For sale in CIS only! Keshab Chandra Sen (1838-1884) was one of the most powerful and controversial figures in nineteenth-century Bengal. A religious leader and social reformer, his universalist interpretation of Hinduism found mass appeal in India,...

Historians of religion have examined at length the Protestant Revolution and the widespread effects of "priestcraft" rhetoric that grew out of it, but J. Barton Scott, in "Spiritual Despots", reveals an unexamined piece of that story: how Protestant...

In this third installment of his comprehensive history of "India's religion" and reappraisal of Hindu identity, Professor Jyotirmaya Sharma offers an engaging portrait of Swami Vivekananda and his relationship with his guru, the legendary Ramakrishna...