Forthcoming Hinduism Books

Forthcoming Books

1. A Woman's Ramayana

   Candravati's Bengali Epic

   By Mandakranta Bose, Sarika Bose

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   The Ramayana, an ancient epic of India, with audiences across vast stretches of time and geography, continues to influence numberless readers socially and morally through its many re-tellings. Made available in English for the first time, the 16th century version presented here is by Candravati, a...

   To Be Published June 10th 2013 by Routledge
2. Re-figuring the Ramayana as Theology

   A History of Reception in Premodern India

   By Ajay K. Rao

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   The Ramayana of Valmiki is considered by many contemporary Hindus to be a foundational religious text. But this understanding is in part the result of a transformation of the epic’s receptive history, a hermeneutic project which challenged one characterization of the genre of the text, as a work of...

   To Be Published June 12th 2013 by Routledge
3. 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...

   To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Chaitanya Vaishnava Vedanta of Jiva Gosvami

   When Knowledge Meets Devotion

   By Ravi M. Gupta

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   The Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition is famous for its depth of devotion to Krishna, the blue-hued Deity. Chaitanya Vaishnavas are known for having refined the practice and aesthetics of devotion into a sophisticated science. This imposing devotional edifice was constructed upon a solid foundation of...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
5. Attending Krishna's Image

   Chaitanya Vaishnava Murti-seva as Devotional Truth

   By Kenneth Russell Valpey

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   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...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
6. Advaita Vedanta and Vaisnavism

   The Philosophy of Madhusudana Sarasvati

   By Sanjukta Gupta

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   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...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
7. Hindu Pilgrimage

   Shifting Patterns of Worldview of Srisailam

   By Prabhavati Reddy

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   In recent years, changes in religious studies in general and the study of Hinduism in particular have drawn more scholarly attention to other forms of the Hindu faith that are concretely embodied in temples, icons, artworks, rituals, and pilgrimage practices. This book analyses phenomenon of...

   To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora

   Edited by Rajesh Rai, Chitra Sankaran

   Religious identity constitutes a key element in the formation, development and sustenance of South Asian diasporic communities. Through studies of South Asian communities situated in multiple locales, this book explores the role of religious identity in the social and political organization of the...

   To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Bhakti and Embodiment

   Fashioning Divine Bodies and Devotional Bodies in Krsna Bhakti

   By Barbara A. Holdrege

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   This book explores the connections between bhakti and embodiment and is concerned more specifically with constructions of divine bodies and devotional bodies in Krishna bhakti traditions. Grounding general reflections on bhakti and embodiment in an analysis of two case studies: the Bhagavata...

   To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge
10. History and Material Culture in Asian Religions

    Edited by Benjamin Fleming, Richard Mann

    Series: Routledge Research in Religion, Media and Culture

    Traditionally, research on the history of Asian religions has been marked by a bias for literary evidence, privileging canonical texts penned in ‘classical’ languages. Not only has a focus on literary evidence shaped the dominant narratives about the religious histories of Asia, in both scholarship...

    To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge