Hinduism

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.

This book brings together two scholarly traditions: experts in Roman, Jewish and Islamic law, an area where scholars tend to be familiar with work in each area, and experts in the legal traditions of South and East Asia, which have tended to be less interdisciplinary.

This book brings together two scholarly traditions: experts in Roman, Jewish and Islamic law, an area where scholars tend to be familiar with work in each area, and experts in the legal traditions of South and East Asia, which have tended to be less interdisciplinary.

A detailed case study of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in Britain.

A detailed case study of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in Britain.

This book focuses on the analysis of pure consciousness as found in Advaita Vedanta, one of the main schools of Indian philosophy.

This book focuses on the analysis of pure consciousness as found in Advaita Vedanta, one of the main schools of Indian philosophy.

Religion in India is an ideal first introduction to India's fascinating and varied religious history.

Religion in India is an ideal first introduction to India's fascinating and varied religious history.

How do text, performance, and rhetoric simultaneously reflect and challenge notions of distinct community and religious identities?

How do text, performance, and rhetoric simultaneously reflect and challenge notions of distinct community and religious identities?

This book explores the dynamics of caste in Bollywood and popular Hindi cinema through an examination of the representation of Dalits since the 1930s.

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

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

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

The Encyclopedia of Hinduism contains over 900 entries reflecting recent advances in scholarship which have raised new theoretical and methodological issues as well as identifying new areas of study which have not been addressed previously.

The Encyclopedia of Hinduism contains over 900 entries reflecting recent advances in scholarship which have raised new theoretical and methodological issues as well as identifying new areas of study which have not been addressed previously.

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

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

For the first time, this influential study by Ludwig Alsdorf is made available to an English speaking audience, translated by Bal Patil.

For the first time, this influential study by Ludwig Alsdorf is made available to an English speaking audience, translated by Bal Patil.

The Ramayana, an ancient epic of India, with audiences across vast stretches of time and geography, continues to influence numberless readers socially and morally through its many re-tellings.

The Ramayana, an ancient epic of India, with audiences across vast stretches of time and geography, continues to influence numberless readers socially and morally through its many re-tellings.

Vaisesika is one of the six systems of Hindu philosophy.

Vaisesika is one of the six systems of Hindu philosophy.

This book offers a critical re-examination of the relationship between caste and class.

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.

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.

This book provides a close-up account of a singular woman's life and work.

Traditionally, research on the history of Asian religions has been marked by a bias for literary evidence, privileging canonical texts penned in 'classical' languages.

Traditionally, research on the history of Asian religions has been marked by a bias for literary evidence, privileging canonical texts penned in 'classical' languages.

The speed and scale of urbanisation in India is unprecedented almost anywhere in the world and has tremendous global implications.

The speed and scale of urbanisation in India is unprecedented almost anywhere in the world and has tremendous global implications.

First Published in 1990.

First Published in 1990.

Interfaith Dialogue and Mystical Consciousness in India is a research inquiry in interfaith studies that uses hermeneutical phenomenology to address vexing issues arising in the study of mysticism and enlightened sages.

Orientalism and Religion offers us a timely discussion of the implications of contemporary post-colonial theory for the study of religion.