Hinduism category: 1323 books
Spiritual Despots
Modern Hinduism and the Genealogies of Self-Rule
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Historians of religion have examined at length the Protestant Reformation and the liberal idea of the self-governing individual that arose from it. In Spiritual Despots, J. Barton Scott reveals an unexamined piece of this story: how Protestant technologies of asceticism became entangled with Hindu...
Hindu Selves in a Modern World
Guru Faith in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
This book explores devotional Hinduism in a modern context of high consumerism and revolutionised communications. It focuses on a fast-growing and high-profile contemporary Hindu guru faith originating in India and attracting a transnational following. The organisation is led by a vastly popular female...
Diaspora of the Gods
Modern Hindu Temples in an Urban Middle-Class World
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2004
Many Hindus today are urban middle-class people with religious values similar to those of their professional counterparts in America and Europe. Just as modern professionals continue to build new churches, synagogues, and now mosques, Hindus are erecting temples to their gods wherever their work and...
Oriental Philosophy II
Supreme God and the demigods
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Eastern philosophy Philosophy Chinese philosophy Iranian philosophy Japanese philosophy Indian philosophy Korean philosophy Divine presence Revelation Divine language Will of God Divine judgment Salvation Divine providence Metaphysics Natural philosophy Bhagavad Gita Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Aldous...
Hindu Epic Mahabharata
The story in the Form of Questions and Answers
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
The Vedas, the Ramayana, the Gita, the Puranas and the Mahabharata are some of Hindu's ancient religious texts that have been guiding the society for ages towards the development of a better society. A God-fearing person on his own desists himself from doing wrong, as he is aware of the omnipresence...
Demystifying Brahminism and Re-Inventing Hinduism
Volume 1 - Demystifying Brahminism
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
‘Religion is a tool in the hands of the oppressor against the oppressed solely because he frames the commandments and calls them the God’s’, is an apt description of the Hindu social order.
by Charles Webster Leadbeater
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
When ignorant missionaries dilate upon the three hundred and thirty million gods of the Hindus they are making a very gross misrepresentation of a religion which is far more scientific than their own....
-Charles Webster Leadbeater was an influential member of the Theosophical Society,...
The Future of Hindu–Christian Studies
A Theological Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
The field of Hindu-Christian studies revives theology as a particularly useful interreligious discipline. Though a sub-division of the broader Hindu-Christian dialogue, it is also a distinct field of study, proper to a smaller group of religious intellectuals. At its best it envisions a two-sided,...
by Raghubir Lal Anand
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
My Incredible India is beautiful in all its aspects. We have natural paradise on earth called Jammu & Kashmir. It is the abode of Bharat Mata (Maa Vaishno Devi); a valley full of vibrant natural beauties and large inventories of flora & fauna which is not found anywhere on this mother earth....
by Arthur Avalon
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Mahanirvana Tantra
Translated by Arthur Avalon
The best known of the Tantric scriptures. It was translated by Sir John Woodruffe (under the pseudonym 'Arthur Avalon'), one of the few Indologists to gain direct access to this obscure and secretive branch of Hinduism. Framed as a conversation...
by L. De La Vallée Poussin
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
The primitive meaning of this celebrated word, Nirvāṇa, seems to be twofold: on the one hand, 'becoming cool, cooling'; on the other hand, 'blowing out,' 'extinguishing.' There is a nirvāṇa of a man who is thirsty as well as of a candle.
Hence two directions in the evolution of the religious...
by Ajai Kumar Chhawchharia
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
This Book is an excellent and comprehensive compilation in English with Roman Transliteration of the Scriptural Texts of Hinduism that brings under one single Title all such Scriptural Texts that glorify, honour and extol the divine Name of Lord Ram, as well as the many Sacred Stotras, Mantras and...
The Children of the Immortal
A Quest into the Hindu Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
“Who is a Hindu?”This question mystifies both Hindus and non-Hindus around the world. Many Hindus, having lived in cosmopolitan cities across the globe, have not been brought up in a traditional Hindu society and are often at a loss to comprehend and describe their own identity. Their claim to being...
Mahabharata
Quiz Book - 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Religious texts play an important role in benefiting society as well as in upholding the values in it. The Vedas, the Ramayana, the Gita, the Puraanas and the Mahabharata are some of Hindu's ancient religious texts that have been guiding the society for ages towards the development of a better society....