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Since the beginning of modern Indology in the 19th century, the relationship between the early Indian religions of Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism has been predicated on a perceived dichotomy between two meta-historical identities: "the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780911564242Author Joan ShackFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Vedanta Centre PublishersPublisher Vedanta Centre PublishersWeight(grams) 658g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986252686Author Dharma Pravartaka AcharyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint International Sanatana Dharma SocietyPublisher International Sanatana...

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Kabir was a great iconoclastic-mystic poet of fifteenth-century North India; his poems were composed orally, written down by others in manuscripts and books, and transmitted through song. Scholars and translators usually attend to written collections,...

In 1839 a diverse group of Hindu leaders began gathering in Calcutta to share and propagate their faith in a non-idolatrous form of worship. The group, known as the Tattvabodhini Sabha, met weekly to worship and hear discourses from members on the...

The sharp contrast between cultures with a monotheistic paternal deity and those with pluralistic maternal deities is a theme of abiding interest in religious studies. Attempts to understand the implications of these two vast organizing principles for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839384448Author A J KingstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Pastor Publishing LtdPublisher Pastor Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 395g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438495620Author Steven E. LindquistFormat HardbackPage Count 348Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645978124Author Sebastian BergFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Creek Ridge PublishingPublisher Creek Ridge PublishingWeight(grams) 268g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684669370Author Prof V KrishnamurthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint Notion PressPublisher Notion PressWeight(grams) 603g

Mahatma Gandhi, one of the greatest influencers in the world, was himself influenced by trailblazing thinkers and writers like Tolstoy, Ruskin, Thoreau, and others-each one contributing significantly to his moral and spiritual development. Yet only a few...

Hinduism is the world's third largest and most ancient religion. The scope of this book ranges from the ancient history of Hinduism to the contemporary issues that Hindus face today. It explores the Hindu history, society, philosophy, theology, and...

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With historical-critical analysis and dialogical even-handedness, the essays of this book re-assess the life and legacy of Swami Vivekananda, forged at a time of colonial suppression, from the vantage point of socially-engaged religion at a time of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983447269Author Cathleen a CummingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 706Imprint South Asian Studies AssociationPublisher South Asian Studies...

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The Vaikhanasas are mentioned in many Vedic texts, and they maintain a close affiliation with the Taittiriya school of the Krsna Yajur Veda. Yet they are Vaisnavas, monotheistic worshipers of Visnu. Generally, Vaisnavism is held to be a post-Vedic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887620992Author Sushant BhartiFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Mandala Publishing GroupPublisher Mandala Publishing Group

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative...

Hindu Christian Faqir compares two colonial Indian saints from Punjab, the neo-Vedantin Hindu Rama Tirtha (1873-1906) and the Christian convert Sundar Singh (1889-1929). Timothy S. Dobe shows that varied asceticisms, personal exemplary models, and...

What is Hinduism? Historians, teachers, scholars, and gurus have disagreed for centuries-and continue to disagree. One reason is because Hinduism-the world's oldest continuously extant major religion-is not a single faith with a static set of beliefs and...

Devotion is a category of expression in many of the world's religious traditions. This book looks at issues involved in academically interpreting religious devotion, as well as exploring the interpretations of religious devotion made by a sixth century...

Kalighat is said to be the oldest and most potent Hindu pilgrimage site in the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). It is home to the dark goddess Kali in her ferocious form and attracts thousands of worshipers a day, many sacrificing goats at her feet...

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In Hindutva as Political Monotheism, Anustup Basu offers a genealogical study of Hindutva—Hindu right-wing nationalism—to illustrate the significance of Western anthropology and political theory to the idea of India as a Hindu nation. Connecting Nazi...

This is an annotated translation of an award-winning 1895 Marathi novel entitled The Subhedar's Son by the Rev. Dinkar Shankar Sawarkar. The novel provides a blueprint of what a Brahminical journey towards Christian conversion encompassed. The novel's...

Hinduism is the world's third largest religion and still growing. It is the oldest major religion with a tradition reaching back millennia and having many notable peaks and periods of glory. It has influenced and been affected by other world religions,...

What role do pre-modern religious traditions play in the formation of modern secular identities? In Unforgetting Chaitanya, Varuni Bhatia examines late-nineteenth-century transformations of Vaishnavism-a vibrant and multifaceted religious tradition...