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Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 39.99In 'Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls', June McDaniel provides an overview of Bengali goddess worship or Shakti. She identifies three major forms of goddess worship, and examines each through its myths, folklore, songs, rituals, sacred texts, and practitioners, tracing these strands through Bengali culture. more...
Siva
Oxford University Press, USA 1981; US$ 39.99Originally published under the title Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva, this book traces the development of an Indian approach to an enduring human dilemma: the conflict between spiritual aspirations and human desires. The work examines hundreds of related myths and a wide range of Indian texts--Vedic, Puranic, classical, modern, and... more...
Saivism in the Diaspora
Equinox Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 99.95The book explores contemporary manifestations of the worship of Siva that have transmigrated to the West. It explores Hindu vernacular traditions or village Hinduism especially in the context of the Hindu diaspora, where the general assumption is that such forms of Hinduism cannot survive as they lack the infrastructure and the rural environment more...
Genealogy of the South Indian Deities
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 44.95For the first time Genealogy of the South Indian Deities, the work of Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg (1682-1719), the first Protestant missionary in India, is made accessible to an English readership. Originally published in 1713, the text reveals Ziegenbalg's ethos in the emerging European Enlightenment and his willingness to learn from the South Indians.... more...
Encountering Kali
University of California Press 2003; US$ 15.95Encountering Kalő explores one of the most remarkable divinities the world has seen--the Hindu goddess Kalő. She is simultaneously understood as a blood-thirsty warrior, a goddess of ritual possession, a Tantric sexual partner, and an all-loving, compassionate Mother. more...
God Inside Out
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 69.99Siva, a Hindu god, plays dice with his wife, to whom he habitually loses. The result of the game is our world, which turns the god inside-out and changes his internal composition. This book aims to show the logic implicit in this theology of play, fragmentation, divine self-knowledge and love. more...
Krishna
Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 34.99Contributors: Vidyut Aklujkar, Paul Arney, Richard Barz, Neelima Shukla Bhatt, Edwin F. Bryant, Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Satyanarayana Dasa, Neal Delmonico, David Haberman, John Stratton Hawley, Alf Hiltebeitel, Steven P. Hopkins, Ekkhard Lorenz, Nancy Martin, Robert N. Minor, Bijoy M. Misra, Vasudha Narayanan, Lance E. Nelson, Graham Schweig, Deepak... more...
Tripura Rahasya
World Wisdom 2003; US$ 9.99Tripura Rahasya: The Secret of the Supreme Goddess, a favorite of Sri Ramana Maharshi from which he often quoted, is an ancient Sanskrit work and one of the greatest classics of Hindu spirituality. more...
The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York
Oxford University Press, USA 2005; US$ 26.99Corinne Dempsey profiles an unusual South Indian temple community in Rush, New York, outside Rochester. The temple, established by a charismatic non-Brahman Sri Lankan Tamil, stands out for its combination of orthodox ritual meticulousness and socioreligi more...









