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.
Religion, Narrative and Public Imagination in South Asia: Past and Place in the Sanskrit Mahabharata
1st Edition
By James Hegarty
July 22, 2015
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 ...
Interpreting Devotion: The Poetry and Legacy of a Female Bhakti Saint of India
1st Edition
By Karen Pechilis
July 16, 2015
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 ...
Consciousness in Indian Philosophy: The Advaita Doctrine of ‘Awareness Only’
1st Edition
By Sthaneshwar Timalsina
April 28, 2014
This book focuses on the analysis of pure consciousness as found in Advaita Vedanta, one of the main schools of Indian philosophy. According to this tradition, reality is identified as Brahman, the world is considered illusory, and the individual self is identified with the absolute reality. ...
Attending Krishna's Image: Chaitanya Vaishnava Murti-seva as Devotional Truth
1st Edition
By Kenneth Russell Valpey
December 19, 2013
There is a steady and growing scholarly, as well as popular interest in Hindu religion – especially devotional (bhakti) traditions as forms of spiritual practice and expressions of divine embodiment. Associated with this is the attention to sacred images and their worship. Attending Krishna's...
Advaita Vedanta and Vaisnavism: The Philosophy of Madhusudana Sarasvati
1st Edition
By Sanjukta Gupta
September 03, 2013
In Indian philosophy and theology, the ideology of Vedanta occupies an important position. Hindu religious sects accept the Vedantic soteriology, which believes that there is only one conscious reality, Brahman from which the entire creation, both conscious and non-conscious, emanated. Madhusudana...
Classical Samkhya and Yoga: An Indian Metaphysics of Experience
1st Edition
By Mikel Burley
September 10, 2012
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 ...
Desire and Motivation in Indian Philosophy
1st Edition
By Christopher Framarin
August 07, 2012
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 ...
A Hindu Critique of Buddhist Epistemology: Kumarila on Perception: The 'Determination of Perception' Chapter of Kumarila Bhatta's Slokavarttika - Translation and Commentary
1st Edition
By John Taber
July 11, 2012
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 ...
Women in the Hindu Tradition: Rules, Roles and Exceptions
1st Edition
By Mandakranta Bose
September 24, 2011
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 ...
Yoga in the Modern World: Contemporary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Singleton, Jean Byrne
December 17, 2009
Today yoga is a thoroughly globalised phenomenon. Yoga has taken the world by storm and is even seeing renewed popularity in India. Both in India and abroad, adults, children and teenagers are practicing yoga in diverse settings; gyms, schools, home, work, yoga studios and temples. The yoga ...
Gender and Narrative in the Mahabharata
1st Edition
Edited
By Simon Brodbeck, Brian Black
May 14, 2009
The Sanskrit Mahabharata is one of the most important texts to emerge from the Indian cultural tradition. At almost 75,000 verses it is the longest poem in the world, and throughout Indian history it has been hugely influential in shaping gender and social norms. In the context of ancient India, it...
Self-Surrender (prapatti) to God in Shrivaishnavism: Tamil Cats or Sanskrit Monkeys?
1st Edition
By Srilata Raman
April 29, 2009
Filling the most glaring gap in Shrivaishnava scholarship, this book deals with the history of interpretation of a theological concept of self-surrender-prapatti in late twelfth and thirteenth century religious texts of the Shrivaishnava community of South India. This original study shows that ...