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  • Singing the Goddess into Place

    Locality, Myth, and Social Change in Chamundi of the Hill, a Kannada Folk Ballad

    by Caleb Simmons ...
    Series series SUNY series in Hindu Studies
    Explores how a folk ballad in southern India transforms the landscape and embeds the deities that are its subject within the social worlds of their devotees.Singing the Goddess into Place examines Chamundi of the Hill, a collection of songs that tells the stories of the gods and goddesses of the region around the city of Mysore in southern Karnataka. The ballad actively transforms the region into ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Nine Nights of the Goddess

    The Navarātri Festival in South Asia

    Edited by Caleb Simmons, Moumita Sen, Hillary P. Rodrigues ...
    Series series SUNY series in Hindu Studies
    Explores the contemporary nature and the diverse narratives, rituals, and performances of the Navarātri Festival.Nine Nights of the Goddess explores the festival of Navarātri-alternatively called Navarātra, Mahānavamī, Durgā Pūjā, Dasarā, and/or Dassain-which lasts for nine nights and ends with a celebration called Vijayadaśamī, or "the tenth (day) of victory." Celebrated in both massive public ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Devotional Sovereignty

    Kingship and Religion in India

    by Caleb Simmons ...
    Series series AAR Religion Culture and History
    Devotional Sovereignty: Kingship and Religion in India investigates the shifting conceptualization of sovereignty in the South Indian kingdom of Mysore during the reigns of Tipu Sultan (r. 1782-1799) and Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (r. 1799-1868). Tipu Sultan was a Muslim king famous for resisting British dominance until his death; Krishnaraja III was a Hindu king who succumbed to British political ... Read more

    $115.19 USD

  • 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

    $55.09 USD

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  • India

    A Sacred Geography

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    In India: A Sacred Geography, renowned Harvard scholar Diana Eck offers an extraordinary spiritual journey through the pilgrimage places of the world's most religiously vibrant culture and reveals that it is, in fact, through these sacred pilgrimages that India’s very sense of nation has emerged.No matter where one goes in India, one will find a landscape in which mountains, rivers, forests, and ... Read more

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  • Japanese Culture

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  • Tao Te Ching

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    The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism

    by Judith Simmer-Brown ...
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  • Zen Questions

    Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry

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