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GRADUATE EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND HONORS, AWARDS, EXTRAMURAL FUNDRAISING, GRANTS |
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Dr. Gerald James Larson is RabindranathTagore Professor Emeritus of Indian Cultures and Civilization, Indiana University, Bloomington, and Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Larson is the author or editor of some twelve books and well over 100 scholarly articles on cross-cultural philosophy of religion, history of religions, classical Sanskrit and South Asian history and culture. His recent books include India's Agony Over Religion (SUNY Press, 1995, and Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1997), Changing Myths and Images (Indiana University Art Museum, 1997), and Religion and Personal Law in Secular India: A Call to Judgment (Indiana University Press,2002, and Social Science Press, New Delhi, 2002). His most recent publication is Volume XII of the Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, co-edited with the late Dr. Ram Shankar Bhattacharya, entitled Yoga: India's Philosophy of Meditation (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2008). Also, a collection of essays has been published in his honour, Theory and Practice of Yoga: Essays in Honour of Gerald James Larson, edited by Knut A. Jacobsen (Leiden: Brill, 2005; Indian paperback edition, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2008). During his career at UC Santa Barbara, he received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Academic Senate, UCSB (1989).
In retirement he lives with his wife in Mission Viejo, California, and can be contacted
through the Department of Religious Studies, UC, Santa Barbara, or by his e-mail: glarson@religion.ucsb.edu or glarson@indiana.edu or larsongj@uci.edu
NAME: Gerald James Larson
CURRENT POSITION: Rabindranath Tagore Professor Emeritus, Indian Cultures and Civilizations, Indiana University, Bloomington
Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies, Department of
Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Professor (visiting professor on part-time recall),
Program in Religious Studies, University of California, Irvine (2011- )
FIELD: History of Religions; Comparative Religions; Comparative Philosophy; Religions and Philosophies of South and Southeast Asia; Pali and Sanskrit
GRADUATE EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
M.Div. 1963 Union Theological Seminary, New York City
Ph.D. 1967 Columbia University, New York City
(Field: History of Religions; Indian Religions; Comparative Philosophy)
(Languages: Vedic and Classical Sanskrit, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan)
(Dissertation: "Classical Samkhya: An Interpretation of its History and Meaning"; received "with distinction")
Primary: History of Religions, Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion, Religions and Philosophies of India, Hindu traditions, Buddhist traditions in South and Southeast Asia, Classical Sanskrit texts (literature and philosophy), Pali, and Vedic Sanskrit
Secondary: Asian Religions, Oriental Civilization (East Asia and South and Southeast Asia), Oriental Humanities (East Asia and South and Southeast Asia), Comparative Literature, Comparative Philosophy, South Asian Art and Iconography
Tutor, Old Testament, ancient Near Eastern Studies, Hebrew, Union Theological Seminary, New York City (1964-67)
Preceptor in Religion, Columbia University, New York (1965-66)
Preceptor in Oriental Humanities, Columbia University (1966-67)
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (1967-68)
Post-Doctoral Research Scholar, College of Indology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India (1968-69)
Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (1969-70)
Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara (1970-72)
Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara (1972-1995)
Rabindranath Tagore Professor of Indian Cultures and Civilizations, and Director, India Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington (1995-2003)
Honorary Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India (1976-77)
Honorary Visiting Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, England (spring 1983)
Interim (founding) Director, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara (1987-88)
Director, India Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington (1995-2003)
Rabindranath Tagore Professor Emeritus, Indiana University, Bloomington (2003-present)
Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies (1995-present)
Research Professor (visiting professor on part-time recall), Program in Religious Studies, University of California, Irvine (2011- )
Chair, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara (1971-76)
Chair, Program in Asian Studies, UC Santa Barbara (1972-73)
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UC Santa Barbara (1979-1980)
Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UC Santa Barbara, (1980-1982)
(Founding) Director, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UC Santa Barbara (1987-88) and Chair of Search Committee to appoint a permanent Director (1987-88)
Director of Academic Programs, Education Abroad Program, India Center, Delhi University
(l984-l99l)
Graduate Adviser (Director of Graduate Studies), Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara (1983-87)
Chair, Committee on Research and Scholarship, American Academy of Religion (1993-1999)
Member, Board of Directors, American Academy of Religion (1993-1999)
Director, India Studies Program Indiana University, Bloomington (1995-2003)
HONORS, AWARDS, EXTRAMURAL FUNDRAISING, GRANTS
Rockefeller Dissertation Fellowship (1966-67)
Post-Doctoral Fellowship for Study in Asia, Society for Religion in Higher Education (1968-69)
Senior Fellow, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii (1971)
Senior Fellow, American Institute of Indian Studies, for research in India (1976-77)
Senior Fellow, Indo-U.S. Subcommission on Education and Culture, for research in India (1976-77)
Foreign Research Fellow, Centre for Science Development, Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) University of Durban-Westville, University of Cape Town and UNISA (University of South Africa, Pretoria), South Africa (l994)
Vice President, American Oriental Society, Western Division (1973-74)
Vice President, Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (1976-77)
President, Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (1982-85)
Distinguished Teaching Award, UCSB Alumni Association and Academic Senate (at-large award for 1989)
Principal Investigator (with Pratapaditya Pal and Rebecca Gowen), $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for an art exhibition, catalog and symposium program entitled "In Her Image: The Great Goddess in Indian Asia and the Madonna in Christian Culture" (1979-80)
Principal Investigator (Organizer/Director), First International Research Conference for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 1984 with grants from NEH, The Rowny Foundation, the University of Hawaii Foundation, the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii and the Institute for Philosophy and Religion, Boston, and UC Santa Barbara, $25,000
Principal Investigator, $35,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project entitled "Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone: The Prospects for Graduate Education in Religious Studies in the Secular University," 1985-86, UCSB
Principal Investigator and Project Director, Title VI-A International Studies Grant, approximately $300,000 ($100,000 per year for 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000), Office of Education, Washington, D.C.
