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A

Adarkar, Aditya (2006-PW3): The Narrative and the Suppliant: Katha in the Mahabharata

Anand, Sudhir K. (2007-DKM3):  The Arya Samaj View of Moksha 

B

Bauman, Chad (2008-CICDT): Does the Divine Physician Have an Unfair Advantage?

Beck, Guy (2005-5): Introducing Aryan

Beck, Guy (2006-PW3): Prayer and Worship through Music and Liturgy in North Indian Vaishnava Traditions 

Bhattacharya-Saxena, Neela (2007-RT3): Dance of the Dual Self in Artistic Creations: A Shakta Reading of Rasa Theory

Biernacki, Loriliai (2007-RT4): The Ethics of Delight

Bilimoria, Purushottama  (2006-PW1): Mantric Effect, Noetics of Supplication, and the Apūrva in the Mimamsa

Bilimoria, Purushottama (2007-DKM2): Is Dharma Rational? And Karma Iintelligible? Is Moksha (a) Way Out? Critique of Mohanty, Matilal, Daya Krishna

Bilimoria, Purushottama (2007-RT3): Grief and Mourning: Theorizing on the Troubled Bhava-s Cross-Culturally

Boileau, Bradley (2007-DKM1): Preksha Dhyan and the Jain Yogic Paradox

Brown, Judith Simmer (2006-PW4): Prayer and Worship in Tantric Buddhism   No Abstract 

Buchta,  David (2007-RT2): Bhayänaka-rasa as Bhakti-rasa in Gauòéya Vaiñëavism

C

Carney, Gerald T. (2004-3): A Patriot of the Old School: Baba Premananda Bharati and Indian Nationalism

Carney,  Gerald T. (2007-RT2): Rasa as Foundation and Bridge

Chakrabarti,  Arindam (2005-3): What is It Like to Die?  Analytical Assessment of Ancient Indian Vedic Philosophical Concerns with Death

Chakrabarti, Arindam (2006-PW1): What is a Devatā? What is a Yajnā? Can Work be Worship? From Veda, through Bhagavadgita, to Tantra of Abhinavagupta 

Chakrabarti, Arindam (2006-PW3): Reasoning-Yoga and the Epistemology of Worship: The 12 Forms of Kālī in Kashmir Shaivism (Tantrāloka IV) 

Chapple, Christopher K. (2005-3): Dying, and Death in Jaina Dharma Traditions 

Chapple, Christopher (2006-Yoga2): Connecting Body, Senses, and Elements: Yoga and the Process of Ecological Restoration

Chapple, Christopher Key (2007-DKM2):  Dharma, Karma, and Moksha in Jaina Tradition

Chapple, Christopher K. (2008-RFTD): The Goddess and Ecological Sensitivity: The Cultivation of Earth Knowledge

Chilcott, Travis (2008-HPSP): Transitional Objects and Gaudiya Vaishnavism

Clark, Scott (2007-DKM1): Jain Identity Politics: Ahimsa, Anekantavada and Aparigraha in a World of Others

Clooney, Francis X.  (2006-PW5): Prayer and Worship in the Srivaisnava Tradition: the Three Mantras according to Vedanta Desika

Clooney, Francis X. (2008-CICDT): Theologizing Conversion: the 17th-18th Century Jesuit Example 

Collins, Alfred (2006-Yoga1): Dharma Cloud Samadhi: The Other Side of Release (kaivalya) in Patanjali's Yoga Sutra and the Samkhya Karika

Collins, Alfred (2007-RT3): The Savor of What Is: Rasa as Culture Theory

Collins, Alfred (2008-HPSP): Death and Transfiguration: Integrating Freud's Thanatos and Oceanic Narcissism through Samkhya-Yoga

Cornell, Laura (2006-Yoga2): A Model for Eight Paths of Green Yoga 

D

Danka, Krisztina (2007-RT2): Rasa – Aesthetics & Metaphysics Interwoven: Literary Works As Revelations in the Bengali Vaishnava Tradition

