Mantras (Paperback, 1)

Author’s Preface 1. The Forest of Recluses 2. The Lost Tradition 3. The Beginning of Understanding 4. The Indwelling Deity 5. Some Yogic Mantras 6. Words of Power 7. Shabda, Sacred Sound

Asian American Places of Heritage : Honoring Place, Culture, and Identity (Hardcover)

Introduction.?Part 1: Planning, Policy, and Placemaking?1.1. Resistance Opens the Door for the Rebirth of Japantown: Salt Lake City, UT (Ivis Garcia)?1.2. The Roles of Place and Place-Making in the Development of a Southeast Asian Enclave: A Case Study of Argyle Street, Chicago (Julia Crowley)?1.3. Seattle’s Single-Room-Occupancy Residential Hotels and their Chinese Roots (Wei Zhao)?1.4. Community Stabilization and Historic Preservation in Boston’s Chinatown (Lily Song, Lydia Lowe, Jenny Lau, Martin Gao)?Part 2: Places of Religious Heritage?2.1. Heritage, Identity, and Place: Sacred Placemaking at the Malibu Temple (Shampa Mazumdar and Sanjoy Mazumdar)?2.2. Palimpsest, Mask, or Scrim? Three Adaptive Reuse Approaches to Hindu Temples in the US (Sagarika Ninad Kulkarni, Anupika Babar, and Joshua D. Lee)?2.3. Hindu Temples in the US: A Transplanted Sacred Geography (Ashima Krishna)?2.4. Becoming Cultural Heritage: Media Framings of the Mother Mosque of America (Nathan W. Swanson)?2.5. Spatial Clustering in Diaspora: South Asian American (SAA) Muslim Religious Spaces in Greater Houston (Humayra Alam)?2.6. Adaptive Reuse and the Conversion of Churches to Mosques in Western New York (Shyam K. Sriram, Thomas Larsen, Olivia Schmidt, Analee DeGlopper)?Part 3: Identity, Memory, and Memorialization?3.1. The Oldest Cambodian Temple in Washington State: Cultural Sustainability through Historic Preservation (Rosa Woolsey)?3.2. Gardens of Manzanar: Exploring New Methods in the Historic Preservation of Cultural Landscapes at World War II Confinement Sites (Keiji Uesugi and Lauren Bricker)?3.3. The Iranian American Diaspora in Los Angeles: Cultural Heritage, Identity, and Placemaking in Tehrangeles (Hossein Mousazadeh)?3.4. From Punjab to the Pacific: Honoring and Preserving South Asian Heritage in the U.S. West (Manish Chalana)?Conclusion

Dance and the Secular : In Conversation (Hardcover)

Allama Prabhu and the Shaiva Imagination (Paperback)

A Hindu Ecological Liberation Theology : Radical Divine Immanence, Shakti, and the Living World (Hardcover)

A Hindu Ecological Liberation Theology : Radical Divine Immanence, Shakti, and the Living World (Paperback)

Deciphering the Hidden Meaning: Language and the Highest Good in Early Advaita Vedānta (Hardcover)

Selling Spirituality : The Silent Takeover of Religion (Paperback, 2 ed)

Introduction: Spirituality and the Rebranding of Religion??1: Neoliberalism as the New Orthodoxy??2: A Brief History of Spirituality??3: Western Psychology and the Politics of Spirituality??4: Christianity and Prayers to the Neoliberal Self??5: Spirituality and the Privatisation of Asian Philosophies??6: Mindfulness in an Age of Mass Distraction??7: Selling the Soul: The Business of Capitalist Spirituality? 8: Selling the Future: Green Spirituality, Neoliberalism and the Climate Crisis??Conclusion: Challenging the Corporate Take Over of Our Attention

Selling Spirituality : The Silent Takeover of Religion (Hardcover, 2 ed)

Introduction: Spirituality and the Rebranding of Religion??1: Neoliberalism as the New Orthodoxy??2: A Brief History of Spirituality??3: Western Psychology and the Politics of Spirituality??4: Christianity and Prayers to the Neoliberal Self??5: Spirituality and the Privatisation of Asian Philosophies??6: Mindfulness in an Age of Mass Distraction??7: Selling the Soul: The Business of Capitalist Spirituality? 8: Selling the Future: Green Spirituality, Neoliberalism and the Climate Crisis??Conclusion: Challenging the Corporate Take Over of Our Attention

Living with Gandhi: Experiments in Utopia (Paperback)

The Social Lives of Mantras : From Ancient India to the Contemporary West (Hardcover)

