Hinduism

Formerly known as ‘Why Exhibit Works of Art?’, this book is a study of Christian and Eastern arts. The book is a collection of articles written by ...

The volume collects a series of contributions that help reconstruct the recent history of the Nath tradition, highlighting important moments of sel...

South Asia is home to more than a billion Hindus and half a billion Muslims. But the region is also home to substantial Christian communities, some...

Read the story of two worlds that converge: one of Hindu immigrants to America who want to preserve their traditions and pass them on to their chil...

A new English translation of the most influential legal text in medieval India.A Treatise on Dharma, written in the fourth or fifth century, is the...

A comprehensive manual for living a spiritual life, based on a verse-by-verse commentary on India’s timeless scripture – from the author of its bes...

The Caribbean is a microcosm of the world's religions. In this very small geographic space one encounters global religions as well as indigenous re...

There are many holy cities in India, but Mumbai is not usually considered one of them. More popular images of the city capture the world’s collecti...

‘This will play a crucial role in preserving the true spirit of yoga for future generations.’ – Vex King Learn how to incorporate traditional yoga ...

Interfaith Dialogue and Mystical Consciousness in India is a research inquiry in interfaith studies that uses hermeneutical phenomenology to addres...

This volume is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Jain praxis. It covers a breadth of scholarly vi...

The most misrepresented of all Hindu traditions, Tantra is a complex interweaving of teachings and practices that pervades Vaiṣnava, Śaiva, Śākta, ...

This book opens up a dialogue between pre-modern women identified as mystics in diverse locations from South Asia to Europe. It considers how women...

For too long, scholars interested in panentheism have focused almost exclusively on Western approaches to the issue. This book offers the first in-...

The way people encounter ideas of Hinduism online is often shaped by global discourses of religion, pervasive Orientalism and (post)colonial schola...

'Defining Hinduism' focuses on what Hinduism is, what it has been, and what some have argued it should be. The oldest of the world religions, Hindu...

In analyzing the parallels between myths glorifying the Indian Great Goddess, Durgā, and those glorifying the Sun, Sūrya, found in the Mārkaṇḍeya P...

Sri Aurobindo was an Indian nationalist, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet. This book is an enquiry into the integral philosophy of Aurobindo and i...

The aim of this book is to discover in what light the religious and literary tradition of India appears where caste is concerned; including discuss...

Modern Hindu Traditionalism addresses Hindu traditions that resisted contact with both Neo-Hindu thought and views of “classical” Hinduism perceive...

The way people encounter ideas of Hinduism online is often shaped by global discourses of religion, pervasive Orientalism and (post)colonial schola...

The Dancing God: Staging Hindu Dance in Australia charts the sensational and historic journey of de-provincialising and popularising Hindu dance in...

The Sanskrit narrative text Devī Māhātmya, “The Greatness of The Goddess,” extols the triumphs of an all-powerful Goddess, Durgā, over universe-imp...

Originally published in 1911, this edition published in 1920, this text comprises of an excerpt from Carpenter’s Adam’s Peak to Elephanta, original...

First published in 1914, volume one of this study, published under the patronage of the government of His Highness the Maharaja of Travancore, soug...