Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDaniel Heifetz, "The Science of Satyug: Class, Charisma, and Vedic Revivalism in the All World Gayatri Pariwar" (SUNY Press, 2021)
Episode 107
The first in-depth study of the All World Gayatri Pariwar, a modern Indian religious movement. The All World Gayatri Pariwar is a modern religious mo…
5 years, 6 months ago
N. S. Hawley and S. S. Pillai, "Many Mahābhāratas" (SUNY Press, 2021)
Episode 106
Nell Shapiro Hawley and Sohini Sarah Pillai's book Many Mahābhāratas (SUNY Press, 2021) is an introduction to the spectacular and long-lived diversit…
5 years, 6 months ago
Ayesha A. Irani, "The Muhammad Avatāra: Salvation History, Translation, and the Making of Bengali Islam" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 105
The Muhammad Avatāra: Salvation History, Translation, and the Making of Bengali Islam (Oxford University Press, 2021) reveals the powerful role of ve…
5 years, 6 months ago
Ian Whicher, "The Integrity of the Yoga Darsana: A Reconsideration of Classical Yoga" (SUNY Press, 1998)
Episode 49
Join Raj Balkaran as he discusses yoga philosophy with Ian Whicher. We begin with a discussion on how he began his journey towards yoga philosophy be…
5 years, 6 months ago
Daniel Raveh, "Daya Krishna and 20th-Century Indian Philosophy: A New Way of Thinking about Art, Freedom, and Knowledge" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Episode 104
Daya Krishna and Twentieth-Century Indian Philosophy: A New Way of Thinking about Art, Freedom, and Knowledge (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) by Daniel R…
5 years, 7 months ago
Lokesh Ohri, "Till Kingdom Come: Medieval Hinduism in the Modern Himalaya" (SUNY Press, 2021)
Episode 102
Hinduism, as is well known, has taken a multitude of shapes and forms. Some Hindu "little traditions" have remained obscure or understudied to this d…
5 years, 7 months ago
Douglas Osto, "An Indian Tantric Tradition and Its Modern Global Revival: Contemporary Nondual Śaivism" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 101
In An Indian Tantric Tradition and Its Modern Global Revival: Contemporary Nondual Śaivism (Routledge, 2020), Douglas Osto analyses the contemporary …
5 years, 7 months ago
Vanessa R. Sasson, "Yasodhara and the Buddha" (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020)
Episode 76
By combining the spirit of fiction with the fabulism of Indian mythology and in-depth academic research, Vanessa R. Sasson shares the evocative story…
5 years, 7 months ago
Steven Collins, "Wisdom as a Way of Life: Theravāda Buddhism Reimagined" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Episode 75
This wide-ranging and powerful book argues that Theravāda Buddhism provides ways of thinking about the self that can reinvigorate the humanities and …
5 years, 7 months ago
Arvind Sharma, "Religious Tolerance: A History" (Harper Collins, 2019)
Episode 100
Religion has become a vital element in identity politics globally after the terror attacks of 11 September 2001 in the United States of America. And …
5 years, 7 months ago