Beyond The Encyclopedia of Religion: Resources for the Study of Hinduism
Anne E. Monius, Harvard Divinity School
Printed Reference Works:
Cush, Denise, Catherine Robinson, and Michael York, eds. Encyclopedia of
Hinduism. Routledge, 2007, ISBN: 0-7007-1267-4.
Flood, Gavin, ed. The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism. Wiley-Blackwell, 2003,
ISBN: 0-631-21535-2 (also available as e-book, ISBN: 0-470-99868-7).
Lochtefeld, James G. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism. 2 vols. Rosen, 2002,
ISBN: 0-8239-2287-1.
Thursby, Gene R., and Sushil Mittal, eds. The Hindu World. Routledge, 2004,
ISBN: 0-415-21527-7.
* Clay Sanskrit Library, multiple volumes. NYU and JJC Foundation, 2005(http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org/).
Printed Monographs on the Hindu Diaspora:
Assayag, Jackie, and Vironique Binio, eds. At Home in Diaspora: South Asian
Scholars and the West. Indiana, 2003, ISBN: 0-253-21636-2.
Bhatia, Sunil. American Karma: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora.
NYU, 2007, ISBN: 0-8147-9958-2 (also available as e-book, ISBN: 1-43560744-9).
Brown, Judith M. Global South Asians: Introducing the Modern Diaspora.
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Cambridge, 2006, ISBN: 0-521-84456-8 (also available as e-book, ISBN: 0511-24661-7).
Dempsey, Corinne G. The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York: Breaking Convention
and Making Home at a North American Hindu Temple. Oxford, 2005, ISBN: 019-518729-6 (also available as e-book, ISBN: 1-4356-1845-9).
Eisenlohr, Patrick. Little India: Diaspora, Time, and Ethnolinguistic Belonging in
Hindu Mauritius. University of California, 2007, ISBN: 0-520-24879-1.
Geaves, Ron. Saivism in the Diaspora: Contemporary Forms of Skanda Worship.
Equinox, 2007, ISBN: 1-84553-234-1.
Myers, Helen. Music of Hindu Trinidad: Songs from the India Diaspora. Chicago,
1999, ISBN: 0-226-55451-1.
Pechilis Prentiss, Karen. The Graceful Guru: Hindu Female Gurus in India and the
United States. Oxford, 2004, ISBN: 0-19-514538-0.
Rukmani, T. S. Hindu Diaspora: Global Perspectives. Munshiram Manoharlal,
2001, ISBN: 81-215-1039-2.
Vervotec, Steven. The Hindu Diaspora: Comparative Patterns. Routledge, 2000,
ISBN: 0-415-23892-7.
Academic Journals:
International Journal of Hindu Studies, ed. Sushil Mittal, Springer Netherlands, 1997(http://www.springer.com/humanities/religious+studies/journal/11407).
Journal of Hindu Studies, ed. Deepak Sarma, Oxford Journals, 2008(http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/jhs/).
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies, ed. Bradley J. Malkovsky, Notre Dame, 1988(http://www.hcstudies.org/jrnl.html)
Journal of Indian Philosophy, ed. Phyllis Granoff, Springer Netherlands, 1970(http://www.springer.com/philosophy/non-western+philosophy/journal/10781).
Sites for Ordering Films/DVDs:
Documentary Educational Resources at: http://www.der.org/films (for Altar of
Fire, Forest of Bliss)
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Documentary Video at: http://www.documentary-video.com (for Long Search)
Films for the Humanities and Sciences at: http://ffh.films.com/ (for Hindu vs.
Hindu: Caste Violence in India, Untouchable: Life of an Outcast).
First Run/Icarus Films at: http://www.frif.com/ (for Father, Son, and Holy War,
In the Name of God)
Freer-Sackler Museum at: http://www.freersacklershop.com/pujavideo.html
(for Puja: Expressions of Hindu Devotion)
Center for South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, at:
http://www.southasia.wisc.edu/films/index.html (for Dadi and Her
Family: A Rural Mother-in-Law in North India, Four Holy Men: Renunciation in
Hindu Society, The Fourth Stage: A Hindu’s Quest for Release, Pilgrimage to
Pittsburgh, Wedding of the Goddess)
Online Resources for the Study of Hinduism in India:
SARAI, South Asia Resource Access on the Internet, Columbia University, at:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/southasia/cuvl/ By far the
most selectively monitored academic resource site on South Asia in English;
see in particular the links to “Culture and South Asia” and “Religion and
Philosophy.”
The Digital South Asia Library, University of Chicago, at:
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/ An excellent site with links to reference
resources, maps, statistics, bibliography, and journals.
Savifa, Virtual Library South Asia, University of Heidelberg, at:
http://www.savifa.uni-hd.de/home_en.html
Classical Hindu Texts, links maintained by Professor Fran Pritchett, Columbia
University, at:
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00litlinks/lit_classical.html
The Mahabharata and the Ramayana, links maintained by Professor Fran Pritchett,
Columbia University, at:
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00litlinks/lit_epics.html
Online Resources for the Study of Hinduism in the Global Diaspora:
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South/Southeast Asia Library, University of California at Berkeley: South Asia
Diaspora, at
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SouthAsia/diaspora.html
The best site on the topic, with links to bibliography, photographs,
documents, etc.
Manas, University of California at Los Angeles, at:
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/Diaspora/diaspora.html
A useful site with articles about/links to information about various
regions of the Hindu global diaspora.
Bibliography of current works on Hindu diaspora, compiled by Martin
Baumann, at: www.unilu.ch/files/bib-global-hindu-diaspora.pdf
The Pluralism Project at Harvard University, at: http://www.pluralism.org/
A useful site with articles on Hinduism in the United States and an
extensive database of Hindu temples, ashrams, and organizations in the US.