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Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Hindu Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Francis X. Clooney, Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story.	7
Gandhi and the Jews, the Jews and Gandhi: An Overall Perspective	5
Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Aurobindo, and the Question of Influence	5
Merchants, Ritualists, and Bifurcated Hanumāns: A Cultural History of Miracle Deities in Rajasthan	5
Recent Studies of Svāmī Vivekānanda, Śrī Aurobindo Ghose, and Śrī Chinmoy	3
The Endless Story: Myth as Ethics, Ethics as Myth	3
Dark Webs: Tantra, Black Magic, and Cyberspace	3
Introduction	3
Michael Baltutis, The Festival of Indra: Innovation, Archaism, and Revival in a South Asian Performance.	3
Nala-Damayantī and Other Exemplars: Didactics of Suffering and Fortitude in Gujarati Storytelling	2
A Call for a Balanced Approach	2
“We Derive from Ramakrishna”: Sri Ramakrishna’s Vijñāna and Its Influence on Sri Aurobindo’s Vedāntic Thought	2
On Declaring and Not Declaring Oneself to Be Hindu	2
Gender Non-Realism: Rereading Judith Butler’s Performativity in Dialogue with Śaṅkara’s Advaita	2
A Most Uncommon Task: Arvind Sharma and the Construction of Hindu Missiology	2
Swami Medhananda, Karma and Rebirth in Hinduism. Elements in Global Philosophy of Religion Series	1
Gandhi the Artist	1
The Bhagavadgītā and the Kṛṣṇa Yajurveda Upaniṣads	1
Nancy M. Martin, Mirabai: The Making of a Saint.	1
Shifting Śāstric Śiva: Co-operating Epic Mythology and Philosophy in India’s Classical Period	1
Celibate Seducer: Vedānta Deśika’s Domestication of Kṛṣṇa’s Sexuality in the Yādavābhyudaya	1
Chandra Bhanu Satpathy, Shirdi Sai Baba: An Inspiring Life.	1
Seeking Dharma Below the Winds: Hindu Particularism in Island Southeast Asia	1
Jacob Copeman, Arkotong Longkumer, and Koonal Duggal, eds., Gurus and Media: Sound, Image, Machine, Text and the Digital.	1
Legacies of Colonial Translation in Contemporary Hinduism: Desexualizing and Recontextualizing Kṛṣṇa	1

Gandhi’s Concept of Conscience/Antarātmā Revisited: Exploring His Cardinal Principle in Trilingual Texts	1
Slender Waists and Severed Breasts: The Construction of Female Bodies and Feminine Subjectivities in Vaiṣṇava Bhakti Poetry	1
Transformed by India: A Review Essay	1
William S. Sax, In the Valley of the Kauravas: Divine Kingdoms in the Western Himalaya.	1
An Elusive Himalayan Secularism: Managing Pilgrimage in Garhwal, 1815-2021	0
Living in the World by Dying to the Self: Swami Vivekananda’s Modernist Reconfigurations of a Premodern Vedāntic Dialectic	0
Rethinking the Early Sufi Romance: The Case of Cāndāyan	0
Reciprocal Illumination and the Discovery of Fractal Patterns in Religious Diversity	0
The Study of Indian Philosophy in the Work of Arvind Sharma (with Particular Reference to Advaita Vedānta)	0
The Other’s Other: Being Non-Hindu in Colonial India	0
Vālmīki’s Paradise Lost: Framing the Ādikāvya	0
Introduction	0
Preparing for the Past, Packaged for the Present: The Brahma Kumaris, Meditation, and a Self-(Help) Styled Monasticism	0
The Authorship of the Sanatsujātīya- and Viṣṇusahasranāma-Bhāṣya Attributed to Śaṅkara	0
Steven W. Ramey, ed., Hinduism in 5 Minutes. Religion in Five Minutes series.	0
A Sita for the New Millennium; Sita as Warrior, Prime Minister, and “The Vishnu” in Amish Tripathi’s Ram Chandra Series	0
“I Was Never a Tale, But the Truth”: Fantasy, Language, and Second-Generation American Hinduism in Roshani Chokshi’s Aru Shah and the End of Time	0
Thinking about Ethical Politics: Gandhi’s Spirituality versus Levinas’s Philosophy	0
Struggling with Kṛṣṇa: Alternative Imaginations in an Odia Mahābhārata	0
Beyond Pedantry: Reaffirming Sri Ramakrishna’s Formative Influence on Sri Aurobindo	0
Responses	0
Introduction	0
