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New Books in Indian Religions
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Mrinal Pande, "Popular Hinduism, Stories and Mobile Performances: The Voice of Morari Bapu in Multiple Media" (Routledge, 2022)
29 mins; December 12, 2022
Stuart Earle Strange, "Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
93 hours 32 mins; December 10, 2022
Maria Heim, "Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India" (Princeton UP, 2022)
40 mins; December 08, 2022
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, "Human Being, Bodily Being: Phenomenology from Classical India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
50 mins; December 01, 2022
The Future of Religious Studies: A Conversation with Russell McCutcheon
75 hours 37 mins; November 28, 2022
Travis Zadeh, "Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos" (Harvard UP, 2023)
53 mins; November 24, 2022
Sushmita Nath, "The Secular Imaginary: Gandhi, Nehru and the Idea(s) of India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
61 hours 59 mins; November 23, 2022
Charles Goodman, "The Tattvasaṃgraha Of Śāntarakṣita: Selected Metaphysical Chapters" (Oxford UP, 2022)
60 hours 3 mins; November 21, 2022
Yigal Bronner et al., "Sensitive Reading: The Pleasures of South Asian Literature in Translation" (U California Press, 2022)
52 mins; November 18, 2022
Ruth Vanita, "The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
55 mins; November 17, 2022
James Mallinson and Péter-Dániel Szántó, "The Amṛtasiddhi and Amṛtasiddhimūla: The Earliest Texts of the Haṭhayoga Tradition" (Institut français de Pondichéry, 2021)
40 mins; November 16, 2022
Lavanya Vemsani, "Hinduism in Middle India: Narasimha, The Lord of the Middle" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
46 mins; November 09, 2022
Aisha Khan, "The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
74 hours 0 mins; November 07, 2022
Geetanjali Srikantan, "Identifying and Regulating Religion in India: Law, History and the Place of Worship" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
23 mins; November 03, 2022
Online Sanskrit Study Resources
28 mins; October 31, 2022
Political Deification in South Asia
33 mins; October 28, 2022
Ayurveda and Alchemy: A Conversation with Dagmar Wujastyk
50 mins; October 27, 2022
On Social Media and Hinduism
58 mins; October 25, 2022
Martin Fárek, "India in the Eyes of Europeans: Conceptualization of Religion in Theology and Oriental Studies" (Karolinum Press, Charles University, 2021)
53 mins; October 20, 2022
Ruth Harris, "Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda" (Harvard UP, 2022)
43 mins; October 13, 2022
SOAS’ Yoga Studies Online
33 mins; October 12, 2022
Tenzan Eaghll and Rebekka King, "Representing Religion in Film" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
42 mins; October 06, 2022
Michael Slouber, "Early Tantric Medicine: Snakebite, Mantras, and Healing in the Garuda Tantras" (Oxford UP, 2016)
61 hours 57 mins; September 29, 2022
Karen O'Brien-Kop, "Phiroz Mehta: A Zoroastrian Teacher of Indian Philosophy of Religion in 1970s-80s Britain"
44 mins; September 22, 2022
Manuela Ciotti, "Retro-modern India: Forging the Low Caste Self" (Routledge, 2020)
63 hours 17 mins; September 16, 2022
Michael S. Allen, "The Ocean of Inquiry: Niscaldas and the Premodern Origins of Modern Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2022)
63 hours 38 mins; September 15, 2022
Silvia Schwarz Linder, "Goddess Traditions in India: Theological Poems and Philosophical Tales in the Tripurarahasya" (Routledge, 2022)
44 mins; September 08, 2022
Aniket De, "The Boundary of Laughter: Popular Performances Across Borders in South Asia" (Oxford UP, 2022)
36 mins; September 01, 2022
Vinayak Chaturvedi, "Hindutva and Violence: V. D. Savarkar and the Essentials of History" (SUNY Press, 2022)
89 hours 3 mins; August 31, 2022
Michael J. Altman, "Hinduism in America: An Introduction" (Routledge, 2022)
43 mins; August 25, 2022
On Yoga, Cultural Appropriation, and Racism
51 mins; August 22, 2022
