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Starting in the sixth century, a new religious notion of the female gradually emerged in Tantric Buddhism. Although the female was raised to an ideal of transcendence, she nevertheless was subject to an androcentric depiction represented as the male's Other. The current study breaks away from the confinement of the implications thereof by turning to female-authored Tantric sources. In the frame of feminist and postmodern thought, this article proposes a way of reading women's writings as expressions of an autonomous female Self., The Dangerous Female Space 'All women in Uddiyana know how to turn themselves by magical art into any form they want; they like flesh and blood and have the power [...]

British India was partitioned in 1947, at the very moment the nation became independent of England. (1) Partition followed the failure, despite prolonged efforts, of the British government and the [...]

Vrindavan, the hallowed site of the Hindu deity Krishna's youth, located geographically in the green groves on the banks of the River Yamuna in north India, was of deep spiritual concern for his devotees. In its replication at Vishnupur, the capital of the local Malla dynasty in eastern India, aspects of the distinctive physical qualities of this older holy site were selectively reproduced, while others were abandoned. I analyze the town's devotional poetry, oral narratives, extant temple forms, and landscape architecture for the choices that determined this process of transforming Vishnupur and its immediate surroundings. Scrutinizing the extant material culture and forms of devotional expression at this site, for example, suggests that the consolidation of this first Gaudiya Vaishnava foothold involved careful negotiation in the heterogenous political and cultural circumstances of seventeenth-century Bengal. The form in which the new Vaishnava message is given expression is unmistakably regional, an Indic a daptation of Islamic culture. Keywords: Bengal--Krishna--temples--landscape--architecture, VISHNUPUR, IN MODERN West Bengal, eastern India, was pivotal in sustaining the Gaudiya (Bengali) Vaishnava devotional movement at the end of the sixteenth century (Figure 2). (1) This religious community [...]

Salvation history is a Western theological strategy based on biblical ideas about how God acts in history to bring about the salvation/deliverance of God's people. It begins with the scriptural [...]

Parts of the review by Arun Jones of my Christianity in India: Beginnings to the Present so misrepresents the book that one wonders how much of it was actually read. [...]