New Books in Indian Religions

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Andrew Ollett, "The Mirror of Ornaments (Alaṅkāradappaṇō): A Prakrit Work of Poetics" (UniorPress, 2025)
May 8, 2025 – 55:18
Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette, "Metaphysics As Therapy: List-Making and Renunciation in Gnostic Yogas" (Springer, 2025)
May 1, 2025 – 59:18
Tithi Bhattacharya, "Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal" (Duke UP, 2024)
Apr 29, 2025 – 38:20
Paul Bramadat, "Yogalands: In Search of Practice on the Mat and in the World" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
Apr 24, 2025 – 01:13:45
John Nemec, "Brahmins and Kings: Royal Counsel in the Sanskrit Narrative Literatures" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Apr 17, 2025 – 53:57
Christopher Key Chapple, "The SāṃKhya System: Accounting for the Real" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Apr 10, 2025 – 56:21
Lavanya Vemsani, "Reframing India in World History" (Lexington Books, 2024)
Apr 3, 2025 – 39:17
Kiyokazu Okita, "The Building of Vṛndāvana: Architecture, Theology, and Practice in an Early Modern Pilgrimage Town" (Brill, 2023)
Mar 27, 2025 – 42:41
Jon Chapple, "Sri Krishna Prem: A Wing and a Prayer" (Blazing Sapphire Press, 2024)
Mar 20, 2025 – 43:02
Mick Brown, "The Nirvana Express: How the Search for Enlightenment Went West" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 18, 2025 – 01:43:10
Patrick Beldio, "The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram: Co-Creator of the Integral Yoga" (Lexington Books, 2024)
Mar 13, 2025 – 49:06
Daemons, Tantra, and Cultural Exchange with David Gordon White
Mar 11, 2025 – 01:02:16
Anna Lise Seastrand, "Body, History, Myth: Early Modern Murals in South India" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Mar 6, 2025 – 44:07
Manu Pillai, "Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity" (Allen Lane, 2025)
Mar 6, 2025 – 01:02:51
Violent Majorities 2.3: Long-Distance Ethnonationalism Roundup (LA, AS)
Mar 6, 2025 – 46:52
Material Religion, Assemblage, and the Agency of Things in South Asia
Feb 27, 2025 – 49:33
Claire C. Robison, "Bringing Krishna Back to India" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Feb 20, 2025 – 49:24
Violent Majorities 2.2: Subir Sinha on Hindutva as Long-Distance Ethnonationalism
Feb 20, 2025 – 56:36
Sunila S. Kale and Christian Lee Novetzke, "The Yoga of Power: Political Thought and Practice in India" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Feb 13, 2025 – 54:58
Lavanya Vemsani, "Handbook of Indian History" (Springer, 2024)
Feb 6, 2025 – 38:15
Anand Venkatkrishnan, "Love in the Time of Scholarship: The Bhagavata Purana in Indian Intellectual History" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 30, 2025 – 38:12
Gidi Ifergan, "The Discerning Clear Gaze of Yoga" (Equinox, 2024)
Jan 23, 2025 – 40:48
Roger R. Jackson, "Saraha: Poet of Blissful Awareness" (Shambhala, 2024)
Jan 16, 2025 – 44:29
Richard H. Davis, "Religions of Early India: A Cultural History" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jan 9, 2025 – 41:09
Alastair Gornall, "Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270" (UCL Press, 2020)
Jan 6, 2025 – 56:07
Ilanit Loewy Shacham, "Empire Inside Out: Religion, Conquest, and Community in Kṛṣṇadevarāya's Āmuktamālyada" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 5, 2025 – 01:15:24
Arvind Sharma, "From Fire To Light: Rereading the Manusmriti" (Harper Collins, 2024)
Jan 2, 2025 – 30:57
Antoinette Denapoli and June McDaniel, "Gurus, Priestesses, Saints, Mediums and Yoginis: Holy Women as Influencers in Hindu Culture" (MDPI, 2024)
Dec 26, 2024 – 56:35
Nathan McGovern, "Holy Things: The Genealogy of the Sacred in Thai Religion" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Dec 19, 2024 – 01:07:20
Pankaj Jain, "Visual Anthropology of Indian Films: Religious Communities and Cultural Traditions in Bollywood and Beyond" (Routledge, 2024)
Dec 12, 2024 – 28:04
Mou Banerjee, "The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Dec 11, 2024 – 01:20:18
Nissim Mannathukkaren, "Hindu Nationalism in South India: The Rise of Saffron in Kerala" (Routledge, 2024)
Dec 9, 2024 – 53:02
Kāvyacandrikā: A Hitherto Unknown Work of Sanskrit Poetics
Dec 5, 2024 – 38:17
Russell T.. McCutcheon, "Religious Studies Beyond the Discipline: On the Future of a Humanities Ph.D." (Equinox, 2024)
Nov 28, 2024 – 01:00:47
James Mallinson, "The Dattatreyayogasastra" (Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, 2024)
Nov 27, 2024 – 01:11:08
Allen James Fromherz, "The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present" (U California Press, 2024)
Nov 21, 2024 – 54:04
Shalini Kakar, "Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
Nov 21, 2024 – 46:55
Owen Ware, "Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany" (Routledge, 2023)
Nov 20, 2024 – 01:01:39
Tyler W. Williams, "If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Nov 14, 2024 – 44:32
Roberto Morales-Harley, "The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre: Greco-Roman Influence in Sanskrit Theater” (Open Book, 2024)
Nov 7, 2024 – 38:53
Subhashini Kaligotla, "Shiva's Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India" (Yale UP, 2022)
Oct 31, 2024 – 31:55
Daniela Bevilacqua, "From Tapas to Modern Yoga: Sādhus' Understanding of Embodied Practices" (Equinox, 2024)
Oct 24, 2024 – 32:39
Lauren Tober, "Mental Health Aware Yoga: A Guide for Yoga Teachers" (Singing Dragon, 2024)
Oct 20, 2024 – 37:38
Suganya Anandakichenin, "The Monsoon Cloud: Poet Kāḷamēkam and His Irreverent Poetry" (Primus, 2024)
Oct 17, 2024 – 35:36
Jennifer Lang, "Landed: A Yogi's Memoir in Pieces & Poses" (Vine Leaves Press, 2024)
Oct 17, 2024 – 44:43
Michael Thomas Williams, "Existence and Perception in Medieval Vedānta: Vyāsatīrtha's Defence of Realism in the Nyāyāmṛta" (de Gruyter, 2024)
Oct 10, 2024 – 32:12
Deepa Das Acevedo, "The Battle for Sabarimala: Religion, Law, and Gender in Contemporary India" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Oct 3, 2024 – 33:38
Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav, "Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood" (India Viking, 2024)
Sep 29, 2024 – 01:02:02
Michael C. Baltutis, "What is Hinduism?: A Student's Introduction" (Routledge, 2024)
Sep 26, 2024 – 40:53
Rafal K. Stepien, "Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy: Nāgārjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 24, 2024 – 01:20:20

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