Hinduism

Mirabai, an iconic sixteenth-century Indian poet-saint, is renowned for her unwavering love of God, her disregard for social hierarchies and gender...

Boundaries, Dynamics and Construction of Traditions in South Asia explores the dynamic constructions and applications of the concept of tradition t...

The Anthropologist and the Native is a collection of twenty essays by internationally known scholars of different persuasions, honouring the ...

This book examines the life of a nineteenth- to early twentieth-century Tamil yogin named Sri Sabhapati Swami (r Sabhpati Svm or Cappati Cuvmika, c...

This is a sequel to a volume published in 2011 by OUP under the title The Ubiquitous iva: Somnanda's ivadi and his Tantric Interlocutors. The first...

Advaita Vedanta is one of the best-known schools of Indian philosophy, but much of its history--a history closely interwoven with that of medieval ...

Winner, 2024 Book Award, Dharma Academy of North AmericaThe Bhagavad Gt is one of the treasures of world culture. Sacred in India, and beloved to h...

During British colonial rule in India, the treatment of high-caste Hindu widows became the subject of great controversy. Such women were not permit...

The oldest extant Marathi work, a medieval chronicle of Chakradhars divine life on earth, in a new English translation.God at Play, or Lcaritra, is...

This comprehensive new presentation of the religion of the Rigveda is the result of a thorough-going endeavour to extrapolate historical circumstan...

Sri Ramana Maharshi is widely thought of as one of the most outstanding Indian spiritual leaders of recent times. Having attained enlightenment at ...

A kta Method for Comparative Theology: Upside-Down, Inside-Out offers the worlds first kta thealogy of religions and a kta anti-method, method, and...