The Living and the Dead

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Hindu Studies
• This collection examines the social dimensions of death in South Asian religions, exploring the ritualized exchanges between the living and the dead p... Lees meer

Eternal Food

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Hindu Studies
• R. S. Khare is Professor of Anthropology and Chairman of the International Commission on Anthropology of Food at the University of Virginia. Lees meer

Silence Unheard

Yohanan Grinshpon

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Hindu Studies
• Silence Unheard maintains that the reality of Patañjali's Yogasūtra is a profound silence barely and variously audible to the scholars and interpreter... Lees meer

Nine Nights of Power

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Hindu Studies
• Explores the rich diversity of narratives, rituals, and participants connected with one of the most important celebrations for Hindus in South Asia an... Lees meer

Literary India

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Hindu Studies
• Patrick Colm Hogan is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Connecticut. Lalita Pandit is Associate Professor in the D... Lees meer

Empires Between Islam and Christianity, 1500-1800

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Hindu Studies
• A wide-ranging consideration of early modern Muslim and Christian empires, covering the Iberian, Ottoman and Mughal worlds, including questions of pol... Lees meer

Re-Ending the Mahābhārata

Naama Shalom

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Hindu Studies
• Offers a fresh perspective on the Mahābhārata based on an exploration of its ending, the Svargārohaa parvan . This book challenges two prevalent assum... Lees meer

The Science of Satyug

Daniel Heifetz

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Hindu Studies
• The first in-depth study of the All World Gayatri Pariwar, a modern Indian religious movement. Lees meer

Text and Tradition in South India

Velcheru Narayana Rao

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Hindu Studies
• Essays on Telugu and South Indian literature and culture by distinguished Telugu scholar Narayana Rao. Velcheru Narayana Rao's contribution to underst... Lees meer

The Other Rāma

Brian Collins

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Hindu Studies
• A systematic analysis of the myth cycle of Paraśurāma ("Rāma with the Axe"), an avatára of Viṣṇu with a much darker reputation. Lees meer

Tamil Geographies

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Hindu Studies
• This interdisciplinary work explores how people in the Tamil region of India think about space and land, and how this, in turn, influences the creatio... Lees meer

The Vedic Origins of Karma

Herman W Tull

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Hindu Studies
• In this book, the author seeks access to Karma's origins by following several clues suggested by the doctrine's earliest formulation in the Upanistext... Lees meer

The Ritual of Battle

Alf Hiltebeitel

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Hindu Studies
• This book is a study of India's great epic, the Mahābhārata, against the background of Indo-European myth, epic, and ritual. It builds upon the pionee... Lees meer

Text and Tradition in South India

Velcheru Narayana Rao

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Hindu Studies
• Essays on Telugu and South Indian literature and culture by distinguished Telugu scholar Narayana Rao. Velcheru Narayana Rao's contribution to underst... Lees meer

Living Banaras

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Hindu Studies
• By focusing on contemporary popular religious traditions, the book represents a substantial contribution to the study of modern religious practices in... Lees meer

Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds

Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Hindu Studies
• Broadens the parameters of religious studies by accounting for material acts that help shape religious worlds. In Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worl... Lees meer

Popular Christianity in India

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Hindu Studies
• Explores the lived experience of Christianity in India. Lees meer

Living Banaras

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Hindu Studies
• By focusing on contemporary popular religious traditions, the book represents a substantial contribution to the study of modern religious practices in... Lees meer

Language and Style of the Vedic Ṛṣis

Tatyana J Elizarenkova

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Hindu Studies
• Tatyana J. Elizarenkova is senior research fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and member of the Academia E... Lees meer

Gurus in America

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Hindu Studies
• Thomas A. Forsthoefel is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Mercyhurst College. He is the author of Knowing Beyond Knowledge: Epistemologies ... Lees meer

Literary India

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Hindu Studies
• This anthology explores the possibilities of a non-Eurocentric comparative literature. Contributors explain and analyze a variety of material from the... Lees meer

Authority, Anxiety, and Canon

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Hindu Studies
• Authority, Anxiety, and Canon elucidates a principle fundamental to Hinduism's self-understanding--the Veda--while at the same time examining the meth... Lees meer

Women in Ochre Robes

Meena Khandelwal

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Hindu Studies
• Meena Khandelwal offers an engaging and intimate portrait of extraordinary Hindu women in India who wear "ochre robes," signifying their renunciation ... Lees meer

The Demon's Daughter

Pingali Suranna

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Hindu Studies
• The Demon's Daughter (Prabhavati-pradyumnamu) is a sixteenth-century novel by the south Indian poet Pingali Suranna, originally written in Telugu, the... Lees meer