Padma Kaimal is Batza Professor of Art and Art History at Colgate University. She is the author of Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis (Association for Asian Studies, 2013) and Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space (Washington, 2021).
12 Ebooks by John Stratton Hawley
John Stratton Hawley & Christian Lee Novetzke: Bhakti and Power
Bhakti, a term ubiquitous in the religious life of South Asia, has meanings that shift dramatically according to context and sentiment. Sometimes translated as “personal devotion, ” bhakti nonetheles …
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Vasudha Narayanan & John Stratton Hawley: The Life of Hinduism
The Life of Hinduism brings together a series of essays—many recognized as classics in the field—that present Hinduism as a vibrant, truly ‘lived’ religion. Celebrating the diversity for which Hindui …
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Kimberley Christine Patton & John Stratton Hawley: Holy Tears
What religion does not serve as a theater of tears? Holy Tears addresses this all but universal phenomenon with passion and precision, ranging from Mycenaean Greece up through the tragedy of 9/11. Si …
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John Stratton Hawley: Krishna, The Butter Thief
The author traces the development of the theme of Krishna as butter thief from its earliest appearance in literature and art until the present. He focuses on the dramas (ras lilas) of Krishna’s nativ …
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John Stratton Hawley: At Play with Krishna
Every year thousands of pilgrims travel to Brindavan, the village where Krishna is said to have lived as a child. There, they witness a series of religious dramas called ras lilas, whose central role …
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€64.99
John Stratton Hawley: Memory of Love
No Hindu god is closer to the soul of poetry than Krishna, and in North India no poet ever sang of Krishna more famously than Srd D=as-or Sr, for short. He lived in the sixteenth century and became s …
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€27.38
John Stratton Hawley: Sati, the Blessing and the Curse
Several years ago in Rajasthan, an eighteen-year-old woman was burned on her husband’s funeral pyre and thus became sati. Before ascending the pyre, she was expected to deliver both blessings and cur …
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€37.14
John Stratton Hawley: Memory of Love
No Hindu god is closer to the soul of poetry than Krishna, and in North India no poet ever sang of Krishna more famously than S?rd D^=as-or S?r, for short. He lived in the sixteenth century and becam …
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€30.61
John Stratton Hawley: Krishna’s Playground
This is a book about a deeply beloved place-many call it the spiritual capital of India. Located at a dramatic bend in the River Yamuna, a hundred miles from the center of Delhi, Vrindavan is the spo …
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€26.69
Donna Marie Wulff & John Stratton Hawley: Devi
The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have severely limited the portrayal of the divine as feminine. But in Hinduism ‘God’ very often means ‘Goddess.’ This extraordinary coll …
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Surdas: Sur’s Ocean
"John Stratton Hawley miraculously manages to braid the charged erotic and divine qualities of Krishna, the many-named god, while introducing us-with subtle occasional rhyme-to a vividly particu …
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€25.66
John Stratton Hawley: Storm of Songs
India celebrates itself as a nation of unity in diversity, but where does that sense of unity come from? One important source is a widely-accepted narrative called the "bhakti movement." Bh …
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