Hinduism

Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum bring together leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address a crucial question: How does the world's most populous democracy survive repeated assaults on its pluralistic values?

The first comprehensive book on alcohol in pre-modern India, An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions uses a wide range of sources from the Vedas to the Kamasutra to explore drinks and styles of drinking, as well as rationales for abstinence from the earliest Sanskrit written records through the second millennium CE.

Within most pre-modern, Indian traditions of yoga, the role of the guru is absolutely central.

Kabir was a great iconoclastic-mystic poet of fifteenth-century North India; his poems were composed orally, written down by others in manuscripts and books, and transmitted through song.

Ma Anandamayi is generally regarded as the most important Hindu woman saint of the twentieth century.

In this magisterial volume of essays, Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted herself for half a century.

In this magisterial volume of essays, Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted herself for half a century.

Pastoralist traditions have long been extraordinarily important to the social, economic, political, and cultural life of western India.

Found in many different religious cultures, the practice of making votive offerings into fire dates back to the earliest periods of human history.

Reciting the Goddess presents the first critical study of the Svasthanivratakatha (SVK), a sixteenth-century Hindu narrative textual tradition.

What does it mean to be a Brahmin, and what could it mean to become one?

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

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

This book provides a detailed history of Hindu goddess traditions with a special focus on the local goddesses of Andhra Pradesh, past and present.

Tantra is a family of rituals modeled on those of the Vedas and their attendant texts and lineages.

In this companion volume to Singing the Body of God (Oxford 2002), Steven P.

In 1839 a diverse group of Hindu leaders began gathering in Calcutta to share and propagate their faith in a non-idolatrous form of worship.

Hanuman, the devoted monkey helper of Rama and Sita, has long been recognized as a popular character in India's ancient Ramayana epic.

Based on three years of anthropological fieldwork in the Indian state of Rajasthan, Casting Kings explores the manner in which semi-nomadic performers known as Bhats understand, and also subvert, caste hierarchies.

In Divine Mother, Blessed Mother, Francis X.

The Ramayana is one of India's foundational epics, and it demonstrates a continuing power to influence social, religious, cultural, and political life.

"e;The poem is rising into splendid popularity.

The devotional poems of Annamayya (15th century) are perhaps the most accessible and universal achievement of classical Telugu literature, one of the major literatures of pre-modern India.

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The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York is a profile of a flourishing Hindu temple in the town of Rush, New York.

In this book, Tracy Pintchman has assembled ten leading scholars of Hinduism to explore the complex relationship between Hindu women's rituals and their lives beyond ritual.

Drawing on a large body of previously untapped literature, including documents from the Church Missionary Society and Bengali newspapers, Brian Pennington offers a fascinating portrait of the process by which "e;Hinduism"e; came into being.

The mythic figure Satya Pir has a wide following among Hindus and Muslims alike in the Bangla-speaking regions of South Asia.

Many Hindus today are urban middle-class people with religious values similar to those of their professional counterparts in America and Europe.

In his pathbreaking Israel in Egypt James K.

The annual festivals that are central to the south Indian religious tradition are among the largest religious gatherings found anywhere in the world.

For ten years, William Sax studied the inhabitants of the former kingdom of Garhwal in northern India.

This is a study of the Bengali Kartabhaja sect and its place in the broader movement of Tantrism, an Indian religious movement employing purposely shocking sexual language and rituals.

This book offers the first English translation of a body of highly esoteric, mystical poetry and songs associated with the Khartabhajas, a Bengali sect devoted to Tantrism.

This volume offers an in-depth study of key themes common to the Hindu and Christian religious traditions.

This book offers a detailed study of the oral narrative of Shri Devnarayan along with the first English translation of this popular Rajasthani folk narrative.

Kabir was an extraordinary oral poet whose works have been sung and recited by millions throughout North India for half a millennium.

Western scholars have argued that Indian civilization was the joint product of an invading Indo-European people--the "e;Indo-Aryans"e;--and indigenous non-Indo European peoples.

The society of traditional India is frequently characterized as static and dominated by caste.

This book chronicles the rise of goddess worship in the region of Bengal from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present.

This vibrant collection presents 145 brief Bengali lyric poems dedicated to the Hindu goddesses Kali and Uma.

This is the first full-length study of the devotional poetry and poetics of the fourteenth-century poet-philosopher Vedantadesika, one of the most outstanding and influential figures in the Hindu tradition of Sri-Vaishnavism (the cult of Lord Vishnu).

Kerala Christian Sainthood is an ethnography-based study that celebrates the multi-vocal function of saints.

Addressing one of the most difficult conceptual topics in the study of classical Hinduism, Ariel Glucklich presents a rigorous phenomenology of dharma, or order.

The first comprehensive book on alcohol in pre-modern India, An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions uses a wide range of sources from the Vedas to the Kamasutra to explore drinks and styles of drinking, as well as rationales for abstinence from the earliest Sanskrit written records through the second millennium CE.

First Words, Last Words charts an intense "e;pamphlet war"e; that took place in sixteenth-century South India.

First Words, Last Words charts an intense "e;pamphlet war"e; that took place in sixteenth-century South India.

When Hindu devotional or bhakti traditions welcomed marginalized people-women, low castes, and Dalits-were they promoting social equality?

When Hindu devotional or bhakti traditions welcomed marginalized people-women, low castes, and Dalits-were they promoting social equality?

This is a sequel to a volume published in 2011 by OUP under the title The Ubiquitous Siva: Somananda's Sivadrsti and his Tantric Interlocutors.