President, United Ministries in Higher Education, Southern California Region Commission (1985, 1986)
Member, Presbytery of New York City (1963-66)
Member, Presbytery of Knoxvile (1967-1969
Chair, Committee on Ministry, Presbytery of Santa Barbara (1987-1990)
Commissioner, 205th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) (1993)
Moderator-elect, Presbytery of Santa Barbara (1993-94), Moderator, Presbytery of Santa Barbara (1994-95)
Member, Presbytery of Ohio Valley (1995-2003)
Member, Presbytery of Santa Barbara (1970-1995, 2003-2008)
Member, Presbytery of Los Ranchos (2008 – present)
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PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS: Books
1969 Classical Samkhya: An Interpretation of its History and Meaning. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. 312 pp.
1974 Myth in Indo-European Antiquity. Editor. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 197 pp.
1979 Classical Samkhya: An Interpretation of Its History and Meaning. Delhi: Banarsidass, and Santa Barbara: Ross-Erikson. Revised, second edition.
1980 In Her Image: The Great Goddess in Indian Asia and the Madonna in Christian Culture . Art Exhibition Catalog. Principal Editor, with Pratapaditya Pal and Rebecca Gowen. Regents of the University of California and the National Endowment for the Arts. 127 pp.
1987 Samkhya: A Dualist Tradition in Indian Philosophy. Edited with Ram Shankar Bhattacharya. Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, Volume IV. Princeton University Press. 674 pp.
1988 Interpreting Across Boundaries: New Essays in Comparative Philosophy. Edited with Eliot Deutsch. Princeton University Press. 316 pp.
1995 India's Agony Over Religion. State University of New York Press. 393 pp.
1997 Changing Myths and Images: Twentieth Century Popular Art in India. Edited with Pratapaditya Pal. Indiana University Art Museum and the Indiana University India Studies Program. 64 pp.
1997 India's Agony Over Religion. Oxford University Press, Delhi. Indian edition of 1995 SUNY book. 393 pp.
2001 Classical Samkhya: An Interpretation of Its History and Meaning. New hard cover and paperback reprint of Second Revised Edition. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2001 Reprint. 315 pp.
2001 Religion and Personal Law in Secular India: A Call to Judgment. Editor. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001; and Social Science Press, Delhi. 362 pp.
2008 Yoga: India's Philosophy of Meditation, Edited by Gerald J. Larson and Ram Shankar Bhattacharya, Volume XII, Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, General Editor: Karl H. Potter. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2008. 782pp.
PUBLICATIONS (Articles and Reviews)
1.
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1968
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Review
of Eliade's From Primitives to Zen
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Union Seminary Quarterly Review, XXIV, No. 2, Winter 1968, 208-209
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Review
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2.
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1968
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Review
of F.J. Streng's Emptiness
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Union Seminary Quarterly Review,XXIV, No. 2, Winter 1968, 209-210
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Review
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3.
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1968
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Review
of J.J. Bachofen's Myth, Religion and
Mother Right
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Union Seminary Quarterly Review XXIV, No. 3, Spring 1968, 298-299
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Review
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4.
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1969
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"Classical
Samkhya and the Phenomenological Ontology of Jean-Paul Sartre"
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Philosophy East and West, Vol. 19, No. 1, January 1969, 45-58
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Article
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5.
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1969
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Classical Samkhya: An Interpretation of its History
and Meaning
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Motilal
Banarsidass, Delhi, Spring 1969, 330 pp.
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Book
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6.
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1969
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Review
of J. M. Kitagawa, ed., History of
Religions
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. VIII, No. 1, Spring 1969, 187-190
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Review |
7.
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1969
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Review
of A. K. Reischauer's Meaning and Truth
of Religion
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. XXXVII, No. 3, Sept. 1969, 288-292
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Review
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8.
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1970
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"Demythologization
and the History of Religions"
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Bharati, Bulletin of Indological Studies, Banaras Hindu University,
Varanasi, Nos. 12-14 (1968-71), pp. 44-63
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Article
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9.
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1970
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"A
New Alexandrianism"
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion,
Vol. 9, No. 3, Fall 1970, 253-255
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Review
Article
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10.
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1971
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Review
of Chakravarti's Philosophical
Foundations of Bengal Vaisinavism
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Philosophy East and West, Vol. XXI, No. 2, April 1971, 227-228
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Review
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11.
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1972
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"The trimurti of dharma in Indian Thought: Paradox or Contradiction"
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Philosophy East and West, Vol. XXII, No. 2, April 1972, 145-153
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Article
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12.
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1973
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"Mystical
Man in India"
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 12, No. 1, March 1973 1-16
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Article
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13.
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1973
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"Revolutionary
Praxis and Comparative Philosophy"
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Philosophy East and West,, Vol. 23, No. 3, July 1973, 333-341
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Article
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14.
