Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. She is also a professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and a member of the university“s Committee on Social Thought. Her books include
Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities;
Other Peoples“ Myths: The Cave of Echoes, and
The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade.
41 Ebooks von Wendy Doniger
Wendy Doniger: The Implied Spider
Wendy Doniger’s foundational study is both modern in its engagement with a diverse range of religions and refreshingly classic in its transhistorical, cross-cultural approach. By responsibly …
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Aaron Gross & Anne Vallely: Animals and the Human Imagination
Human beings have long imagined their subjectivity, ethics, and ancestry with and through animals, yet not until the mid-twentieth century did contemporary thought reflect critically on animals‘ sign …
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Harsha: The Lady of the Jewel Necklace & The Lady who Shows her Love
King Harsha, who reigned over the kingdom of Kanauj from 606 to 647 CE, composed two Sanskrit plays about the mythical figures of King Udayana, his queen, Vásava·datta, and two of his co-wives. The p …
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Wendy Doniger: The Mare’s Trap
The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world’s most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. …
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Wendy Doniger: The Hindus
Spanning over six millennia, this monumental and thoroughly engrossing narrative account of Indian history and myth offers a new way of understanding one of the world’s oldest and most fascinating re …
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Wendy Doniger: The Ring of Truth
From Shakuntala to Scheherazade to Marilyn Monroe, from Ancient India and Greece to Medieval Europe to modern cinema, sexual desire and jewelry, particularly rings, have been very often connected. Wh …
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Wendy Doniger: Beyond Dharma
One of the world’s most acclaimed and engaging scholars of Hinduism presents a groundbreaking interpretation of ancient Indian texts and their historic influence on subversive resistance.
Ancient H …
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Wendy Doniger: Ring of Truth
Why are sex and jewelry, particularly rings, so often connected? Why do rings continually appear in stories about marriage and adultery, love and betrayal, loss and recovery, identity and masquerade? …
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Wendy Doniger: Ring of Truth
Why are sex and jewelry, particularly rings, so often connected? Why do rings continually appear in stories about marriage and adultery, love and betrayal, loss and recovery, identity and masquerade? …
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€30.77
Wendy Doniger: Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was
Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in …
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Wendy Doniger: Redeeming the Kamasutra
The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world’s most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. …
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€15.64
Wendy Doniger: Redeeming the Kamasutra
The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world’s most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. …
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€15.52
Aditya Behl: Love’s Subtle Magic
The encounter between Muslim and Hindu remains one of the defining issues of South Asian society today. It began as early as the 8th century, and the first Muslim kingdom in India, the Sultanate of …
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Aditya Behl: Love’s Subtle Magic
The encounter between Muslim and Hindu remains one of the defining issues of South Asian society today. It began as early as the 8th century, and the first Muslim kingdom in India, the Sultanate of …
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€41.66
Mallanaga Vatsyayana: Kamasutra
‚When the wheel of sexual ecstasy is in full motion, there is no textbook at all, and no order.’The Kamasutra is the oldest extant Hindu textbook of erotic love. It is about the art of living – about …
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Mallanaga Vatsyayana: Kamasutra
‚When the wheel of sexual ecstasy is in full motion, there is no textbook at all, and no order.’The Kamasutra is the oldest extant Hindu textbook of erotic love. It is about the art of living – about …
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€9.39
Wendy Doniger: Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was
Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in …
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€69.27
Hugh B. Urban: Economics of Ecstasy
This is a study of the Bengali Kartabhaja sect and its place in the broader movement of Tantrism, an Indian religious movement employing purposely shocking sexual language and rituals. Urban looks …
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Wendy Doniger: On Hinduism
In this magisterial volume of essays, Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted herself for half a century. This series of interconnected …
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Wendy Doniger: On Hinduism
In this magisterial volume of essays, Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted herself for half a century. This series of interconnected …
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€39.47
Wendy Doniger & Martha C. Nussbaum: Pluralism and Democracy in India
Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum bring together leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address a crucial question: How does the world’s most populous democracy survive repeated …
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Wendy Doniger & Martha C. Nussbaum: Pluralism and Democracy in India
Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum bring together leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address a crucial question: How does the world’s most populous democracy survive repeated …
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Wendy Doniger & Christian Wedemeyer: Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions
This volume comprises papers presented at a conference marking the 50th anniversary of Joachim Wach’s death, and the centennial of Mircea Eliade’s birth. Its purpose is to reconsider both the …
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Wendy Doniger: Magic Doe
Mirigavati or The Magic Doe is the work of Shaikh Qutban Suhravardi, an Indian Sufi master who was also an expert poet and storyteller attached to the glittering court-in-exile of Sultan Husain Shah …
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Wendy Doniger & Christian Wedemeyer: Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions
This volume comprises papers presented at a conference marking the 50th anniversary of Joachim Wach’s death, and the centennial of Mircea Eliade’s birth. Its purpose is to reconsider both the …
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€39.60
Doniger Wendy Doniger: Against Dharma
An esteemed scholar of Hinduism presents a groundbreaking interpretation of ancient Indian texts and their historic influence on subversive resistance Ancient Hindu texts speak of the three aims of …
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Wendy Doniger & Peter Galison: What Reason Promises
This collection demonstrates the range of approaches that some of the leading scholars of our day take to basic questions at the intersection of the natural and human worlds. The essays focus on thre …
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Wendy Doniger & Peter Galison: What Reason Promises
This collection demonstrates the range of approaches that some of the leading scholars of our day take to basic questions at the intersection of the natural and human worlds. The essays focus on …
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Wendy Doniger: Hindu Myths
Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. Here in these seventy-five seminal myths are the …
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Wendy Doniger: Rig Veda
The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European language, the Rig Veda (c. 1200-900 BC) is a collection of …
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Doniger Wendy Doniger: Donigers of Great Neck
"Many memories, many myths"-this is how Wendy Doniger begins the story of her parents‘ origins in Europe and sharply bifurcated life in America. Recalling their contrasting attitudes toward …
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Carole Satyamurti: Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling
‚Astonishing…[Satyamurti’s Mahabharata] brings [the] past alive…as though it were a novel in finely crafted verse.‘ —Vinay Dharwadker
Originally composed approximately two thousand years ago, the M …
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Wendy Doniger: Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares
Horses are not indigenous to India. They had to be imported, making them expensive and elite animals. How then did Indian villagers—who could not afford horses and often had never even seen a horse …
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Laws of Manu
The Laws of Manu form a towering work of Hindu philosophy. Composed by many Brahmin priests, this is an extraordinary, encyclopaedic representation of human life in the world, and how it should be …
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Wendy Doniger: After the War
After the War is a new translation of the final part of the Mahabharata, the great Sanskrit Epic poem about a devastating fraternal war. In this aftermath of the great war, the surviving heroes find …
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Wendy Doniger: After the War
After the War is a new translation of the final part of the Mahabharata, the great Sanskrit Epic poem about a devastating fraternal war. In this aftermath of the great war, the surviving heroes find …
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Wendy Doniger: An American Girl in India
Twenty-two-year-old Wendy Doniger arrived in Calcutta in August 1963 on a scholarship to study Sanskrit and Bengali. It was her first visit to the country. Over the coming year—a lot of it spent in …
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Narayan R. K. Narayan: Mahabharata
The Mahabharata tells a story of such violence and tragedy that many people in India refuse to keep the full text in their homes, fearing that if they do, they will invite a disastrous fate upon …
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Mircea Eliade: Shamanism
The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperback Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern …
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