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FACULTY OF THEOLOGY AND RELIGION

Final Honour School

Book List for Paper 21Hinduism II: Hinduism in History and Society

General Bibliography relevant to the question of soteriology (apart from basic texts ofHinduism I)

Chakrabarti, Dilip K. Colonial Indology: Sociopolitics of the Ancient Indian Past. (New Delhi:Munshiram Manoharlal, 1997).

Halbfass, W. Tradition and Reflection (SUNY, 1991)

Hardy, F. (ed) Religions of Asia (Routledge, 1988)

- The Religious Culture of India: Power, Love and Wisdom (CUP, 1994)

Inden, R. Imagining India (Blackwell, 1990)

King, R. Orientalism and Religion (Routledge, 1999)

Kinsley, D. Hinduism. A Cultural Perspective (Englewood Cliffs, 1982)

Pollock, Sheldon The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, andPower in Premodern India (University of California Press, 2006)

Potter, C. Presuppositions in India’s Philosophies(Prentice Hall, 1963)

Radhakrishnan, S. Eastern Religions and Western Thought (OUP, 1939)

Smart, Ninian Hindu Patterns of Liberation (Open University)

- Doctrine and Argument in Indian Philosophy

Stcherbatsky, Th. ‘History of Materialism in India’ in D. Chattopadyaya (ed.) Studies inthe History of Indian Philosophy II, pp. 32-41 (Calcutta: Bagshi, 1978).

Smith, D. Hinduism and Modernity (Blackwell, 2003).

Yoga

Bader, JU. Meditation in Sankara’s Vedanta (Delhi: MLBD, 1990).

Eliade, M. Yoga, Immortality and Freedom (Princeton University Press, 1969).

Feuerstein, G. The Philosophy of Classical Yoga (Manchester University Press, 1980).

Larson, G. and R.S. Bhattacharya (eds) Sāṃkhya (Delhi: EIP, 1987)

Mallinson, J. The Khecarivīdyā of Ādinātha (Routledge, 2007).

White, David Sinister Yogis (Chicago University Press, 2012)

Bhakti

Bhandarkar, R.G. Vaisnavism, Śaivism and Minor Religious Systems.Case, Margaret. Seeing Krishna: The Religious World of a Brahmin Family in Vrindavan.

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Clooney, Francis X., Seeing through Texts (Albany: SUNY Press,

Cutler, Norman, and Waghorne Joanne Punzo (eds.). Gods of Flesh, Gods of Stone.Chambersburg, Pa.: Anima, 1985, pp. 53-66.

Dehejia, Vidya (tr.), Antal and Her Path of Love: Poems of a Woman Saint from South India

Fuller, C.J. Servants of the Goddess: the Priests of a South Indian Temple.Cambridge.

Gonda, Jan. “The concept of a personal god in ancient Indian religious thought”, inSelected Studies. Leiden: Brill, 1975, vol.4, pp. 1-26.

Haberman, David Journey through the Twelve Forests: an encounter with Krishna

Hardy, Friedhelm Viraha-bhakti: the Early History of Krsna Devotion in South India. Delhi:OUP, 1983, parts 1 & 5.

Hawley, John S. and Wulff, Donna M. (eds.) Devi: Goddess of India.

Hawley, John and Juergensmeyer, Mark Songs of the Saints of India.Hopkins, Steven, Singing the Body of God: The Hymns of Vedanta Desika in Their South

Indian Tradition

Kinsley, David. Hindu Goddesses. Berkeley.

Kinsley, David. The Divine Player. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1979.

Kabir, The Bijak of Kabir. Tr. by Linda Hess.

OR: A Weaver Named Kabir, by Charlotte Vaudeville

Lutgendorf, Philip. The Life of a Text: Performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas

McDaniel, June, The Madness of the Saints: Ecstatic Religion in Bengal.

Mahipati, Stories of Indian Saints: Translation of Mahipati's MarathiBhaktavijaya, tr. by Abbot, Justin, and Godbole, N.R.. Ind. Inst. MarMisc 15/9-10:Vol 1: Kabir (78-122, 178-186, 388-400).

Vol 1: Tulsidas (31-56)

Vol 2: Mira (66-77)

Manikkavacakar, Tiruvacakam (Tiruvacagam), tr. by G. U. Pope.McDermott, Rachel F. (tr.), Singing to the Goddess: Poems to Kali and Uma from BengalPrentiss, Karen Pechilis, The Embodiment of Bhakti

Pocock, David F. Mind, Body and Wealth. Oxford: Blackwell, 1973, pp. 122-163.