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1973
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Coordinator
for Articles on "Philosophy and Revolution"
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Philosophy East and West, Vol. 23, No. 3, July 1973, 283-341
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Coordinator
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15.
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1973
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"A
Possible Mystical Interpretation of ahamkara and the tanmatra-s in the
Samkhya"
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In
Arabinda Basu, ed., Sri Aurobindo: A Garland of Tributes,
Pondicherry: Aurobindo Research
Academy, 1973, 79-87
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Article
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16.
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1974
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"The
Sources for Sakti in
Abhinavagupta's Kashmir Saivism"
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Philosophy East and West, Vol. 24, No. 1, January 1974, 41-56
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Article
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17.
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1974
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"Yoga"
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In World Book Encyclopedia, current
edition
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Article
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18.
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1974
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Myth in Indo-European Antiquity,
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University
of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1974 (Editor) editor and
contributor
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Book
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19.
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1974
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"The
Study of Mythology and Comparative Mythology"
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In Myth and Indo-European Antiquity, (see above)
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Article
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20.
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1974
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The Secular and Sacred in Indian Art, co-edited by Pratapaditya Pal and Gerald J.
Larson
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Catalog
for exhibition organized by the Dept. of Religious Studies and presented in
the Art Galleries, UC Santa Barbara, June 26-August 25, l974
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Foreword
and co-editor
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21.
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1975
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"The
Notion of satkarya in Samkhya: Toward a Philosophical
Reconstruction"
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Philosophy East and West, Vol. 25 No. 1, January 1975, 31-40
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Article
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22.
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1975
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Review
of A. Stanford's The Bhagavad Gita
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. XLIII, No. 2, supplement June 1975,
351-352
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Review
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23.
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1975
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Review
of G. Dumezil's From Myth to Fiction
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. XLIII, No. 4, December 1975, 834
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Review
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24.
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1975
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"The Bhagavad Gita as Cross-Cultural Process: Toward an Analysis of the Social
Locations of a Religious Text"
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. XLIII, No. 4, December 1975, 651-669
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Article
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25.
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1975
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Editorial
Advisor to Hajime Nakamura for his book, Parallel
Developments in Eastern and Western Thought
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Kodansha
Ltd., Tokyo and New York, 1975
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Editorial
Advisor
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26.
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1976
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Review
of Andre Padoux's Recherches sur la
Symbolique et l'energie de la Parole dans certains textes tantriques
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Indo-Iranian Journal, Vol. XVIII, Nos. 3/4, November/December
1976, 290-291
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Review
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27.
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1976
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Review
of Paul Brass' Language, Religion and
Politics in North India
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. XLIV, No. 1, March 1976, 174
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Review
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28.
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1976
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"The
Aesthetic (rasasvada) and the
Religious (brahmasvada) in
Abhinavagupta's Kashmir Saivism"
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Philosophy East and West, Vol. 26, No. 4, October 1976, 371-387
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Article
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29.
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1977
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"Modernization
and Religious Legitimation in India: 1835-1885"
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In Religion and the Legitimation of Power, edited by B. Smith, E.J.
Brill, Leiden, 1977
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Article
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30.
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1977
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"The
Aesthetic and the Religious in Hindu Spirituality: The Dance of Shiva"
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Prabuddha Dharma, Vedanta Quarterly, Fall 1977
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Article
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31.
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1978
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Review
of G. Koelmann's Patañjala Yoga
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Philosophy East and West, Vol. 28, No. 2, April 1978, 236-239
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Review
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32.
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1978
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Review
of L. N. Sharma's Kashmir Saivism
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Philosophy East and West, Vol. 28, No. 2, April 1978, 239-241
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Review
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33.
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1978
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Review
of Harsh Narain's Evolution of the
Nyaya-VaiSesika Categoriology
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Philosophy East and West, Vol. 28, No. 3, July 1978, 383-385
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Review
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34.
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1978
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Review
of S. Basu's Modern Indian Mysticism,
3 volumes
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Philosophy East and West, Vol. 28, No. 3, July 1978, 381-383
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Review
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35.
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1978
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"Prolegomenon
to a Theory of Religion"
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. XLVI, No. 4, December 1978, 443-463
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Article
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36.
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1979
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Classical Samkhya: An Interpretation of Its History and
Meaning
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Motilal
Banarsidass, Delhi; and Ross-Erikson Publishers, Santa Barbara (Second
revised edition) (new material = pp. 63-70, 209-247, 255-291)
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Book
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37.
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1980
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"Karma
as a 'Sociology of Knowledge' or 'Social Psychology' of Process/Praxis"
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In Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian
Traditions, edited by Wendy D. O'Flaherty, University of California
Press, 303-316
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Article
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38.
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1980
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In Her Image: The Great Goddess in Indian Asia and
the Madonna in Christian Culture (co-authored with P. Pal and R. Gowen)
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Regents
of the Univ. of California, the National Endowment for the Arts and the UCSB
Art Museum
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Art
Catalog (editor)
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39.
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1980
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"Introduction: The Symbolism of the 'Motherhood of
God' in Indic and Christian Culture"
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Introductory
essay to the exhibition catalog, cited above
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Article
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40.
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1980
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"The
Format of Technical Philosophical Writing in Ancient India: Inadequacies of Conventional
Translations"
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Philosophy East and West, Vol. 30, No. 3, July 1980, 375-380
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Article
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41.
