Routledge Hindu Studies Series
About the Book Series
This series, in association with the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, intends primarily the publication of constructive Hindu theological, philosophical and ethical projects aimed at bringing Hindu traditions into dialogue with contemporary trends in scholarship and contemporary society. The series invites original, high quality, research level work on religion, culture and society of Hindus living in India and abroad. Proposals for annotated translations of important primary sources and studies in the history of the Hindu religious traditions will also be considered.
The Legacy of Vaiṣṇavism in Colonial Bengal
1st Edition
Edited
By Ferdinando Sardella, Lucian Wong
June 30, 2021
This book offers a focused examination of the Bengali Vaiṣṇava tradition in its manifold forms in the pivotal context of British colonialism in South Asia. Bringing together scholars from across the disciplines of social and intellectual history, philology, theology, and anthropology to ...
Vedic Practice, Ritual Studies and Jaimini’s Mīmāṃsāsūtras: Dharma and the Enjoined Subject
1st Edition
By Samuel G. Ngaihte
June 30, 2021
Drawing on insights from Indian intellectual tradition, this book examines the conception of dharma by Jaimini in his Mīmāṃsāsūtras, assessing its contemporary relevance, particularly within ritual scholarship. Presenting a hermeneutical re-reading of the text, it investigates the theme of the ...
Caitanya Vaiṣṇavism in Bengal: Social Impact and Historical Implications
1st Edition
Edited
By Rembert Lutjeharms, Joseph T. O'Connell
June 30, 2020
Within the broad Hindu religious tradition, there have been for millennia many subtraditions generically called Vaiṣṇava, who insist that the most appropriate mode of religious faith and experience is bhakti, or devotion, to the supreme personal deity, Viṣṇu. Caitanya Vaiṣṇavas are a community...
The Goddess and the King in Indian Myth: Ring Composition, Royal Power and The Dharmic Double Helix
1st Edition
By Raj Balkaran
June 30, 2020
The Sanskrit narrative text Devī Māhātmya, “The Greatness of The Goddess,” extols the triumphs of an all-powerful Goddess, Durgā, over universe-imperiling demons. These exploits are embedded in an intriguing frame narrative: a deposed king solicits the counsel of a forest-dwelling ascetic, who ...
Modern Hindu Traditionalism in Contemporary India: The Sri Ma?h and the Jagadguru Ramanandacarya in the Evolution of the Ramanandi Sampradaya
1st Edition
By Daniela Bevilacqua
December 12, 2019
Modern Hindu Traditionalism addresses Hindu traditions that resisted contact with both Neo-Hindu thought and views of “classical” Hinduism perceived to be outmoded.This book provides an in-depth understanding of Modern Hindu Traditionalism through the case study of the Rāmānandī order (sampradāya) ...
River and Goddess Worship in India: Changing Perceptions and Manifestations of Sarasvati
1st Edition
By R.U.S. Prasad
December 12, 2019
Sarasvati assumes different roles, a physical river and a river goddess, then as a goddess of speech and finally that of a goddess of learning, knowledge, arts and music. References to Sarasvati in the Vedas and the Brahmanas, the Mahabharata and the Puranas and her marked presence in other ...
The Future of Hindu�Christian Studies: A Theological Inquiry
1st Edition
By Francis Clooney
December 12, 2019
The field of Hindu-Christian studies revives theology as a particularly useful interreligious discipline. Though a sub-division of the broader Hindu-Christian dialogue, it is also a distinct field of study, proper to a smaller group of religious intellectuals. At its best it envisions a two-sided, ...
The Other Ramayana Women: Regional Rejection and Response
1st Edition
Edited
By John Brockington, Mary Brockington
December 12, 2019
This book is the first to present current scholarship on gender and in regional and sectarian versions of the Rāmāyaṇa. Contributors explore in what ways the versions relate to other Rāmāyaṇa texts as they deal with the female persona and the cultural values implicit in them. Using a wide variety ...
Hindu Images and their Worship with special reference to Vaisnavism: A philosophical-theological inquiry
1st Edition
By Julius Lipner
August 08, 2019
Hinduism comprises perhaps the major cluster of religio-cultural traditions of India, and it can play a valuable role in helping us understand the nature of religion and human responses to life. Hindu image-worship lies at the core of what counts for Hinduism – up-front and subject to much ...
The Integral Philosophy of Aurobindo: Hermeneutics and the Study of Religion
1st Edition
By Brainerd Prince
August 14, 2018
Sri Aurobindo was an Indian nationalist, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet. This book is an enquiry into the integral philosophy of Aurobindo and its contemporary relevance. It offers a reading of Aurobindo’s key texts by bringing them into conversation with religious studies and the hermeneutical ...
Nonviolence in the Mahabharata: Siva’s Summa on Rishidharma and the Gleaners of Kurukshetra
1st Edition
By Alf Hiltebeitel
July 27, 2018
In Indian mythological texts like the Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa, there are recurrent tales about gleaners. The practice of "gleaning" in India had more to do with the house-less forest life than with residential village or urban life or with gathering residual post-harvest grains from cultivated ...
Debating 'Conversion' in Hinduism and Christianity
1st Edition
By Ankur Barua
June 28, 2018
Hindu and Christian debates over the meanings, motivations, and modalities of ‘conversion’ provide the central connecting theme running through this book. It focuses on the reasons offered by both sides to defend or oppose the possibility of these cross-border movements, and shows how these reasons...