Däsa, Dvija Maëi , (2007-RT2): Bhayänaka-rasa as Bhakti-rasa in Gauòéya Vaiñëavism

Denapoli, Antoinette E. (2007-DKM4): God Depends on His Devotees: Social Engagement and Reciprocity between Ascetics and Householders in Rajasthan

Dimitrova, Diana (2004-3): Religion, Nationalism and Film

Drewes, David (2007-PW4): Worship in Indian Mainstream and Mahayana Buddhism

E

Ellis, Thomas B. (2008-HPSP): Merged in or Separated by Oceans: Object Relations Theory and the Hindu God Image

Elst, Koenraad (2007-DKM3): The Non-Retributive Karma Doctrine

F

Ferrey, Jenna (2007-DKM1): Caste & the Jaina Dharma

Figueira, Dorothy (2004-5): Swami Dayananda’s Hermeneutic Strategy for Reconstruction of the Arya Self 

Fort, Andrew O. (2004-2): Teaching Texas Christians About Hinduism Today
Foulks, Beverley (2006-Yoga1): Super Samskara-s: Soteriological Subliminal Impressions in Patanjali's Yoga-Sutra

G

Gayatriprana,  Pravrajika (2005-1): Hinduism and Universal Religion: Are Western Vedantists Hindus?

Gibb, Victoria (2008-JDP): ‘The Coldest of all Religions’: Late British Colonial Interpretations of Jaina Dharma

Gier, Nicholas F. (2004-4): Toward a Hindu Virtue Ethics

Godlas, Alan (2006-PW5): Prayer and Worship in Sufi Tradition

Gough, Ellen (2008-JDP): Jain Understandings of the Power of the Word: Interpretations of the Rsi Mandala Yantra

Gray, David B. (2008-RFTD): Dākinīs and Yoginīs: On the Origin and Development of an Early Medieval Indian Buddhist Goddess Tradition

Greenberg, Yehudit Kornberg (2006-PW5): Divine Love and Eros in Jewish Prayer

Gross, Rita M.  (2006-PW4): Prayer and Worship in Vajrayana Buddhism

Gunn, Janet (2007-DKM1): Moksha Marg Broadening in Progress: Making Room for the Lived Experience of Jaina Traditions

Gupta, Bina (2006-PW1): Can an Advaitin Pray? Role of ‘Upāsanā’ in Shankara

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Herman, Phyllis (2004-3): Ram Darshan: Picturing a Nationalism for the Twenty-first Century

Herman, Phyllis (2008-RFTD): Sita Masala: From the Vedas to the Kitchen

Howard Rani, Veena (2005-1): Asceticism in the Life of Mahatma Gandhi

Howard, Veena (2004-1): Problem of Choosing and Changing Methodologies in the Study of Hindu Texts

Howard, Veena (2008-RFTD): Gandhi’s Construction of Femininity: Negotiating Traditional Values for Modern Goals

Howard, Veena R. (2007-DKM3): A Search for Dharma in Secular World of Diaspora:  Is sadharana dharma the only alternative?

Humes, Cynthia Ann (2004-2): "Fair and Balanced": An Inquiry into New Directions Emerging in the Study of Geopolitics and Hinduism

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Indrani, Pandita (2005-2): How the Arya Samaj Remained Hindu while Challenging Orthodoxy

Ironbiter, Suzanne (2006-Yoga2): Yoga and Nature: Vital Concentration in Atharva Veda

J

Jacobsen, Knut A. (2005-4): In Kapila's Cave: A Samkhya-Yoga Renaissance in Bengal 

Jacobsen, Knut Axel (2006-Yoga2): The Disharmony of Interdependence: Samkhya-Yoga and Ecology

Jain, Andrea (2008-JDP): Health, Well-Being, and the Ascetic Ideal: Terapanthi Jainism in the Context of Late Capitalism 

Jain, Pankaj (2008-THW): ‘The H-Word and the D-Word’: Hinduism and Dharma

Jain, Vimal P. (2004-5): Means of Knowledge and Interpretation in Jaina Dharma Tradition

