New Books in Indian Religions

Marshall Poe

Interviews with Scholars of Indian Religions with their New Books

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Hinduism Religion & Spirituality

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Years Active: 2011 - 2025

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Material Religion, Assemblage, and the Agency of Things in South Asia

This special issue of Nidan: International Journal for Indian Studies is the product of a collective experiment with materials that are assembled, imagined, and agentive in the context of South Asian…

00:47:33 | Thu 27 Feb 2025

Violent Majorities 2.2: Subir Sinha on Hindutva as Long-Distance Ethnonationalism

Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian continue their second series on Violent Majorities. Their previous episode featured Peter Beinart on Zionism as long-distance ethnonationalism; here they speak with…

00:54:36 | Thu 20 Feb 2025

Claire C. Robison, "Bringing Krishna Back to India" (Oxford UP, 2024)

The Hare Krishnas have long been associated with American hippie culture and New Age religious movements. But they have developed deeply rooted communities in India and throughout the world over the …

00:47:24 | Thu 20 Feb 2025

Sunila S. Kale and Christian Lee Novetzke, "The Yoga of Power: Political Thought and Practice in India" (Columbia UP, 2025)

In Indian languages from Sanskrit to Marathi, yoga has an enormous range of meanings, though most often it refers to philosophy or methods to control the mind and body. The Yoga of Power: Political T…

00:52:58 | Thu 13 Feb 2025

Lavanya Vemsani, "Handbook of Indian History" (Springer, 2024)

Handbook of Indian History (Springer, 2024) comprehensively examines the extensive history of India by focusing on the unifying themes of history. The profound analysis of special events and impactfu…

00:36:15 | Thu 06 Feb 2025

Anand Venkatkrishnan, "Love in the Time of Scholarship: The Bhagavata Purana in Indian Intellectual History" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Where is the "life" in scholarly life? Is it possible to find in academic writing, so often abstracted from the everyday? How might religion bridge that gap? In Love in the Time of Scholarship: The B…

00:36:12 | Thu 30 Jan 2025

Gidi Ifergan, "The Discerning Clear Gaze of Yoga" (Equinox, 2024)

Gidi Ifergan's The Discerning Clear Gaze of Yoga (Equinox, 2024) explores the road map of yoga as reflected in the Yogasūtra of Patañjali (third century CE) and the Sāṁkhyakārikā of Iśvarakṛṣṇa (350–…

00:38:48 | Thu 23 Jan 2025

Roger R. Jackson, "Saraha: Poet of Blissful Awareness" (Shambhala, 2024)

The life and works of the mysterious Indian yogin, Saraha, who has inspired Buddhist practitioners for over a thousand years. Saraha, “the Archer,” was a mysterious but influential tenth-century Indi…

00:42:29 | Thu 16 Jan 2025

Richard H. Davis, "Religions of Early India: A Cultural History" (Princeton UP, 2024)

From its earliest recorded history, India was a place of remarkable and varied religious activity, ranging from elaborate sacrificial rituals and rigorous regimes of personal austerity to psycho-spir…

00:39:09 | Thu 09 Jan 2025

Alastair Gornall, "Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270" (UCL Press, 2020)

Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270 (UCL Press, 2020) is the first intellectual history of premodern Sri Lanka’s most culturally productive period. This er…

00:54:07 | Mon 06 Jan 2025

Ilanit Loewy Shacham, "Empire Inside Out: Religion, Conquest, and Community in Kṛṣṇadevarāya's Āmuktamālyada" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Examining the interplay of religion, history, and literature through a case study of King Krsnadevaraya's celebrated Telugu poem Āmuktamālyada, Ilanit Loewy Shacham showcases the groundbreaking world…

01:12:24 | Sun 05 Jan 2025

Arvind Sharma, "From Fire To Light: Rereading the Manusmriti" (Harper Collins, 2024)

Why yet another book on the Manusmriti? In From Fire To Light: Rereading the Manusmriti (Harper Collins, 2024), acclaimed academic Arvind Sharma argues that the present understanding of the Manusmrit…

00:29:57 | Thu 02 Jan 2025

Antoinette Denapoli and June McDaniel, "Gurus, Priestesses, Saints, Mediums and Yoginis: Holy Women as Influencers in Hindu Culture" (MDPI, 2024)

Applying the "influencer" concept to the study of religion, Gurus, Priestesses, Saints, Mediums and Yoginis: Holy Women as Influencers in Hindu Culture (MDPI, 2024) explores the varieties of strategi…

00:53:35 | Thu 26 Dec 2024

Nathan McGovern, "Holy Things: The Genealogy of the Sacred in Thai Religion" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Scholars of religion have mostly abandoned the concept of "syncretism" in which certain apparent deviations from "standard" practice are believed to be the result of a mixture of religions. This is p…

01:05:20 | Thu 19 Dec 2024

Pankaj Jain, "Visual Anthropology of Indian Films: Religious Communities and Cultural Traditions in Bollywood and Beyond" (Routledge, 2024)

Visual Anthropology of Indian Films: Religious Communities and Cultural Traditions in Bollywood and Beyond (Routledge, 2024) provides a unique insider’s look at the world’s largest film industry, now…

00:27:04 | Thu 12 Dec 2024

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