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
Gil Ben-Herut and Jon Keune, "Regional Communities of Devotion in South Asia: Insiders, Outsiders, and Interlopers" (Routledge, 2019)
Gil Ben-Herut and Jon Keune's book Regional Communities of Devotion in South Asia: Insiders, Outsiders, and Interlopers (Routledge, 2019) explores the key motif of the religious Other in devotional (…
00:54:47 |
Wed 28 Apr 2021
Thomas Robinson and Hillary Rodrigues, "World Religions Reader: Understanding Our Religious World" (ROBINEST, 2020)
Preparing online materials since 2005 (including Hindusim the EBook, 2016), Dr. Hillary Rodrigues has been working on a fantastic resource for anyone interested in studying or teaching world religion…
00:41:19 |
Fri 23 Apr 2021
Birinder Pal Singh, "Sikhs in the Deccan and North-East India" (Taylor & Francis, 2018)
Birinder Pal Singh's book Sikhs in the Deccan and North-East India (Taylor & Francis, 2018) is a major intervention in the understanding of the dynamics of internal migration in South Asia. It traces…
00:46:20 |
Fri 23 Apr 2021
Daniel Heifetz, "The Science of Satyug: Class, Charisma, and Vedic Revivalism in the All World Gayatri Pariwar" (SUNY Press, 2021)
The first in-depth study of the All World Gayatri Pariwar, a modern Indian religious movement. The All World Gayatri Pariwar is a modern religious movement that enjoys wide popularity in North India,…
00:46:49 |
Thu 22 Apr 2021
N. S. Hawley and S. S. Pillai, "Many Mahābhāratas" (SUNY Press, 2021)
Nell Shapiro Hawley and Sohini Sarah Pillai's book Many Mahābhāratas (SUNY Press, 2021) is an introduction to the spectacular and long-lived diversity of Mahābhārata literature in South Asia. This di…
01:12:40 |
Tue 20 Apr 2021
Ayesha A. Irani, "The Muhammad Avatāra: Salvation History, Translation, and the Making of Bengali Islam" (Oxford UP, 2021)
The Muhammad Avatāra: Salvation History, Translation, and the Making of Bengali Islam (Oxford University Press, 2021) reveals the powerful role of vernacular translation in the Islamization of Bengal…
00:40:04 |
Wed 14 Apr 2021
Ian Whicher, "The Integrity of the Yoga Darsana: A Reconsideration of Classical Yoga" (SUNY Press, 1998)
Join Raj Balkaran as he discusses yoga philosophy with Ian Whicher. We begin with a discussion on how he began his journey towards yoga philosophy before probing his assertion that the Yoga-Sūtras do…
00:47:38 |
Tue 13 Apr 2021
Daniel Raveh, "Daya Krishna and 20th-Century Indian Philosophy: A New Way of Thinking about Art, Freedom, and Knowledge" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Daya Krishna and Twentieth-Century Indian Philosophy: A New Way of Thinking about Art, Freedom, and Knowledge (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) by Daniel Raveh introduces contemporary Indian philosophy as …
00:46:45 |
Tue 30 Mar 2021
Lokesh Ohri, "Till Kingdom Come: Medieval Hinduism in the Modern Himalaya" (SUNY Press, 2021)
Hinduism, as is well known, has taken a multitude of shapes and forms. Some Hindu "little traditions" have remained obscure or understudied to this day due to their regional remoteness. One such offs…
00:37:36 |
Tue 23 Mar 2021
Douglas Osto, "An Indian Tantric Tradition and Its Modern Global Revival: Contemporary Nondual Śaivism" (Routledge, 2020)
In An Indian Tantric Tradition and Its Modern Global Revival: Contemporary Nondual Śaivism (Routledge, 2020), Douglas Osto analyses the contemporary global revival of Nondual Śaivism, a thousand-year…
00:50:51 |
Fri 19 Mar 2021
Vanessa R. Sasson, "Yasodhara and the Buddha" (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020)
By 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…
00:42:32 |
Thu 18 Mar 2021
Steven Collins, "Wisdom as a Way of Life: Theravāda Buddhism Reimagined" (Columbia UP, 2020)
This wide-ranging and powerful book argues that Theravāda Buddhism provides ways of thinking about the self that can reinvigorate the humanities and offer broader insights into how to learn and how t…
00:52:47 |
Tue 16 Mar 2021
Arvind Sharma, "Religious Tolerance: A History" (Harper Collins, 2019)
Religion has become a vital element in identity politics globally after the terror attacks of 11 September 2001 in the United States of America. And so the question of how religious tolerance may be …
00:31:00 |
Fri 12 Mar 2021
Francis X. Clooney, "Reading the Hindu and Christian Classics: Why and How Deep Learning Still Matters" (U Virginia Press, 2019)
We live in an era of unprecedented growth in knowledge. Never before has there been so great an availability of and access to information in both print and online.
Yet as opportunities to educate ou…
01:01:44 |
Fri 05 Mar 2021
Christopher Key Chapple, "Yoga in Jainism" (Routledge, 2015)
Jaina Studies is a relatively new and rapidly expanding field of inquiry for scholars of Indian religion and philosophy. In Jainism, "yoga" carries many meanings, and this book explores the definitio…
00:47:36 |
Tue 02 Mar 2021
Bibek Debroy, "The Mahabharata" (Penguin, 2015)
Dispute over land and kingdom may lie at the heart of this story of war between cousins the Pandavas and the Kouravas but the Mahabharata is about conflicts of dharma. These conflicts are immense and…
00:57:27 |
Thu 25 Feb 2021
Michael P. Brunner, "Education and Modernity in Colonial Punjab: Khalsa College, the Sikh Tradition and the Webs of Knowledge, 1880-1947" (Palgrave, 2020)
Michael P. Brunner's "Education and Modernity in Colonial Punjab: Khalsa College, the Sikh Tradition and the Webs of Knowledge, 1880-1947" (Palgrave, 2020) explores the localisation of modernity in l…
00:29:26 |
Thu 25 Feb 2021
Christopher T. Fleming, "Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence (Oxford UP, 2021) provides an account of various theories of ownership (svatva) and inheritance (dāya) in Sanskrit jurisprudential literature (Dhar…
00:26:04 |
Wed 17 Feb 2021
Knut A. Jacobsen, "Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions" (Routledge, 2020)
The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions (Routledge, 2020) presents critical research, overviews and case studies on religion in historical South Asia and in the seven nation states of contemp…
00:46:41 |
Tue 09 Feb 2021
C. M. Bauman and M. Voss Roberts, "The Routledge Handbook of Hindu-Christian Relations" (Routledge, 2020)
The tension between the two historical realities, Hinduism as an ancient Indian religion and Christianity as a religion associated with foreign power and colonialism, continues to animate Hindu-Chris…
00:59:26 |
Wed 03 Feb 2021
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