Projects

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_post_title meta=”off” featured_image=”off” _builder_version=”4.0.2″][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.4″ hover_enabled=”0″]Compiled by Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster University, and Laurie Patton, Emory University Bader, Jonathan. Conquest of the Four Quarters: Traditional Accounts of the Life of Sankara. New Delhi, 2000. Bakhtin, M. The Problem of Dostoyevsky’s Poetics, tr. R.W. Rotsel. Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis Press, 1973. Bakhtin,…Continue Reading sammukham / vAda (Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad and Laurie Patton, Summer 2009)

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_post_title meta=”off” featured_image=”off” _builder_version=”4.0.2″][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.4″ hover_enabled=”0″]Compiled by Ann Grodzins Gold, Syracuse University Sources focused on the Mahabharata and other Sanskrit sources Brodbeck, Simon. forthcoming in Religions of South Asia journal: “Janamejaya’s big brother: new light on the Mahabharata’s frame story.” Gail, Adalbert. Parasurama: Brahmane und Krieger Goldman. R. Gods, Priest…Continue Reading Janamejaya’s Snake Sacrifice and Nagas (Ann Grodzins Gold, Summer 2009)

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_post_title meta=”off” featured_image=”off” _builder_version=”4.0.2″][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.4″ hover_enabled=”0″]Compiled by Brian K. Pennington, Maryville College From the Mahabharata: Book 3.80-88 (Aranyaka Parva) (given as “Tour of the Sacred Fords” in van Buitenen) Book 13 (Anushasana Parva)(Bhisma’s discourse on yatra and “manasa tirtha”) Secondary Sources: Bigger, Andreas. “Wege und Umwege zum Himmel. Die Pilgerfahrten…Continue Reading Mahabharata and Pilgrimage (Brian K. Pennington, Spring 2009)

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_post_title meta=”off” featured_image=”off” _builder_version=”4.0.2″][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.4″ hover_enabled=”0″]Contributed by Douglas L. Berger, Southern Illinois University R. K. Narayan, The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version. University of Chicago Press, 2000. ISBN: 978-0226568225 Barbara Stoller-Miller, The Bhagavad Gita: Krishna’s Council in Time of War. Bantam Classics, 1986. ISBN: 978-0553213652 Swami Adidevananda, Sri Ramanuja…Continue Reading Shankara’s and Ramanuja’s Gita Commentaries (Douglas Berger, Winter 2009)

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.0.2″ hover_enabled=”0″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_post_title meta=”off” featured_image=”off” _builder_version=”4.0.2″][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.4″ hover_enabled=”0″]Contributed by Chad Bauman, Butler University Abraham, K C.; Abraham, Ajit K. Homosexuality: Some Reflections from India, Ecumenical Review, January 1998, 50:1, pp 22-29. Agoramoorthy, Govindasamy and Hsu, Minna J. India’s Homosexual Discrimination and Health Consequences, Rev. Sade Pblica, August 2007, 41:4, pp. 657-660….Continue Reading Homosexuality and Hinduism (Chad Bauman, Winter 2009)

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_post_title meta=”off” featured_image=”off” _builder_version=”4.0.2″][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.4″ hover_enabled=”0″]Contributed by Kerry San Chirico, University of California, Santa Barbara Ahmad, Imtiaz and Reifeld, Helmut, eds. Lived in Islam in South Asia: Adaptation, Accommodation and Conflict. Delhi: Social Sciences Press, 2004. Assayaj, Jackie. At the Confluence of Two Rivers: Muslims and Hindus in South India….Continue Reading Recent Ethnographies of Islam in South Asia (Kerry San Chirico, Winter 2009)

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_post_title meta=”off” featured_image=”off” _builder_version=”4.0.2″][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.4″ hover_enabled=”0″]Contributed by Tamar C. Reich, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Swami Satchidananda Film “Living Yoga: The Life and Teachings of Swami Satchidananda.” Available from the Integral Yoga Institute at www.livingyogamovie.org. Rajneesh “Ashram.” Source? Rajneeshpuram: An Experiment to Provoke God (1995) 57 minutes http://www.filmakers.com/index.php?a=filmDetail&filmID=601 A.C. Bhaktvedanta Swamin…Continue Reading Gurus In America (Tamar C. Reich, Fall 2008)

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_post_title meta=”off” featured_image=”off” _builder_version=”4.0.2″][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.4″ hover_enabled=”0″]Contributed by Joshua M. Greene, Hofstra University Babb, Lawrence A., and Susan Snow Wadley. Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995 Bailey, Julius H. “The Final Frontier: Secrecy, Identity and the Media in the Rise and Fall…Continue Reading Religion and Media (Joshua M. Greene, Fall 2008)

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_post_title meta=”off” featured_image=”off” _builder_version=”4.0.2″][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.4″ hover_enabled=”0″]Contributed by Jarrod L. Whitaker, Wake Forest University Alter, Joseph S. Yoga in modern India: The body between science and philosophy (Princeton University Press, 2004). Alter, Joseph S. Gandhis body: Sex, diet, and the politics of nationalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000). (Esp. chap. 3)…Continue Reading Yoga Bibliography for Undergraduate Teaching (Jarrod L. Whitaker, Fall 2008)

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_post_title meta=”off” featured_image=”off” _builder_version=”4.0.2″][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.4″ hover_enabled=”0″]Contributed by Janet E. Gunn, University of Ottawa Addiss, Stephen. The Art of Zen: Painting and Calligraphy by Japanese Monks, 1600-1925. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998. Avedon, John F., ed. The Buddha’s Art of Healing: Tibetan Paintings Rediscovered. New York: Rizzoli, 1998. Awakawa, Yasuichi…Continue Reading Buddhist Art and Iconography (Janet E. Gunn, Fall 2008)