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Ka by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'To read Ka is to experience a giddy invasion of stories - brilliant, enigmatic, troubling, outrageous, erotic, beautiful' The New York Times'Who?' - or 'ka' - is the question that runs through... -
Self and Self-Transformations in the History of Religions by David Shulman 9780195148169
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £52.20This book brings together scholars of a variety of the world's major civilizations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation. The idea of the "self" is a cultural formation like any... -
Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling by Carole Satyamurti 9780393352498
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.15The Mahabharata, originally composed some two thousand years ago is an epic masterpiece, "a hundred times more interesting" than the Iliad and the Odyssey (Wendy Doniger), it is a timeless work that... -
Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling by Carole Satyamurti 9780393081756
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.40The Mahabharata, originally composed some two thousand years ago is an epic masterpiece, "a hundred times more interesting" than the Iliad and the Odyssey (Wendy Doniger), it is a timeless work that... -
The Jealous Potter by Claude Levi-Strauss 9780226474809
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30As Levi-Strauss freely explores the mythologies of the Americas, with occasional incursions into European and Japanese folklore, tales of sloths and squirrels interweave with discussions of Freud,... -
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.38The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperbackShamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern... -
Genocide, War, and Human Survival by Charles B. Strozier 9780847682270
Booksplease Price: £51.70From the tragic workings of the Holocaust and Hiroshima to contemporary examples of genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda, this provocative collection of original essays examines the enduring impact of... -
The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860 by Burton Feldman
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78" . . . peerless . . . " -The Key Reporter" . . . this book is a first. It will be a standard . . . Comprehensiveness as well as the clarity of the headnotes should make it endure." -Choice" . . . so... -
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Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in Its South Asian Contexts by David Gordon White 9780226894843
Booksplease Price: £33.24With "Kiss of the Yogini", David Gordon White sweeps away centuries of misunderstandings and misrepresentations, returning to original texts, images, and ritual practices to reconstruct the history... -
Gestures: The Study of Religion as Practice by Martin M. van Bruinessen 9780823299621
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £28.65This concluding volume of the Future of the Religious Past series approaches contemporary religion through the lens of practice: the rituals, performances, devotions, and everyday acts through... -
Gestures: The Study of Religion as Practice by Martin M. van Bruinessen 9780823299614
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90This concluding volume of the Future of the Religious Past series approaches contemporary religion through the lens of practice: the rituals, performances, devotions, and everyday acts through... -
The Oresteia by Aeschylus 9780226007724
Booksplease Price: £21.99Highly acclaimed as translators of Greek and Sanskrit classics, respectively, David Grene and Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty here present a complete modern translation of the three plays comprising... -
Grow Long, Blessed Night: Love Poems from Classical India by Martha Ann Selby 9780195127348
RRP: £22.49Booksplease Price: £16.22This book presents new English translations of 150 erotic poems composed in India's three classical languages: Old Tamil, Maharastri Prakit, and Sanskrit. The poems are derived from large... -
Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions: The Contested Legacies of Joachim Wach and Mircea Eliade by Christian K. Wedemeyer 9780195394344
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £33.98This volume comprises papers presented at a conference marking the 50th anniversary of Joachim Wach's death, and the centennial of Mircea Eliade's birth. Its purpose is to reconsider both the... -
Off with Her Head!: The Denial of Women's Identity in Myth, Religion, and Culture by Howard Eilberg-Schwartz 9780520088405
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.26Whereas many books look at how women's bodies are represented in different religions and cultures around the world, this work explores the site of a woman's voice and identity, her head. The female... -
The Ramayana of Valmiki: The Complete English Translation by Robert P. Goldman
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.05The definitive English translation of the classic Sanskrit epic poem-now available in a one-volume paperbackThe Ramayana of Valmiki, the monumental Sanskrit epic of the life of Rama, ideal man and... -
Cultural Approaches to Studying Religion: An Introduction to Theories and Methods by M. Cooper Minister 9781350303102
Booksplease Price: £28.09Examining the analytic tools of scholars in religious studies, as well as in related disciplines that have shaped the field, this updated textbook includes cultural approaches from anthropology,... -
Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions: The Contested Legacies of Joachim Wach and Mircea Eliade by Christian K. Wedemeyer 9780195394337
Booksplease Price: £52.12This volume comprises papers presented at a conference marking the 50th anniversary of Joachim Wach's death, and the centennial of Mircea Eliade's birth. Its purpose is to reconsider both the... -
Cultural Approaches to Studying Religion: An Introduction to Theories and Methods by M. Cooper Minister 9781350303089
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £71.86Examining the analytic tools of scholars in religious studies, as well as in related disciplines that have shaped the field, this updated textbook includes cultural approaches from anthropology,... -
A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics by Paul Waldau 9780231136433
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.99A Communion of Subjects is the first comparative and interdisciplinary study of the conceptualization of animals in world religions. Scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including Thomas Berry... -
