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Srinatha: The Poet who Made Gods and Kings by Velcheru Narayana Rao 9780199863044
Booksplease Price: £47.93David 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-... -
Studying Religion: An Introduction by Russell T. McCutcheon 9780815353638
Booksplease Price: £37.95Widely used as a primer, a class text, or just a provocation to critical thinking, Studying Religion clearly explains the methods and theories employed in the academic study of religion by tackling... -
Valmiki's Uttara Kanda: The Book of Answers by Arshia Sattar 9781538104194
Booksplease Price: £76.11The last and most intriguing book of the Ramayana, the Uttara Kanda is rendered here by noted Sanskrit scholar Arshia Sattar in vivid, sensuous detail. First composed around 500 BCE, it tells the... -
The Faces of the Goddess by Lotte Motz 9780195089677
Booksplease Price: £39.86Many contemporary feminists believe that early humans worshipped a nurturing Mother Goddess, who was subsequently displaced by autocratic male deities. In this book Motz examines the maternal deities... -
Valmiki's Uttara Kanda: The Book of Answers by Arshia Sattar 9781538104200
Booksplease Price: £33.49The last and most intriguing book of the Ramayana, the Uttara Kanda is rendered here by noted Sanskrit scholar Arshia Sattar in vivid, sensuous detail. First composed around 500 BCE, it tells the... -
Let in the Light: Learning to Read St. Augustine's Confessions by James Boyd White
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21St. Augustine's Confessions is heralded as a classic of Western culture. Yet when James Boyd White first tried to read it in translation, it seemed utterly dull. Its ideas struck him as platitudinous... -
A Narrative Compass: Stories that Guide Women's Lives by Betsy Hearne
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Each of us has a narrative compass, a story that has guided our lifework. In this extraordinary collection, women scholars from a variety of disciplines identify and examine the stories that have... -
Dialogue in Early South Asian Religions: Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Traditions Brian Black 9781409440130
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Dialogue between characters is an important feature of South Asian religious literature: entire narratives are often presented as a dialogue between two or more individuals, or the narrative or... -
Let in the Light: Learning to Read St. Augustine's Confessions by James Boyd White 9780231205009
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46St. Augustine's Confessions is heralded as a classic of Western culture. Yet when James Boyd White first tried to read it in translation, it seemed utterly dull. Its ideas struck him as platitudinous... -
Freud's India: Sigmund Freud and India's First Psychoanalyst Girindrasekhar Bose by Alf Hiltebeitel 9780190878375
Booksplease Price: £79.10The 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... -
Irreverence and the Sacred: Critical Studies in the History of Religions by Hugh Urban
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £91.19Irreverence and the Sacred brings together some of the most cutting edge, interdisciplinary, and international scholars working today in order to debate key issues in the critical and comparative... -
Yasodhara and the Buddha by Vanessa R. Sasson
Booksplease Price: £21.90By combining the spirit of fiction with the fabulism of Indian mythology and in-depth academic research, Vanessa R. Sasson shares the evocative story of the Buddha from the perspective of a forgotten... -
Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography by Stephen Knight
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £14.91The only figure in the Dictionary of National Biography who is said never to have existed, Robin Hood has taken on an air of reality few historical figures achieve. His image in various guises has... -
Valmiki's Ramayana by Arshia Sattar 9781538113677
Booksplease Price: £114.40One of India's greatest epics, the Ramayana pervades the country's moral and cultural consciousness. For generations it has served as a bedtime story for Indian children, while at the same time... -
The Lady of the Jewel Necklace & The Lady who Shows her Love by Harsha 9780814719961
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24King Harsha, who reigned over the kingdom of Kanauj from 606 to 647 CE, composed two Sanskrit plays about the mythical figures of King Udayana, his queen, Vasava*datta, and two of his co-wives. The... -
Yasodhara and the Buddha by Vanessa R. Sasson 9781350163157
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £64.23By combining the spirit of fiction with the fabulism of Indian mythology and in-depth academic research, Vanessa R. Sasson shares the evocative story of the Buddha from the perspective of a forgotten... -
Reflections on Religion, the Divine, and the Constitution by George Anastaplo 9781498521086
Booksplease Price: £51.20In Part One, the uses of divine revelation in the Western world are reviewed by recalling authors that include Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Plato, Maimonides, Cervantes, Hobbes, and Milton... -
A Dharma Reader: Classical Indian Law by Patrick Olivelle
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £72.60Whether defined by family, lineage, caste, professional or religious association, village, or region, India's diverse groups did settle on a concept of law in classical times. How did they reach this... -
Daemons Are Forever: Contacts and Exchanges in the Eurasian Pandemonium by David Gordon White 9780226714905
Booksplease Price: £31.37A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven studies spanning some six thousand years of history, Daemons Are Forever is at once a record of archaic contacts and transactions between humans and... -
Dreaming in the World's Religions: A Comparative History by Kelly Bulkeley 9780814799567
Booksplease Price: £90.57From Biblical stories of Joseph interpreting Pharoh's dreams in Egypt to prayers against bad dreams in the Hindu Rg Veda, cultures all over the world have seen their dreams first and foremost as... -
Understanding Indian Movies: Culture, Cognition, and Cinematic Imagination by Patrick Colm Hogan 9780292721678
