Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFrancis X. Clooney, "Reading the Hindu and Christian Classics: Why and How Deep Learning Still Matters" (U Virginia Press, 2019)
Episode 45
We live in an era of unprecedented growth in knowledge. Never before has there been so great an availability of and access to information in both pri…
5 years, 7 months ago
Christopher Key Chapple, "Yoga in Jainism" (Routledge, 2015)
Episode 96
Jaina Studies is a relatively new and rapidly expanding field of inquiry for scholars of Indian religion and philosophy. In Jainism, "yoga" carries m…
5 years, 7 months ago
Bibek Debroy, "The Mahabharata" (Penguin, 2015)
Episode 98
Dispute over land and kingdom may lie at the heart of this story of war between cousins the Pandavas and the Kouravas but the Mahabharata is about co…
5 years, 8 months ago
Michael P. Brunner, "Education and Modernity in Colonial Punjab: Khalsa College, the Sikh Tradition and the Webs of Knowledge, 1880-1947" (Palgrave, 2020)
Episode 135
Michael P. Brunner's "Education and Modernity in Colonial Punjab: Khalsa College, the Sikh Tradition and the Webs of Knowledge, 1880-1947" (Palgrave,…
5 years, 8 months ago
Christopher T. Fleming, "Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 95
Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence (Oxford UP, 2021) provides an account of various theories of ownership (svatva) and inheritance (…
5 years, 8 months ago
Knut A. Jacobsen, "Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 113
The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions (Routledge, 2020) presents critical research, overviews and case studies on religion in historical So…
5 years, 8 months ago
C. M. Bauman and M. Voss Roberts, "The Routledge Handbook of Hindu-Christian Relations" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 92
The tension between the two historical realities, Hinduism as an ancient Indian religion and Christianity as a religion associated with foreign power…
5 years, 8 months ago
Xenia Zeiler, "Digital Hinduism" (Routledge, 2019)
Episode 92
Digital Religion does not simply refer to religion as it is carried out online, but more broadly studies how digital media interrelate with religious…
5 years, 9 months ago
Tulasi Srinivas, "The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder" (Duke UP, 2018)
Episode 21
In The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder (Duke UP, 2018), Tulasi Srinivas explores a wonderful world where deities jump fences and pries…
5 years, 9 months ago
Chad M. Bauman, "Anti-Christian Violence in India" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Episode 91
Does religion cause violent conflict, asks Chad M. Bauman, and if so, does it cause conflict any more than other social identities? Through an extend…
5 years, 9 months ago