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• Author(s): D. Anand • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Civil RightsThe representation of the Muslims as threatening to India's body politic is central to the Hindu nationalist project of organizing a politica...

• Author(s): S. Ramey • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Islam - SufiBy analyzing concrete examples of the creation of a heritage in the context of migration, this multi-sited ethnography considers the implicat...

• Author(s): Vineeta Sinha • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sociology of ReligionFrom the Back CoverThe historical and empirical project presented here is grounded in a desire to theorize 'religion-state' relations in ...

• Author(s): A. S. Saidan • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralThe purpose of presenting this book to the scholarly world is twofold. In the first place, I wish to provide for the English reader a translation of the...

• Author(s): Diana Dimitrova • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Comparative LiteratureFrom the Back CoverThis book explores the representation of Hinduism through myth and discourse in urban Hindi theatre in th...

• Author(s): Rita Sherma • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sociology of ReligionFrom the Back CoverThe emergence of Hinduism as a field of study in the Western academia coincides with the development of modern hermeneut...

• Author(s): Alok Kumar • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: HistoryTo understand modern science as a coherent story, it is essential to recognize the accomplishments of the ancient Hindus. They invented our base-ten numbe...

• Author(s): Ragini Sen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: PersonalityThis Brief looks at the illustrative case of the Hindu-Muslim conflict in India, with the aim of understanding the dynamics of lived secularism as it ...

• Author(s): Usha Menon • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book is a detailed ethnography of traditional, predominantly upper-caste, sequestered Hindu women in the temple tow...

• Author(s): Arvind Sharma • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Religious

• Author(s): W. E. Van Wijk • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sociology - General

• Author(s): N. Wijk • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Astronomy - General

• Author(s): C. Gupta • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Women's StudiesThrough analysis of an impressive array of 'low' and 'high' Hindu literatures, particularly pamphlets, tracts, newspapers, and archival da...

• Author(s): David B. Zilberman • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: EasternIn his letter to B. K. Matilal, dated February 20, 1977, the author of this book wrote about his work on Advaita-Vedanta: " ... It was not to pres...

• Author(s): Kenneth R. Valpey • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: ReligiousFrom the Back CoverThis open access book provides both a broad perspective and a focused examination of cow care as a subject of widesp...

• Author(s): Jaap Kunst • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: General

• Author(s): Lavanya Vemsani • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Hinduism - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThe Mahabharata preserves powerful journeys of women recognized as the feminine divine and the feminine heroi...

• Author(s): Glyn Richards • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Comparative ReligionThese studies in religion embrace Hindu, Buddhist and Christian themes and examine the spiritual insights and philosophical refl...

• Author(s): Mani Rao • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialFrom the Back CoverLiving Mantra is an anthropology of mantra-experience among Hindu-tantric practitioners. In ancien...

• Author(s): C. MacKenzie Brown • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Comparative ReligionFrom the Back CoverThis volume brings together diverse Asian religious perspectives to address critical issues in the encounter betwe...

• Author(s): T. Pintchman • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Hinduism - HistoryOffering multilayered explorations of Hindu understandings of the Feminine, both human and divine, this book emphasizes theological...

• Author(s): Thomas B. Ellis • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: ReligiousFrom the Back CoverThis searching examination of the life and philosophy of the twentieth-century Indian intellectual Jarava Lal Mehta details, amo...

• Author(s): Ganga Ram Regmi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyFrom the Back CoverThis book describes the myriad components of the Hindu Kush-Himalaya (HKH) region. The contributors elaborate on c...

• Author(s): U. C. Sharma • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Agriculture - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book focuses on the nature and properties of soils of Hindu Kush-Himalayas and their management for agricultural l...

• Author(s): Amod Damle • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: GeneralThis book examines the rise of two contrasting variants of Hindu nationalism--the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) divisive cultural nationalism a...

• Author(s): P. P. Bilimoria • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: EasternDr PurusQttama Bilimoria's book on sabdapramaIJa is an important one, and so is likely to arouse much controversy. I am pleased to be able to write a...

• Author(s): Philippus Wester • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyFrom the Back CoverThis open access volume is the first comprehensive assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. It comp...

• Author(s): Zhanhuan Shang • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Discusses carbon management and its linkages with livelihood improvement of the fragile communities...

• Author(s): Paresh Mishra • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Business EthicsFrom the Back CoverThis book combines the wisdom in ancient Hindu texts on dharma, with the modern research on management to identify...

• Author(s): Hari Krishna Nibanupudi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThe Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is highly vulnerable to earthquakes and water-induced disasters. This frag...

• Author(s): B. Cohen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialRejecting simplified notions of 'civilizational clashes', this book argues for a new perspective on Hindu, Muslim, an...

• Author(s): Michel Boivin • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialFrom the Back CoverThis book demonstrates how a local elite built upon colonial knowledge to produce a vernacula...

• Author(s): Hussam S. Timani • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Christian Theology - LiberationFrom the Back CoverThis book explores the ideals of liberation theology from the perspectives of major religious t...

• Author(s): Rajwant Singh Chilana • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: SikhismFrom the Back CoverThe International Bibliography of Sikh Studies brings together all books, composite works, journal articles, conference proc...

• Author(s): David Bryce Yaden • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sociology of ReligionFrom the Back CoverThis book codifies, describes, and contextualizes group rituals and individual practices from world religious trad...

• Author(s): Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Sexuality & Gender StudiesFrom the Back CoverIn this book, historians of religion and gender studies explore the biographies of a numbe...