At once a reflection on inequality and a call to arms, Caste Matters argues that until Dalits lay claim to power and Brahmins join hands against Brahminism to effect real transformation, caste will continue to matter...

Jain examines the interconnectedness between global spirituality and neoliberal capitalism through an examination of the global yoga and self-care industries...

Ferrante shows how a set of tenth century philosophers living in Kashmir argue for the existence of a self on the basis of the interrelationship between linguistic concepts and mental experience...

The authors offer is a multi-faceted and wide-ranging collection that examines cinematic representations of real-life horror...

This book traces the little-known yet unparalleled influence of Shrimad Rajchandra, Jain zaveri (jeweller)-cum-spiritual seeker, on Mahatma Gandhi...

This book takes as its subject the multiple forms of architecture, design and sociability that Hindu spaces of worship encompass today...

Mukhopadhyay excavates numerous instances of the authority of female speech from Indian goddess traditions and relates them to the contemporary gender debates, especially to the issues of mansplaining and womansplaining...

Heroic Saktism is the belief that a good king and a true warrior must worship the goddess Durga, the form and substance of kingship...

Padma focuses on two types of Gramadevatas or goddesses: deified women and those associated with disease and fertility...

Slouber surveys the diversity of India's feminine divine tradition by bringing together a fresh array of captivating and largely overlooked Hindu goddess narratives from different regions....

For millions worldwide, the Devi Mahatmyam is of central spiritual importance and of equal cultural significance within Indian Sanskrit literature to the Bhagavad Gita, Mahabharata, and the Ramayana...

What counts as contemplative practices in Hinduism? What can Hindu Studies offer Contemplative Studies as a discipline?

Is religion indispensable to public life?

How do Judaism and Hinduism compare as religions?

What is the relationship between science, religion and technology in Hinduism?

Saxena draws on her personal religious experiences and devotion to the Goddess Kali as a starting point to reflect on the absence of a Divine Feminine in Christianity and Judaism...

Keating offers a ground-breaking reference resource for understanding arthāpati, and debates in Indian philosophy at large....

Gansten offers the first-ever scholarly volume on Sanskritized Perso-Arabic (Tājika) astrology...

Nair offers intellectually daring and dazzlingly imaginative study of scholarly interactions, made visible through translation, between Sanskrit and Arabo-Persian philosophical traditions in premodern South Asia...

Long explores the influence of concepts such karma, rebirth, meditation and yoga on the American consciousness, along with Hindu temples in America...

The Hindu tradition has held conflicting views on womanhood from its earliest texts—holding women aloft as goddesses to be worshipped on the one hand and remaining deeply suspicious about women’s sexuality on the other...

What is "Yogic Studies"?

The ancient Indian philosophers conceptualized the universe as comprising 5 elements (Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space), corresponding to the five human senses...

This ethnographic journey across three Indian locales examines the agency of various materials – from ornaments, to female guising, to cement images....

Bronkhorst makes the case through an extensive introduction and select translations of important Indian texts that language has a crucial role in Indian thought...