New Books in Indian Religions

Interviews with Scholars of Indian Religions with their New Books

Religion & Spirituality
Hinduism
426
Xenia Zeiler, "Digital Hinduism" (Routledge, 2019)
An interview with Xenia Zeiler
25 min
427
Tulasi Srinivas, "The Cow in the Elevator: An A...
An interview with Tulasi Srinivas
44 min
428
Chad M. Bauman, "Anti-Christian Violence in Ind...
An Interview with Chad M. Bauman
45 min
429
Stuart Ray Sarbacker, "Tracing the Path of Yoga...
An interview with Stuart Ray Sarbacker
53 min
430
Gopal K. Gupta, "Maya in the Bhagavata Purana: ...
An interview with Gopal K. Gupta
49 min
431
Theodora Wildcroft, "Post-lineage Yoga: From Gu...
An interview with Theodora Wildcroft
74 min
432
Leah E. Comeau, "Material Devotion in a South I...
An interview with Leah Comeau
41 min
433
Ayon Maharaj, "The Bloomsbury Research Handbook...
Maharaj offers first in-depth discussion of Vedanta and the many different systems of thought that make up this tradition of Indian philosophy...
48 min
434
Amanda J. Lucia, "White Utopias: The Religious ...
Transformational festivals, from Burning Man to Lightning in a Bottle, Bhakti Fest, and Wanderlust, are massive events that attract thousands of participants to sites around the world...
52 min
435
Leela Prasad, "The Audacious Raconteur: Soverei...
Can a subject be sovereign in a hegemony? Can creativity be reined in by forces of empire?
30 min
436
Brian Black, "In Dialogue with the Mahābhārata"...
This book offers the first extensive study of the dialogue form in the Mahābhārata.,,
75 min
437
P. Bilimoria and P. Hughes, "The Indian Diaspor...
Since the late 1990s, the Indian community in Australia has grown faster than any other immigrant community....
62 min
438
Daniel Simpson, "The Truth of Yoga: A Comprehen...
Much of what is said about yoga is misleading.,.
69 min
439
S. Newcombe and K. O'Brien-Kop, "Routledge Hand...
This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques...
46 min
440
Ithamar Theodor, "The Bhagavad-Gītā: A Critical...
Theodor offers a systematic and comprehensive introduction to one of the most read texts in South Asia....
51 min
441
Jason Keith Fernandes, "Citizenship in a Caste ...
Fernandes explores the interconnected themes of language, citizenship and identity, showing how, by deliberately excluding the Roman script, the largely lower-caste and lower-class Catholic users of this script were denoted as less-than-authentic members of civil society....
58 min
442
Andrea Jain, "Peace Love Yoga: The Politics of ...
Jain examines the interconnectedness between global spirituality and neoliberal capitalism through an examination of the global yoga and self-care industries...
36 min
443
Suraj Yengde, "Caste Matters" (India Viking, 2019)
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...
50 min
444
Marco Ferrante, "Indian Perspectives on Conscio...
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...
62 min
445
E. Goldberg et al, "Bollywood Horrors: Religion...
The authors offer is a multi-faceted and wide-ranging collection that examines cinematic representations of real-life horror...
46 min
446
Uma Majmudar, “Gandhi and Rajchandra: The Makin...
This book traces the little-known yet unparalleled influence of Shrimad Rajchandra, Jain zaveri (jeweller)-cum-spiritual seeker, on Mahatma Gandhi...
55 min
447
Annapurna Garimella, “The Contemporary Hindu Te...
This book takes as its subject the multiple forms of architecture, design and sociability that Hindu spaces of worship encompass today...
41 min
448
Anway Mukhopadhyay, “The Authority of Female Sp...
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...
35 min
449
Bihani Sarkar, "Heroic Shāktism: The Cult of Du...
Heroic Saktism is the belief that a good king and a true warrior must worship the goddess Durga, the form and substance of kingship...
63 min
450
Sree Padma, "Vicissitudes of the Goddess: Recon...
Padma focuses on two types of Gramadevatas or goddesses: deified women and those associated with disease and fertility...
32 min