New Books in Indian Religions

This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field.

Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com

Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/

Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork

Religion & Spirituality
Hinduism
501
Arvind Sharma, "Religious Tolerance: A History"...
An interview with Arvind Sharma
28 min
502
Francis X. Clooney, "Reading the Hindu and Chri...
An interview with Francis X. Clooney
58 min
503
Christopher Key Chapple, "Yoga in Jainism" (Rou...
An interview with Christopher Key Chapple
44 min
504
Bibek Debroy, "The Mahabharata" (Penguin, 2015)
An interview with Bibek Debroy
54 min
505
Michael P. Brunner, "Education and Modernity in...
An interview with Michael P. Brunner
26 min
506
Christopher T. Fleming, "Ownership and Inherita...
An interview with Christopher T. Fleming
23 min
507
Knut A. Jacobsen, "Routledge Handbook of South ...
An interview with Knut A. Jacobsen
43 min
508
C. M. Bauman and M. Voss Roberts, "The Routledg...
An interview with Chad M. Bauman and Michelle Voss Roberts
56 min
509
Xenia Zeiler, "Digital Hinduism" (Routledge, 2019)
An interview with Xenia Zeiler
25 min
510
Tulasi Srinivas, "The Cow in the Elevator: An A...
An interview with Tulasi Srinivas
44 min
511
Chad M. Bauman, "Anti-Christian Violence in Ind...
An Interview with Chad M. Bauman
45 min
512
Stuart Ray Sarbacker, "Tracing the Path of Yoga...
An interview with Stuart Ray Sarbacker
53 min
513
Gopal K. Gupta, "Maya in the Bhagavata Purana: ...
An interview with Gopal K. Gupta
49 min
514
Theodora Wildcroft, "Post-lineage Yoga: From Gu...
An interview with Theodora Wildcroft
74 min
515
Leah E. Comeau, "Material Devotion in a South I...
An interview with Leah Comeau
41 min
516
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
517
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
518
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
519
Brian Black, "In Dialogue with the Mahābhārata"...
This book offers the first extensive study of the dialogue form in the Mahābhārata.,,
75 min
520
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
521
Daniel Simpson, "The Truth of Yoga: A Comprehen...
Much of what is said about yoga is misleading.,.
69 min
522
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
523
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
524
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
525
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