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...Richard King Imagined Hinduism: British Protestant Missionary Construction of Hinduism, 1793–1900 . By Geoffrey A. Oddie . New Delhi : Sage Publications , 2006 . 376 pp. $79.95 (cloth); $36.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 In recent...

...Himanshu Prabha Ray Hinduism and the Religious Arts . By Heather Elgood . London : Cassell , 1998 . 288 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 746 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Ramakrishna Mission's orientation to seva (service to others...

...Robin Rinehart An Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism . By Raymond Brady Williams . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2001 . xi, 253 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 1430 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Ehud Halperin Till Kingdom Come: Medieval Hinduism in the Modern Himalaya . By Lokesh Ohri . New York : SUNY Press , 2019 . xx, 394 pp. ISBN: 9781438482552 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Lokesh Ohri's book is a historically informed ethnographic study of the realm...

... classification schemes, however, and is not a monograph about Chainpur. Gottschalk highlights Chainpur mainly in order to limit the variables in his discussions. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016 Religion, Science, and Empire: Classifying Hinduism and Islam in British...

...Michael Spencer Abstract Hinduism permeates A Passage To India . While recognizing this fact, none of the critics have so far displayed an understanding of Hinduism which is adequate for the analysis of this novel. The type of Hinduism which has been popularized in the West, that of Vedantic...

...Susan S. Wadley Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 Myth, Cult and Symbols of Śākta Hinduism: A Study of the Indian Mother Goddess . By Wendell Charles Beane . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1977 . xiii, 288 pp. Bibliography, Notes, Index. D.Glds. 64. BOOK REVIEWS...

...Donald Gustafson American Missionaries and Hinduism: (A Study of Their Contacts from 1813 to 1910) . By Sushil Madhava Pathak . With a Foreword by Norman D. Palmer. Delhi : Munshiram Monoharlal , 1967 . xvi , 283 pp. Appendices, Bibliography, Index. Errata. Rs. 25. Copyright ©...

...Frank F. Conlon The British Discovery of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century . Edited by P. J. Marshall . Cambridge , University Press , 1970 . ix. 310 pp. Illustrations, Glossary, Index. $17.50. Muslim Rule in India: The Assessments of British Historians . By J. S. Grewal...

...A. Thomas Kirsch Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 Hinduism in Thai Life . By Santosh N. Desai . Bombay : Popular Prakashan , 1980 . xvii, 163 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. N.p. BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 1013 Hinduism in Thai Life...

...Dennis McGilvray The Divine Hierarchy: Popular Hinduism in Central India . By Lawrence A. Babb . New York : Columbia University Press , 1975 . xviii, 266 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $12.50 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 BOOK REVIEWS 567 one can...

...Robin Rinehart The Life of Hinduism . Edited by John Stratton Hawley and Vasudha Narayanan . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2006 . xiii , 324 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007...

...Geoffrey A. Oddie Was Hinduism Invented? Britons, Indians, and Colonial Construction of Religion . By Brian K. Pennington . New York : Oxford University Press , 2005 . 260 pp. $47.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 This book...

...Tracey Pintchman Contemporary Hinduism: Ritual, Culture, and Practice . Edited by Robin Rinehart . Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO , 2004 . ix , 448 pp. $85.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 214 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S...

...Donna M. Wulff Sonic Theology: Hinduism and Sacred Sound . By Guy L. Beck . Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 1993 . xvi, 290 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 485 that the many series and types...

...Tulasi Srinivas In short I found this book very valuable, challenging of my assumptions, powerful in method and original in focus. Nicholson's challenge to any scholar of Hinduism is to consider the lesser-known vernacular texts and to look at the exceedingly complex picture of Hindu philosophy...

...Ellen Goldberg Female Gurus in Contemporary Hinduism is an important study documenting the ‘lived’ experiences of women in respected positions of leadership. As such, it is recommended for anyone studying female religiosity in contemporary India either at the graduate or undergraduate level...

...Kathleen M. Erndl The Camphor Flame: Popular Hinduism and Society in India . By C. J. Fuller . Princeton : Princeton University Press . 1992 . xvii, 306 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 963...

...William Sax Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 Mesocosm: Hinduism and the Organization of a Traditional Newar City in Nepal . By Robert I. Levy with Kedar Raj Rajopadhyaya . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1991 . xxii, 829 pp. $85.00. BOOK...

...William K. Mahony The Origins and Development of Classical Hinduism . By A. L. Basham . Edited and completed by Kenneth G. Zysk . New York : Oxford University Press , 1989 . xix, 159 pp. $8.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 1046 THE JOURNAL...