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1981
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Article
entries: "Ahamkara," "Asana," "Dhyana," "Guna," "Haṭha Yoga, " "Isvara,"
"Patañjali," "Prakrti,"
"Pranayama," "Purusa," "Samkhya" and
"Yoga"
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Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, K. Crim, editor, L.D. Shinn and R. A.
Bullard, assoc. eds., Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1981 (pp. 14, 64-65,222-223,
286, 296, 367, 561,575, 589,648-650, 813-817)
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Dictionary
Articles
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42.
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1981
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"The
Potential and Future of Religion at UCSB"
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The NICM Journal, Spring 1981, Vol. 6, No. 2, 85-89
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Article
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43.
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1981
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"The
Cobra's Shining Scales"
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Religion (1981), 11, 75-82
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Review
Article
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44.
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1981
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"The
Song Celestial: Two Centuries of
the Bhagavad Gita in English"
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Philosophy East and West, Vol. 31, No. 4, October 1981, 513-541
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Feature
Review Article
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45.
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1983
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"McClain's
Mathematical Acoustics and Classical Samkhya Philosophy"
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Journal of Social and Biological Structures, 1983, 6, 161-167
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Article
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46.
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1983
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"An
Eccentric Ghost in the Machine: Formal and Quantitative Aspects of the Samkhya-Yoga Dualism"
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Philosophy East and West, Vol. 33, No. 3, July 1983, 219-233
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Article
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47.
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1983
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"The
Song Celestial: Two Centuries of
the Bhagavad Gita in English"
(invited reprint of 1981 Article)
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The Journal of Studies in the Bhagavad Gita, III, 1983, 1-55
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Reprint Article
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48.
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1984
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"The pratyaya-sarga or 'intellectual
creation' in Classical Samkhya as Interpreted by the Yuktidipika"
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Religion and Society in Ancient India (Sudhakar Chattopadhyaya Commemoration
Volume), Roy and Choudhury, Calcutta, 1984, pp. 60-71
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Article
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49.
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1984
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"The
Relation between 'action' and 'suffering' in Asian Philosophy"
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Philosophy East and West, Vol. 34, No. 4, October 1984, 351-356
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Article
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50.
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1986
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"Interpreting
Across Boundaries: Some Preliminary Reflections"
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Philosophy East and West, Vol. 36, No. 2, April 1986, 131-142
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Article
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51.
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1987
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"Conceptual
Resources in South Asia for 'Environmental Ethics' (or The Fly is Still Alive
and Well in the Bottle)"
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Philosophy East and West, Vol. 37, No. 2, April 1987, 150-159
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Article
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52.
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1987
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"Ayurveda
and the Hindu Philosophical Systems"
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Philosophy East and West, Vol. 37, No. 3, (July 1987), 245-259
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Article
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53.
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1987
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"The
Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom is a Broken Heart"
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Himalayas at a Cross-Roads, edited by D. Shimkhada, Pasadena,
Himalayan Arts Council, 1987, pp. 25-30
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Article
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54.
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1987
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Samkhya: A Dualist Tradition in Indian Philosophy (Volume IV, Encyclopedia of Indian
Philosophies, co-edited with Ram Shankar Bhattacharya; general editor: Karl H. Potter)
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Princeton
University Press, 1987, 674 pp.; Indian edition by Motilal Banarsidass,
Delhi, 1987
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Book |
55.
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1988
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Interpreting Across Boundaries: New Essays
in Comparative Philosophy (co-edited
with Eliot Deutsch)
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Princeton
University Press, 1988, 316 pp.
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Book |
56.
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1988
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"Introduction: The 'Age-Old Distinction between the
Same and the Other'"
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In Interpreting Across Boundaries, see
citation above, pp. 3-18
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Article
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57.
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1988
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"The
Santa Barbara Colloquy: Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone"
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Special
issue of Soundings, An
Interdisciplinary Journal, Summer/Fall 1988 (double issue), LXXI, No. 2-3,
420 pp.; co-edited with Ralph V. Norman
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Guest
Co-editor of journal
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58.
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1988
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"An
Introduction to the Santa Barbara Colloquy: Some Unresolved Questions"
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Special
issue of Soundings, see citation
above, pp. 187-204
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Article
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59.
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1988
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"Revising
Graduate Education"
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Appendix
to special issue of Soundings, see
citation above, 415-420
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Article |
60.
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1989
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"Some
Notes on Religion and Politics in Contemporary India"
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Vidyajyoti Journal of Theological Reflection, Vol. 53, No. 2, 79-87 February 1989,
Delhi, India
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Article
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61.
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1989
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"
'Conceptual Resources' in South Asia for 'Environmental Ethics' "
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In
J. B. Callicott and R. Ames, eds., Nature
in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy, SUNY Press, 1989, pp. 267-77
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Article |
62.
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1989
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"An
Old Problem Revisited: The Relation between Samkhya, Yoga and Buddhism"
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Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik, Volume 15, fall 1989, Hamburg, Germany,
129-146
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Article
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63.
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1990
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"Reason
in Early Indian Philosophy"
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Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Institute of Culture, Vol. XLI, Nos. 8 and 9,
1990, 172-174, 206-210
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Article
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64.