Shankar Ramaswami, Souls in the Kalyug: The Politics and Cosmologies of Migrant Workers in Contemporary India.	0
The Nullity of Nescience: G. R. Malkani’s Contemporary Formulation of Advaita	0
Michael T. Williams, Existence and Perception in Medieval Vedānta: Vyāsatīrtha’s Defence of Realism in the Nyāyamṛta.	0
Alcohol, Suicide, and Gendered Protest in Tamil Hindu Invitations to the Dead	0
Mukul Sharma, Dalit Ecologies: Caste and Environmental Justice.	0
Yamuna Harshavardhana, VIDYĀ: Re-rooting the Beautiful Tree. The Core Meaning and Purpose of Education.	0
Preface	0
Religions as Yogas: How Reflection on Swami Vivekananda’s Theology of Religions Can Clarify the Threefold Model of Exclusivism, Inclusivism, and Pluralism	0
The Mahānubhāvs in Early Modernity: Shifting Limits of Hinduism	0
Hindu Apologist or Modern Reformer? Arvind Sharma on Hindu Women	0
Love in the Time of Scholarship: A Review Essay	0
At the Center of Power: Ritual Assemblies and the Making of Gods and Kings in the Western Himalaya	0
Food, Desire, and Pleasure in the Taittirīya Upaniṣad	0
Ilanit Loewy Shacham, Empire Inside Out: Religion, Conquest, and Community in Kṛṣṇadevarāya’s Āmuktamālyada. Religion in Translation series.	0
Voices from the Margins: Early Modern Nāth Yogī Teachings for Muslim Publics	0
Hinduism Deconstructed and Restored: The Wonder of A Cultural History of Hinduism	0
Drumming the Deity to Life: Sound, Divinization, and the Return of Bagḍwāl Devtā in the Garhwal Himalaya	0
Mother of Compassion, Mother of Wrath: Reflections of the Hindu Goddess in Mirrored Māhātmyas	0
Chidambaram T. Indra, ed., Hayagrīvam Upāsamahe: A Homage to Swāmi Vedānta Deśika.	0
Divine Power and Fluid Bodies: Tirunaṅkais in Tamil Nadu	0
Broken Friendship and the History of South Asian Religious Modernisms: The Case of Svāmī Vivekānanda and Anagārika Dharmapāla	0
Brian Black, In Dialogue with the Mahābhārata. Dialogues in South Asian Traditions: Religion, Philosophy, Literature and History series.	0
Knowing Me, Knowing You: Hindu Goddess Traditions According to Jinasena’s Harivaṃśapurāṇa	0
“Reciprocal Illumination” of Hinduism, Human Rights, and the Comparative Study of Religion: Arvind Sharma’s Contributions	0
Holly Walters, Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas.	0
Vedantam vs. Venus: Drag, Impersonation, and the Limitations of Gender Trouble	0
David L. Haberman, Loving Stones: Making the Impossible Possible in the Worship of Mount Govardhan	0
Rachel Fell McDermott and Daniel F. Polish, A Hindu-Jewish Conversation: Root Tradition in Dialogue. Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion series.	0

Icons of Indra in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: The Newarization of an Indian Deity	0
Nancy M. Martin, Mirabai: The Making of a Saint.	0
Goddess in the Parlor: A Review Essay	0
Sama in the Forest. Carlos G. Gómez, Director; Coralynn V. Davis, Producer; in collaboration with M. S. Suman. Maithili, English. 2023. 75 Minutes. https://samaintheforest.bucknell.edu	0
Kanika Kishore Saxena, Before Kṛṣṇa: Religious Diversity in Ancient India.	0
#MagicMantras: Bhaktamar Mantra Healing Between Jainism and the Spiritual Marketplace	0
Overcoming Sanskritic Action-Centrism: Brahman, God, and the Advaitic Grammar of Co-Reference	0
Daniel Raveh and Elise Coquereau-Saouma, eds., The Making of Contemporary Indian Philosophy: Krishnachandra Bhattacharya. Routledge Hindu Studies Series.	0
Swami Vivekananda and Knowledge as the One Final Goal of Humankind	0
Sravana Borkataky-Varma and Aaron Michael Ullrey, eds., Living Folk Religions.	0
We Don’t Need the Guru: Shambhala Facebook Group and (Re)Creating Vajrayāna Buddhism	0
Nadav Harel, director, AVATARA. Hindi and Seraji (English subtitles).	0
Book Reviews	0
Patronymic Patterns in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa: The Significance of Manu-Making for the Greatness of the Goddess	0