Jakubczak, Marzenna (2006-PW2): Why Meditate on God? The Role of Ishvara-pranidhana in Classical Yoga and Samkhya Traditions

Jones, Gabriel (2007-DKM1): Warring Natures: Marwar culture, the Ksatriya ethos and the Terapanthi Jain of Rajasthan

Jordan, Kay K. (2004-3): The Hinduism of Dr. S. Muthulakshmi Reddy

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Kak, Subhash (2003): Is There Science in the Vedas

Kalyanaraman, S. (2004-1): Prakrit Languages and Jaati

Kassam, Tazim R. (2006-PW5): Prayer and Rituals of Ismaili Muslims   Abstract unavailable at the time of printing.

Kelting, M. Whitney (2006-PW4): Why might Jains Make Prayers No One Answers?

Khanna, Madhu (2006-PW2): Prayer and Worship in the Shakta Tradition  No Abstract 

Khanna, Madhu (2007-RT3): Rasa and Bhava in the Nityapuja of Goddess Tripurasundari

Kothari, Smita (2008-JDP): Revival and Reform of Jaina Yoga – The Preksha Dhyana Movement

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Lamb, Ramdas (2004-4): Beyond Anthropology: Towards a Global, Pluralist Perspective in Hindu Studies

Lamb, Ramdas (2005-2): Casteless Hinduism: A View from Top and Bottom

Lamb, Ramdas (2005-4): Yoga in the Contemporary Ramananda Sampradaya 

Lamb, Ramdas (2006-PW2): Prayer and Worship in the Hindu Ascetic Traditions

Lamb, Ramdas (2007-DKM4): Ramanandi Sadhus and the Proliferation of Ram Bhakti in North India

Larson, Gerald J. (2006-PW1): The Eccentric God of Yoga: A New Approach to 'Worship' and 'Prayer' (Bhakti-Visesa)

Lawrence, David Peter (2007-RT4): Suggestion, Universalization and the Disclosure of Sakti: Revisiting Abhinavagupta on the Relations of Aesthetics and Monistic Saivism

Lawrence, David P. (2008-HPSP): The Psychology of the Tantric Self: Religious Metaphysics and the Transformations of Narcissism

LeBlanc, Paul (2007-DKM1): The Tirthankara & the Ubermensch

Lele, Amod (2004-4): The Various Forms of Constructive Buddhist Studies

Lidke, Jeffrey (2004-2): The Identification and Application of an Abhinavaguptian Hermeneutics: Towards Methodology in the Study of Tantra

Lidke, Jeffrey Stephen (2006-Yoga1): The Royal Wisdom: Power or Transcendence? That is the question.

Lidke,  Jeffrey Stephen (2007-RT4): A Tantric Semiotics of the Body as Rasa in Classical Indian Dance

Long, Jeffery D. (2004-4): Constructive Philosophy in Hindu Studies

Long, Jeffery D. (2005-1): Radical Renunciation: The Aim and Practice of Jain Asceticism

Long, Jeffery D. (2008-THW): Hindu–To Be or Not To Be: Three Possible Reasons for Aversion to the Term ‘Hindu’ among Western Practitioners

M

Malhotra, Rajiv (2004-2): Geopolitics and Hinduism Studies

Martin, Nancy (2006-PW2): Role of Music in Devotional Hinduism   No Abstract 

Melukote, Sridhar (2004-1): Traditional Methodologies in the Writings of the Epics

Molchanov, Elaine (2008-HPSP): Snake symbolism in Jungian psychoanalysis and Kundalini shakti in Siddha Yoga: Comparing the imaginal and transformative levels of a symbol 

Morales, Frank G. (2005-2): The Epistemological Foundations of Religious Affiliation in the Context of Hindu Identity

Muller-Ortega, Paul (2005-4): A Tantric Critique of Patanjali 

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Nagarajan, Vijaya (2006-Yoga2): Yoga as Metaphor: Ecology, the Feminine, and the Kolam 

