New Books in Indian Religions

New Books in Indian Religions


Latest Episodes

Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, “Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds” (SUNY Press, 2020)
July 22, 2020

This ethnographic journey across three Indian locales examines the agency of various materials – from ornaments, to female guising, to cement images....

Johannes Bronkhorst, "A Śabda Reader: Language in Classical Indian Thought" (Columbia UP, 2019)
July 17, 2020

Bronkhorst makes the case through an extensive introduction and select translations of important Indian texts that language has a crucial role in Indian thought...

David L. Haberman, “Loving Stones: Making the Impossible Possible in the Worship of Mount Govardhan” (Oxford UP, 2020)
July 14, 2020

Haberman explores the worship world of Mount Govardhan; located in the Braj region of India, the mountain is considered an embodied form of the Hindu deity Krishna...

A Conversation with Chris Chapple, Part I: MA in Yoga Studies
July 13, 2020

In this interview, we have a candid conversation with Dr. Christopher Key Chapple of Loyola Marymount University...

Drew Thomases, "Guest is God: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Making Paradise in India" (Oxford UP, 2019)
July 01, 2020

Drew Thomases investigates the Indian pilgrimage town of Pushkar...

Adheesh Sathaye, “Crossing the Lines of Caste" (Oxford UP, 2015)
June 26, 2020

What does it mean to be a Brahmin, and what could it mean to become one?

Raj Balkaran, "The Goddess and the Sun in Indian Myth" (Routledge, 2020)
June 25, 2020

Why are the myths of the Indian Great Goddess, Durgā, found in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa framed by myths glorifying the Sun, Sūrya?

Ehud Halperin, “The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess" (Oxford UP, 2019)
June 23, 2020

Halperin employs an interdisciplinary approach to tell the story of Hadimba from the ground up...

Anya P. Foxen, "Inhaling Spirit: Harmonialism, Orientalism, and the Western Roots of Modern Yoga" (Oxford UP, 2020)
June 19, 2020

Foxen traces several disparate yet entangled roots of modern yoga practice to show that much of what we call yoga...

Ionut Moise, "Salvation in Indian Philosophy: Perfection and Simplicity for Vaiśeṣika" (Routledge, 2019)
June 15, 2020

Moise offers a comprehensive description of the ‘doctrine of salvation’ (niḥśreyasa/ mokṣa) and Vaiśeṣika...