Caleb Simmons, "Singing the Goddess Into Place: Locality, Myth, and Social Change in Chamundi of the Hill, a Kannada Folk Ballad" (SUNY Press, 2022)
48 mins; August 18, 2022
Meenal Shrivastava, "Amma’s Daughters: A Memoir" (Athabasca UP, 2018)
58 mins; August 15, 2022
Koushiki Dasgupta, "Sadhus in Indian Politics: Dynamics of Hindutva" (Sage, 2021)
32 mins; August 11, 2022
Marion (Mugs) McConnell, "Letters from the Yoga Masters" (North Atlantic Books, 2016)
48 mins; August 11, 2022
Kajri Jain, "Gods in the Time of Democracy" (Duke UP, 2021)
52 mins; August 04, 2022
Wendy Doniger, "After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata" (Oxford UP, 2022)
56 mins; August 02, 2022
Suman Nath, "Democracy and Social Cleavage in India: Ethnography of Riots, Everyday Politics and Communalism in West Bengal (2012-2021)" (Routledge, 2022)
26 mins; July 28, 2022
Naman P. Ahuja, "Marg Magazine: Readings on the Temple"
33 mins; July 21, 2022
Simran Jeet Singh, "The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life" (Riverhead, 2022)
43 mins; July 19, 2022
Antonio Rigopoulos, "The Hagiographer and the Avatar: The Life and Works of Narayan Kasturi" (SUNY Press, 2021)
50 mins; July 14, 2022
Evan Berry, "Climate Politics and the Power of Religion" (Indiana UP, 2022)
54 mins; July 14, 2022
Matthew Clark, "Botanical Ecstasies: Psychoactive Plant Formulas in India and Beyond" (Psychedelic Press, 2021)
57 mins; July 07, 2022
Robin Dunbar, "How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures" (Oxford UP, 2022)
61 hours 26 mins; July 07, 2022
A Conversation with Sravana Borkataky-Varma
41 mins; July 05, 2022
Radha Raghunathan, "Soaring with Bharati in the Wisdom-Chariot (Ñānaratam)" (Adyar Library, 2022)
27 mins; June 30, 2022
Simon Atkinson, "Krishnamacharya on Kundalini: The Origins and Coherence of His Position" (Equinox Publishing, 2022)
62 hours 37 mins; June 29, 2022
Raj Balkaran, "The Stories Behind the Poses: The Indian Mythology That Inspired 50 Yoga Postures" (Leaping Hare, 2022)
51 mins; June 27, 2022
Srilata Raman, "The Transformation of Tamil Religion: Ramalinga Swamigal and Modern Dravidian Sainthood" (Routledge, 2022)
38 mins; June 23, 2022
Mark Siderits, "How Things Are: An Introduction to Buddhist Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
62 hours 44 mins; June 20, 2022
Karen O'Brien-Kop, "Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
40 mins; June 16, 2022
On Early American Yoga
59 mins; June 15, 2022
Roger R. Jackson, "Rebirth: A Guide to Mind, Karma, and Cosmos in the Buddhist World" (Shambhala, 2022)
54 mins; June 09, 2022
Richard G. Marks, "Jewish Approaches to Hinduism: A History of Ideas from Judah Ha-Levi to Jacob Sapir (12th-19th Centuries)" (Routledge, 2021)
49 mins; June 02, 2022
Peter Scharf, "Sabdanugamah: Indian Linguistic Studies in Honor of George Cardona; Volume 1: Vyakarana and Sabdabodha" (Sanskrit Library, 2021)
60 hours 58 mins; May 26, 2022
Emma Natalya Stein, "Constructing Kanchi: City of Infinite Temples" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
54 mins; May 19, 2022
Banu Subramaniam, "Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism" (U of Washington Press, 2019)
39 mins; May 12, 2022
South Asian Studies in Canada
36 mins; May 05, 2022
On Interfaith Activism, Sikhism, and Hinduism
57 mins; May 05, 2022
The Importance of Pali, the Language of Ancient Buddhism
31 mins; May 04, 2022
Aditya Pratap Deo, "Kings, Spirits and Memory in Central India: Enchanting the State" (Routledge, 2021)
50 mins; May 03, 2022
Gregory M. Clines, "Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation" (Routledge, 2022)
51 mins; May 02, 2022
On Sikhism
38 mins; April 28, 2022
Anthony Cerulli, "The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India" (U California Press, 2022)
34 mins; April 28, 2022
Perry Myers, "Spiritual Empires in Europe and India: Cosmopolitan Religious Movements from 1875 to the Interwar Era" (Palgrave, 2021)
42 mins; April 21, 2022
On Sita's Ramayana
44 mins; April 18, 2022
Patrick Olivelle, "Grhastha: The Householder in Ancient Indian Religious Culture" (Oxford UP, 2019)
