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  • HINDUISM IN THE WORLD
    KNUT A. JACOBSEN
    This book explores Hindu religion from a global perspective and investigates the presence of Hindu religious traditions and some of their diversity worldwide. Hindu traditions are on the move and are established in many new locations around the world, and old and new traditions are continuously changing and being invented and reinvented. The chapters of the book explore these p...

    $1,160.00

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SOUTH ASIAN RELIGIONS
    KNUT A. JACOBSEN
    The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions presents critical research, overviews, and case studies on religion in historical South Asia, in the seven nation states of contemporary South Asia: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives, and in the South Asian diaspora. Chapters by an international set of experts analyse formative developments, r...

    $1,320.00

  • YOGA IN MODERN HINDUISM
    KNUT A. JACOBSEN
    The Sāṃkhyayoga institution of Kāpil Maṭh is a religious organisation with a small tradition of followers which emerged in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century in Bengal in India around the renunciant and yogin Hariharānanda Āraṇya. This tradition developed during the same period in which modern yoga was born and forms a chapt...

    $1,260.00

  • YOUNG SIKHS IN A GLOBAL WORLD
    KNUT A. JACOBSEN / KRISTINA MYRVOLD
    In attempting to carve out a place for themselves in local and global contexts, young Sikhs mobilize efforts to construct, choose, and emphasize different aspects of religious and cultural identification depending on their social setting and context. Young Sikhs in a Global World presents current research on young Sikhs with multicultural and transnational life-styles and consi...

    $1,240.00

  • OBJECTS OF WORSHIP IN SOUTH ASIAN RELIGIONS
    KNUT A. JACOBSEN, MIKAEL AKTOR AND KRISTINA MYRVOLD
    Objects of worship are an aspect of the material dimension of lived religion in South Asia. The omnipresence of these objects and their use is a theme which cuts across the religious traditions in the pluralistic religious culture of the region. Divine power becomes manifest in the objects and for the devotees they may represent power regardless of religious identity. This book...

    $1,360.00

  • PILGRIMAGE IN THE HINDU TRADITION
    KNUT A. JACOBSEN
    Salvific space is one of the central ideas in the Hindu traditions of pilgrimage, and concerns the ability of space, especially sites associated with bodies of water such as rivers and lakes, to grant salvific rewards. Focusing on religious, historical and sociological questions about the phenomenon, this book investigates the narratives, rituals, history and structures of salv...

    $1,520.00

  • SOUTH ASIAN RELIGIONS ON DISPLAY
    JACOBSEN, KNUT A.
    Religious procession is a significant dimension of religion in South Asia. Processions are central not only in Hinduism, but also Islam, Christianity, Jainism and Sikhism, which have large procession rituals. The last years have seen an increase in processions and ritualizations of space both in South Asia and in the South Asian Diaspora. Processions are religious display event...

    $1,320.00