This book asks us to consider what is absent, rather than what is present, when studying religions. Priya Swamy argues that absent religious spaces are in themselves abstract locations that painfully memorialize feelings of shame, oppression and m...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855804065)
Explores how these two currents are shaping the contours of contemporary Hindu worship, myth, and visual and material culture in contemporary South Asia and its diasporas. This volume focuses on two alternately converging and diverging cu...Loe edasi...
In the stillness of the cosmos exists a force both boundless and paradoxical Shiva. More than a god, he is the formless essence that both creates and consumes the universe. His realms transcend time, his actions defy logic, yet within them lies a c...Loe edasi...
Hindu Customs and their Origins (1937) primarily examines the topic of caste in India, looking at the ancient ideas of the origins of caste and testing modern theories through a critical examination. It also looks at the veneration for the...Loe edasi...
First published in 1948, Hinduism presents an introductory outline of the story of Hinduism from the earliest times, and paves the way for further and more detailed study, as well as interests the general reader. It intends to exhibit Hinduism as...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Dec-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198952398)
This book explores Tamil Buddhism in modern India, focusing on its emergence as a response to caste-based oppression during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Central to this movement was Pandit Iyothee Thass (1845–1914), a pioneering...Loe edasi...
Karma is in our vocabulary, but we dont know what it means. The word is everywhere-not just in alternative spirituality, and among Hindus and Buddhists, but in news reports, ads, sitcoms, sports columns, and the everyday conversations of people w...Loe edasi...
Separate the true teachers from the self-seeking gurus. Are you interested in Advaita and want to become enlightened? How should you go about it? What will happen if you do? How can you know what works and what doesn’t? In particular, how sho...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855804058)
Explores how these two currents are shaping the contours of contemporary Hindu worship, myth, and visual and material culture in contemporary South Asia and its diasporas.This volume focuses on two alternately converging and divergin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, Other book format, Kirjastus: Monkfish Book Publishing Company, ISBN-13: 9781966608004)
Karma is in our vocabulary, but we dont know what it means. The word is everywhere-not just in alternative spirituality, and among Hindus and Buddhists, but in news reports, ads, sitcoms, sports columns, and the everyday conversations of people w...Loe edasi...
