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  • Gratitude, Injury, and Repair in a Pandemic Age

    An Interreligious Dialogue

    by Mona Siddiqui, Nathanael Vette, James Spickard, Susan Abraham, Anantanand Rambachan, Edward Donalson, Jaisy Joseph, Kristi Lee, Vasudha Narayanan, Douglas Peduti ...
    Scholarly insight and reflection on finding meaning in the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemicThe COVID-19 pandemic caused a horrific loss of life and had tremendous, long-lasting psychological effects. Diagnoses of anxiety and mental illness are now at much higher levels than they were in 2019. For believers, the pandemic raised questions about the nature of God, increasing the need for ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Inventing and Reinventing the Goddess

    Contemporary Iterations of Hindu Deities on the Move

    by Sree Padma, Brenda Beck, Perundevi Srinivasan, Sasikumar Balasundaram, Vasudha Narayanan, Neelima Shukla-Bhatt, Caleb Simmons, Priya Kapoor, Phillipe Bornet, R Mahalakshmi0 ...
    Popular religion in village India is overwhelmingly dominated by goddess worship. Goddesses can be nationally well-known like Durga or Kali, or they can be an obscure deity who is only known in a particular rural locale. The origins of a goddess can be both ancient—with many transitions or amalgamations with other cults having occurred along the way—and very recent. While some have tribal origins, ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Nine Nights of Power

    Durgā, Dolls, and Darbārs

    Edited by Ute Hüsken, Vasudha Narayanan, Astrid Zotter ...
    Series series SUNY series in Hindu Studies
    Explores the rich diversity of narratives, rituals, and participants connected with one of the most important celebrations for Hindus in South Asia and in the diaspora.The autumnal Navarātri festival-also called Durgā Pūjā, Dassehra, or Dasain-is the most important Hindu festival in South Asia and wherever Hindus settle. A nine-night-long celebration in honor of the goddess Durgā, it ends on the ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Materiality

    Edited by Vasudha Narayanan ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
    The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Materiality provides a thoughtfully organized, inclusive, and vibrant project of the multiple ways in which religion and materiality intersect. The contributions explore the way that religion is shaped by, and has shaped, the material world, embedding beliefs, doctrines, and texts into social and cultural contexts of production, circulation, and ... Read more

    $224.99 CAD

  • The Life of Hinduism

    Edited by John Stratton Hawley, Vasudha Narayanan ...
    Series Book 3 - The Life of Religion
    The Life of Hinduism brings together a series of essays—many recognized as classics in the field—that present Hinduism as a vibrant, truly "lived" religion. Celebrating the diversity for which Hinduism is known, this volume begins its journey in the "new India" of Bangalore, India’s Silicon Valley, where global connections and local traditions rub shoulders daily. Readers are then offered a ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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    What Prayer Can Mean in a World Beyond Belief

    by Gretta Vosper ...
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  • Japanese Culture

    The Religious and Philosophical Foundations

    by Roger J. Davies ...
    Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations takes readers on a thoroughly researched and extremely readable journey through Japan's cultural history.This much-anticipated sequel to Roger Davies's best-selling The Japanese Mind provides a comprehensive overview of the religion and philosophy of Japan. This cultural history of Japan explains the diverse cultural traditions that ... Read more

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  • After Whiteness

    An Education in Belonging

    by Willie James Jennings ...
    Series series Theological Education between the Times (TEBT)
    On forming people who form communionTheological education has always been about formation: first of people, then of communities, then of the world. If we continue to promote whiteness and its related ideas of masculinity and individualism in our educational work, it will remain diseased and thwart our efforts to heal the church and the world. But if theological education aims to form people who ... Read more

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  • The Origins of Yoga and Tantra

    Indic Religions to the Thirteenth Century

    by Geoffrey Samuel ...
    Yoga, tantra and other forms of Asian meditation are practised in modernized forms throughout the world today, but most introductions to Hinduism or Buddhism tell only part of the story of how they developed. This book is an interpretation of the history of Indic religions up to around 1200 CE, with particular focus on the development of yogic and tantric traditions. It assesses how much we really ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • God Is Watching You

    How the Fear of God Makes Us Human

    by Dominic Johnson ...
    "And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die." The biblical story of the flood crystalizes--in its terrifying, dramatic simplicity--the universally recognized concept of divine punishment. For millennia human civilizations have relied on such beliefs to ... Read more

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  • Ritual : Perspectives and Dimensions--Revised Edition

    Perspectives and Dimensions--Revised Edition

    by Catherine Bell ...
    From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet in many ways equally legitimate interpretations ritual seems to ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies

    Edited by Pashaura Singh, Louis E. Fenech ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies innovatively combines the ways in which scholars from fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, religious studies, literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics have integrated the study of Sikhism within a wide range of critical and postcolonial perspectives on the nature of religion, violence, gender, ethno-nationalism ... Read more

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