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1990
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"Matter
and Consciousness in Early Indian Philosophy"
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Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Institute of Culture, Vol XLI, Nos. 9 and 10,
1990, 210, 235-238
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Article
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65.
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1990
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"India
through Hindu Categories: A Samkhya Response"
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Contributions to Indian Sociology, Vol. 24, No. 2, July-Dec. 1990, 237-249
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Article
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66.
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1990
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"Contra
Pluralism"
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Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol LXXIII, No 2-3, Summer/Fall
1990, 303-326
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Article
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67.
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1990
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"The
Rope of Violence and the Snake of Peace: Conflict and Harmony in Classical
India"
|
In
Leroy S. Rouner, ed., Celebrating
Peace, University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1990, pp. 135-146
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Article
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68.
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1991
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Review
of T.S. Rukmani's four-volume translation of Yogavarttika of Vijñanabhiksiu
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Journal of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 19, 219-225, 1991
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Review
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69.
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1991
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Review
of Moin Shakir, ed., Religion, State
and Politics in India
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South Asia in Review, Vol. 15, No. 1
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Review
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70.
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l992
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"K.C.
Bhattacharya and the Plurality of Purusa-s (purusabahutva) in Samkhya"
|
Journal of the Indian Council for
Philosophical Research,
Vol. X, No. 1, 1992: 93-104
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Article
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7l.
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1992
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"Mandal,
Mandir, Masjid: The Citizen as Endangered Species in Independent India"
|
In
R.D. Baird, ed., Religion and Law in
Independent India, Delhi: Manohar, 1992
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Article
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72.
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l993
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"Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason and
the Study of Religion"
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In
Eileen Leonard, Herman Strasser, and Kenneth Westhues, eds., In Search of Community: Essays in Memory of Werner Stark
1909-1985, New York: Fordham University Press, 1993, pp. 204-219
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Article
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73.
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1993
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"The trimurti of smrti in Classical Indian Thought"
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Philosophy East and West, Vol. 43 No. 3, July 1993: 373-388
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Article
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74.
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1993
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"Discourse
about 'Religion' in Colonial and Postcolonial India"
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In
N. Smart and S. Thakur, eds., Dilemmas
of Modern India, London: Macmillan, 1993, pp. 181-193
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Article
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75.
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l993
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"Conceptual
Resources in South Asia for Environmental Ethics"
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In
S. J. Armstrong and R. G. Botzler, eds., Environmental
Ethics: Divergence and Convergence. McGraw-Hill, l993, pp. 545-552
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76.
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l993
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"Ayurveda
and the Hindu Philosophical Systems"
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In
T. P. Kasulis, R. T. Ames and W. Dissanayake, eds., Self as Body in Asian Theory and Practice. SUNY Press, l993, pp. 103-121.
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Article
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77.
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1994
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"Hinduism
in the World and in Today's America"
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In
Jacob Neusner, ed., World Religions in
Today's America," Louisville: Westminster and John Knox Press, 1994,
pp. l77-202
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Chapter
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78.
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1994
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"Is
South Asian yoga 'Philosophy,'
'Religion,' Both or Neither?"
|
In
U. Bianchi, et al., eds., Proceedings
of the XVIth Congress of the International Assn. of the History of Religions, Rome, 1990. "L'ERMA" di
BRETSCHNEIDER, pp. 261-270
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Article
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79.
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1994
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"Are
Jains Really Hindus? Some Parallels and Differences between Jain and Hindu
Philosophies"
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The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art from India. Edited by Pratapaditya Pal. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1994, pp. 57-61
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Article
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80.
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1995
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India's Agony Over Religion
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State
University of New York Press, 1995, 393pp.
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Book
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81.
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1995
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"Religion
in Modern India: Searching for a New Beginning, Parts I and II"
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Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Volume XLVI No.
8 and No. 9, August and September 1995, 309-319 and 365-372.
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Articles
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82.
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1995
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"Classical
Yoga Philosophy and Some Issues in the Philosophy of Mind"
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Religious Studies, Volumes 13-14, No. l, April 1995, 36-51
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Article
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83.
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1996
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"Religions,
People and Peanuts: A Response to Raimon Panikkar"
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Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal,
Volume LXXIX, No. 1-2,
Spring/Summer 1996
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Article
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84.
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1996
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"India's
Agony Over Religion"
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in The Sum of Our Choices, edited by
Arvind Sharma, Volume 4, McGill Studies in Religion, Essays in Honor of Eric
J. Sharpe, Scholars Press, 1996, pp. 193-211
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Article
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85.
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1996
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"India's
Waking to Life and Freedom in the Midnight of a Thousand Suns"
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Occasional Paper Series, No. 1, India Studies Program, Indiana
University Office of Publications, Tagore Inaugural Lecture, 17 pp.
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Article
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86.
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1996
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"Contra
Pluralism"
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in The Intercultural Challenge of Raimon
Panikkar, edited by Joseph Prabhu, essays in honor of Raimon Panikkar,
Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Press, 1996, pp. 71-87
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Article
(reprint of item 66 above)
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87.
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1997
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Review
of P. Bilimoria's Sabdapramana: Word
and Knowledge
|
in Philosophy East and West, Vol. 47,
No. l, January 1997, 84-86
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Review
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88.
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1997
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Review
of K. Mishra's Kashmir Saivism: The
Central Philosophy of Tantrism
|
in Philosophy East and West, Vol. 47,
No. 2, April 1997, 259-263
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Review
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89.
