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A Conversation with Vasudha Narayanan about Hindu Studies
51 mins; December 21, 2021
Gloria Maité Hernández, "Savoring God: Comparative Theopoetics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
45 mins; December 16, 2021
Pankaj Jain, "Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities: Sustenance and Sustainability" (Ashgate, 2011)
45 mins; December 13, 2021
Ute Hüsken et al., "Nine Nights of Power: Durgā, Dolls, and Darbārs" (SUNY Press, 2021)
44 mins; December 09, 2021
Anustup Basu, "Hindutva as Political Monotheism" (Duke UP, 2020)
63 hours 19 mins; December 03, 2021
Sabrina D. MisirHiralall, "Devotional Hindu Dance: A Return to the Sacred" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
36 mins; December 02, 2021
Jyotirmaya Sharma, "Elusive Nonviolence: The Making and Unmaking of Gandhi’s Religion of Ahimsa" (Westland, 2021)
41 mins; November 30, 2021
Nishant Shahani, "Pink Revolutions: Globalization, Hindutva, and Queer Triangles in Contemporary India" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
42 mins; November 30, 2021
Atmadarshan Laura Santoro, "Song of Your Soul," a New Translation of the Bhagavad Gita
53 mins; November 24, 2021
Ruth Gamble, "The Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje: Master of Mahamudra" (Shambala, 2020)
56 mins; November 18, 2021
Sanskrit Tools on the Web: An Discussion with Martin Gluckman (Part 2)
53 mins; November 18, 2021
Clara A. B. Joseph, "Christianity in India: The Anti-Colonial Turn" (Routledge, 2020)
36 mins; November 17, 2021
Suchitra Samanta, "Kali in Bengali Lives: Narratives of Religious Experience" (Lexington Books, 2021)
44 mins; November 15, 2021
Sanskrit Tools on the Web: An Discussion with Martin Gluckman (Part 1)
41 mins; November 11, 2021
Tony Nader, "One Unbounded Ocean of Consciousness: Simple Answers to the Big Questions of Life" (Penguin Random House, 2021)
107 hours 33 mins; November 08, 2021
Manu S. Pillai, "False Allies: India’s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma" (Juggernauth, 2021)
39 mins; November 04, 2021
Clemens Cavallin et al., "The Future of Religious Studies in India" (Routledge, 2020)
46 mins; November 03, 2021
Koral Dasgupta, "Kunti: The Sati Series II" (Pan Macmillan India, 2021)
52 mins; October 28, 2021
Katherine Young, "Turbulent Transformations: Non-Brahmin Śrīvaiṣṇavas on Religion, Caste and Politics in Tamil Nadu" (Orient Blackswan, 2021)
44 mins; October 21, 2021
Antonia M. Ruppel, "An Introductory Sanskrit Reader: Improving Reading Fluency" (Brill, 2021)
67 hours 50 mins; October 14, 2021
Eleanor Nesbitt, “Exploring the Sikh Tradition” (Open Agenda, 2021)
130 hours 49 mins; October 12, 2021
Mans Broo, "The Rādhā Tantra: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation" (Routledge, 2019)
48 mins; October 07, 2021
Pankaj Mirshra, “Turning the Mirror: A View From the East” (Open Agenda, 2021)
84 hours 37 mins; October 07, 2021
Wendy Doniger, "Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares: Horses in Indian Myth and History" (U Virginia Press, 2021)
66 hours 27 mins; October 05, 2021
John Nemec, "The Ubiquitous Siva: Somananda's Sivadrsti and His Philosophical Interlocutors" (Oxford UP, 2021)
39 mins; October 01, 2021
Gidi Ifergan, "The Psychology of the Yogas" (Equinox Publishing, 2021)
58 mins; September 30, 2021
Kusumita P. Pedersen, "The Philosophy of Sri Chinmoy: Love and Transformation" (Lexington, 2021)
41 mins; September 22, 2021
Stephen Phillips, "Jewel of Reflection on the Truth about Epistemology: A Complete and Annotated Translation of the Tattva-Cinta-mani" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
69 hours 17 mins; September 20, 2021
Paula Richman and Rustom Bharucha, "Performing the Ramayana Tradition: Enactments, Interpretations, and Arguments" (Oxford UP, 2021)
46 mins; September 16, 2021
Alastair Gornall, "Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270" (UCL Press, 2020)
54 mins; September 15, 2021
James D. Reich, "To Savor the Meaning: The Theology of Literary Emotions in Medieval Kashmir" (Oxford UP, 2021)
37 mins; September 09, 2021
Online Dharmaśāstra Library: A Conversation with Don Davis
38 mins; September 09, 2021
