Hinduism category: 1323 books
Pedagogy for Religion
Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2011
Offering a new approach to the study of religion and empire, this innovative book challenges a widespread myth of modernity—that Western rule has had a secularizing effect on the non-West—by looking closely at missionary schools in Bengal. Parna Sengupta examines the period from 1850 to the 1930s...
by Swami Rama
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In the eight lectures included in this volume, Swami Rama offers a series of perspectives on man's most significant responsibility—that of self-understanding. Analyzing the mechanisms of karma and the functioning of mind, Swamiji demonstrates the kind of self-study each student of life must undertake to gain liberation and attain freedom from the bondage of karma.
McDonaldisation, Masala McGospel and Om Economics
Televangelism in Contemporary India
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
This book looks at religion in a transnational and global context and presents a systematic account of the methods undertaken by modern day missionaries to convert people.
The author seeks to understand the outworking of the American phenomenon of televangelism in India, in a new historical,...
In Praise of the Goddess
The Devimahatmya and Its Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
About 16 centuries ago, an unknown Indian author or authors gathered together the diverse threads of already ancient traditions and wove them into a verbal tapestry that today is still the central text for worshippers of the Hindu Devi, the Divine Mother. This spiritual classic, the Devimahatmya,...
The Ubiquitous Siva
Somananda's Sivadrsti and His Tantric Interlocutors
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
John Nemec examines the beginnings of the non-dual tantric philosophy of the famed Pratyabhijña or "Recognition [of God]" School of tenth-century Kashmir, the tradition most closely associated with Kashmiri Shaivism. In doing so it offers, for the very first time, a critical edition and annotated...
by Acharya Purushottamananda
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
In the literature published about Sai Baba of Shirdi, his divine sports are generally described overlaid with the emphasis on Hindu orientation and euology so as to create devotion in the readers' mind for him as a Hindu God or Deity. This has led to creation of his idolatory. There is hardly any...
Hinglaj Devi
Identity, Change, and Solidification at a Hindu Temple in Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
About two hundred kilometers west of the city of Karachi, in the desert of Baluchistan, Pakistan, sits the shrine of the Hindu Goddess Hinglaj. Despite the temple's ancient Hindu and Muslim history, an annual festival at Hinglaj has only been established within the last three decades, in part because...
by Krishna D Bhat
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Dr. Krishna D. Bhat is from a small village in Karnataka, where he grew up in a Brahmin family with a very strict grandmother who punished him for touching and playing with his untouchable classmates. He saw women in his family with their heads shaven and socially isolated and he questioned why. ...
Vishnu Chalisa In English Rhyme
Chants of Hindu Gods & Goddesses
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Vishnu Chalisa In English Rhyme along with original text“Chants of Hindu Gods and Goddesses in English Rhyme”
Gayatri Chalisa In English Rhyme
Chants of Hindu Gods & Goddesses
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Gayatri Chalisa In English Rhyme along with the original text
by Chakor Ajgaonkar
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
"Spotlight on the Sai story is Sai Babas life and philosophy retold in new light in historical chronology and spiritual potency with aroma and lustre of avataric grace. Like a love-thirsty bird, the author sings of the enchanting glory of the divine incarnation that is Sai Baba. With each page that is...
by Ashish Marathe
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
My first step into shakti sadhana that earned me the grace of goddess Durga.
Sacred Geography of Puri
Structure and Organisation and Cultural Role of a Pilgrim Centre
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
The study comprehensively and interestingly discusses Puri, the sacred city of Orissa. It has seven chapters—viz. Introduction, Ancient history of Puri, Pilgrimage to Puri, Growth and development of Puri, Guardians of sacred complex and continuity in sacred tradition, Definition and typology of sacred centres, findings and conclusion. A very interesting book for study for everyone.
The Wisdom of Bali
Inspiration From The Island of Gods
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2018
With a reputation of being one of the most beautiful and diverse tourist spots in Asia, Bali attracts almost 1,000,000 visitors a year from all around the world. Geographically, Bali lies between the islands of Java and Lombok and is one of more than 17.000 islands that make up the Indonesian Archipelago.
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