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1997
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Review
of S. N. Balagangadhara's The Heathen
in His Blindness
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in Philosophy East and West, Vol. 47,
No. 3, July 1997, 433-435
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Review
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90.
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1997
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FOREWORD
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to Meditation Revolution, edited by
Douglas Renfrew Brooks and Paul Muller-Ortega, South Fallsburg, New York:
Agama press, 1997, pp. xiii-xv.
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Foreword
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91.
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1997
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"Indian
Conceptions of Reality and Divinity,"
|
in A Companion to World Philosophies,
edited by E. Deutsch and R. Bontekoe. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 1997, pp. 248-258
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Article
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1997
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"India's
Contribution to World Philosophy"
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in Bulletin of the Ramakrishna
Institute of Culture, Vol. XLVIII, No. 12, December 1997, pp. 555-564
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Article
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93.
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1997
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"Polymorphic
Sexuality, Homoeroticism and the Study of Religion"
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. 65, No. 3, Fall 1997, 655-665
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Review
Article
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94.
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1997
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"A
Postmodernist Perspective on India's Popular Art"
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in Changing Myths and Images:
Twentieth-Century Popular Art in India
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Article
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95.
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1997
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Changing Myths and Images: Twentieth Century
Popular Art in India
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Indiana
University Art Museum and the Indiana University India Studies Program
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Art Catalogue, co-edited with P. Pal
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96.
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1997
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India's Agony Over Religion
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Oxford
University Press, Delhi
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Book
Edition of 1995 SUNY book)
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97.
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1997
|
Review
of V. Dalmia and H. von Stieterkron's Representing
Hinduism
|
in International Journal of Hindu Studies,
Vol. 1, No. 2, August 1997
|
Review
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98.
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1997
|
Review
of Sudhir Kakar's The Colors of
Violence
|
in Religious Studies Review, 1997
|
Short
Review
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99.
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1997
|
Review
of W. H. Mcleod's Guru Nanak and the
Sikh Religion
|
in Religious Studies Review, 1997
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Short
Review
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100
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1998
|
Review
of T. V. Sathyamurthy, ed., Region,
Religion, Caste, Gender and Culture in Contemporary India
|
in American Journal of Sociology,
March 1998
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Review
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101
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1998
|
"Indian
Philosophy: Its Relevance Today"
|
Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission
Institute of Culture,
Vol. XLIX, No. 7, July 1998, pp. 310-317
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Article
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102
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1998
|
Classical Samkhya: An Interpretation of its
History and Meaning
|
Delhi:
Motilal Banarsidass, new hard cover and paperback reprint of Second Revised
Edition, 1998
|
Book
(reprint)
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103
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1998
|
"Polymorphic
Sexuality, Homoeroticism, and the Study of Religion Revisited: A
Rejoinder"
|
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 66, No. 3, 637-639
|
Rejoinder
Article
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104
|
1998
|
Review
of Harsha V. Dehejia's Parvatidarpana:
An Exposition of Kasmir Saivism (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1997)
|
in Marg (Journal for the National
Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai, India), December, 1998, pp. 118-119
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Review
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105
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1999
|
"Classical
Yoga as Neo-Samkhya: A Chapter in the History of Indian Philosophy"
|
Asiatisches Studien/Etudes asiatiques, LIII, 3, pp. 723-732
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Article
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106
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1999
|
"Swami
Vivekananda and Universal Religion in Theory and Practice:" |
Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, L, No. 7-8,
July-August, pp. 273-280 and 326-332
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Articles
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107
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1999
|
Review
of M.E. Marty and R.S. Appleby, eds., Religion,
Ethnicity, and Self-Identity: Nations in Turmoil. Hanover: New Hampshire
University Press, 1997
|
Religious Studies Review, Volume 25, No. 1, January 1999, p. 49
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Review
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108
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1999
|
Review
of Guy L. Beck's Sonic Theology:
Hinduism and Sacred Sound. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993
|
Religious Studies Review, Volume 25, No. 1, January 1999, p. 118
|
Review
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109
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1999
|
Review
of L. S. Rouner, ed., The Longing for
Home. South Bend: University
of Notre Dame Press, 1996
|
The Journal of Religion, Vol. 79, No. 2, April 1999, pp. 336-337
|
Review
|
110
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1999
|
"Terrorists,
Mystics and Evangelists: Assessing the Competing Claim of Religion," in The Future of Religion: Postmodern
Perspectives, Essays in Honour of Ninian Smart, edited by C. Lamb and D.