Nicole Karapanagiotis, "Branding Bhakti: Krishna Consciousness and the Makeover of a Movement" (Indiana UP, 2021)
66 hours 0 mins; September 02, 2021
Y. Bronner and L. J. McCrea, "First Words, Last Words: New Theories for Reading Old Texts in Sixteenth Century India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
46 mins; August 26, 2021
Open Access Publishing: A Conversation with Dominik Haas
39 mins; August 26, 2021
Kristin Hanssen, "Women, Religion and the Body in South Asia: Living With Bengali Bauls" (Routledge, 2020)
27 mins; August 19, 2021
Religious Studies Today: A Conversation with Amir Hussain
61 hours 35 mins; August 16, 2021
Emilia Bachrach, "In the Service of Krishna: Illustrating the Lives of Eighty-Four Vaishnavas from a 1702 Manuscript" (Mapin, 2020)
57 mins; August 12, 2021
Jeffery D. Long, "Jainism: An Introduction" (I. B. Tauris, 2009)
50 mins; August 11, 2021
A Conversation with Jacob Kyle, Founder of Embodied Philosophy
69 hours 45 mins; August 11, 2021
Vijaya Nagarajan, "Feeding a Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual, and Ecology in India--an Exploration of the Kolam" (Oxford UP, 2018)
46 mins; August 05, 2021
Robin Derricourt, "Creating God: The Birth and Growth of Major Religions" ( Manchester UP, 2021)
52 mins; July 29, 2021
McComas Taylor, "The Viṣṇu Purāṇa: Ancient Annals of the God with Lotus Eyes" (Australian National UP, 2021)
58 mins; July 29, 2021
A Conversation with Greg Bailey: Sanskrit Scholar and Novelist
53 mins; July 22, 2021
Shankar Nair, "Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia" (U California Press, 2020)
65 hours 6 mins; July 15, 2021
Anya P. Foxen and Christa Kuberry, "Is this Yoga?: Concepts, Histories, and the Complexities of Modern Practice" (Routledge, 2021)
42 mins; July 14, 2021
Megan Eaton Robb, "Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India" (Oxford UP, 2020)
47 mins; July 08, 2021
Zoë Slatoff, "Yogavataranam: The Translation of Yoga" (North Point Press, 2015)
39 mins; July 01, 2021
Ben Williams on Contemplative Education
56 mins; June 30, 2021
Peter Christiaan Bisschop and Yuko Yokochi, "The Skandapurána" (Brill, 2021)
45 mins; June 24, 2021
Namit Arora, "Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization" (Viking, 2021)
40 mins; June 24, 2021
Lavanya Vemsani, "Feminine Journeys of the Mahabharata: Hindu Women in History, Text, and Practice" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
46 mins; June 21, 2021
Michael Nichols, "Malleable Mara: Transformations of a Buddhist Symbol of Evil" (SUNY Press, 2020)
37 mins; June 17, 2021
Brian Collins on Indian Mythology
56 mins; June 16, 2021
Chitgopekar Nilima, "The Reluctant Family Man: Shiva in Everyday Life" (Penguin, 2019)
36 mins; June 10, 2021
Frank Clooney on “The Scholar-Practitioner”
47 mins; June 09, 2021
Jon Keune, "Shared Devotion, Shared Food: Equality and the Bhakti-Caste Question in Western India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
50 mins; June 03, 2021
Arti Dhand on The Mahābhārata
52 mins; May 26, 2021
Karen G. Ruffle, "Everyday Shi'ism in South Asia" (John Wiley & Sons, 2021)
51 mins; May 26, 2021
Michael D. Nichols, "Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe" (McFarland, 2021)
44 mins; May 21, 2021
J. Fewkes and M. Adamson Sijapati, "Muslim Communities and Cultures of the Himalayas: Conceptualizing the Global Ummah" (Routledge, 2020)
41 mins; May 19, 2021
Bhakti Marg Swami: ISKON Leader
48 mins; May 12, 2021
Pandemic Perspectives: Working Remotely, a Discussion with Raj Balkaran
47 mins; May 10, 2021
Brenda Beck, "Land of the Golden River: The Medieval Tamil Folk Epic of Poṉṉivaḷa Nāḍu" (Friesen Press, 2021)
47 mins; April 30, 2021
Teaching Buddhist Studies Online: A Discussion with Kate Hartmann
66 hours 55 mins; April 30, 2021
Gil Ben-Herut and Jon Keune, "Regional Communities of Devotion in South Asia: Insiders, Outsiders, and Interlopers" (Routledge, 2019)
54 mins; April 28, 2021
Thomas Robinson and Hillary Rodrigues, "World Religions Reader: Understanding Our Religious World" (ROBINEST, 2020)
41 mins; April 23, 2021
Birinder Pal Singh, "Sikhs in the Deccan and North-East India" (Taylor & Francis, 2018)
46 mins; April 23, 2021
