Hinduism

The East-West dialogue increasingly seeks to compare and clarify contrasting views on the nature of consciousness.

The East-West dialogue increasingly seeks to compare and clarify contrasting views on the nature of consciousness.

Is there a unifying key that enables Christians to interpret the Bible and see the guiding hand of God in history?

Spirituality is, too often, subsumed under the heading of religion and treated as much the same kind of thing.

Spirituality is, too often, subsumed under the heading of religion and treated as much the same kind of thing.

As cold winter goes away, it's time for spring to come and play.

Celebrated as an aquatic form of divinity for thousands of years, the Yamuna is one of India's most sacred rivers.

Throughout Indian history, many authors and performers have produced, and many patrons have supported, diverse tellings of the story of the exiled prince Rama, who rescues his abducted wife by battling the demon king who has imprisoned her.

This book is a comparative study of miracles in the major world religions and explores the value of miracles in religious belief.

This book is a comparative study of miracles in the major world religions and explores the value of miracles in religious belief.

This book traces the evolution of Hindu theories of warfare in India from the dawn of civilization.

This book traces the evolution of Hindu theories of warfare in India from the dawn of civilization.

 This book explores the representation of Hinduism through myth and discourse in urban Hindi theatre in the period 1880-1960.

This book investigates women's ritual authority and the common boundaries between religion and notions of gender, ethnicity, and identity.

This book offers a paradigm shift and fresh interpretation of Rumi's message.

This book examines the long-term effects of violence on the everyday cultural and religious practices of a younger generation of Ahmadis and Sikhs in Frankfurt, Germany and Toronto, Canada.

Hinduism has become a vital 'other' for Judaism over the past decades.

Jews often consider Hinduism to be Avoda Zara, idolatry, due to its worship of images and multiple gods.

Sustaining a Hindu universe at an everyday life level requires an extraordinary range of religious specialists and ritual paraphernalia.

Sustaining a Hindu universe at an everyday life level requires an extraordinary range of religious specialists and ritual paraphernalia.

This essential student textbook consists of seventeen sections, all written by leading scholars in their different fields.

This essential student textbook consists of seventeen sections, all written by leading scholars in their different fields.

The text examines the role of the Hindu tradition in the ideology and methodology of the Indian women's movement.

The text examines the role of the Hindu tradition in the ideology and methodology of the Indian women's movement.

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.

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.

Indonesia is a remarkable case study for religious politics.

Indonesia is a remarkable case study for religious politics.

From the cult of Saint Anne to the devotees of the Virgin of Guadalupe, from Saint Anthony who competed with Christ for popularity in Brazil, to Jesuits who mixed freely with shamans that talked with the gods, this exciting new anthology examines the conversion of the colonized.

This book critically assesses recent debates about the colonial construction of Hinduism.

From the cult of Saint Anne to the devotees of the Virgin of Guadalupe, from Saint Anthony who competed with Christ for popularity in Brazil, to Jesuits who mixed freely with shamans that talked with the gods, this exciting new anthology examines the conversion of the colonized.

Providing a systematic and complete overview of the highest scholarly quality on Tantric mantras in Hinduism, this book presents a summary on the nature of Tantric mantras, their phonetic aspect, structure and classifications.

Providing a systematic and complete overview of the highest scholarly quality on Tantric mantras in Hinduism, this book presents a summary on the nature of Tantric mantras, their phonetic aspect, structure and classifications.

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

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

The Sanskrit Mahabharata is one of the greatest works of world literature and pivotal for the understanding of both Hindu traditions and wider society in ancient, medieval and modern South Asia.

The Sanskrit Mahabharata is one of the greatest works of world literature and pivotal for the understanding of both Hindu traditions and wider society in ancient, medieval and modern South Asia.

First published in 1968, Ninian Smart's The Yogi and the Devotee: The Interplay Between the Upanishads and Catholic Theology is based on lectures given in Delhi and explores in a novel way the relation between Hinduism and Christianity.

First published in 1968, Ninian Smart's The Yogi and the Devotee: The Interplay Between the Upanishads and Catholic Theology is based on lectures given in Delhi and explores in a novel way the relation between Hinduism and Christianity.

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

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

Providing new insights into the contemporary creationist-evolution debates, this book looks at the Hindu cultural-religious traditions of India, the Hindu Dharma traditions.

Providing new insights into the contemporary creationist-evolution debates, this book looks at the Hindu cultural-religious traditions of India, the Hindu Dharma traditions.

Drawing on the critical and theoretical concepts of sovereignty, biopolitics, and necropolitics, this book examines how a normative liberal and secular understanding of India's religious identity is translatable by Hindu nationalists into discrimination and violence against minoritized religious communities.

Drawing on the critical and theoretical concepts of sovereignty, biopolitics, and necropolitics, this book examines how a normative liberal and secular understanding of India's religious identity is translatable by Hindu nationalists into discrimination and violence against minoritized religious communities.

This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia.

This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia.

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.

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.

Karma is perhaps the most famous concept in Indian philosophy, but this is the first comprehensive study of its various meanings and philosophical implications.