Renny Thomas, Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment. Routledge Science and Religion Series. New York: Routledge, 2022. 214 pages.	0
From Good to God: Swami Vivekananda’s Vedāntic Virtue Ethics	0
Sohini Pillai, Krishna’s Mahabharatas: Devotional Retellings of an Epic Narrative. AAR Religion in Translation Series.	0
Non-dual Reality and Empirical Existence in Advaita Vedānta and Ghazālī’s Metaphysics of Unity	0
Kiyokazu Okita and Rembert Lutjeharms, eds., The Building of Vṛndāvana: Architecture, Theology, and Practice in an Early Modern Pilgrimage Town. Brill’s Indological Library, 57.	0
Captive Wives and a Widower King: Grief, Particular Love, and the Work of Tears in Three Sanskrit Laments	0
Color, Commodity, and Belonging: A Hindu Festival in the Digital Age	0
Kāśī Kṣetra, Kāśī Maṇḍala: Digitally Mapping Evolving Interpretations of an Idealized Sacred City	0
Arvind Sharma: An Annotated List of Books	0
Ute Hüsken, Vasudha Narayanan, and Astrid Zotter, eds., Nine Nights of Power: Durgā, Dolls, and Darbārs. SUNY Series in Hindu Studies.	0
Govind-19: Presence, Innovation, and Continuity among UK Gujarati Hindus during and after COVID-19 Lockdown	0
Spiritual But Not Religious Mantra Theologies: Vibrations and Universalism in the Case of Gāyatrī	0
Natalie Lang, Religion and Pride: Hindus in Search of Recognition in La Réunion.	0
Beyond Black and White: The Italian Reception of the Debate on Native Indian Commentaries in Nineteenth-century Vedic Studies	0
Hindu-Christian Dialogue on the Afterlife: Swami Vivekananda, Modern Advaita Vedānta, and Roman Catholic Eschatology	0
Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds.	0
Simon Brodbeck, Divine Descent and the Four World-Ages in the Mahābhārata—or, Why Does the Kṛṣṇa Avatāra Inaugurate the Worst Yuga?	0
William Tallotte, Music and Temple Ritual in South India: Performing for Śiva. SOAS Studies in Music series.	0
Hindol Sengupta, Soul and Sword: The History of Political Hinduism.	0
Rebb Binyamin’s Gandhi: India, Islam, and the Question of Palestine	0
Shalini Kakar, Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond.	0
The Happiness that Qualifies Nonduality: Jñāna, Bhakti, and Sukha in Rāmānuja’s Vedārthasaṃgraha	0
Ute Hüsken, ed., Laughter, Creativity, and Perseverance: Female Agency in Buddhism and Hinduism.	0
Leah Elizabeth Comeau, Material Devotion in a South Indian Poetic World.	0
George Pati, Religious Devotion and the Poetics of Reform: Love and Liberation in the Malayalam Poetry.	0
Three Contemporary Constructions of Nyāya: Textual Architecture, Philosophical Reconstruction, and Normative Rationality	0
Introduction	0
Introduction to the Special Issue: The Nuts and Bolts of the South Asian Festival of Indra: Hindu, Jain, Newar, Global	0
Loriliai Biernacki, The Matter of Wonder: Abhinavagupta’s Panentheism and the New Materialism.	0
A Brief History of the Eternal Religion: A Genealogy of Sanātana Dharma	0
A Religion “Based Upon Principles, And Not Upon Persons”: The Heart of the “Strategic Fit” of Swami Vivekananda’s Promotion of Vedānta?	0
The Literary Turn in Epic Studies: A Reflection on Five Studies of Characters in the Sanskrit Epics	0
Bhartṛhari on Linguistic Universals and the Problem of Regress	0
Nīr-Kṣīr Viveka: Discerning the Truth of Spirituality in Gandhi’s Thought and Actions	0
“The Insoluble Miracle”: The Integral Advaitic Theodicies of Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda, and Sri Aurobindo	0
Sex, Gender, and Devotional Desire: Refiguring Bodily Identities in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Discourse	0
The Fall of the House of Daśaratha: Kingship in the Raghuvaṃśa	0
Book Reviews	0
A God at Play? Reexamining the Concept of Līlā in Hindu Philosophy and Theology	0
Amiya P. Sen, Sarada Devi: Holiness, Charisma, and Iconic Motherhood.	0