kornberg Greenberg - Introduction Part I Ritual and SacrificeRachel Fell McDermott and Daniel Polish - Image Worship and Sacrifice: Legitimacy, Illegitimacy, and Theological Debate.Tracy Pintchman - Shakthi Garbha as Ark of the Covenant at an American Hindu Goddess Temple.Phillipe Bornet - Working towards a More Perfect World: Hospitality and Domestic Practices in Indian and Jewish Normative Texts.Part II EthicsIthamar Theodor - Dharma and Halacha: Reflections on Hindu and Jewish Ethics.Aaron Gross - Humane Subjects and Eating Animals: Comparing Implied Anthropologies in Jewish and Jain Dietary Practice.Purushottama Bilimoria - Animal Justice and Moral MendacityShoshana Razel Gordon Guedalia - Lethal Wives and Impure Widows: The Widow Marriage Taboo in Jewish and Hindu Law and Lore.Part III TheologyYudit Kornberg Greenberg - Reading Eros, Sacred Place, and Divine Love in the Gitagovinda and Shir-Ha-Shirim.Paul Martin - On the Comparative Realization of Aesthetic Consciousness in Kabbalah and Tantra.Thomas A. Forsthoefel - The Guru and the Zaddik and the Testimony of the Holy Ones.Daniel Sperber - On the AUM and the TetragrammatonBarbara Holdrege - Hindu-Jewish Encounters-Whence, Whither, and Why?: Theorizing Embodied Communities in the Academy and Beyond. About the Contributors