Hinduism Books

New and Published Books

1. The History of Vegetarianism and Cow-Veneration in India

   By Ludwig Alsdorf

   Series: Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies

   For the first time, this influential study by Ludwig Alsdorf is made available to an English speaking audience, translated by Bal Patil. It focuses on two of the most pertinent issues in Indian religion, the history of vegetarianism and cow-veneration, and its historical approach remains relevant...

   Published February 5th 2012 by Routledge
2. Hindu Perspectives on Evolution

   Darwin, Dharma, and Design

   By C. Mackenzie Brown

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   Providing new insights into the contemporary creationist-evolution debates, this book looks at the Hindu cultural-religious traditions of India, the Hindu Dharma traditions. By focusing on the interaction of religion and science in a Hindu context, it offers a global context for understanding...

   Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. Religious Cultures in Early Modern India

   New Perspectives

   Edited by Rosalind O'Hanlon, David Washbrook

   Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series

   Religious authority and political power have existed in complex relationships throughout India’s history. The centuries of the ‘early modern’ in South Asia saw particularly dynamic developments in this relationship. Regional as well as imperial states of the period expanded their religious...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
4. Interpreting Devotion

   The Poetry and Legacy of a Female Bhakti Saint of India

   By Karen Pechilis

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   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...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
5. Spirituality in the Modern World

   Within Religious Tradition and Beyond

   Edited by Paul Heelas

   Series: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies

   It would not be an exaggeration to say that during the last century, most especially during and since the 1960s, the language of spirituality has become one of the most significant ways in which the sacred has come to be understood and judged in the West, and, increasingly, elsewhere. Whether it is...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
6. Religion, Law and Tradition

   Comparative Studies in Religious Law

   By Andrew Huxley

   This book brings together two scholarly traditions: experts in Roman, Jewish and Islamic law, an area where scholars tend to be familiar with work in each area, and experts in the legal traditions of South and East Asia, which have tended to be less interdisciplinary. The resulting mix produces new...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
7. Women in the Hindu Tradition

   Rules, Roles and Exceptions

   By Mandakranta Bose

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   This book accounts for the origin and evolution of the nature and roles of women within the Hindu belief system. It explains how the idea of the goddess has been derived from Hindu philosophical ideas and texts of codes of conduct and how particular models of conduct for mortal women have been...

   Published September 15th 2011 by Routledge
8. 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
9. Religion, Narrative and Public Imagination in South Asia

   Past and Place in the Sanskrit Mahabharata

   By James Hegarty

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   The Sanskrit Mahabharata is one of the greatest works of world literature and pivotal for the understanding of both Hindu traditions and wider society in ancient, medieval and modern South Asia. This book presents a new synthesis of philological, anthropological and cognitive-linguistic method and...

   Published August 30th 2011 by Routledge
10. An Introduction to Indian Philosophy

    Perspectives on Reality, Knowledge, and Freedom

    By Bina Gupta

    An Introduction to Indian Philosophy offers a profound yet accessible survey of the development of India’s philosophical tradition. Beginning with the formation of Brahmanical, Jaina, Materialist, and Buddhist traditions, Bina Gupta guides the reader through the classical schools of Indian thought,...

    Published August 2nd 2011 by Routledge