OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Merchants, Ritualists, and Bifurcated Hanumāns: A Cultural History of Miracle Deities in Rajasthan	7
Gandhi and the Jews, the Jews and Gandhi: An Overall Perspective	5
Introduction	3
The Endless Story: Myth as Ethics, Ethics as Myth	3
Dark Webs: Tantra, Black Magic, and Cyberspace	2
On Declaring and Not Declaring Oneself to Be Hindu	2
Recent Studies of Svāmī Vivekānanda, Śrī Aurobindo Ghose, and Śrī Chinmoy	2
Nala-Damayantī and Other Exemplars: Didactics of Suffering and Fortitude in Gujarati Storytelling	2
Michael Baltutis, The Festival of Indra: Innovation, Archaism, and Revival in a South Asian Performance.	2
A Most Uncommon Task: Arvind Sharma and the Construction of Hindu Missiology	2
The Presence of the Real: Jalarāmkathā and the Experience of the Transcendent	1
A God at Play? Reexamining the Concept of Līlā in Hindu Philosophy and Theology	1
Chandra Bhanu Satpathy, Shirdi Sai Baba: An Inspiring Life.	1
Gandhi the Artist	1
Swami Medhananda, Karma and Rebirth in Hinduism. Elements in Global Philosophy of Religion Series	1
Sex, Gender, and Devotional Desire: Refiguring Bodily Identities in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Discourse	1
Nancy M. Martin, Mirabai: The Making of a Saint.	1
Seeking Dharma Below the Winds: Hindu Particularism in Island Southeast Asia	1
Celibate Seducer: Vedānta Deśika’s Domestication of Kṛṣṇa’s Sexuality in the Yādavābhyudaya	1
The Bhagavadgītā and the Kṛṣṇa Yajurveda Upaniṣads	1
William S. Sax, In the Valley of the Kauravas: Divine Kingdoms in the Western Himalaya.	1
Slender Waists and Severed Breasts: The Construction of Female Bodies and Feminine Subjectivities in Vaiṣṇava Bhakti Poetry	1
From Good to God: Swami Vivekananda’s Vedāntic Virtue Ethics	1
Shifting Śāstric Śiva: Co-operating Epic Mythology and Philosophy in India’s Classical Period	1
Gandhi’s Concept of Conscience/Antarātmā Revisited: Exploring His Cardinal Principle in Trilingual Texts	1

Jacob Copeman, Arkotong Longkumer, and Koonal Duggal, eds., Gurus and Media: Sound, Image, Machine, Text and the Digital.	1
Digital Tantra: Introducing a New Research Field	0
The Happiness that Qualifies Nonduality: Jñāna, Bhakti, and Sukha in Rāmānuja’s Vedārthasaṃgraha	0
Living in the World by Dying to the Self: Swami Vivekananda’s Modernist Reconfigurations of a Premodern Vedāntic Dialectic	0
Kanika Kishore Saxena, Before Kṛṣṇa: Religious Diversity in Ancient India.	0
Sravana Borkataky-Varma and Aaron Michael Ullrey, eds., Living Folk Religions.	0
Simon Brodbeck, Divine Descent and the Four World-Ages in the Mahābhārata—or, Why Does the Kṛṣṇa Avatāra Inaugurate the Worst Yuga?	0
Swami Vivekananda and Knowledge as the One Final Goal of Humankind	0
Music as Thinking/Thinking as Music: A Dialogue with Mukund Lath	0
#MagicMantras: Bhaktamar Mantra Healing Between Jainism and the Spiritual Marketplace	0
Nīr-Kṣīr Viveka: Discerning the Truth of Spirituality in Gandhi’s Thought and Actions	0
Hindu-Christian Dialogue on the Afterlife: Swami Vivekananda, Modern Advaita Vedānta, and Roman Catholic Eschatology	0
Nadav Harel, director, AVATARA. Hindi and Seraji (English subtitles).	0
Religions as Yogas: How Reflection on Swami Vivekananda’s Theology of Religions Can Clarify the Threefold Model of Exclusivism, Inclusivism, and Pluralism	0
Preparing for the Past, Packaged for the Present: The Brahma Kumaris, Meditation, and a Self-(Help) Styled Monasticism	0
Mother of Compassion, Mother of Wrath: Reflections of the Hindu Goddess in Mirrored Māhātmyas	0
Alcohol, Suicide, and Gendered Protest in Tamil Hindu Invitations to the Dead	0
Non-dual Reality and Empirical Existence in Advaita Vedānta and Ghazālī’s Metaphysics of Unity	0
The Fall of the House of Daśaratha: Kingship in the Raghuvaṃśa	0
Struggling with Kṛṣṇa: Alternative Imaginations in an Odia Mahābhārata	0
Kāśī Kṣetra, Kāśī Maṇḍala: Digitally Mapping Evolving Interpretations of an Idealized Sacred City	0
The Nullity of Nescience: G. R. Malkani’s Contemporary Formulation of Advaita	0
Spiritual But Not Religious Mantra Theologies: Vibrations and Universalism in the Case of Gāyatrī	0
A Religion “Based Upon Principles, And Not Upon Persons”: The Heart of the “Strategic Fit” of Swami Vivekananda’s Promotion of Vedānta?	0
Rethinking the Early Sufi Romance: The Case of Cāndāyan	0
Tracing Well-Being: The Rise of Kalyāṇ in the Hindi-Hindu Public Sphere	0
A Sita for the New Millennium; Sita as Warrior, Prime Minister, and “The Vishnu” in Amish Tripathi’s Ram Chandra Series	0
Holly Walters, Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas.	0
David L. Haberman, Loving Stones: Making the Impossible Possible in the Worship of Mount Govardhan	0
Food, Desire, and Pleasure in the Taittirīya Upaniṣad	0
Steven W. Ramey, ed., Hinduism in 5 Minutes. Religion in Five Minutes series.	0
