New Books in Indian Religions
Interviews with Scholars of Indian Religions with their New Books
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- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 572
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2025
Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair, "Sikh Philosophy: Exploring Gurmat Concepts in a Decolonizing World" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
In his new contribution to the Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies, Sikh Philosophy: Exploring Gurmat Concepts in a Decolonizing World (Bloomsbury, 2022), Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair introduc…
01:06:10 |
Tue 20 Jun 2023
Douglas Ober, "Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten until British colonial scholars re-discovered it in…
01:38:58 |
Fri 16 Jun 2023
Simon Paul Cox, "The Subtle Body: A Genealogy" (Oxford UP, 2021)
How does the soul relate to the body? Through the ages, innumerable religious and intellectual movements have proposed answers to this question. Many have gravitated to the notion of the "subtle body…
00:56:15 |
Thu 15 Jun 2023
Loriliai Biernacki, "The Matter of Wonder: Abhinavagupta's Panentheism and the New Materialism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
In the early 11th century, the Kashmiri philosopher Abhinavagupta proposed panentheism-seeing the divine as both immanent in the world and at the same time as transcendent--as a way to reclaim the ma…
00:31:57 |
Thu 08 Jun 2023
Anantanand Rambachan, "Pathways to Hindu-Christian Dialogue" (Augsburg Fortress, 2022)
Hindus and Christians have a long history of interaction on the Indian subcontinent. Since the latter half of the twentieth century, with the increased possibilities for immigration, Hindus and Chris…
00:46:59 |
Thu 01 Jun 2023
Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B. R. Ambedkar" (Navayana, 2023)
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) is perhaps the most iconised historical figure in India. Born into a caste deemed ‘unfit for human association’, he came to define what it means to be human. How an…
00:36:15 |
Tue 30 May 2023
How Do We Know What We Know?: A Day School from Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies
The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies is holding a Day School on "How Do We Know What We Know?" Today I talked to Gavin Flood bout the day school, discusses how he began his scholarly journey, and what…
00:18:27 |
Mon 29 May 2023
Elise Coquereau-Saouma and Daniel Raveh, "The Making of Contemporary Indian Philosophy: Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya" (Routledge, 2022)
This book engages in a dialogue with Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya (K.C. Bhattacharyya, KCB, 1875-1949) and opens a vista to contemporary Indian philosophy.
KCB is one of the founding fathers of conte…
00:26:56 |
Thu 25 May 2023
Baba Padmanji, "Yamuna's Journey" (Speaking Tiger Books, 2022)
In 1856, the East India Company imposed the Hindu Widow Remarriage Act, allowing widows to remarry after their husband’s death. The Act was controversial at the time: Hindu traditionalists, particula…
00:40:18 |
Thu 25 May 2023
Moyukh Chatterjee, "Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities" (Duke UP, 2023)
In 2002, armed Hindu mobs attacked Muslims in broad daylight in the west Indian state of Gujarat. The pogrom, which was widely seen over television, left more than one thousand dead. In Composing Vio…
00:53:19 |
Sat 20 May 2023
Divya Cherian, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia" (U California Press, 2023)
Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia (U California Press, 2023) explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya …
00:53:06 |
Thu 18 May 2023
Farah Godrej, "Freedom Inside?: Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Are meditation and yoga offered to prisoners merely to have them acquiesce to being incarcerated and degraded? Or can they help prisoners interrogate the political and social structures that incarcer…
01:05:52 |
Thu 18 May 2023
The Canadian South Asian Studies Association
Andrea Farran and Julie Vig discuss the fast approaching first in-person Canadian South Asian Studies Association hybrid conference. This hybrid conference welcomes global participation. Join the Lis…
00:29:32 |
Mon 15 May 2023
A Conversation with Ramdas Lamb
A candid conversation with Ramdas Lamb about his experiences as a sadhu, his journey to academia and his professorial pedagogy.
Ramdas Lamb received a Bachelor of Arts degree with high honors in 1980…
01:15:03 |
Thu 11 May 2023
The International Association of Sanskrit Studies
The newly-elected first female president of the The International Association of Sanskrit Studies, Dr. Dipti Tripathi discusses Association’s genesis, mandate, and potential in honour of its 50th yea…
00:25:28 |
Wed 10 May 2023
Francis Xavier Clooney, "Saint Joseph in South India: Poetry, Mission and Theology in Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi's Tēmpāvaṇi" (Brill, 2022)
Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi was an Italian Jesuit who worked in South India from 1710 to 1747. A brilliant scholar of Tamil, his works include hymns, instructions for catechists, and a robust defense of…
01:01:21 |
Thu 04 May 2023
Chandra Mallampalli, "South Asia's Christians: Between Hindu and Muslim" (Oxford UP, 2023)
South Asia is home to more than a billion Hindus and half a billion Muslims. But the region is also home to substantial Christian communities, some dating almost to the earliest days of the faith. Th…
01:12:51 |
Mon 01 May 2023
David Shulman and Heike Oberlin, "Two Masterpieces of Kūṭiyāṭṭam: Mantrankam and Anguliyankam" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Kūṭiyāṭṭam, India’s only living traditional Sanskrit theatre, has been continually performed in Kerala for at least a thousand years. David Shulman and Heike Oberlin's Two Masterpieces of Kūṭiyāṭṭam:…
00:55:57 |
Thu 27 Apr 2023
Ângela Barreto Xavier, "Religion and Empire in Portuguese India: Conversion, Resistance, and the Making of Goa" (SUNY Press, 2022)
How did the colonization of Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries take place? How was it related to projects for the conversion of Goan colonial subjects to Catholicism?
In Religion and Emp…
00:43:04 |
Thu 20 Apr 2023
Learning Hindi with Rajiv Ranjan
Rajiv Ranjan discusses his second language acquisition journey, open educational resources, and teaching philosophy. You can study with him at Yogic Studies.
Rajiv Ranjan is an Assistant Professor i…
00:52:50 |
Mon 17 Apr 2023
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