Between the Empires: Society in India 300 BCE to 400 CE by Patrick Olivelle

Sinister Yogis

Because the Nineteen Sixties, yoga has develop into a billion-dollar within the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. yet our glossy notion of yoga derives a lot from nineteenth-century ecu spirituality, and the genuine tale of yoga’s origins in South Asia is much richer, stranger, and extra interesting than such a lot folks discover.

From Yoga to Kabbalah: Religious Exoticism and the Logics of Bricolage

Spiritual exoticism implies a deeply ambivalent courting to otherness and to faith itself: conventional spiritual teachings are uprooted and fragmented with a purpose to be appropriated as useful tools for private development. Western modern societies have obvious the big popularization of such "exotic" non secular assets as yoga and meditation, Shamanism, Buddhism, Sufism, and Kabbalah.

Contemporary Hinduism (Religions in Focus)

So much overviews of Hindu trust and perform persist with a background from the traditional Vedas to this day. Such ways privilege Brahmanical traditions and create a feeling of Hinduism as a homogenous approach and tradition, and one that is basically unchanging and established completely on sacred texts. actually, smooth Hindu religion and tradition current a rare diversity of dynamic ideals and practices.

The Twin Horse Gods: The Dioskouroi in Mythologies of the Ancient World

The dual deities recognized through the traditional Greeks because the Dioskouroi, and by means of the Romans because the Gemini, have been renowned figures within the classical global. They have been specially attached with early life, low prestige and repair, and have been embraced by way of the typical humans in a fashion that eluded these gods linked to regal beauty or the ruling sessions.