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New Books in Indian Religions
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Ithamar Theodor, "The Bhagavad-Gītā: A Critical Introduction" (Routledge, 2020)
54 mins; November 27, 2020
Suraj Yengde, "Caste Matters" (India Viking, 2019)
53 mins; November 25, 2020
Andrea Jain, "Peace Love Yoga: The Politics of Global Spirituality" (Oxford UP, 2020)
39 mins; November 25, 2020
Marco Ferrante, "Indian Perspectives on Consciousness, Language and Self" (Routledge, 2020)
62 hours 43 mins; November 24, 2020
E. Goldberg et al, "Bollywood Horrors: Religion, Violence and Cinematic Fears in India" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
49 mins; November 18, 2020
Uma Majmudar, “Gandhi and Rajchandra: The Making of the Mahatma” (Lexington Books, 2020)
58 mins; November 06, 2020
Annapurna Garimella, “The Contemporary Hindu Temple: Fragments for a History” (Marg Foundation, 2019)
44 mins; November 03, 2020
Anway Mukhopadhyay, “The Authority of Female Speech in Indian Goddess Traditions” (Palgrave, 2020)
38 mins; October 26, 2020
Bihani Sarkar, "Heroic Shāktism: The Cult of Durgā in Ancient Indian Kingship" (Oxford UP, 2017)
66 hours 44 mins; October 16, 2020
Sree Padma, "Vicissitudes of the Goddess: Reconstructions of the Gramadevata in India's Religious Traditions" (Oxford UP, 2013)
35 mins; October 15, 2020
Michael Slouber, "A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses: Tales of the Feminine Divine from India and Beyond" (U California Press, 2020)
56 mins; October 13, 2020
Tim Bruce, "Devi Mahatmyam: The Glory of the Goddess" (Raconteurs Audio LLP, 2020)
40 mins; October 12, 2020
Rita D. Sherma, "Contemplative Studies in Hinduism: Meditation, Devotion, Prayer, and Worship" (Routledge, 2020)
58 mins; October 09, 2020
Alan Brill, " Rabbi on the Ganges: A Jewish-Hindu Encounter" (Lexington, 2019)
37 mins; October 02, 2020
Robert M. Geraci, "Temples of Modernity: Nationalism, Hinduism, and Transhumanism in South Indian Science" (Lexington, 2018)
45 mins; September 29, 2020
Neela Bhattacharya Saxena, "Absent Mother God of the West: A Kali Lover's Journey into Christianity and Judaism" (Rowman, 2015)
60 hours 17 mins; September 22, 2020
Malcolm Keating, "Controversial Reasoning in Indian Philosophy: Major Texts and Arguments on Arthâpatti" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
67 hours 13 mins; September 15, 2020
Shankar Nair, "Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia" (U California Press, 2020)
60 hours 5 mins; August 28, 2020
Martin Gansten, "The Jewel of Annual Astrology: A Translation of Balabhadra's Hāyanaratna" (Brill, 2020)
95 hours 42 mins; August 28, 2020
Jeffery D. Long, "Hinduism in America" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
89 hours 28 mins; August 26, 2020
Arti Dhand, "Woman as Fire, Woman as Sage: Sexual Ideology in the Mahabharata" (SUNY Press, 2008)
41 mins; August 24, 2020
A Conversation with Seth Powell about Yogic Studies
89 hours 30 mins; August 04, 2020
A Conversation with Chris Chapple, Part II: Living Landscapes
81 hours 12 mins; July 24, 2020
Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, “Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds” (SUNY Press, 2020)
62 hours 26 mins; July 22, 2020
Johannes Bronkhorst, "A Śabda Reader: Language in Classical Indian Thought" (Columbia UP, 2019)
62 hours 22 mins; July 17, 2020
David L. Haberman, “Loving Stones: Making the Impossible Possible in the Worship of Mount Govardhan” (Oxford UP, 2020)
75 hours 41 mins; July 14, 2020
A Conversation with Chris Chapple, Part I: MA in Yoga Studies
61 hours 59 mins; July 13, 2020
Drew Thomases, "Guest is God: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Making Paradise in India" (Oxford UP, 2019)
58 mins; July 01, 2020
Adheesh Sathaye, “Crossing the Lines of Caste" (Oxford UP, 2015)
53 mins; June 26, 2020
Raj Balkaran, "The Goddess and the Sun in Indian Myth" (Routledge, 2020)
70 hours 39 mins; June 25, 2020
Ehud Halperin, “The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess" (Oxford UP, 2019)
69 hours 30 mins; June 23, 2020
Anya P. Foxen, "Inhaling Spirit: Harmonialism, Orientalism, and the Western Roots of Modern Yoga" (Oxford UP, 2020)
56 mins; June 19, 2020