Persephones Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion by R. Gordon Wasson 9780300052664
Booksplease Price: £29.91This fascinating book discusses the role played by psychoactive mushrooms in the religious rituals of ancient Greece, Eurasia, and Mesoamerica. R. Gordon Wasson, an internationally known... -
Our Vampires, Ourselves by Nina Auerbach 9780226032023
Booksplease Price: £27.62Nina Auerbach shows how every age embraces the vampire it needs, and gets the vampire it deserves. Working with a wide range of texts, as well as movies and television, Auerbach locates vampires at... -
Language and Style of the Vedic Ṛṣis by Tatyana J. Elizarenkova 9780791416679
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.97Elizarenkova, perhaps the greatest living scholar of the Rand certainly its greatest linguist, explains here the relationships between a very complicated grammatical system and the peculiarities of... -
Love's Subtle Magic: An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, 1379-1545 by Aditya Behl 9780190628802
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £34.77The encounter between Muslim and Hindu remains one of the defining issues of South Asian society today. It began as early as the 8th century, and the first Muslim kingdom in India, the Sultanate of... -
Masked Ritual and Performance in South India by David Dean Shulman 9780891480884
Booksplease Price: £66.76Throughout South India, masks are related to the presence of divine beings and, as such, induce transformation in the awareness of both performers and audience. Masked performance may also be... -
The Living Goddess: A Journey into the Heart of Kathmandu by Isabella Tree 9781780600468
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.88In a small medieval palace on Kathmandu's Durbar Square lives Nepal's famous Living Goddess - a child as young as three who is chosen from a caste of Buddhist goldsmiths to watch over the country and... -
Kamasutra by Vatsyayana Mallanaga 9780199539161
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37'When the wheel of sexual ecstasy is in full motion, there is no textbook at all, and no order.' The Kamasutra is the oldest extant Hindu textbook of erotic love. It is about the art of living -... -
Retheorizing Religion in Nepal by Gregory Price Grieve 9781403974341
Booksplease Price: £46.74Retheorizing Religion in Nepal is an engaging and thought-provoking study of Religion in South Asia, with important insights for the study of religion and culture more broadly conceived. Grieve uses... -
Sources of Indian Tradition: Modern India and Pakistan by S.C.Munro- Hay
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.55Since 1958 one of the most important and widely used texts on civilization in South Asia (now the nation-states of India, Pakstan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal), this classic is now extensively... -
Science in Culture by Stephen R. Graubard 9781138532298
RRP: £96.99Booksplease Price: £84.74Twenty-five years ago, Gerald Holton's Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought introduced a wide audience to his ideas. Holton argued that from ancient times to the modern period, an astonishing... -
Needle at the Bottom of the Sea: Bengali Tales from the Land of the Eighteen Tides by Tony K. Stewart 9780520388932
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £18.56"Brave and vivid."-New York Review of BooksThese enchanting stories from early modern Bengal reveal how Hindu and Muslim traditions converged on timeless themes of human morality, social culture, and... -
Love's Subtle Magic: An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, 1379-1545 by Aditya Behl 9780195146707
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £78.70The encounter between Muslim and Hindu remains one of the defining issues of South Asian society today. This encounter began as early as the 8th century, and the first Muslim kingdom in India would... -
Stranger's Religion: Fascination and Fear by Anna Lannstrom
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68This timely book brings together distinguished scholars who reflect on the fascination and fear that humans inevitably experience when confronted with diverse religious beliefs and practices... -
The Allure of Decadent Thinking: Religious Studies and the Challenge of Postmodernism by Carl Olson 9780199959839
Booksplease Price: £49.60Carl Olson offers a compelling and provocative argument against the application of postmodern thought to Religious Studies, showing how such radically skeptical thinking undermines, subverts, and... -
Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice by Mark Singleton 9780195395341
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.24Yoga is so prevalent in the modern world-practiced by pop stars, taught in schools, and offered in yoga centers, health clubs, and even shopping malls--that we take its presence, and its meaning, for... -
If I Should Die by Leroy S. Rouner 9780268031619
Booksplease Price: £26.35What does "death" really mean? Is there life after death? Is that idea even intelligible? Despite our constant confrontation with death there has been little serious philosophical reflection on the... -
Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice by Mark Singleton 9780195395358
RRP: £145.00Booksplease Price: £107.92Yoga is so prevalent in the modern world--practiced by pop stars, taught in schools, and offered in yoga centers, health clubs, and even shopping malls--that we take its presence, and its meaning,... -
Srinatha: The Poet who Made Gods and Kings by Velcheru Narayana Rao 9780199863020
Booksplease Price: £117.42David Shulman and Velcheru Narayana Rao offer a groundbreaking cultural biography of Srinatha, arguably the most creative figure in the thousand-year history of Telugu literature. This fourteenth-... -
Srinatha: The Poet who Made Gods and Kings by Velcheru Narayana Rao 9780199863044
RRP: £44.49Booksplease Price: £30.04David Shulman and Velcheru Narayana Rao offer a groundbreaking cultural biography of Srinatha, arguably the most creative figure in the thousand-year history of Telugu literature. This fourteenth-... -
Gender and Narrative in the Mahabharata Simon Brodbeck 9780415544719
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94The Sanskrit Mahabharata is one of the most important texts to emerge from the Indian cultural tradition. At almost 75,000 verses it is the longest poem in the world, and throughout Indian history it...