Genealogy of the South Indian Deities

An English Translation of Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg's Original German Manuscript with a Textual Analysis and Glossary

By Daniel Jeyaraj

For the first time Genealogy of the South Indian Deities, the work of Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg (1682-1719), the first Protestant missionary in India, is made accessible...

Published September 23rd 2004 by Routledge.

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Selling Spirituality

The Silent Takeover of Religion

By Jeremy Carrette, Richard King

From Feng Shui to holistic medicine, from aromatherapy candles to yoga weekends, spirituality is big business. It promises to soothe away the angst of modern...

Published September 16th 2004 by Routledge.

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Hinduism in Modern Indonesia

By Martin Ramstedt

This book provides new data and perspectives on the development of 'world religion' in post-colonial societies through an analysis of the development of 'Hinduism' in...

Published November 6th 2003 by Routledge.

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Imagining Hinduism

A Postcolonial Perspective

By Sharada Sugirtharajah

Imagining Hinduism examines how Hinduism has been defined, interpreted and manufactured through Western categorizations, from the foreign interventions of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Orientalists and missionaries,...

Published September 25th 2003 by Routledge.

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Major World Religions

From Their Origins To The Present

Edited by Lloyd Ridgeon

This work seeks to answer questions about the great religious traditions in the contemporary age. It focuses upon those religions that continue to demand the...

Published March 13th 2003 by Routledge.

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Colonial Saints

Discovering the Holy in the Americas, 1500–1800

Edited by Allan Greer, Jodi Bilinkoff

From the cult of Saint Anne to the devotees of the Virgin of Guadalupe, from Saint Anthony who competed with Christ for popularity in Brazil,...

Published December 20th 2002 by Routledge.

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Identity and Identification in India

Defining the Disadvantaged

By Laura Dudley Jenkins

Can a state empower its citizens by classifying them? Or do reservation policies reinforce the very categories they are meant to eradicate? Indian reservation policies...

Published December 12th 2002 by Routledge.

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The Divine and the Demonic

Supernatural Affliction and its Treatment in North India

By Dr Graham Dwyer

Based on fieldwork in the north Indian state of Rajasthan, this book focuses on supernatural affliction - illness and misfortune ascribed to demonic spirits or...

Published December 5th 2002 by Routledge.

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The Religious Traditions of Asia

Religion, History, and Culture

Edited by Joseph Kitagawa

This essential student textbook consists of seventeen sections, all written by leading scholars in their different fields. They cover all the religious traditions of Southwest...

Published July 25th 2002 by Routledge.

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Multiculturalism and Minority Religions in Britain

Krishna Consciousness, Religious Freedom and the Politics of Location

By Malory Nye

A detailed case study of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in Britain. The book studies the particular development of a new religious movement...

Published January 19th 2001 by Routledge.

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