53 mins; April 14, 2022
The Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions
39 mins; April 11, 2022
Partha Chatterjee, "The Truths and Lies of Nationalism: As Narrated by Charvak" (SUNY Press, 2021)
64 hours 43 mins; April 11, 2022
M. K. Raghvendra, "The Hindu Nation: A Reconciliation with Modernity" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
35 mins; April 07, 2022
On Ashram Life, the Bhagavad Gita, and Teaching Yoga
63 hours 50 mins; April 01, 2022
Swami Medhananda, "Swami Vivekananda's Vedantic Cosmopolitanism" (Oxford UP, 2022)
62 hours 30 mins; March 31, 2022
Deepra Dandekar, "Baba Padmanji: Vernacular Christianity in Colonial India" (Routledge, 2020)
58 mins; March 24, 2022
On Punk, Meditation, and Yoga
45 mins; March 21, 2022
Samuel Wright, "A Time of Novelty: Logic, Emotion, and Intellectual Life in Early Modern India, 1500-1700 C.E." (Oxford UP, 2021)
43 mins; March 17, 2022
Jeffery D. Long and Michael G. Long, "Nonviolence in the World's Religions: A Concise Introduction" (Routledge, 2021)
66 hours 36 mins; March 10, 2022
Nupurnima Yadav, "Astrology in India: A Sociological Inquiry" (Taylor & Francis, 2021)
57 mins; March 08, 2022
Ira Mukhoty, "Song of Draupadi" (Aleph Book Company, 2021)
43 mins; March 03, 2022
James McHugh, "An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian Religion and History" (Oxford UP, 2021)
34 mins; March 03, 2022
Mythopolitics in South Asia
37 mins; February 25, 2022
Diana Dimitrova, "Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions" (Routledge, 2020)
36 mins; February 24, 2022
Eviatar Shulman, "Visions of the Buddha: Creative Dimensions of Early Buddhist Scripture" (Oxford UP, 2021)
50 mins; February 23, 2022
Jay L. Garfield, "Buddhist Ethics: A Philosophical Exploration" (Oxford UP, 2021)
62 hours 7 mins; February 21, 2022
Love-Jihad and the Politics of Hindu Nationalist Statecraft
28 mins; February 18, 2022
Jarrod Whitaker, "Strong Arms and Drinking Strength: Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India" (Oxford UP, 2011)
47 mins; February 17, 2022
Walter Dorn and Andrew Bartles-Smith, "Hinduism and International Humanitarian Law"
64 hours 46 mins; February 16, 2022
Gitte Bechsgaard and Gillian McCann, "Yoga and Alignment: From the Upanishads to B. K. S. Iyengar" (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021)
28 mins; February 10, 2022
Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma, "The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural" (Beacon Press, 2022)
35 mins; February 08, 2022
Renny Thomas, "Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment" (Routledge, 2021)
55 mins; February 04, 2022
Julian Strube, "Global Tantra: Religion, Science, and Nationalism in Colonial Modernity" (Oxford UP, 2022)
39 mins; February 03, 2022
Pankaj Jain, "Science and Socio-Religious Revolution in India" (Routledge, 2018)
47 mins; January 31, 2022
A Conversation with Hanuman Dass: Founder and Chairman of Go Dharmic
43 mins; January 27, 2022
Rita D. Sherma, "Swami Vivekananda: His Life, Legacy, and Liberative Ethics" (Lexington Books, 2021)
44 mins; January 20, 2022
A Conversation with Laurie Patton: Professor of Religions and President of Middlebury College
50 mins; January 13, 2022
Alistair Shearer, "The Story of Yoga: From Ancient India to the Modern West" (Hurst, 2020)
61 hours 3 mins; January 12, 2022
Jonathan B. Edelmann, "Hindu Theology and Biology: The Bhagavata Purana and Contemporary Theory" (Oxford UP, 2020)
50 mins; January 11, 2022
Neha Sahgal on the Pew Study “Religion in India: Tolerance and Segregation”
50 mins; January 06, 2022
Caterina Guenzi, "Words of Destiny: Practicing Astrology in North India" (SUNY Press, 2021)
60 hours 18 mins; January 04, 2022
Ionut Moise and Ganesh U. Thite, "Vaiśeṣikasūtra: A Translation" (Routledge, 2021)
38 mins; December 30, 2021
E. H. Rick Jarow, "The Cloud of Longing: A New Translation and Eco-Aesthetic Study of Kalidasa's Meghaduta" (Oxford UP, 2021)
58 mins; December 23, 2021
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