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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Scholarly interviews make Indian religions legible through contested texts, sacred places, embodied practices, and the institutions that study them.
New Books in Indian Religions turns book-centered interviews into close examinations of how religion takes shape in texts, institutions, places, and public life.
A road reaches a Hindu shrine, and your idea of a fixed tradition needs a rewrite.
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A steady, thoughtful tour through mind, yoga, tantra, and personhood.
Gavin Flood's discussion of mind in Hindu Tantra moves from early Indian sources to Patanjali, hatha yoga, and Shaiva Siddhanta, then opens into broader questions about personhood.
A calm look at yoga study as both scholarship and lived practice.
Dr. Chris Chappell presents LMU’s Masters in Yoga Studies as a serious academic path built around teaching, practice, and close reading of texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and the Yoga Sutra.
A careful translation discussion that treats Sanskrit as a philosophy of practice and interpretation.
This episode stays tightly focused on the work of translation, where choosing one word over another carries real weight. It treats translation as interpretation rather than a mechanical swap, and that framing gives the discussion its larger philosophical edge.
A serious conversation about the future of religious studies and who shapes it.
Russell T. McCutcheon turns to the future of religious studies, with attention to the strain on departments, senior scholars, and younger academics.
A measured conversation about mixed-faith relationships, recognition, and the difficulty of easy answers.
Dr. Ashes Roy turns a conversation about a book on Hindu-Muslim relationships into a close look at mixed-faith families and the pressure they carry.
A measured look at Hinduism's scholarly framing, with its edges kept in view.
This episode treats the six-volume Hinduism project as a question of boundaries as much as coverage. The editors move through the Bloomsbury set with enough care to make the scale feel manageable, and the best passages are the ones that let editorial structure do the arguing.
A careful study of how a shrine, a pilgrimage, and a tradition become more fixed over time.
Jürgen Schaflechner's book conversation keeps coming back to the Hinglaj Devi temple in Pakistan as a place where devotion, travel, and interpretation stay in motion.
A steady scholarly discussion of how Vedic ritual and myth are read together.
The episode treats Vedic myth and ritual as a single conversation rather than separate lanes, and that is where it has the most life. Jan Huben and Julieta Rotaru use the book to work through ritual, textual tradition, and the relation between practice and scholarship, while…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
This episode discusses a special issue on Hindutva and anti-Christian violence in India, featuring scholars Sudhir Selvaraj and Kenneth Bo Nilsen.
Ashis Roy discusses his book 'Intimacy in Alienation,' exploring Hindu-Muslim intermarriage through psychoanalytic lenses, including concepts like negative identity, family rejection, and forbidden desire.
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This episode features editors Karen Pechilis, Jared Whitaker, and Valerie Stoker discussing the six-volume reference work 'A Cultural History of Hinduism.' They explore the project's origins, collaborative challenges, and how the volumes tackle periodization, thematic consistency, and the contested nature of Hinduism across time.
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Doctors Barbora Sojkova and Theodora Wildcroft discuss their co-edited book 'Yoga Studies in Five Minutes', explaining its aim to make academic yoga research accessible without oversimplifying.
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Wendy Doniger discusses her book on the Mahabharata, exploring themes of Dharma through stories of unfaithful wives, faithful jackals, and gender fluidity.
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Author Ghazala Wahab discusses her book 'The Hindi Heartland', exploring the region's history of communal polarization, economic deindustrialization, and language politics.
Ruth Perini discusses her translation of the Varaha Upanishad, explaining its significance as a synthesis of Vedanta and tantric yoga.
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Historian Kathryn Hurlock discusses her book on how pilgrimage has shaped global history, politics, and economics across 19 sacred sites.
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An academic interview discussing a new open-access publication on religion, spirituality, and public health.
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This episode is an academic interview discussing a recently published book on Indian religions, part of the New Books Network.
This episode is a promotional segment for the New Books Network audience survey and a Princeton University Press spring sale, not a typical interview.
An academic interview discussing a new book on Gandhi's philosophy of truth and nonviolence in contemporary post-truth politics.
An academic interview discussing a scholar's recent book on Sanskrit and Indian religious texts.
This episode features an interview with a scholar discussing their recently published research on Indian religions, part of the New Books Network's academic interview series.
This episode begins with a survey announcement for NewBooks Network listeners, then transitions into an interview about Buddhism, Asian medicine, and embodied spirituality on The Black Barrel podcast.
This episode begins with a survey announcement for NewBooks Network listeners, then transitions into an interview about a recent academic book on Indian religions.