Hinduism category: 1323 books
Kṛṣṇa-saṅgati
Meetings with Kṛṣṇa
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This the third volume of the Krsna in Vrndavan series is replete with the pastimes Lord Krsna manifested five thousand years ago. The focus of Krsna-sangati is how during these pastimes Krsna repeatedly leaves and then again meets the residents of Vrindavan. Devotees always want to meet Krsna, but...
Interpreting Devotion
The Poetry and Legacy of a Female Bhakti Saint of India
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Devotion is a category of expression in many of the world’s religious traditions. This book looks at issues involved in academically interpreting religious devotion, as well as exploring the interpretations of religious devotion made by a sixth century poet, a twelfth century biographer, and present-day...
Gaudiya Kirtan
Devotional Songs and Prayers
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2030
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Bhakti and Embodiment
Fashioning Divine Bodies and Devotional Bodies in Krsna Bhakti
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
The historical shift from Vedic traditions to post-Vedic bhakti (devotional) traditions is accompanied by a shift from abstract, translocal notions of divinity to particularized, localized notions of divinity and a corresponding shift from aniconic to iconic traditions and from temporary sacrificial...
Vishnu Stuti In English Rhyme
Chants of Hindu Gods & Goddesses
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Vishnu Stuti (विष्णु स्तुति) in English Rhyme along with original text
by Mareike Jule Winkelmann
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
In Reaching the Minds of Young Muslim Women, the author investigates traditional intuitions of Islamic learning for Muslim girls. While a lot is known or thought to be known about madras's for boys.
Shakti Rising
Embracing Shadow and Light on the Goddess Path to Wholeness
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Gold Book Award!
The wisdom of the Mahavidyas, the ten wisdom goddesses who represent the interconnected darkness and light within all of us, has been steeped in esoteric and mystical descriptions that made them seem irrelevant to ordinary life. But with this book,...
Vedic Voices
Intimate Narratives of a Living Andhra Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
For countless generations families have lived in isolated communities in the Godavari Delta of coastal Andhra Pradesh, learning and reciting their legacy of Vedas, performing daily offerings and occasional sacrifices. They are the virtually unrecognized survivors of a 3,700-year-old heritage, the...
Ritual Participation and Interreligious Dialogue
Boundaries, Transgressions and Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Shared ritual practices, multi-faith celebrations, and interreligious prayers are becoming increasingly common in the USA and Europe as more people experience religious diversity first hand. While ritual participation can be seen as a powerful expression of interreligious solidarity, it also carries...
Bhakti and Power
Debating India's Religion of the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Bhakti, a term ubiquitous in the religious life of South Asia, has meanings that shift dramatically according to context and sentiment. Sometimes translated as “personal devotion,” bhakti nonetheless implies and fosters public interaction. It is often associated with the marginalized voices of...
by John Stratton Hawley
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
A widely-accepted explanation for India’s national unity is a narrative called the bhakti movement—poet-saints singing bhakti from India’s southern tip to the Himalayas between 600 and 1600. John Hawley shows that this narrative, with its political overtones, was created by the early-twentieth-century circle around Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal.
Inventing and Reinventing the Goddess
Contemporary Iterations of Hindu Deities on the Move
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Popular religion in village India is overwhelmingly dominated by goddess worship. Goddesses can be nationally well-known like Durga or Kali, or they can be an obscure deity who is only known in a particular rural locale. The origins of a goddess can be both ancient—with many transitions or amalgamations...
The Bhagwad Gita
A Modern Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
In the age when the right to learn the Vedic Literature was confined to only a particular class, Lord Krishna conveyed the gist of knowledge enshrined in our scriptures to Arjuna through the divine message called the GITA. Thus He made this supreme knowledge accessible to all classes of the society....
Shakti's New Voice
Guru Devotion in a Woman-Led Spiritual Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Shakti’s New Voice is the first comprehensive study of Anandmurti Gurumaa, a widely popular contemporary female guru from north India known for offering spiritual teachings and music on satellite television and the Internet. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and religious-historical research—as...