Ionut Moise, "Salvation in Indian Philosophy: Perfection and Simplicity for Vaiśeṣika" (Routledge, 2019)
48 mins; June 15, 2020
Hamsa Stainton, "Poetry as Prayer in the Sanskrit Hymns of Kashmir" (Oxford UP, 2019)
58 mins; June 11, 2020
Deepra Dandekar, “The Subhedar's Son” (Oxford UP, 2019)
66 hours 42 mins; June 10, 2020
John Stratton Hawley, “Krishna's Playground: Vrindavan in the 21st Century” (Oxford UP, 2020)
53 mins; June 08, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
120 hours 37 mins; June 02, 2020
A. M. Ruppel, "Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
63 hours 51 mins; May 27, 2020
Caleb Simmons, "Devotional Sovereignty: Kingship and Religion in India" (Oxford UP, 2020)
61 hours 30 mins; May 15, 2020
Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette, "Dialogue and Doxography in Indian Philosophy" (Routledge, 2020)
60 hours 24 mins; May 13, 2020
Kevin McGrath, "Vyāsa Redux: Narrative in Epic Mahābhārata" (Anthem Press, 2019)
55 mins; May 11, 2020
Alexander Rocklin, "The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad" (UNC Press, 2019)
56 mins; May 08, 2020
A Conversation with Nicholas Sutton of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies
49 mins; May 06, 2020
Brian Collins, "The Other Rāma: Matricide and Genocide in the Mythology of Paraśurāma" (SUNY Press, 2020)
63 hours 24 mins; May 04, 2020
Peter Adamson, "Classical Indian Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2020)
87 hours 57 mins; April 29, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
59 mins; April 28, 2020
Archana Venkatesan, "Endless Song: Tiruvaymoli" (Penguin, 2010)
63 hours 55 mins; April 27, 2020
Elizabeth A. Cecil, "Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape" (Brill, 2020)
47 mins; April 22, 2020
Suzanne Newcombe, "Yoga in Britain: Stretching Spirituality and Educating Yogis" (Equinox, 2019)
63 hours 43 mins; April 21, 2020
Pankaj Jain, "Dharma in America: A Short History of Hindu-Jain Diaspora" (Routledge, 2019)
74 hours 33 mins; April 15, 2020
Knut A. Jacobsen, "Yoga in Modern Hinduism: Hariharānanda Āraṇya and Sāṃkhyayoga" (Routledge, 2017)
69 hours 13 mins; April 08, 2020
Kate Imy, "Faithful Fighters: Identity and Power in the British Indian Army" (Stanford UP, 2019)
67 hours 54 mins; April 03, 2020
Brian A. Hatcher, "Hinduism Before Reform" (Harvard UP, 2020)
60 hours 55 mins; April 01, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
51 mins; March 30, 2020
Andrew Ollett, "Language of the Snakes" (U California Press, 2017)
63 hours 8 mins; March 19, 2020
Jennifer B. Saunders, "Imagining Religious Communities: Transnational Hindus and their Narrative Performances" (Oxford UP, 2019)
73 hours 24 mins; February 25, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
42 mins; February 25, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
36 mins; January 30, 2020
Simon Brodbeck, "Krishna's Lineage: The Harivamsha of Vyasa's Mahabharata" (Oxford UP, 2019)
47 mins; December 26, 2019
Christopher Austin, "Pradyumna: Lover, Magician, and Scion of the Avatara" (Oxford UP, 2019)
56 mins; December 12, 2019
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
57 mins; December 03, 2019
Angela Rudert, "Shakti's New Voice: Guru Devotion in a Women-Led Spiritual Movement" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
81 hours 12 mins; November 20, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
37 mins; November 03, 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
32 mins; October 24, 2019
Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee, "Philology and Criticism: A Guide to Mahābhārata Textual Criticism" (Anthem Press, 2018)
67 hours 59 mins; October 21, 2019
Mark McClish, "The History of the Arthaśāstra: Sovereignty and Sacred Law in Ancient India" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
43 mins; October 09, 2019
Alexander Rocklin, "The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad" (UNC Press, 2019)
45 mins; September 23, 2019
Arik Moran, "Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland" (Amsterdam UP, 2019)
54 mins; August 28, 2019
William Elison, "The Neighborhood of Gods: The Sacred and the Visible at the Margins of Mumbai" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
67 hours 2 mins; August 21, 2019
