Hinduism Books

New and Published Books

1. Emptiness Appraised

   A Critical Study of Nagarjuna's Philosophy

   By David F. Burton

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

   Emptiness means that all entities are empty of, or lack, inherent existence - entities have a merely conceptual, constructed existence. Though Nagarjuna advocates the Middle Way, his philosophy of emptiness nevertheless entails nihilism, and his critiques of the Nyaya theory of knowledge are shown...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Interpretations of the Bhagavad-Gita and Images of the Hindu Tradition

   The Song of the Lord

   By Catherine A. Robinson

   The Bhagavad-Gita is probably the most popular - and certainly the most frequently quoted and widely studied - work of the Hindu scriptures. This book investigates the relationship between the various interpretations of the Bhagavad-Gita and the Hindu tradition. Taking into account a range of...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Making Sense of the Secular

   Critical Perspectives from Europe to Asia

   Edited by Ranjan Ghosh

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia. The book evaluates secularism as it exists today – its formations and discontents within contemporary discourses of power, terror, religion and cosmopolitanism – and...

   Published November 5th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Yogi and the Devotee (Routledge Revivals)

   The Interplay Between the Upanishads and Catholic Theology

   By Ninian Smart

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1968, Ninian Smart’s The Yogi and the Devotee: The Interplay Between the Upanishads and Catholic Theology is based on lectures given in Delhi and explores in a novel way the relation between Hinduism and Christianity. The author puts forward a general theory of the relationship...

   Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge
5. Classical Samkhya and Yoga

   An Indian Metaphysics of Experience

   By Mikel Burley

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   Samkhya and Yoga are two of the oldest and most influential systems of classical Indian philosophy. This book provides a thorough analysis of the systems in order to fully understand Indian philosophy. Placing particular emphasis on the metaphysical schema which underlies both concepts, the author...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
6. Religious Freedom in India

   Sovereignty and (Anti) Conversion

   By Goldie Osuri

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   Drawing on the critical and theoretical concepts of sovereignty, biopolitics, and necropolitics, this book examines how a normative liberal and secular understanding of India’s religious identity is translatable by Hindu nationalists into discrimination and violence against minoritized religious...

   Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge
7. Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition

   Salvific Space

   By Knut A. Jacobsen

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   Salvific space is one of the central ideas in the Hindu traditions of pilgrimage, and concerns the ability of space, especially sites associated with bodies of water such as rivers and lakes, to grant salvific rewards. Focusing on religious, historical and sociological questions about the...

   Published August 12th 2012 by Routledge
8. Desire and Motivation in Indian Philosophy

   By Christopher G. Framarin

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   Desireless action is typically cited as a criterion of the liberated person in classical Indian texts. Contemporary authors argue with near unanimity that since all action is motivated by desire, desireless action is a contradiction. They conclude that desireless action is action performed without...

   Published August 6th 2012 by Routledge
9. Religion and Commodification

   'Merchandizing' Diasporic Hinduism

   By Vineeta Sinha

   Series: Routledge Research in Religion, Media and Culture

   Sustaining a Hindu universe at an everyday life level requires an extraordinary range of religious specialists and ritual paraphernalia. At the level of practice, devotional Hinduism is an embodied religion and grounded in a materiality, that makes the presence of specific physical objects (which...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
10. A Hindu Critique of Buddhist Epistemology

    Kumarila on Perception: The 'Determination of Perception' Chapter of Kumarila Bhatta's <I>Slokavarttika </I>- Translation and Commentary

    By John Taber

    Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

    This is a translation of the chapter on perception of Kumarilabhatta's magnum opus, the Slokavarttika, one of the central texts of the Hindu response to the criticism of the logical-epistemological school of Buddhist thought. In an extensive commentary, the author explains the course of the...

    Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge