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?

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....

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...

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

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...

Haberman explores the worship world of Mount Govardhan; located in the Braj region of India, the mountain is considered an embodied form of the Hindu deity Krishna...

In this interview, we have a candid conversation with Dr. Christopher Key Chapple of Loyola Marymount University...

Drew Thomases investigates the Indian pilgrimage town of Pushkar...

What does it mean to be a Brahmin, and what could it mean to become one?

Why are the myths of the Indian Great Goddess, Durgā, found in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa framed by myths glorifying the Sun, Sūrya?

Halperin employs an interdisciplinary approach to tell the story of Hadimba from the ground up...

Foxen traces several disparate yet entangled roots of modern yoga practice to show that much of what we call yoga...

Moise offers a comprehensive description of the ‘doctrine of salvation’ (niḥśreyasa/ mokṣa) and Vaiśeṣika...

Stainton explores the relationship between 'poetry’ and ‘prayer’ in South Asia through close examination of the history of Sanskrit hymns of praise (stotras) in Kashmir from the eighth century onwards...

"The Subhedar's Son" provides a fascinating insight into Brahmanical-Christian conversions of the era, along with attitudes surrounding such conversions...

What happens when the Anthropocene Age makes everything virtual? What happens when heaven gets plowed under?