New Books in Indian Religions
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John Stratton Hawley, "Bhakti and Power: Debating India's Religion of the Heart" (U Washington Press, 2019)
What is the relationship between religion and power?
Marko Geslani, "Rites of the God-King: Śānti and Ritual Change in Early Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Is “Vedic” fire sacrifice at odds with “Hindu” image worship?
Patton E. Burchett, "A Genealogy of Devotion: Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in North India" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Burchett re-examines what we assume about the rise of devotionalism in North India, tracing its flowering since India’s early medieval “Tantric Age” to present day...
Deonnie Moodie, "The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City: Kālīghāṭ and Kolkata" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Moodie examines the history of the Kalighat temple of Kolkata...
Anway Mukhopadhyay, "The Goddess in Hindu-Tantric Traditions: Devī as Corpse" (Routledge, 2018)
Why is the Indian Goddess sometimes figured as a corpse in Tantric Traditions?
A. M. Ruppell, "The Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Why would anyone want to study Sanskrit, an ancient complex tongue? What’s the best way to go about doing so?
Raj Balkaran, "The Goddess and The King in Indian Myth" (Routledge, 2018)
Why are myths of the Indian Great Goddess couched in a conversation between a deposed king and forest-dwelling ascetic?
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, "In Dialogue with Classical Indian Traditions: Encounter, Transformation and Interpretation" (Routledge, 2019)
Why does the narrative motif of ‘dialogue’ pervade Hindu texts?
David V. Mason, "The Performative Ground of Religion and Theatre" (Routledge, 2018)
To what extent may we say that religion is a theatrical phenomenon, and that theatre is a religious experience?
Brad Stoddard and Craig Martin, “Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés” (Bloomsbury, 2017)
Our culture is full of popular stereotypes about religion, both positive and negative...
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