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1. Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on a Contested Buddhist Site

   Bodh Gaya Jataka

   Edited by David Geary, Matthew Sayers, Abhishek Singh Amar

   Series: Routledge South Asian Religion Series

   Bodh Gaya in the North Indian state of Bihar has long been recognized as the place where the Buddha achieved enlightenment. This book brings together the recent work of twelve scholars from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, art history, history, and religion – to highlight their...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
2. Parsis in India and the Diaspora

   Edited by John Hinnells, Alan Williams

   Series: Routledge South Asian Religion Series

   The Parsis are India's smallest minority community, yet they have exercised a huge influence on the country. As pioneers in education in nineteenth century India, and as leading figures in banking and commerce, medicine, law and journalism, they were at the forefront of India's industrial...

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
3. Rethinking Religion in India

   The Colonial Construction of Hinduism

   Edited by Esther Bloch, Marianne Keppens, Rajaram Hegde

   Series: Routledge South Asian Religion Series

   This book critically assesses recent debates about the colonial construction of Hinduism. Increasingly scholars have come to realise that the dominant understanding of Indian culture and its traditions is unsatisfactory. According to the classical paradigm, Hindu traditions are conceptualized as...

   Published September 15th 2011 by Routledge
4. Time, History and the Religious Imaginary in South Asia

   Edited by Anne Murphy

   Series: Routledge South Asian Religion Series

   Religious imaginary is a way of conceiving and structuring the world within the conceptual and imaginative traditions of the religious. Using religious imaginary as a reference, this book analyses temporal ideologies and expressions of historicity in South Asia in the early modern, pre-colonial and...

   Published August 30th 2011 by Routledge
5. Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia

   Disease, Possession and Healing

   Edited by Fabrizio Ferrari

   Series: Routledge South Asian Religion Series

   Drawing on original fieldwork, this book develops a fresh methodological approach to the study of indigenous understandings of disease as possession, and looks at healing rituals in different South Asian cultural contexts. Contributors discuss the meaning of 'disease', 'possession' and 'healing' in...

   Published December 1st 2010 by Routledge
6. South Asian Religions on Display

   Religious Processions in South Asia and in the Diaspora

   Edited by Knut A. Jacobsen

   Series: Routledge South Asian Religion Series

   Religious procession is a significant dimension of religion in South Asia. Processions are central not only in Hinduism, but also Islam, Christianity, Jainism and Sikhism, which have large procession rituals. The last years have seen an increase in processions and ritualizations of space both...

   Published April 20th 2009 by Routledge
7. Hindu Selves in a Modern World

   Guru Faith in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission

   By Maya Warrier

   Series: Routledge South Asian Religion Series

   This book explores devotional Hinduism in a modern context of high consumerism and revolutionised communications. It focuses on a fast-growing and high-profile contemporary Hindu guru faith originating in India and attracting a transnational following. The organisation is led by a vastly popular...

   Published December 16th 2004 by Routledge
8. Satyagraha

   The Gandhian Faith in Non-Violence

   By Jesse Van Der Valk

   Series: Routledge South Asian Religion Series

   There have been few true examples of the use of non-violent political campaigns since Gandhi developed his technique of satyagraha. Given the obvious benefits of non-violence, this begs the question why. Satyagraha answers this question by showing that the technique of satyagraha is religious as...

   Published November 30th 2004 by Routledge