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Genealogy of the South Indian Deitiesby Daniel Jeyaraj
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 188.00For the first time, the work Genealogy of the South Indian Deities of the first Protestant missionary to India, Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg (1682-1719), is made accessible to an English readership. more...
Hindu Goddessesby David R. Kinsley
University of California Press 1988; US$ 26.95Goddess worship has long been a significant aspect of Hinduism. In this book David Kinsley, author of The Sword and the Flute?Kali & Krsna: Dark Visions of the Terrible and the Sublime in Hindu Mythology , sorts out the rich yet often chaotic history of Hindu goddess worship. more...
Encountering Kaliby Rachel Fell McDermott; Jeffrey John Kripal
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 Outby Don Handelman; David Shulman; Carmel Berkson
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 70.00Siva, 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...
Offering Flowers, Feeding Skullsby June McDaniel
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 40.00In '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...
Krishnaby Edwin F. Bryant
Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 35.00Contributors: 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 Sharma, Paul Sherbow, William L. Smith more...
Sivaby Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
Oxford University Press, USA 1981; US$ 30.00Originally 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 tribal--centering on the stories of the great ascetic, Siva, and his erotic alter ego, Kama. more...
Sarasvatiby Catherine Ludvik
BRILL 2007; US$ 166.00Drawing on textual and art historical sources, this book traces the conceptual and iconographic development of the Indian riverine goddess of knowledge Sarasvati from sometime after 1750 BCE to the seventh century CE. more...
Myths of the World: Ancient Indiaby Virginia Schomp
Marshall Cavendish 2009; US$ 34.21Explores the mythology of ancient India, one of historys greatest civilizations. more...
Tripura Rahasyaby Ramananda Saraswathi
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...









