Hindu life and practice

The way people encounter ideas of Hinduism online is often shaped by global discourses of religion, pervasive Orientalism and (post)colonial scholarship.

The president and acarya of the Gopinath Gaudiya Math offers his insights into in the teachings of Gaudiya Vaishnavism in this enlightening book.

This book analyzes the contemporary global revival of Nondual Saivism, a thousand-year-old medieval Hindu religious philosophy.

At the age of 45, unfit and overweight, Clark Berge, a professed Franciscan friar, took up running.

This volume examines several theoretical concerns of embodiment in the context of Asian religious practice.

Devotion is a category of expression in many of the world's religious traditions.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of the state of the field of the philosophy of meditation and engages primarily in the philosophical assessment of the merits of meditation practices.

This is an insightful analysis based on personal experience of Christian work among Hindus and the error and inadequacy of Western Christianity in the Hindu world.

This book presents a collection of original research about every day, innovative, interactive, and multiple religiosities among Sri Lankan Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and devotees of New Religious Movements in post-war Sri Lanka.

Narayan Vaman Tilak was raised in western India in a Brahmin family as a Hindu of the highest caste.

An Analysis of Christian Failings in Communicating Christ to Hindus, with Suggestions Towards ImprovementsLiving Water and Indian Bowl delves into the complex dynamics of Christian evangelism in India, specifically focusing on the communication barriers between Christians and Hindus.

Hindu Customs and their Origins (1937) primarily examines the topic of caste in India, looking at the ancient ideas of the origins of caste and testing modern theories through a critical examination.

This book presents a collection of original research about every day, innovative, interactive, and multiple religiosities among Sri Lankan Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and devotees of New Religious Movements in post-war Sri Lanka.

Hinduism and Christianity are different in structure and approach - but have a great deal in common in matters relating to ethics.

This volume makes a contribution to understanding pilgrimage, not as a transient activity at the margins of daily life, but as an event grounded firmly in the physical, symbolic and social experience of the everyday world.

*; Revised and expanded edition of the classic work on chakras by the renowned Indian scholar and tantra practitioner.

The Routledge History of Witchcraft is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the belief in witches from antiquity to the present day, providing both an introduction to the subject of witchcraft and an overview of the on-going debates.

In Indian mythological texts like the Mahabharata and Ramayana, there are recurrent tales about gleaners.

This book accounts for the origin and evolution of the nature and roles of women within the Hindu belief system.

The High-Caste Hindu Woman (1887) is a work of political nonfiction by Pandita Ramabai.

Drawing on personal experiences of Hinduism on the ground, this book provides a reflective context within which religious practices can be understood and appreciated.

Hinduism Clarified and Simplified is the best book on Hinduism written so far; and most exclusive and exhaustive one.

Provincial Hinduism explores intersecting religious worlds in an ordinary Indian city that remains close to its traditional roots, while bearing witness to the impact of globalization.

The timeless leadership wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita explained Although it was written well over two thousand years ago, the Bhagavad Gita ("e;Song of God"e;), a revered Hindu religious text, contains an immense wealth of ageless wisdom that speaks directly to the needs of today's business leaders.

A provocative study of contemporary Tantra as a dynamic living tradition.

How to Be a SuccessParamhansa YoganandaIs there a power that can reveal hidden veins of riches and uncover treasures of which we never dreamed?

This book explores the cross- and trans-cultural dialectic between Tantra and intersecting 'magical' and 'shamanic' practices associated with vernacular religions across Monsoon Asia.

The timeless leadership wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita explained Although it was written well over two thousand years ago, the Bhagavad Gita ("e;Song of God"e;), a revered Hindu religious text, contains an immense wealth of ageless wisdom that speaks directly to the needs of today's business leaders.

Before the passage of the Hindu Widow's Re-marriage Act of 1856, Hindu tradition required a woman to live as a virtual outcast after her husband's death.

The historical shift from Vedic traditions to post-Vedic bhakti (devotional) traditions is accompanied by a shift from abstract, translocal notions of divinity to particularized, localized notions of divinity and a corresponding shift from aniconic to iconic traditions and from temporary sacrificial arenas to established temple sites.

Today yoga is a thoroughly globalised phenomenon.

Now more than ever, public servants must consider and reassess how to keep moral courage in public life alive.

The town of Deopatan, three kilometers northeast of Kathmandu, is above all famous for its main sanctum, the temple of Pa?

Tauchen Sie ein in die farbenfrohe Welt einer der beeindruckendsten kulturellen Traditionen Sri Lankas – der Perahera.

"e;In this jewel-like volume, the venerable Tirtha Maharaja recounts the nectarean activities of the associates of Lord Gauranga and the acharyas of the Gaudiya Vaishnava religion.

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This open access book is the first to focus on material visualities of bhakti imagery that inspire, shape, convey, and expand both the visual practices of devotional communities, as well as possibilities for extending the reach of devotion in society in new and often unexpected ways.

In recent years, changes in religious studies in general and the study of Hinduism in particular have drawn more scholarly attention to other forms of the Hindu faith that are concretely embodied in temples, icons, artworks, rituals, and pilgrimage practices.

Singing a Hindu Nation explores how the political becomes devotional through musical performance.

Sonic Liturgy: Ritual and Music in Hindu Tradition builds on the foundation of Guy L.

This book, first published in 1957, was the first in English to provide a full and clear introduction to one of the most significant of Indian gods, and stresses his supreme role in Indian religion and art.

This book provides a rigorously researched, critically comparative introduction to yoga.

The vast majority of Christians in India are landless laborers descended from low-caste converts or animistic origins.

Hinduism in America: An Introduction is a concise introduction to the long history of religion in the encounter between America and India.

Hinduism in America: An Introduction is a concise introduction to the long history of religion in the encounter between America and India.

This book explores local cultural discourses and practices relating to manifestations and experiences of the demonic, the spectral and the uncanny, probing into their effects on people's domestic and intimate spheres of life.

This volume is a systematic and comprehensive introduction to one of the most read texts in South Asia, the Bhagavad-gita.

The first step-by-step guide to the techniques of Kaula Tantra, the practical yogini path to enlightenment*; Details the erotic and magical practices of Kaula Tantra as well as the arcane principles to activate each technique*; Includes a complete translation of the Kaulajnananirnaya Tantra from Sanskrit*; Explores Kaula techniques for acquiring siddhismagical powersas well as sacred protection and black magic practicesWritten in the 8th century by the sage Matsyendranatha, the Kaulajnananirnaya Tantra records the secret erotic and magical practices of the Yogini Kaula tradition, a tradition focused on practical methods for attaining enlightenment.

An in-depth guide to understanding and balancing the chakras*; Provides meditations, mantras, and other methods to work with each chakra*; Details each chakra's positive and negative qualities, their gifts and challenges, and how they interact with each other*; Examines the psychological causes of blocked energy in the chakras*; Shares chakra wisdom and profound spiritual insights from Sri Harish Johari, Guruji Pilot Baba, Mataji Narmada Puri, Sri Aurobindo, and other spiritual leaders By understanding the chakras, you can better understand the ways you interact with the world around you and the energetic roots of your inner being.

Indian art, increasingly popular in the west, cannot be fully appreciated without some knowledge of the religious and philosophical background.