Narayanan, Vasudha (2005-5): No title

Natavar, Mekhala Devi (2005-5): Presenting Sacred Narratives in Indian Dance

Nelson, Lance (2005-5): Introducing Krishna

Nelson, Lance (2007-RT2): Bhakti-rasa for the Advaitin Renouncer: Madhusudana Sarasvati's Theory of Devotional Sentiment

Newcombe, Suzanne (2008-THW): Identification with Hinduism and the Politics of a Plural World

Nichols, Brian (2004-5): Pratyaksha in the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Tradition

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Pal, Shiv Raj (2007-DKM3): Sukshma-Shareer, the Prime Body of the Atma, and its Relationship to Dharma, Karma and Moksha

Pappu, S. S. Rama Rao (2003): Can Dharma be Taught?

Pappu, S.S. Rama Rao (2004-5): Dharma, Li and Natural Law: Foundations of Society

Pati, George (2007-RT3): Mohiniyattam: The Rasa and Bhava of Devotionalism

Patton, Laurie (2006-CT): Challenges in Translating Works from Early India  No Abstract 

Penumala, Pratap K. (2005-4): Saamkhya-Yoga Contributions to Srivaishnava Theology  

Petterson, Guy (2007-DKM2): Salvation through Deeds?: Madeleine Biardeau's “Anthropology of Desire”

Pflueger, Lloyd W. (2005-4): Person, Purity, and Power in the Yogasutra  

Pintchman, Tracy (2005-4): Maternal Devotion as a Form of Yoga 

Pokinko, Tom (2008-JDP): Some Contemporary Views on Jaina Values and Conduct Among Indian Lay Jaina-s from Jaipur and Delhi

Prabhu, Joseph (2007-DKM2):  Dharma through Thick and Thin

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Quinlan, Stephen B. (2007-DKM1):  Astrology & Cosmic Identity: Connecting the Natal Horoscope to Jain Soteriological Ideology

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Raj, Selva J. (2006-PW5): Public Devotions, Domestic Rituals: Prayer and Worship in Popular Christianity in India

Rambachan, Anantananda (2006-PW1): Knowing Brahman as Creator and Self: Reconsidering Prayer and Worship in Advaita

Ranganathan, Shyam(2007-DKM2):  How to Generalize and How not to Generalize about “Dharma”, “Karma” and “Moksa”

Reddy, Prabhavati C. (2006-ADD): Institutional and Priestly Adhikāra in American Hindu Temples

Reddy, Prabhavati C. (2006-CT): Text and Context: Making the Sense of the Srisailakhandamu

Ruff, Jeffrey C.  (2006-Yoga1): Re-imagining Yoga, Imagining Yoga-s    No Abstract 

Rukmani, Trichur S. (2004-5): The Epistemology of Knowing Oneself in the Six Astika Darsanas

Rukmani,T. S. (2005-4): Revisiting the Concept of Jivanmukti in Samkhya

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Sarma, Deepak (2006-PW2): Mādhva Worship: Enlightened Bhakti 

Sastry, B. V. Venkatakrishna (2004-1): Scholarship on Sanskrit, Tamil, Prakrits – A key prerequisite for understanding Hinduism traditions.

Saucier,  Mélanie (2007-DKM1): The Ideal & the Real in Digambar Jainism

Saxena, Neela Bhattacharya (2004-4): Kali’s ‘Pregnant Nothingness’: A Gynocentric Idea of Liberation

Schwartz, Susan (2007-RT3): Rasa/Rakta: Transformations in Red

Schweig, Graham M. (2003): Ethical Boundaries and Boundless Love: Reflections on Dharma and Bhakti

Schweig, Graham (2005-5): The Sacred Image: Inscrutable Multiplicity and Affability

Schweig, Graham (2006-CT): Challenges in Translating the Bhagavad Gita

Schweig, Graham M.  (2006-PW3): Prayer and Worship in the Caitanya Vaishnava Tradition

Schweig, Graham M. (2007-DKM4): Moving Between Two Worlds: Chaitanya as Teacher and Ascetic

Schweig, Graham M. (2007-RT2): The Conception and Meaning of Rasa in Bhakti: The Chaitanya Vaishnava School

Segal, Alan (2005-3): Death and Afterlife in Western Religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam 

Shastry, BVK, (2006-CT): Pāninian Grammar Rules Governing Compound Words Formed with ‘Ārya in Bhagavad-Gita (2-2)

Sherma, Rita D. (2005-2): The Gifts of Exile: On Being a Hindu in a Global Era

Sherma, Rita (2008-CICDT): ITBB & Taksha Institute, A Hindu Missiology?