Correlative Worldviews : A Cognitive Perspective on Premodern Cosmologies in South Asia and Europe (Hardcover)

1. Introduction? 2. Categorization and cognition: how correlations are made? 3. Classifying space: cosmology and correlative thought? 4. Microcosmos: the body as the world? 5. Soul and cosmos? 6.?General conclusion

The English Bhagavad Gita : Translation, Transcreations, and Transformation (Hardcover)

Introduction

Part I Contextualizing: Reception, Translation & The Bhagavad Gita

Introduction

Chapter 1. Dialogue in Context: What and How

Chapter 2. The Bhagavad Gita: A Background to its Reception and Translation

Part II A Kshetra of Translations

Introduction

Chapter 3. A Dialectic of Intimacy

Chapter 4. Comparing three Translations of The Bhagavad Gita: Illustrating the Dialectic of Intimacy

Part III After Translations: Transcreations of The Bhagavad Gita

Introduction

Chapter 5. The Transcreated Gita

Chapter 6. Illustrating Transcreations

Conclusion

Nonviolence in Indian Thought : Exploring Ahimsa from the Vedas to Gandhi (Hardcover)

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Foundation of a Vision Leading to Nonviolence

Chapter 2. The Upani?ads - Spiritual Consciousness and Ahi?s?

Chapter 3. Introduction to the Dharmas?tras, Manusm?ti, Mah?bh?rata, Pur??as and Dar?anas

Chapter 4. The Varn??rama and the Paths towards Nonviolence in the Dharmas?tras and Manavadharma??stra

Chapter 5. Ahi?s? and ?n??a?sya in the Mah?bh?rata

Chapter 6. The Bhagavadg?t? - The meaning of Ahi?s? beyond the Warrior’s Duty to Fight

Chapter 7. ?Nonviolence in the Pur??as and Dar?anas??????

Chapter 8. Introduction to Jainism and Buddhism

Chapter 9. Jainism - a Comprehensive Vision and Practice of Nonviolence

Chapter 10. Buddhism - Mindfulness and Nonviolence

Chapter 11. The Complex World of Gandhi’s Ahi?s?

How Grief Becomes Light: Navigating Loss and the Afterlife with Newari Hindu Rituals (Paperback)

Modern Sanskrit : Dialogues across Times, Spaces, and Religions (Hardcover)

Introduction: Bringing Modern Sanskrit into Dialogue??Part One: The Polyphonies of Modern Sanskrit??1. ‘India Has Utterly Changed’: Shivaji and Modernity in a Colonial Sanskrit Novel? 2. Gandhian History in Epic Style: Kshama Rao’s Saty?graha G?t???3. An Epic 20th-century Sanskrit Life: Baladev Upadhyaya and Srinivas Rath’s Baladevacarita-mah?k?vyam??Part Two: Modern Sanskrit in Performance? ?4. Locating Sanskrit: Dialogues of Village and City in Twentieth-Century Sanskrit Drama? 5. Performing Shakuntala in Sanskrit: Between Text and Performance? 6. A ‘Refuge’ for Sanskrit Drama: Amateur Kutiyattam in Contemporary Kerala??Part Three: Modern Sanskrit in Interreligious Dialogue??7. Pravartan?y? Sadvidy? Bhuvi: Sanskrit Learning in a Gujarati Religious Community? 8. Modern Buddhist Sanskrit in Sri Lanka: A Study of Davuldena Gn?nissara’s Yatid?tam??9. Muni Jamb?vijaya and the Jaisalmer Bha???r: Tracing a Jain Monk’s Manuscript Preservation Efforts??Part Four: Sanskrit, Identity, and the Politics of Recovery??10.?Imagining Sanskritland: Shapeshifting “Sanskrit-speaking” Villages and Indian Census Data? 11. Hidden M?rtis: The Sanskrit Students of Radcliffe College??Index

Making Face and Latine Neurodiversity : A Liberative Ethic (Hardcover)

Matsya Purana: Volume 2 (Paperback)

Ascetics as Activists : Saffron Women of Hindu Nationalism (Paperback)

Sharanagati - Surrender, Letting Go: A Selection of Teachings on Surrender Based on Sri Gajapathi Aiyyer's 1936 Diary (Paperback)

Lotus Leadership: A Modern Playbook of Ancient Wisdom (Hardcover)

The 5-minute Gita : Timeless Wisdom for Everyday Life (Hardcover)

The Symbol of Ascent : Human Longing and the Quest for Transcendence (Hardcover)

God at Play (Hardcover)

God's Own Land: Sacred Landscape, Pilgrim Economy, and Religious Change in the Ganga Himalaya (Paperback)