R U S Prasad - River and Goddess Worship in India: Changing Perceptions and Manifestations of Sarasvati

Series Editor: Gavin Flood, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies

The Routledge Hindu Studies Series, in association with the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, intends the publication of constructive Hindu theological, philosophical and ethical projects aimed at bringing Hindu traditions into dialogue with contemporary trends in scholarship and contemporary society. The series invites original, high quality, research level work on religion, culture and society of Hindus living in India and abroad. Proposals for annotated translations of important primary sources and studies in the history of the Hindu religious traditions will also be considered.

Bhakti and Embodiment

Fashioning Divine Bodies and Devotional Bodies in Ka Bhakti

Barbara A. Holdrege

Textual Authority in Classical Hindu Thought

Rmnuja and the Viu Pura

Sucharita Adluri

Indian Thought and Western Theism

The Vednta of Rmnuja

Martin Ganeri

Debating Conversion in Hinduism and Christianity

Ankur Barua

Non-violence in the Mahabharata

Sivas Summa on Rishidharma and the Gleaners of Kurukshetra

Alf Hiltebeitel

The Other Ramayana Women

Regional Rejection and Response

Edited by John Brockington and Mary Brockington

The Integral Philosophy of Aurobindo

Hermeneutics and the Study of Religion

Brainerd Prince

Hindu Images and their Worship with Special Reference to Vaisnavism

A philosophical-theological inquiry

Julius J. Lipner

River and Goddess Worship in India

Changing Perceptions and Manifestations of Sarasvati

R.U.S. Prasad

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