Shimkhada, Deepak (2007-RT2): Paintings: Expressions of Rasa in the 1648 Bhagavata Purana 

Shimkhada, Deepak (2008-RFTD): Goma: the Girl Born of Cow Dung 

Shridhar, Acharya Prem Chand (2006-PW3): Sandhyā and Havan in Arya Samaj Tradition 

Shukla, Suhag (2006-ADD): Second Generation Hindu American Views 

Shukla-Bhatt, Neelima (2006-ADD): Women and Priestly Adhikāra in Dharma Diaspora 

Shukla-Bhatt, Neelima (2007-RT2): Usefulness of the Concept of Bhakti-rasa in Studying Bhakti Forms 

Singh, Nikky G. Kaur (2004-5): Dharam Khand: The Heart of Sikh Tradition 

Singh, Nikky (2006-PW5): Prayer and Worship in Sikh Tradition 

Skora, Kerry Martin (2007-RT4): Abhinavagupta’s Aesthetics of Touch: Synaesthetic Awareness and Lucid Dream-Play 

Smith, Frederick M. (2004-1): NO TITLE 

Srinivas, Tulasi (2007-DKM4): The Truant Ascetic: Transcendence and Escape in the Transnational Sathya Sai Movement 

Sudarshan, E.C.G. (2003): Physical World as an Embodiment of Dharma 

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Theodor, Ithamar (2006-CT): Looking into the Structure of the Bhagavad Gita as a Precondition for its Translation

Theodor, Ithamar (2007-RT2): The Infiltration of Rasa into Vaisnavism

Timalsina, Sthaneshwar (2004-2): The Identification and Application of an Abhinavaguptian Hermeneutics: Towards Methodology in the Study of Tantra

Timalsina, Sthaneshwar (2006-Yoga1): Nath Yoga: Union of the Body and the Cosmos

Timalsina, Sthaneshwar  (2007-RT4): Aesthetic and Mystical: Reading Tripura Literature Through the Lens of Rasa

Timalsina, Staneshwar  (2008-RFTD): The Body of the Goddess: Eco-Awareness and Embodiment in Hindu Myth and Romance

Tsomo, Karma Lekshe (2005-1): Renunciation in Contemporary Buddhist Monasticism

Tsomo, Karma Lekshe (2005-3): Death, Afterlife, and In-Between: Buddhist Perspectives

Vallely, Anne (2006-PW4): Denying and Renouncing, Desiring and Pleading: The Art of Jain Prayer 

Vijaykar, Mona (2003): Dharma In Schools

Vrajaprana, Pravrajika (2005-1): Looking In and Letting Go: Vairagya in the Vedanta Tradition

Vrajaprana, Pravrajika (2007-DKM4): Bridging the Gap between the Sacred and the Secular: Seva as Ascetic Practice

Vrajaprana, Pravrajika (2008-THW): “Sorting It Out: Hindu Culture/Hindu Religion/ Hindu Identity or True Confessions of a (basically White) Hindu Nun”

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Waghorne, Joanne Punzo (2006-ADD): Adhikāra: Authority, Rights of Access, and New Global Hindu-based Organizations 

Walker, Henry John (2007-DKM3): Dharma and Duty in the Gita 

Whicher, Ian (2006-Yoga1): Kaivalya in the Yoga Sutra: Ultimate Disengagement or Engagement? 

Williamson, Lola (2008-THW): When is a Hindu Not a Hindu? Why Followers of Three Hindu-Inspired Movements Do Not Identify as Hindu.

 

 

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