New Books in Indian Religions

New Books in Indian Religions


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Karen Pechilis and Selva J. Raj, "South Asian Religions: Tradition and Today"
March 06, 2014

View on Amazon[Cross-posted from New Books in South Asian Studies] If you're going to teach a broadly themed survey course, you'll probably need to assign some readings. One option is to assemble one of those photocopied course readers, full of exc[...]

Karen Pechilis, “South Asian Religions: Tradition and Today” (Routledge, 2012)
March 06, 2014

If you’re going to teach a broadly themed survey course, you’ll probably need to assign some readings. One option is to assemble one of those photocopied course readers, full of excerpts taken from different sources. However, what you gain in…

Parna Sengupta, “Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal” (University of California Press, 2011)
January 24, 2012

What is the relationship between religion, secularization, and education? Parna Sengupta, Associate Director of Introductory Studies at Stanford University, explores their connections as she reexamines the categories religion, empire, and modernity.

Nile Green, “Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
July 15, 2011

Bombay (Mumbai), India, is a city that has never lacked chroniclers from Rudyard Kipling to Salman Rushdie to Suketu Mehta, bards of pluralism have written about Bombay’s divers religions and peoples and the interactions between them.

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