Ithamar Theodor, "Exploring the Bhagavad Gītā: Philosophy, Structure and Meaning" (Routledge, 2016)
55 mins; August 12, 2019
Harshita M. Kamath, "The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance" (U California Press, 2019)
50 mins; August 08, 2019
Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, "Reciting the Goddess: Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal" (Oxford UP, 2018)
61 hours 0 mins; August 06, 2019
John Stratton Hawley, "Bhakti and Power: Debating India's Religion of the Heart" (U Washington Press, 2019)
50 mins; July 30, 2019
Marko Geslani, "Rites of the God-King: Śānti and Ritual Change in Early Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2018)
59 mins; July 16, 2019
Patton E. Burchett, "A Genealogy of Devotion: Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in North India" (Columbia UP, 2019)
61 hours 58 mins; June 14, 2019
Deonnie Moodie, "The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City: Kālīghāṭ and Kolkata" (Oxford UP, 2018)
60 hours 11 mins; May 13, 2019
Anway Mukhopadhyay, "The Goddess in Hindu-Tantric Traditions: Devī as Corpse" (Routledge, 2018)
78 hours 2 mins; May 08, 2019
A. M. Ruppell, "The Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
77 hours 43 mins; May 01, 2019
Raj Balkaran, "The Goddess and The King in Indian Myth" (Routledge, 2018)
45 mins; April 26, 2019
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, "In Dialogue with Classical Indian Traditions: Encounter, Transformation and Interpretation" (Routledge, 2019)
53 mins; April 23, 2019
David V. Mason, "The Performative Ground of Religion and Theatre" (Routledge, 2018)
54 mins; April 17, 2019
Brad Stoddard and Craig Martin, “Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés” (Bloomsbury, 2017)
45 mins; April 03, 2019
Borayin Larios, "Embodying the Vedas: Traditional Vedic Schools of Contemporary Maharashtra" (De Gruyter, 2017)
66 hours 57 mins; March 22, 2019
Nathan McGovern, "The Snake and The Mongoose: The Emergence of Identity in Early Indian Religion" (Oxford UP, 2018)
54 mins; March 19, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
32 mins; March 19, 2019
Prakash Shah, "Western Foundations of the Caste System" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
60 hours 55 mins; March 13, 2019
Gil Ben-Herut, "Śiva’s Saints: The Origins of Devotion in Kannada according to Harihara’s Ragaḷegaḷu (Oxford UP, 2018)
71 hours 24 mins; February 18, 2019
Caleb Simmons, "Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navaratri Festival in South Asia" (SUNY Press, 2018)
42 mins; February 13, 2019
B.R. Ambedkar, "Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition" (Verso, 2016)
67 hours 37 mins; February 05, 2019
Mani Rao, "Living Mantra: Mantra, Deity, and Visionary Experience Today" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
64 hours 6 mins; February 01, 2019
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
64 hours 1 min; December 06, 2018
Sumantra Bose, "Secular States, Religious Politics, India, Turkey and the Future of Secularism" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
58 mins; November 28, 2018
Danna Agmon, "A Colonial Affair: Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India" (Cornell UP, 2017)
54 mins; November 28, 2018
Philip Lutgendorf, “The Epic of Ram” (Harvard University Press, 2016-)
64 hours 27 mins; November 02, 2018
Anand Taneja, “Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi”
55 mins; October 31, 2018
Shyam Ranganathan, “Hinduism: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation” (Routledge, 2018)
52 mins; August 20, 2018
Keya Maitra, “Philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita: A Contemporary Introduction” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
63 hours 53 mins; August 15, 2018
Sucharita Adluri, “Textual Authority in Classical Indian Thought: Ramanuja and the Vishnu Purana” (Routledge, 2014)
37 mins; August 02, 2018
Lavanya Vemsani, “Modern Hinduism in Text and Context” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
37 mins; July 02, 2018
Elaine Fisher, “Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South Asia” (U California Press, 2017)
36 mins; May 21, 2018
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