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There is a growing scholarly interest in Hindu religion. Associated with this is the attention to sacred images and their worship. This book extends the discussion on Indian images and their worship, bringing historical and comparative dimensions and considering Krishna worship in the context of modernity, both in India and the West.

Analysing the philosophical arguments about the understanding of environment in the Hindu context, this book demonstrates the intrinsic worth of both animals and plants and argues that this, combined with doctrine of living liberation, allows a conceptual space for the validity of environmental ethics in Hinduism.

Discusses the contribution of Chaitanya Vaishnava to the realm of Indian philosophy.

Deepak Sarma explores the degree to which outsiders can understand and interpret the doctrine of the Madhva school of Vedanta.

Although a strict monist, Madhusudana Sarasvati, who lived in sixteenth century Bengal, tried to make a synthesis between his monistic philosophy and his theology of emotional love for God. This book provides a study of Sarasvati's thoughts. It explores the religious context of his works, offering insights into Indian philosophy and theology.

Arguing that the combination of structural and thematic features which have helped to establish the enduring cultural centrality of religious narrative in South Asia, this book presents the Mahabharata's complex orientation to the cosmic, social and textual past. It highlights the contexts of origin and transmission.

The book provides an introduction to the history and the development of Indian epistemology, a synopsis of Kumarila's work and an analysis of its argument.

Presents an analysis to the doctrine of desire less action in Indian philosophy. This book surveys the contemporary literature on desire less action. It is suitable for scholars of Indian philosophy, religion, the Bhagavadgita and Hinduism.

Focuses on the analysis of pure consciousness as found in Advaita Vedanta, one of the main schools of Indian philosophy. This book explores the nature of reality and pure consciousness, and analyzes ignorance as propounded in Advaita. It also contrasts the Yogacara and Advaita understandings of consciousness.

Focuses on the theory and practice of yoga. This book offers perspectives on yoga's manifestations and maps the movement, development and consolidation of yoga in global settings. It features contributions from disciplines including anthropology and Philosophy. It is intended for those involved in academic scholarship, and yoga practitioners.

Aims to fills a gap in Shrivaishnava scholarship, making an important contribution to Indian and Hindu thinking on religion.

The "Mahabharata" is one of the most important texts to emerge from the Indian cultural tradition. This book brings together the most respected scholars in the field of "Mahabharata "studies, and focuses on gender constructions. It analyzes the text in terms of the poetic and philosophical possibilities thrown up by the semiotics of gendering.

Accounts for the origin and evolution of the nature and roles of women within the Hindu belief system. This book 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 created.

This book analyses the phenomenon of pilgrimage as a religious practice and experience and examines Shrî Shailam, a renowned south Indian pilgrimage site of Shiva and Goddess Durga. In doing so, it investigates two dimensions: the worldview of a place that is of utmost sanctity for Hindu pilgrims and its historical evolution from medieval to modern times. Reddy blends religion, anthropology, art history and politics into one interdisciplinary exploration of how Shrî Shailam became the epicentre for Shaivism. Through this approach, the book examines Shrî Shailam¿s influence on pan-Indian religious practices; the amalgamation of Brahmanical and regional traditions; and the intersection of the ideological and the civic worlds with respect to the management of pilgrimage centre in modern times.

Samkhya and Yoga are two of the oldest and most influential systems of classical Indian philosophy. This book provides an analysis of these. Placing particular emphasis on the metaphysical schema which underlies both concepts, it develops an interpretation of the standard views on Samkhya and Yoga.

A study of the Vedanta of Ramanuja and a critique of modern Western and Indian interpretation of Ramanuja's work. It addresses the neglect of classical Western theism and of its relationship to Indian thought by Western and Indian scholars and furthers the proper appreciation of Ramanuja as a great Vedantic teacher.

This book is the first to present current scholarship on gender and in regional and sectarian versions of the R¿m¿yäa. Through the analysis of the representation and treatment of female characters, narrative inventions, structural design, textual variants, and the idiom of composition and technique in art and sculpture are revealed and it is shown what and in which way these alternative versions are unique.