Ramprasad, Grace and Mercy in Her Wild Hair: Selected Poems to the MotherGoddess, tr. by Nathan, Leonard, and Seeley, Clinton.

Ramanujan, A.K. (tr.) Speaking of Siva.

Ramanujan, A. K. (tr.) Hymns for the Drowning.

Saradananda, Swami, Sri Ramakrishna, The Great Master (selections, particularly Part II, pp. 73-303)

Shulman, D. Tamil Temple Myths: Sacrifice and Divine Marriage in the SouthIndian Saiva Tradition

Shulman, D. The Hungry God: Hindu tales of filicide and devotion

Tulsidas, The Holy Lake of the acts of Rama : an English translation of TulasiDas's Ramacaritamanasa, tr. by W. Douglas P. Hill.

Urban, Hugh (tr.), Songs of Ecstasy.

Vasudeva, Somdeva The Yoga of the Mālinīvijayottaratantra (Pondichery: PIFD, 2004).

Vivekananda, Swami, Advaita Vedanta: The Scientific Religion.

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Tantra

Brunner, H., G. Oberhammer et A. Padoux (eds) Tantrikabhidhanakosa (Vienna: OADW,2000).

Dyczkowski, M. The Canon of the Saivagama and the Kubjika Tantras of the WesternKaula Tradition (Albany: SUNY, 1988).

Dyczkowski, M. The Doctrine of Vibration (Albany: SUNY, 1988).

Flood, G. The Tantric Body (London: Tauris, 2006).

Gnoli, R. The Aesthetic Experience According to Abhinavagupta (Rome: SOR11, 1956).

Goodall, D. Bhattaramakantha’s Commentary on the Kiranatantra vol. 1(Pondichery: PIFI 86, 1998).

Gonda, J. Medieval Religious Literature in Sanskrit (Weisbaden: HIL 2.1, 1977)

Goudriaan, T. Maya Divine and Human (Delhi, 1978).

Goudriaan, T. (ed) Ritual and Speculation in Early Tantrism: Essays in Honour of AndrePadoux (Albany: SUNY, 1992).

Goudriaan, T. (ed.) The Sanskrit Tradition and Tantrism (Leiden: Brill, 1990).

Goudriaan, T. and S. Gupta, Hindu Tantric and Sakta Literature (Weisbaden: HIL 2.2, 1981)

Gupta, Sanjukta. “Tantric sadhana: puja”, in S. Gupta, D.J. Hoens and T. Goudriaan,Hindu Tantrism. Leiden: Brill 1979, chap. 5.

Gupta, Sanjukta (tr.) The Laksmi Tantra (Leiden: Brill, 1972).Hanneder, J. Abhinavagupta’s Philosophy of Revelation (Groningen, 1998)Heilijgers-Seelen, D. The System of the Five Cakras in the Kubjikamatatantra (Groningen:

GOS, 9, 1994).Matsubara, M. Pañcaratra Samhitas and Early Vaisnava Theology with a translation

and critical notes from chapters on theology in the AhirbudhnyaSamhita (Delhi: MLBD, 1994)

Padoux, A. Vac: the Concept of the Word in Selected Hindu Tantras (Albany: SUNY,1990)

Sanderson, Alexis. “Saivism and the Tantric traditions”, in F. Hardy (ed.), The Religions ofAsia (London: Routledge, 1988).

Sanderson, Alexis ‘Purity and Power Among the Brahmans of Kashmir’ in Carruthers et al(eds) The Category of the Person (CUP, 1985).

Sanderson, Alexis ‘Mandaala and Agamic Identity in the Trika of Kashmir’ in Padoux (ed)Mantras et diagrammes rituels dans l’hindouisme (Paris: CNRS, 1986).

Sanderson, A. ‘The Visualisation of the Deities of the Trika’ in Padoux, A. (ed.)L’Image Divine (Paris: CNRS, 1990), pp. 31-88.

Sanderson, Alexis Meaning in tantric ritual (Louvain: Paris: EHE, 1995)

Sanderson, Alexix ‘The Śaiva Age’ see Prof. Sanderson’s website

Schrader, O. Introduction to the Pañcaratra (Madras: Adyar, 1916).

White, D. (ed) Tantra in Practice (Princeton, 1998).

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