Hindu life and practice

Hinduism cannot be understood without the Great Goddess and the goddess-orientated Sakta traditions.

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

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 Hindu religion from a global perspective and investigates the presence of Hindu religious traditions and some of their diversity worldwide.

Hindu Ritual at the Margins explores Hindu forms of ritual activity in a variety of "e;marginal"e; contexts.

Modern Hindu Traditionalism addresses Hindu traditions that resisted contact with both Neo-Hindu thought and views of "e;classical"e; Hinduism perceived to be outmoded.

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

James McHugh offers the first comprehensive examination of the concepts and practices related to smell in pre-modern India.

Subtle-body practices are found particularly in Indian, Indo-Tibetan and East Asian societies, but have become increasingly familiar in Western societies, especially through the various healing and yogic techniques and exercises associated with them.

Unfinished Gestures presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In literature and popular imagination, the Bauls of India and Bangladesh are characterized as musical mystics: orange-clad nomads of both Hindu and Muslim backgrounds.

Inter-religious Practices and Saint Veneration in the Muslim World studies the immortal saint Khidr/Khizr, a mysterious prophet and popular multi-religious figure and Sufi master venerated across the Muslim world.

Julius Lipner's Hindus is widely recognised as essential reading for everyone wishing to understand one of the world's great religious traditions.

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

Subtle-body practices are found particularly in Indian, Indo-Tibetan and East Asian societies, but have become increasingly familiar in Western societies, especially through the various healing and yogic techniques and exercises associated with them.

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

Goddess Durga and Sacred Female Power is an exploration of the many faces of the Goddess Durga in ancient and contemporary culture.

An innovative study of the establishment of ''age'' as a political category in late colonial India.

'Hinduism' is a term often used to summarize the aspirations of the majority of the Indian people.

The Bhagavad Gita, or 'Song of the Spirit', is the best known book of India's national epic The Mahabharata.

This book presents an original and comprehensive overview of the transformation of Mauritian Hinduism against the backdrop of globalisation.

Digital Religion does not simply refer to religion as it is carried out online, but more broadly studies how digital media interrelate with religious practice and belief.

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

Julius Lipner's Hindus is widely recognised as essential reading for everyone wishing to understand one of the world's great religious traditions.

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.

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

Today yoga is a thoroughly globalised phenomenon.

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.

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

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

This is the first book to address the social organisation of modern yoga practice as a primary focus of investigation and to undertake a comparative analysis to explore why certain styles of yoga have successfully transcended geographical boundaries and endured over time, whilst others have dwindled and failed.

Muthuraj Swamy provides a fresh perspective on the world religions paradigm and 'interreligious dialogue'.

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

Today yoga is a thoroughly globalised phenomenon.

In Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth, Corinne Dempsey offers a comparative study of Hindu and Christian, Indian and Euro/American earthbound religious expressions.

Salvific space is one of the central ideas in the Hindu traditions of pilgrimage, and concerns the ability of space, especially sites associated with bodies of water such as rivers and lakes, to grant salvific rewards.

Hinduism in the Modern World presents a new and unprecedented attempt to survey the nature, range, and significance of modern and contemporary Hinduism in South Asia and the global diaspora.

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

Con esta autobiografa extraordinaria, Radhanath Swami narra una historia llena de aventura, misticismo y amor.

The Intriguing Implications of N.

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.

A Foreign Correspondent's Search for Her Cultural and Spiritual IdentityWhat began as an assignment from her editor at the Wall Street Journal to investigate "e;America's hottest new fad,"e; the secrets of sexual ecstasy in Tantra, became a story that would lead reporter Asra Nomani halfway around the world and change forever her life, faith, and self-identity.

'Our own Self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world'The simple but powerful teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, one of India's most revered spiritual masters, continue to enlighten and enrich over sixty years after his death.

Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Welt der ayurvedischen Gewürzkunde in diesem umfangreichen Gewürzlexikon.

A modern interpretation of the classic erotic text.

In the 1600s, European travellers discovered Indian vegetarianism.

Sri Ramakrishna is the most famous saint of modern India.

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

In Hinduism, as in all of the great religious traditions from around the globe, the repeating or singing of a sacred name is an integral part of prayer and daily life.