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Deonnie Moodie, "The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City: KÄlÄ«ghÄáč and Kolkata" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Dr. Deonnie Moodie is Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions at the University of Oklahoma. Her book, The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City: KÄlÄ«ghÄáč and Kolkata (Oxford University Press, 2018),...
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Anway Mukhopadhyay, "The Goddess in Hindu-Tantric Traditions: Devī as Corpse" (Routledge, 2018)
Why is the Indian Goddess sometimes figured as a corpse in Tantric Traditions? What is the significance of this? How is it different from when the Hindu god Shiva is figured as a corpse? Centered on the myth of Sati...
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A. M. Ruppell, "The Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Why would anyone want to study Sanskrit, an ancient complex tongue? Whatâs the best way to go about doing so? Sanskrit is the highly sophisticated language of ancient India which remained in vogue for Millennia as a...
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Raj Balkaran, "The Goddess and The King in Indian Myth" (Routledge, 2018)
Why are myths of the Indian Great Goddess couched in a conversation between a deposed king and forest-dwelling ascetic? What happens when we examine these myths as a literary whole, frame and all? What interpretive...
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Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, "In Dialogue with Classical Indian Traditions: Encounter, Transformation and Interpretation" (Routledge, 2019)
Why does the narrative motif of âdialogueâ pervade Hindu texts? What role does it serve? Join me as I speak with Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad (Fellow of the British Academy, and distinguished professor of Comparative...
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David V. Mason, "The Performative Ground of Religion and Theatre" (Routledge, 2018)
To what extent may we say that religion is a theatrical phenomenon, and that theatre is a religious experience? Can making sense of one help us make sense of the other? Join us as we dive into The Performative Ground...
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Brad Stoddard and Craig Martin, âStereotyping Religion: Critiquing ClichĂ©sâ (Bloomsbury, 2017)
Youâve heard them all before. âReligions are Belief Systems.â âReligion is a Private Matter.â âI'm spiritual but not religious.â Our culture is full of popular stereotypes about religion, both positive and negative....
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Borayin Larios, "Embodying the Vedas: Traditional Vedic Schools of Contemporary Maharashtra"Â (De Gruyter, 2017)
Embodying the Vedas: Traditional Vedic Schools of Contemporary Maharashtra(De Gruyter, 2017; open access) probes the backbone of what makes Hinduism the worldâs oldest living tradition: the unbroken chain of...
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Nathan McGovern, "The Snake and The Mongoose: The Emergence of Identity in Early Indian Religion" (Oxford UP, 2018)
The history of Indian religions in the centuries leading up to the common era has been characterized in the scholarship by two distinct overarching traditions: the Brahmans (associated with Vedic texts, caste, and...
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic. How can publishers and authors contribute to this...
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Prakash Shah, "Western Foundations of the Caste System" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
The Indian caste system is an ancient, pervasive institution of social organization within the subcontinent â or is it? Join me as I speak with Dr. Prakash Shah (Reader in Culture and Law at the Queen Mary University...
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Jeffrey D. Long, "Perspectives on Reincarnation: Hindu, Christian, Scientific" (MDPI Books, 2019)
What happens after you die? The book brings together fascinating theological and religious studies perspectives on a controversial yet pervasive idea: reincarnation. An estimated 1 on 5 Americans subscribe to this...
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