Daniel Heifetz, "The Science of Satyug: Class, Charisma, and Vedic Revivalism in the All World Gayatri Pariwar" (SUNY Press, 2021)
46 mins; April 22, 2021
N. S. Hawley and S. S. Pillai, "Many Mahābhāratas" (SUNY Press, 2021)
72 hours 40 mins; April 20, 2021
Ayesha A. Irani, "The Muhammad Avatāra: Salvation History, Translation, and the Making of Bengali Islam" (Oxford UP, 2021)
40 mins; April 14, 2021
Ian Whicher, "The Integrity of the Yoga Darsana: A Reconsideration of Classical Yoga" (SUNY Press, 1998)
47 mins; April 13, 2021
Daniel Raveh, "Daya Krishna and 20th-Century Indian Philosophy: A New Way of Thinking about Art, Freedom, and Knowledge" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
46 mins; March 29, 2021
Lokesh Ohri, "Till Kingdom Come: Medieval Hinduism in the Modern Himalaya" (SUNY Press, 2021)
37 mins; March 23, 2021
Douglas Osto, "An Indian Tantric Tradition and Its Modern Global Revival: Contemporary Nondual Śaivism" (Routledge, 2020)
50 mins; March 19, 2021
Vanessa R. Sasson, "Yasodhara and the Buddha" (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020)
42 mins; March 17, 2021
Steven Collins, "Wisdom as a Way of Life: Theravāda Buddhism Reimagined" (Columbia UP, 2020)
52 mins; March 15, 2021
Arvind Sharma, "Religious Tolerance: A History" (Harper Collins, 2019)
31 mins; March 12, 2021
Francis X. Clooney, "Reading the Hindu and Christian Classics: Why and How Deep Learning Still Matters" (U Virginia Press, 2019)
61 hours 44 mins; March 04, 2021
Christopher Key Chapple, "Yoga in Jainism" (Routledge, 2015)
47 mins; March 02, 2021
Bibek Debroy, "The Mahabharata" (Penguin, 2015)
57 mins; February 25, 2021
Michael P. Brunner, "Education and Modernity in Colonial Punjab: Khalsa College, the Sikh Tradition and the Webs of Knowledge, 1880-1947" (Palgrave, 2020)
29 mins; February 24, 2021
Christopher T. Fleming, "Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence" (Oxford UP, 2021)
26 mins; February 17, 2021
Knut A. Jacobsen, "Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions" (Routledge, 2020)
46 mins; February 09, 2021
C. M. Bauman and M. Voss Roberts, "The Routledge Handbook of Hindu-Christian Relations" (Routledge, 2020)
59 mins; February 03, 2021
Tulasi Srinivas, "The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder" (Duke UP, 2018)
46 mins; January 26, 2021
Xenia Zeiler, "Digital Hinduism" (Routledge, 2019)
28 mins; January 26, 2021
Chad M. Bauman, "Anti-Christian Violence in India" (Cornell UP, 2020)
48 mins; January 20, 2021
Stuart Ray Sarbacker, "Tracing the Path of Yoga: The History and Philosophy of Indian Mind-Body Discipline" (SUNY Press, 2021)
55 mins; January 12, 2021
Gopal K. Gupta, "Maya in the Bhagavata Purana: Human Suffering and Divine Play" (Oxford UP, 2020)
52 mins; January 08, 2021
Theodora Wildcroft, "Post-lineage Yoga: From Guru to #metoo" (Equinox Publishing, 2020)
77 hours 27 mins; December 29, 2020
Leah E. Comeau, "Material Devotion in a South Indian Poetic World" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
44 mins; December 18, 2020
Ayon Maharaj, "The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Vedanta" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
51 mins; December 14, 2020
Amanda J. Lucia, "White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational Festivals" (U California Press, 2020)
55 mins; December 11, 2020
Leela Prasad, "The Audacious Raconteur: Sovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India" (Cornell UP, 2020)
33 mins; December 09, 2020
Brian Black, "In Dialogue with the Mahābhārata" (Routledge, 2020)
77 hours 45 mins; December 07, 2020
P. Bilimoria and P. Hughes, "The Indian Diaspora: Hindus and Sikhs in Australia" (Manticore Press, 2019)
65 hours 26 mins; December 03, 2020
Daniel Simpson, "The Truth of Yoga: A Comprehensive Guide to Yoga's History, Texts, Philosophy, and Practices" (North Point, 2021)
71 hours 48 mins; December 02, 2020
S. Newcombe and K. O'Brien-Kop, "Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies" (Routledge, 2020)
49 mins; November 30, 2020
Jason Keith Fernandes, "Citizenship in a Caste Polity: Religion, Language and Belonging in Goa" (Orient BlackSwan, 2020)
58 mins; November 27, 2020
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