New Books in Indian Religions

New Books in Indian Religions


Latest Episodes

Alan Brill, " Rabbi on the Ganges: A Jewish-Hindu Encounter" (Lexington, 2019)
October 02, 2020

How do Judaism and Hinduism compare as religions?

Robert M. Geraci, "Temples of Modernity: Nationalism, Hinduism, and Transhumanism in South Indian Science" (Lexington, 2018)
September 29, 2020

What is the relationship between science, religion and technology in Hinduism?

Neela Bhattacharya Saxena, "Absent Mother God of the West: A Kali Lover's Journey into Christianity and Judaism" (Rowman, 2015)
September 22, 2020

Saxena draws on her personal religious experiences and devotion to the Goddess Kali as a starting point to reflect on the absence of a Divine Feminine in Christianity and Judaism...

Malcolm Keating, "Controversial Reasoning in Indian Philosophy: Major Texts and Arguments on Arthâpatti" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
September 15, 2020

Keating offers a ground-breaking reference resource for understanding arthāpati, and debates in Indian philosophy at large....

Shankar Nair, "Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia" (U California Press, 2020)
August 28, 2020

Nair offers intellectually daring and dazzlingly imaginative study of scholarly interactions, made visible through translation, between Sanskrit and Arabo-Persian philosophical traditions in premodern South Asia...

Martin Gansten, "The Jewel of Annual Astrology: A Translation of Balabhadra's Hāyanaratna" (Brill, 2020)
August 28, 2020

Gansten offers the first-ever scholarly volume on Sanskritized Perso-Arabic (Tājika) astrology...

Jeffery D. Long, "Hinduism in America" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
August 26, 2020

Long explores the influence of concepts such karma, rebirth, meditation and yoga on the American consciousness, along with Hindu temples in America...

Arti Dhand, "Woman as Fire, Woman as Sage: Sexual Ideology in the Mahabharata" (SUNY Press, 2008)
August 24, 2020

The Hindu tradition has held conflicting views on womanhood from its earliest texts—holding women aloft as goddesses to be worshipped on the one hand and remaining deeply suspicious about women’s sexuality on the other...

A Conversation with Seth Powell about Yogic Studies
August 04, 2020

What is "Yogic Studies"?

A Conversation with Chris Chapple, Part II: Living Landscapes
July 24, 2020

The ancient Indian philosophers conceptualized the universe as comprising 5 elements (Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space), corresponding to the five human senses...