Shakti's New Voice is the first comprehensive study of Anandmurti Gurumaa, a widely popular contemporary female guru from north India known for offering spiritual teachings and music on satellite television and the Internet.

Tucked away in ancient Sanskrit and Bengali texts is a secret teaching, a blissful devotional (bhakti) tradition that involves sacred congregational chanting (kīrtana), mindfulness practices (japa, smaraṇam), and the deepening of one's relationship with God (rasa). Brought to the world's stage by Śrī Chaitanya Mahāprabhu (1486-1533), and fully documented by his immediate followers, the Six Goswāmīs of Vrindāvan, these unprecedented teachings were passed down from master to student in Gauḍīya Vaishnava lineages. The Golden Avatāra of...

Digital Hinduism is an edited volume seeking to build a scholarly discourse about how Hinduism is being defined, reformed, and rearticulated in the digital era and how these changes are impacting the way Hindus view their own religious identities. Moreover, it seeks to expand and enrich the fast developing scholarship on digital religion, in part because the age of new media has offered many new narratives on the convergence of philosophy, practice, praxis, and discourse through new technologies and platforms. To this end, this volume seeks to showcase how dharmic practices connect with new...

This book offers a new paradigm for religious pluralism by exploring Indic insights of Jainism and the nature of paradox.

Most people around the world know Mahatma Gandhi, but only a few know about "Shrimad Rajchandra"-the key faith-figure behind the "making of the Mahatma." This book introduces and explores the teachings of the figure Gandhi himself acknowledged as his foremost spiritual mentor, exemplary guide, and refuge in spiritual crisis.