Cohn-Sherbok
|
London:
Middlesex University Press, pp. 41-51
|
Article
|
111
|
1999
|
"A
Dangerous Time for India"
|
in The Global Connection, Volume 6,
Issue 4, pp. 14-15
|
Article
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112
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1999
|
Review of Outside the Fold: Conversion,
Modernity and Belief, by Gauri Viswanathan, Princeton University Press,
1998
|
in American Journal of Sociology,
November 1999
|
Review
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113
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2000
|
"The
'Tradition Text' in Indian Philosophy for Doing History of Philosophy in
India"
|
in
Roger T. Ames, ed., The Aesthetic Turn:
Reading Eliot Deutsch on Comparative Philosophy. Chicago: Open Court,
2000, pp. 59-69
|
Article
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114
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2000
|
"Relevance
of Vedanta in the Next Millennium, I and II"
|
in Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission
Institute of Culture, June 2000 and July 2000, Vol. 61, Nos. 6 and 7, 251-257
and 305-310 respectively
|
Article
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115
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2000
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"The
Role of Indian Philosophy in the Next Millennium"
|
in Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission
Institute of Culture, Vol. 61, December 2000
|
Article
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116
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2000
|
"Classical
Yoga Philosophy and Some Issues in the Philosophy of Mind"
|
in
J. L. Shaw, ed., Concepts of Knowledge:
East and West. Calcutta: The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture,
2000, pp. 132-151—reprint of item 82 above
|
Article |
117
|
2000
|
"Passage
to India: Emperors, Gurus and Gods" – A Core Introductory Course
on the Cultures and Civilizations of India on CD-ROM with accompanying Reader
|
India
Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington, copyright 2000
|
CD-ROM |
118
|
2000
|
Review
of J. I. Cabezon's Scholasticism:
Cross-Cultural and Comparative Perspectives, SUNY Press, 1998
|
in Journal of the American Academy of
Religion, Spring 2000, 68/1, 157-160
|
Review
|
119
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2000
|
Review
of Ian Whicher's The Integrity of the
Yoga Darsana, SUNY Press 1998
|
in
the International Journal of Hindu
Studies, November/December 2000
|
Review
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120
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2001
|
Religion and Personal Law in Secular India:
A Call to Judgment
|
Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 2001, 362 pp.
|
Book, |
121
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2001
|
"Religion
as Understood in Hindu Culture and the West—I and II"
|
in Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission
Institute of Culture, Volume LII, Nos. 5 and 6, May and June, pp. 191-195 and
pp. 236-239
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Article
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122
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2002
|
Religion and Personal Law in Secular India:
A Call to Judgment
|
Delhi:
Social Science Press, 2001-2002—Indian edition of the Indiana
University Press edition published in 2001
|
Book, |
123
|
2002
|
"South
Asia on the Threshold of
Catastrophe"
|
Asian Studies Newsletter of the Association for Asian Studies,
Viewpoints section, Spring 2002, pp. 13-15 [shorter version of the same piece
appeared as a guest editorial in the local newspaper, The Herald Times,
Bloomington, Indiana, also in spring 2002]
|
Article
|
124
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2002
|
"Samkhya
Philosophy's Relevance for Modern Science, I and II"
|
in Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission
Institute of Culture, April and May, 2002, Volume LIII, Nos. 4 and 5, pp.
148-151 and pp. 198-202
|
Article
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125
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2003
|
"Nuclearization
of the South Asian Region: Interactions between Pakistan and India"
|
in
Anna Lannstrom, ed., Promise and Peril:
The Paradox of Religion as Resource and Threat (Notre Dame: University of
Notre Dame Press, 2003, pp. 37-58
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Article
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126
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2003
|
"
'...Unsinkable to the Very End' "
|
in The Vedanta Kesari, September 2003,
pp. 352-354
|
Review
Article
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127
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2003
|
"The
Anthropic Principle: Life, Cosmos and Consciousness"
|
in Philosophy and Science: An Exploratory
Approach to Consciousness (Papers from the International Seminar at the
Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata, India, February 8-9, 2002
(Kolkata: Rama Art Press, 2003, pp. 173-188
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Article
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128
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2003
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"Perspectives
on the Harmony of Religions"
|
in Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission
Institute of Culture, Vol. LIV, No. 5, May 2003, 205-214
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Article
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129
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2003
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"Some
New Perspectives on Karma and Rebirth"
|
in Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission
Institute of Culture, Vol. LIV, No. 6, June 2003, 251-261
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Article
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130
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2003
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"World
View in Samkhya and Modern Science"
|
in Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission
Institute of Culture, Vol. LIV, No. 11, 506-517
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Article
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131
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2004
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"Emotional
Intelligence: Its Concept and Prospects"
|
in Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission
Institute of Culture, Vol. LV, Nos. 10 and 11, 474-477 and 517-521
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Article
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132
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2004
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"'A
Beautiful Sunset...Mistaken for a Dawn': Some Reflections on Religious
Studies, India Studies and the Modern University"
|
in Journal of the American Academy of
Religion, Vol. 72, No. 4, December 2004, 1003-1019
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Article
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133
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2004
|
"The
Notion of 'Consciousness' as 'Witness' in Indian Philosophy and Modern
Science,"
|
in Life, Mind and Consciousness, Gol
Park, Kolkata, The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, 2004, pp.
395-409
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Article
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134
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2004
|
"The
Aesthetic Ascetic: Abhinavagupta's Perspective on Poetry, Religion and Visual
Art"
|
in Marg, a Magazine of the Arts,
Volume 56, No. 2, December 2004, 54-61.