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Indian movies are among the most popular in the world. However, despite increased availability and study, these films remain misunderstood and underappreciated in much of the English-speaking world,... -
Cultural Approaches to Studying Religion: An Introduction to Theories and Methods by M. Cooper Minister 9781350303089
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £43.52Examining 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,... -
The Empire of Disgust: Prejudice, Discrimination, and Policy in India and the US by Zoya Hasan 9780199487837
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £41.54All known societies exclude and stigmatize one or more minority groups. Frequently, these exclusions are underwritten with a rhetoric of disgust. People of certain groups, it is alleged, are filthy,... -
Dreaming in the World's Religions: A Comparative History by Kelly Bulkeley 9780814799574
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82From Biblical stories of Joseph interpreting Pharoh's dreams in Egypt to prayers against bad dreams in the Hindu Rg Veda, cultures all over the world have seen their dreams first and foremost as... -
The Awakened Ones: Phenomenology of Visionary Experience by Gananath Obeyesekere 9780231153621
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £107.03While a rational consciousness grasps many truths, Gananath Obeyesekere believes an even richer knowledge is possible through a bold confrontation with the stuff of visions and dreams. Spanning both... -
The Awakened Ones: Phenomenology of Visionary Experience by Gananath Obeyesekere 9780231153638
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02While a rational consciousness grasps many truths, Gananath Obeyesekere believes an even richer knowledge is possible through a bold confrontation with the stuff of visions and dreams. Spanning both... -
Other Lives: Mind and World in Indian Buddhism by Sonam Kachru 9780231200004
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46Human experience is not confined to waking life. Do experiences in dreams matter? Humans are not the only living beings who have experiences. Does nonhuman experience matter? The Buddhist philosopher... -
Other Lives: Mind and World in Indian Buddhism by Sonam Kachru
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Human experience is not confined to waking life. Do experiences in dreams matter? Humans are not the only living beings who have experiences. Does nonhuman experience matter? The Buddhist philosopher... -
Freud's Mahabharata by Alf Hiltebeitel 9780190878337
Booksplease Price: £84.14Though Freud never overtly refers to the Mahabharata, many of the Sanskrit epic's themes are illuminated by Freud's thought and, conversely, many incidents in the epic can be used to illustrate... -
King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India: Kautilya's Arthasastra by Patrick Olivelle 9780190644123
Booksplease Price: £78.60King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India presents an English translation of Kautilya's Arthasastra (AS.) along with detailed endnotes. When it was discovered around 1905, the AS. was described as... -
Of Sacred and Secular Desire: An Anthology of Lyrical Writings from the Punjab by Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh 9781848858848
Booksplease Price: £27.58The fertile land of the five rivers (punj+ab in Persian) has persistently stirred the imagination of its peoples. Its story is the story of invasion. In 326 BCE Alexander the Great marched through... -
Eye for an Eye by William Ian Miller
Booksplease Price: £87.62This book is a historical and philosophical meditation on paying back and buying back, that is, it is about retaliation and redemption. It takes the law of the talion - eye for an eye, tooth for a... -
Cultural Approaches to Studying Religion by Sarah J. Bloesch 9781350023734
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £52.13This is the first book to provide an introduction to contemporary cultural approaches to the study of religion. This book makes sophisticated ideas accessible at an introductory level, and examines... -
Eye for an Eye by William Ian Miller 9780521704670
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.43This book is a historical and philosophical meditation on paying back and buying back, that is, it is about retaliation and redemption. It takes the law of the talion - eye for an eye, tooth for a... -
Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females by Serinity Young
Booksplease Price: £34.67From the asparas of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, tales of flying women-some with wings, others with clouds, rainbows, floating scarves, or flying horses-reveal both... -
Sources of Indian Traditions: Modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh by Rachel Fell McDermott 9780231138314
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.43For more than fifty years, students and teachers have made the two-volume resource Sources of Indian Traditions their top pick for an accessible yet thorough introduction to Indian and South Asian... -
Being a Buddhist Nun: The Struggle for Enlightenment in the Himalayas by Kim Gutschow 9780674012875
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.58They may shave their heads, don simple robes, and renounce materialism and worldly desires. But the women seeking enlightenment in a Buddhist nunnery high in the folds of Himalayan Kashmir invariably... -
Authority and Meaning in Indian Religions: Hinduism and the Case of Valmiki by Julia Leslie
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73This title was first published in 2003. Can a text be used either to validate or to invalidate contemporary understandings? Texts may be deemed 'sacred', but sacred to whom? Do conflicting... -
Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism by Howard Schwartz 9780195327137
Booksplease Price: £35.17Only one of the world's mythologies has remained essentially unrecognized--the mythology of Judaism. As Howard Schwartz reveals in Tree of Souls, the first anthology of Jewish mythology in English,... -
The Bhagavad Gita: A Biography by Richard H. Davis 9780691139968
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05The Bhagavad Gita, perhaps the most famous of all Indian scriptures, is universally regarded as one of the world's spiritual and literary masterpieces. Richard Davis tells the story of this venerable...