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Animal sacrifices religious perspectives on the use of animals in science /

Table of Contents: “…David Bleich -- The place of animals in creation / Andrew Linzey -- The relevance of animal experimentation to Roman Catholic ethical methodology / James Gaffney -- Animal experimentation / Al-Hafiz B.A. Masri -- Hindu perspectives on the use of animals in science / Basant K. …”
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Writing Self, Writing Empire : Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary / by Kinra, Rajeev

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a Hindu secretary at King Shah Jahan's court -- Chandar Bhan's intellectual world : a revisionist perspective -- A mirror for Munsh's : secretarial arts and Mughal governance -- King of Delhi, king of the world : Chandar Bhan's perspective on Shah Jahan, the Mughal court, and the realm -- Writing the Mughal self : Chandar Bhan's life and letters -- Making Indo-Persian literature fresh : Chandar Bhan's poetic world -- The persistence of gossip : Chandar Bhan and the cultural memory of Mughal decline -- Conclusion : ending at just the beginning : towards a postcolonial Mughal historiography.…”
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Civility in crisis : democracy, equality and the majoritarian challenge in India /

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Divine love : perspectives from the world's religious traditions /

Table of Contents: “…Mbiti -- "In the beginning, love entered that one" : divine love from a perspective informed by Vedic Hindu thought / William K. Mahony -- Divine love in classical Judaism / Jacob Neusner -- Wisdom into compassion : Buddhism in practice / Ruben L.F. …”

Divine love perspectives from the world's religious traditions /

Table of Contents: “…Mbiti -- "In the beginning, love entered that one" : divine love from a perspective informed by Vedic Hindu thought / William K. Mahony -- Divine love in classical Judaism / Jacob Neusner -- Wisdom into compassion : Buddhism in practice / Ruben L.F. …”
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Angel Island immigrant gateway to America / by Lee, Erika

Table of Contents: “…"Agony, Anguish, and Anxiety": Japanese Immigrants on Angel Island -- Chapter 4. "The Hindu Invasion": South Asian Immigrants on Angel Island -- Chapter 5. …”
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India in Africa, Africa in India Indian Ocean cosmopolitanisms /

Table of Contents: “…Hawley -- Slave trades and the Indian Ocean world / by Gwyn Campbell -- India in Africa -- The indentured experience : Indian women in Colonial Natal / by Devarakshanam Govinden -- Shops and stations : rethinking power and privilege in British/Indian East Africa / by Savita Nair -- Bhangra remixes / by Anjali Gera Roy -- "Hindu" dance groups and Indophilie in Senegal : the imagination of the exotic other / by Gwenda Vander Steene -- The idea of "India" in West African vodun art and thought / by Dana Rush -- Politics and poetics of the namesake : Barlen Pyamootoo's Bénarès, Mauritius / by Thangam Ravindranathan -- Africa in India -- Siddi as mercenary or as African success story on the West Coast of India / by Rahul C. …”
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Livelihoods at the margins surviving the city /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : livelihoods at the margins / James Staples -- No money, no life : surviving on the streets of Kampala / Stan Frankland -- Embodying oppression : revolta amongst young people living on the streets of Rio De Janeiro / Udi Butler -- Children on the streets of Dhaka and their coping strategies / Alessandro Conticini -- Hindu nationalism and failing development goals : micro-finance, women and illegal livelihoods in the Bombay slums / Atreyee Sen -- Keeping it clean : discipline, control and everyday politics in a Bangkok shopping mall / Alyson Brody -- Fast money in the margins : migrants in the sex industry / Laura María Agustín -- -- Begging questions : leprosy and alms collection in Mumbai / James Staples -- Vulnerable in the city : Adivasi seasonal labour migrants in western India / David Mosse, with Sanjeev Gupta and Vidya Shah -- "Moving up and down looking for money" : making a living in a Ugandan refugee camp / Tania Kaiser -- "In-betweenness" on the margins : collective organisation, ethnicity and political agency among Bolivian street traders / Sian Lazar.…”
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An Indian tantric tradition and its modern global revival : contemporary nondual Śaivism / by Osto, Douglas, 1967-

