Well-Mannered Medicine
August 2012; published online September 2012.
Book. Subjects: Hinduism. 240 pages.
When is it right for a doctor to lie to a patient? What is more important: a patient's health, or his dignity? When should a patient refuse to follow the doctor's orders? What is acceptable...
Disorienting Dharma
December 2012; published online January 2013.
Book. Subjects: Hinduism. 256 pages.
This book explores the relationship between ethics, aesthetics, and religion in classical Indian literature and literary theory by focusing on one of the most celebrated and enigmatic texts...
The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York
December 2005; published online February 2006.
Book. Subjects: Hinduism. 0 pages.
This book is a portrayal of a flourishing Hindu temple in the town of Rush, New York, dedicated to the great south Indian goddess Rājarājeśwarī. Guided by an exuberant Sri Lankan guru known...
Casting Kings
August 2006; published online September 2006.
Book. Subjects: Hinduism. 240 pages.
Based on three years of anthropological fieldwork in the Indian state of Rajasthan, this book explores the manner that semi-nomadic performers known as Bhats understand and also subvert...
Was Hinduism Invented?
April 2005; published online July 2005.
Book. Subjects: Hinduism. 256 pages.
Is “Hinduism” a legitimate term for the widely varying religious practices of India that are commonly called by that name? The appearance of “religion” as a category comprising a set of...
The Slaying of Meghanada
April 2004; published online October 2005.
Book. Subjects: Hinduism. 0 pages.
“The poem is rising into splendid popularity. Some say it is better than Milton — but that is all bosh — nothing can be better than Milton; many say it licks Kalidasa; I have no objection...
The Ramayana Revisited
October 2004; published online April 2005.
Book. Subjects: Hinduism. 396 pages.
While the “standard” version of the Rāmāyana is a 14th-century Sanskrit text by Valmiki, the diversity and adaptability of this narrative are extraordinary. Many regions and languages have...
American Oriental Society
Overview page. Subjects: Hinduism.
Founded in 1842 to encourage basic research in the languages and literatures of the whole of Asia from a humanistic perspective, its scope is now considerably wider. The society's journal (null...
ammā(n)
Overview page. Subjects: Hinduism.
In the Dravidian languages of South India, a cognate of ambā, widely used as an affix to the names of goddesses (particularly village and clan goddesses), and to the names of women in...
āmnāya
Overview page. Subjects: Hinduism.
A word referring to a particular ‘stream’, ‘current’, or transmission of teachings and practices, which flows from teacher to pupil through the generations. The term is used by both Śaiva...