Books written by John Stratton Hawley
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Krishna’s Playground: Vrindavan in the 21st Century
In The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture, edited by Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides, and John Tooby, 555–79. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Owens, Bruce McCoy. “Monumentality, Identity ...
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Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination
Given the pervasiveness of its theme, it is remarkable that this book is the first of its kind--and it is long overdue. The essays ask such questions as: Is religious weeping primal or culturally constructed? Is it universal?
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Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination
Given the pervasiveness of its theme, it is remarkable that this book is the first of its kind--and it is long overdue. The essays ask such questions as: Is religious weeping primal or culturally constructed? Is it universal?
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Sati, the Blessing and the Curse: The Burning of Wives in India
Thus sati is not simply a religious ritual; it is a confluence of religious, political, and social ideologies." Setting Roop Kanwar's death in a complex matrix of social, political, and economic forces, and then placing that in ...
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Bhakti and Power: Debating India's Religion of the Heart
Written by a wide range of engaged scholars, this volume showcases one of the most influential concepts in Indian history--still a major force in the present day.
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Songs of the Saints of India
In this volume the authors present the life stories and works of Ravidas, Kabir, Nanak, Surdas, Mirabai, and Tulsidas - six well-known 'saint-poets' of northern India who have contributed more to the religious vocabulary of Hinduism in the ...
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Studying the Sikhs: Issues for North America
This basic guide and resource book targets four fields--religious studies, history, world literature, and ethnic or migration studies--in which Sikhism is now receiving greater attention.
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A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement
... India, 1653−1708, or, Storia do Mogor by Niccolao Manucci, Venetian. 4 vols. new Delhi: low Price Publications. Jackson, william J. 1998. Songs of Three Great South Indian Saints. Delhi: oxford University Press. ———. 2013. “Kanakadasa ...
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A Storm of Songs
A Storm of Songs ponders the destiny of the idea of the bhakti movement in a globalizing India. If bhakti is the beating heart of India, this is the story of how it was implanted there—and whether it can survive.
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The Life of Hinduism
Celebrating the diversity for which Hinduism is known, this volume begins its journey in the "new India" of Bangalore, India’s Silicon Valley, where global connections and local traditions rub shoulders daily.
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Devī: Goddesses of India
But in Hinduism "God" very often means "Goddess." This extraordinary collection explores twelve different Hindu goddesses, all of whom are in some way related to Devi, the Great Goddess.