|
Article
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135
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2005
|
"A
Magadha Tale and Some Reflections on the Many-sidedness of the
Mahabharata"
|
in
T.S. Rukmani, ed., The Mahabharata: What
Is Not Here is Nowhere Else, New Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, pp. 79-89
|
Article
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136
|
2005
|
"Mysticism
in Hindu and Christian Spirituality"
|
in Bulletin, The Ramakrishna Mission
Institute of Culture, Kolkata, Volume LVI, Nos. 9 and 10, September and
October, 2005, pp. 413-418 and 479-485
|
Article
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137
|
2005
|
Theory and Practice of Yoga: Essays in
Honour of Gerald James Larson
|
Knut
A. Jacobsen, ed., Leiden, E.J. Brill, 2005
|
Festschrift (book)
|
138
|
2006
|
"Scholarship
on Religion and Communities of Faith"
|
in Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies,
Volume 19, 2006, pp. 12-16
|
Article
|
139
|
2007
|
"Scholarship
on Religion and Communities of Faith" (corrected version)
|
in Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies,
Volume 20, 2007, pp. 30-34
|
Article
Reprint
|
140
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2007
|
"Nagas,
Monks, Tantriks, and Poets: The Intellectual and Religious Foundations for
the Arts of Kashmir in the Ancient Period (300-1400)"
|
in The Arts of Kashmir, edited by
Pratapaditya Pal, Asia Society, 2007, pp. 32-43
|
Article
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141
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2008
|
"The
Notion of 'God' in Yoga Philosophy: A New Approach to 'Worship' and
'Prayer'"
|
in Bulletin, The Ramakrishna Mission
Institute of Culture, Vol. LIX, No. 2, pp. 74-83
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Article
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142
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2008
|
Yoga: India's Philosophy of Meditation
|
Volume
XII, Encyclopedia of Indian
Philosophies, Co-edited with Ram Shankar Bhattacharya, General Editor,
Karl H. Potter. Delhi: Motilal
Banarsidass, 2008. 784pp.
|
Book
(Co-Editor)
|
143
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2008
|
Theory and Practice of Yoga: Essays in
Honour of Gerald James Larson
|
paperback
edition of item 137 above—paperback edition of the Brill hardcover
published by Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 2008
|
Festschrift
|
144
|
2009
|
“Secularism
in Indian Law”
|
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of
Legal History,
edited by Stanley N. Katz. New
York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, Volume 5, pp. 208-209
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Article
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145
|
2009
|
Review
of D. G. White's Kiss of the Yogini:
"Tantric Sex" in South Asian Contexts, University of Chicago
Press, 2003
|
Journal of the American Oriental Society 128.1 (2008), pp. 154-157
|
Review
|
146
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2009
|
Review
of Yoga: The Indian Tradition,
edited by I. Whicher and D. Carpenter, RoutledgeCurzon Press, 2003
|
Journal of the American Oriental Society 128.l (2008), pp. 152-154
|
Review
|
147
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2009
|
“The
Unique Notion of ‘Consciousness’ in Classical Yoga Philosophy and Its
Relevance for Scientific Cosmology and Cognitive Science”
|
Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion, Volume 13, October (2008), 1-19
|
Article
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148
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2009
|
Viewpoint:
“The Clash Within, The Hindus and Invading the Sacred”
|
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies, Volume 22, 2009, pp. 39-45
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Article
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149
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2009
|
“The
Defeat of the Gods and the Victory of the Goddess: The Divine Feminine in
Indic Spirituality”
|
In
P. Pal, ed., Goddess Durga: The Power
and the Glory (Mumbai: Marg Publications, 2009), pp. 22-37
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Article
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150
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2009
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“Eliminative
Materialism, Eliminative Dualism and the Philosophy of Yoga”
|
In Philosophy, Psychology and Science in
India, edited by Girishwar Misra, Government of India Volume
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Article
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151
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2009
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“Differentiating
the Concepts of “yoga” and
“tantra” in Sanskrit Literary History”
|
Journal of the American Oriental Society (JAOS), 129.3 (2009), 487-498
|
Review
Article
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152
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2009
|
“Hinduism
in India and America”
|
In
J. Neusner, ed., World Religions in
America (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009), pp. 179-198
|
Chapter
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153
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2009
|
“What
Yoga Is and What Yoga Is Not”
|
In Some Responses to Classical Yoga in the
Modern Period (Gol Park, Kolkata: Ramakrishna Mission Institute of
Culture, National Seminar, January 2009, Presidential Address, pp. 348-359
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Article
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154
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2010
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“Imagining
India: An Odd Trilogy”
|
In Marg: A Magazine of the Indian Arts, Volume 61, No. 4. Pp. 78-85.
|
Article
|
| 155 | 2011 | “The Hedgehog and the Fox: Metaphors for the Intellectual Life of Gandhi and Tagore” | In Something Old, Something New: Rabindranath Tagore 150th Birth Anniversary Volume, edited by Pratapaditya Pal, Volume 62, No. 3 (Mumbai: The Marg Foundation, March 2011), pp. 96-107.
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Article |
| 156 | 2012 | “Patanjala Yoga in Practice,” | Iin David G. White, ed., Yoga in Practice. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. Pp. 73-96.
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Article |
| 157 | 2012 | “Hindu Cosmogony/Cosmology,” | In J. W. Haag, G. R. Peterson, and M. L. Spezio, eds., The Routledge Companion to Religion and Science. London: Routledge, 2012. Pp. 113-123. | Article |
| In Press 2012 | “Yoga’s Theism: A Unique Answer to the Never-Ending Problem of God in Comparative Philosophy of Religion.” | Forthcoming in “Essays in Indian Philosophy, T. S. Rukmani Felicitation Volume,” edited by P. P. Kumar. Delhi: DK Printworld, expected 2013.
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| In Press 2012 | “The End of Sacrifice and the Absence of ‘Religion.” | Forthcoming in Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion, expected 2013. |