Debating with Fists and Fallacies: Vācaspati Miśra and Dharmakīrti on Norms of Argumentation	0
Nancy M. Martin, Mirabai: The Making of a Saint.	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
George Pati, Religious Devotion and the Poetics of Reform: Love and Liberation in the Malayalam Poetry.	0
Introduction	0
Voices from the Margins: Early Modern Nāth Yogī Teachings for Muslim Publics	0
Introduction	0
Loriliai Biernacki, The Matter of Wonder: Abhinavagupta’s Panentheism and the New Materialism.	0
Chidambaram T. Indra, ed., Hayagrīvam Upāsamahe: A Homage to Swāmi Vedānta Deśika.	0
A Brief History of the Eternal Religion: A Genealogy of Sanātana Dharma	0
Patronymic Patterns in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa: The Significance of Manu-Making for the Greatness of the Goddess	0
The Study of Indian Philosophy in the Work of Arvind Sharma (with Particular Reference to Advaita Vedānta)	0
The Literary Turn in Epic Studies: A Reflection on Five Studies of Characters in the Sanskrit Epics	0
Ilanit Loewy Shacham, Empire Inside Out: Religion, Conquest, and Community in Kṛṣṇadevarāya’s Āmuktamālyada. Religion in Translation series.	0
Vedantam vs. Venus: Drag, Impersonation, and the Limitations of Gender Trouble	0
Ute Hüsken, Vasudha Narayanan, and Astrid Zotter, eds., Nine Nights of Power: Durgā, Dolls, and Darbārs. SUNY Series in Hindu Studies.	0
Preface	0
At the Center of Power: Ritual Assemblies and the Making of Gods and Kings in the Western Himalaya	0
Beyond Black and White: The Italian Reception of the Debate on Native Indian Commentaries in Nineteenth-century Vedic Studies	0

The Subtlety of Subtales: Subaltern Voices of Sūkṣma Dharma in the Mahābhārata	0
Hinduism Deconstructed and Restored: The Wonder of A Cultural History of Hinduism	0
Daniel Raveh and Elise Coquereau-Saouma, eds., The Making of Contemporary Indian Philosophy: Krishnachandra Bhattacharya. Routledge Hindu Studies Series.	0
The Other’s Other: Being Non-Hindu in Colonial India	0
Rachel Fell McDermott and Daniel F. Polish, A Hindu-Jewish Conversation: Root Tradition in Dialogue. Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion series.	0
Broken Friendship and the History of South Asian Religious Modernisms: The Case of Svāmī Vivekānanda and Anagārika Dharmapāla	0
Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds.	0
Bhartṛhari on Linguistic Universals and the Problem of Regress	0
Vālmīki’s Paradise Lost: Framing the Ādikāvya	0
Hindol Sengupta, Soul and Sword: The History of Political Hinduism.	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
Thinking about Ethical Politics: Gandhi’s Spirituality versus Levinas’s Philosophy	0
Shalini Kakar, Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond.	0
Responses	0
Leah Elizabeth Comeau, Material Devotion in a South Indian Poetic World.	0
Hindu Apologist or Modern Reformer? Arvind Sharma on Hindu Women	0
Michael T. Williams, Existence and Perception in Medieval Vedānta: Vyāsatīrtha’s Defence of Realism in the Nyāyamṛta.	0
An Elusive Himalayan Secularism: Managing Pilgrimage in Garhwal, 1815-2021	0
William Tallotte, Music and Temple Ritual in South India: Performing for Śiva. SOAS Studies in Music series.	0
Vedāntadeśika’s Systematization of Rāmānuja’s Self-surrender (prapatti): A Study Based on the Nikṣeparakṣā	0
Govind-19: Presence, Innovation, and Continuity among UK Gujarati Hindus during and after COVID-19 Lockdown	0
Yamuna Harshavardhana, VIDYĀ: Re-rooting the Beautiful Tree. The Core Meaning and Purpose of Education.	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
Amiya P. Sen, Sarada Devi: Holiness, Charisma, and Iconic Motherhood.	0
Color, Commodity, and Belonging: A Hindu Festival in the Digital Age	0
Renny Thomas, Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment. Routledge Science and Religion Series. New York: Routledge, 2022. 214 pages.	0
Reciprocal Illumination and the Discovery of Fractal Patterns in Religious Diversity	0
Rebb Binyamin’s Gandhi: India, Islam, and the Question of Palestine	0
Book Reviews	0
Introduction	0
Ute Hüsken, ed., Laughter, Creativity, and Perseverance: Female Agency in Buddhism and Hinduism.	0
Divine Power and Fluid Bodies: Tirunaṅkais in Tamil Nadu	0
We Don’t Need the Guru: Shambhala Facebook Group and (Re)Creating Vajrayāna Buddhism	0
Arvind Sharma: An Annotated List of Books	0
“Reciprocal Illumination” of Hinduism, Human Rights, and the Comparative Study of Religion: Arvind Sharma’s Contributions	0
Book Reviews	0
Natalie Lang, Religion and Pride: Hindus in Search of Recognition in La Réunion.	0
The Authorship of the Sanatsujātīya- and Viṣṇusahasranāma-Bhāṣya Attributed to Śaṅkara	0
Book Reviews	0
Overcoming Sanskritic Action-Centrism: Brahman, God, and the Advaitic Grammar of Co-Reference	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