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Hinduism eBooks
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Blackwell Companion to Hinduism
By: Flood, Gavin (ed.)
Published by: Wiley-Blackwell
This companion presents the most recent scholarly thinking about Hinduism in an accessible way. It provides a forum for some of the best scholars in the world to make their views and research available to a wider audience.
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Price: $161.95
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Bringing the Gods to Mind
By: Patton, Laurie L.
Published by: University of California Press
This elegantly written book introduces a new perspective on Indic religious history by rethinking the role of mantra in Vedic ritual. In Bringing the Gods to Mind, Laurie Patton takes a new look at mantra as "performed poetry" and in five case studies draws a portrait of early Indian sacrifice that moves beyond the well-worn categories of "magic" and "magico-religious" thought in Vedic sacrifice.
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Price: $15.95
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Climbing Chamundi Hill
By: Glucklich, Ariel
Published by: Harper Collins
An American traveler in India chances upon an old storyteller, who joins him on his pilgrimage to the top of a holy hill and along the way shares the authentic flavor of India through stories of courtesans and kings, holy men and thieves, talking animals, and mythical lands. Many of them are translated here by Glucklich for the first time from the ancient Sanskrit.
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Price: $10.95
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Contemporary Hinduism
By: Rinehart, Robin
Published by: ABC-CLIO
This work provides an examination of the contemporary practices, beliefs, and issues of one of the world's oldest and most enduring religions, both within its Indian homeland and throughout the world. It covers caste, family life, and social status.
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Price: $105.00
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Dancing the Self
By: Sax, William S.
Published by: Oxford University Press (US)
The inhabitants of the former kingdom of Garhwal, located in north India are deeply devoted to the great Indian national epic, the "Mahabharata". This book opens a window on a fascinating (and threatened) aspect of rural Indian life and Hinduism as a living religion, and provides an accessible introduction to the "Mahabharata" itself.
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Price: $100.00
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Diaspora of the Gods
By: Waghorne, Joanne Punzo
Published by: Oxford University Press (US)
This work is a portrait of Hinduism as lived today by so many both in India and throughout the world. Illustrated with professional photographs by Dick Waghorne, this book should appeal to art historians as well as urban anthropologists, scholars of religion, and those interested in diaspora, transnationalism, and trends in contemporary religion.
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Price: $108.00
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The Economics of Ecstasy
By: Urban, Hugh B.
Published by: Oxford University Press (US)
This study of the Bengali Kartabhaja sect and its place in the broader movement of Tantrism, an Indian religious movement employing purposely shocking sexual language and rituals, looks at the relationship between the rise of the Kartabhajas and the changing economic context of colonial Bengal.
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Price: $88.00
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Encountering Kali
By: McDermott, Rachel Fell; Kripal, Jeffrey John
Published by: University of California Press
Encountering Kalõ explores one of the most remarkable divinities the world has seen--the Hindu goddess Kalõ. She is simultaneously understood as a blood-thirsty warrior, a goddess of ritual possession, a Tantric sexual partner, and an all-loving, compassionate Mother.
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Price: $15.95
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Encyclopedia of Hinduism
By: Jones, Constance
Published by: Facts On File Inc.
"Encyclopedia of World Religions" explores the major religions of the world, emphasizing the living faiths and their background. Each illustrated volume provides access to the theological concepts, personalities, historical events, institutions, and movements that helped shape the history of each religion and the way it is practiced.
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Price: $75.00
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Explaining Mantras
By: Yelle, Robert A.
Published by: Routledge
Explaining Mantras explores the intersection of poetry and magic in the mantras or verbal formulas of Hindu Tantra and combines the study of ancient Tantric rituals with the latest theories in the human sciences.
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Price: $95.00
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