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Drinking From Love's Cup
Surrender and Sacrifice in the Vārs of Bhai Gurdas Bhalla
Inbunden, 2017
2627 kr
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Bhai Gurdas Bhalla (d. 1636 CE) is widely considered the most important non-canonical poet in Sikh history, having shaped the theology and ethics of the tradition for centuries. His beautiful poems, which offer an authoritative illustration of Sikh life in the early seventeenth century, defined …
Gods, Heroes, and Ancestors
An Interreligious Encounter in Eighteenth-Century Vietnam
Av TRAN
Inbunden, 2017
2306 kr
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Though a minority religion in Vietnam, Christianity has been a significant presence in the country since its arrival in the sixteenth-century. Anh Q. Tran offers the first English translation of the recently discovered 1752 manuscript Tam Giáo Ch(u V.ong (The Errors of the Three Religions). …
The Americas' First Theologies
Early Sources of Post-Contact Indigenous Religion
Av Garry Sparks
Inbunden, 2017
2215 kr
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The Theologia Indorum by Dominican friar Domingo de Vico was the first Christian theology written in the Americas. Made available in English translation for the first time, Americas' First Theologies presents a selection of exemplary sections from the Theologia Indorum that illustrate Friar Vico's …
Poetry as Prayer in the Sanskrit Hymns of Kashmir
Inbunden, 2019
1973 kr
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Historically, Kashmir was one of the most dynamic and influential centers of Sanskrit learning and literary production in South Asia. In Poetry as Prayer in the Sanskrit Hymns of Kashmir, Hamsa Stainton investigates the close connection between poetry and prayer in South Asia by studying the …
The Subhedar's Son
A Narrative of Brahmin-Christian Conversion from Nineteenth-century Maharashtra
Inbunden, 2019
1433 kr
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The 19th century was a pioneering age for vernacular texts in India. Vernacular writings became popular for making the 'first' interventions of their kind, written by Indians for Indians, and establishing new genres such as the novel. The Subhedar's Son, an award-winning Marathi novel, was written …
First Words, Last Words
New Theories for Reading Old Texts in Sixteenth-Century India
Av Yigal Bronner, Lawrence McCrea
Inbunden, 2021
1119 kr
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First Words, Last Words charts an intense "pamphlet war" that took place in sixteenth-century South India. Yigal Bronner and Lawrence McCrea explore this controversy as a case study in the dynamics of innovation in early modern India, a time of great intellectual innovation. This debate took place …
The Luminous Way to the East
Texts and History of the First Encounter of Christianity with China
Inbunden, 2022
2119 kr
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The Luminous Way to the East offers a comprehensive survey of the historical, literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources of the first stage of the Christian mission to China. It explores the complex and multifaceted process of the interaction with the different cultural and religious milieux …
Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism
Inbunden, 2023
1119 kr
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Religious texts are not stable objects, passed down unchanged through generations. The way in which religious communities receive their scriptures changes over time and in different social contexts. This book considers religious reading through a study of the Pushtimarg, a Hindu community whose …
Against High-Caste Polygamy
An Annotated Translation
Inbunden, 2023
797 kr
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Against High-Caste Polygamy offers a complete, annotated translation of Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar's 1871 tract arguing against the practice of high-caste Kulin marriage in Bengal. Vidyasagar published this work fifteen years after passage of the Hindu Widow's Remarriage Act, which owed so much to …
Krishna's Mahabharatas
Devotional Retellings of an Epic Narrative
Inbunden, 2024
948 kr
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Recognized as the longest poem ever composed, the ancient Sanskrit Mahabharata epic tells the tale of the five Pandava princes and the cataclysmic battle they wage with their one hundred cousins, the Kauravas. This story is one of the most popular and widely-told narratives in South Asia, let alone …
Empire Inside Out
Religion, Conquest, and Community in Kṛṣṇadevarāya's Āmuktamālyada
Inbunden, 2024
1025 kr
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Examining the interplay of religion, history, and literature through a case study of King Krsnadevaraya's celebrated Telugu poem Āmuktamālyada, Ilanit Loewy Shacham showcases the groundbreaking worldview that this often-overlooked poem embodies. Krsnadevaraya (r.1509-1529) ruled over the …
Stories of Shiva's Saints
Selections from Harihara's Ragales
Av Gil Ben-Herut, R. V. S. Sundaram
Inbunden, 2025
1259 kr
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Hampeya Harihara lived between the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries in Hampe (a.k.a. Hampi) and wrote in Kannada, a language of the south-Indian Dravidian family. With the aim of reaching large segments of the population, Harihara set out to develop a new style of narrative literature in …
Beyond African Orality
The 'Ajami Poetry of Sëriñ Mbay Jaxate
Av Fallou Ngom
Inbunden, 2025
1058 kr
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Beyond African Orality offers the first English translation and interpretation of sixty Wolof Ajami poems (Wolof written with an enriched form of the Arabic script) by Sëriñ Mbay Jaxate (c. 1876-1947), a follower of the Senegalese Muridiyya Sufi order founded by Shaykh Ahmadu Bamba Mbàkke …
The Relic in the Glass Cabinet
A History of the Śikṣāpatrī with New Translation and Notes
Av Avni Chag
Inbunden, 2026
1305 kr
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The Shikshapatri (1826) is a scripture presented as a letter to devotees from Swaminarayan (1781-1830), the founder and principal deity of the eponymous Swaminarayan tradition. Designated by millions as a revelatory scripture down to the belief of its divine authorship, the text is treated as a …
The Meeting of Rivers
Translating Religion in Early Modern India
Inbunden, 2026
1233 kr
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The Meeting of Rivers reconstructs the prehistory of India's newest religion, Virasaivism (or Lingayatism) from its own voices, drawing on unstudied and unpublished archival sources in several south Indian languages. By radically reframing our understanding of the origins of Virasaivism, Elaine …