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The Place of Devotion : Siting and Experiencing Divinity in Bengal-Vaishnavism / by Sarbadhikary, Sukanya, 1983-

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A nation of religions the politics of pluralism in multireligious America /

Table of Contents: “…Kurien -- Sacred land, sacred service : Hindu adaptations to the American landscape / Vasudha Narayanan -- Making home abroad : Sikhs in the United States / Gurinder Singh Mann -- From alleged Buddhists to unreasonable Hindus : First Amendment jurisprudence after 1965 / Courtney Bender and Jennifer Snow -- Agonistic federalism : the Alabama Ten commandments controversy / Stephen Dawson -- The de-Europeanization of American Christianity / R. …”
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Sisters of Salome by Bentley, Toni

Table of Contents: “…TheLittleDutch Girl 90 -- Chapter Nine. The Hindu Hoax 95 -- Chapter Ten. The Scapegoat o09 -- Chapter Eleven. …”
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Beyond the Death of God : Religion in 21st Century International Politics /

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Encountering life in the universe ethical foundations and social implications of astrobiology /

Table of Contents: “…Hewlett -- The wonder called cosmic oneness : towards astroethics from Hindu and Buddhist wisdom and worldviews / Nishant Alphonse Irudayadason -- Social and ethical implications of creating artificial cells / Mark A. …”
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Entanglements in Legal History: Conceptual Approaches /

Table of Contents: “…Entanglements in legal history : introductory remarks / Thomas Duve -- European legal history : concepts, methods, challenges / Thomas Duve -- Coding the nation : codification history from a (post- )global perspective / Inge Kroppenberg, Nikolaus Linder -- Towards new conceptual approaches in legal history : rethinking "Hindu law" through Weber's sociology of religion / Geetanjali Srikantan -- Legal transplants between time and space / George Rodrigo Bandeira Galindo -- Ancient entanglements : the influence of Greek treaties in Roman 'international law' under the framework of narrative transculturation / Emiliano J. …”
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Faith and Law how religious traditions from Calvinism to Islam view American law /

Table of Contents: “…Levine -- Reform Judaism / Betzelem Ehlohim, and gay rights / Ellen P. Aprill -- A Hindu perspective on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide / Kisor K. …”
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Representation matters (re)articulating collective identities in a postcolonal world /

Table of Contents: “…Performative constructions of female identity at a Hindu ritual: some thoughts on the agentive dimension / Beatrix Hauser ; "We are like fish that were reeled in" : peasant understandings of modernity in Zimbabwe / Guy Thompson ; Silence, absence, loss : Chineseness in post-authoritarian Indonesia / Sonja van Wichelen ; Moving identities : mythology and metaphor in André Brink's Praying mantis / Saskia Lourens.…”
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Asian Americans in Dixie : race and migration in the south /

Table of Contents: “…Joshi -- Disrupting Race and Place -- Selling the East in the American South: Bengali Muslim Peddlers in New Orleans and Beyond, 1880-1920 / Vivek Bald -- Racial Interstitiality and the Anxieties of the "Partly Colored": Representations of Asians under Jim Crow / Leslie Bow -- Racism Without Recognition: Toward a Model of Asian American Racialization / Amy Brandzel and Jigna Desai -- Community Formation and Profiles -- Segregation, Exclusion, and the Chinese Communities in Georgia, 1880s-1940 / Daniel Bronstein -- Moving Out of the Margins and Into the Mainstream: the Demographics of Asian Americans in the New South / Arthur Sakamoto, Changhwan Kim, and Isao Takei -- Natives of a Ghost Country: the Vietnamese in Houston and their Construction of a Postwar Community / Roy Vu -- Standing Up and Speaking Out: Hindu Americans and Christian Normativity in Metro Atlanta -- Khyati Y. …”
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The Politics of India under Modi : An Introduction to India’s Democracy, Economy, and Foreign Policy / by Yadav, Vikash, Kirk, Jason A.

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Embedded entrepreneurship market, culture, and micro-business in insular Southeast Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Olsen -- The superior Thai-western relationship : a culturally negotiated re-embedding practice / Kristianne Ervik -- Muslim healers in a Hindu context : a Hadrami Arab healing group on Bali / Frode F. …”
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