As a world religion, Hinduism remains one of the most elusive for many. Its teachings, beliefs, practices, and history are reviewed here by an expert hoping to introduce readers to the world of Hinduism. While there are many forms of Hinduism, and offshoots as well, the complex nature of this faith makes it elusive to many. This straightforward overview, focusing on Vaishnavism-the most common form of Hinduism―is ideal for those who wish to learn more about this ancient tradition..
Beginning with chapters about the foundations of Hinduism, Rosen clearly lays out what is otherwise a complicated history. Providing Hindu terms alongside English translations, he is able to bring the faith alive for readers unacquainted with its varieties and its tenets. Moving on to chapters about practices, including festivals, teachings, chanting, eating habits and more, Rosen brings Hinduism to life in vivid detail.

Essential Hinduism

Religion & Spirituality

Rosen, Steven J.

Hinduism

Praeger

Rosen offers Westerners an easy-to-read introduction to a sacred text, demystifying its considerable philosophy in a user-friendly way. This is not yet another translation, merely reiterating what the Gita itself has to say. It is rather an attempt to culturally translate the text, making use of concepts and categories to which Western readers are accustomed. By engaging familiar motifs―such as issues of modernity, pop-culture icons, and well-known philosophers in the West―the author brings the Gita into focus for non-specialists and scholars alike. Through a series of contemporary news references and insightful summaries, readers will finally understand the facts and personalities that make up the Bhagavad Gita.
Using his many years of Gita-centered research, Rosen unlocks the mysteries of the text's spiritual underpinnings. He provides an overview of the Gita's narrative and teachings alongside documentation of its traditional application and more modern ways in which the text can be understood. 
Students and scholars alike will rejoice in how well this book lays bare the culture and the context of the Gita, resulting in a reader's deep familiarity with this most sacred of all the world's wisdom texts.

Krishna's Song: A New Look at the Bhagavad Gita

Christian Books & Bibles

Students of religion and Eastern thought will welcome this readable translation and practical commentary on the Uddhava Gita, a Hindu text in which Krishna's teachings introduced in the Bhagavad Gita are extended and nuanced.
Krishna's Other Song: A New Look at the Uddhava Gita examines the entire Uddhava Gita in relation to other Hindu scriptures, especially the Bhagavad Gita, and shares its teachings in light of interreligious understanding and nonsectarian spirituality. This edition's elaborate commentary, written by a prominent American scholar of Hindu studies, who is also a practitioner, opens up the text's esoteric teaching to a Western audience for the first time, adding context and relevance that make the book accessible and its teachings practicable for a Western readership.
A foreword, written by prominent Hinduism scholar Charles S. J. White joins the author's own introduction to lay out the Uddhava Gita's background, philosophical dimensions, and religious significance. This edition does not include the original Sanskrit, nor does it labor to translate each word verbatim. Rather, it gives the reader all 1,030 verses in plain English, offering accessible commentary that allows the meaning and relevance of the Uddhava Gita to unfold to one and all.
 • Presents the Uddhava Gita's 23 chapters, totaling 1,030 verses
• Includes commentary where appropriate
• Provides a foreword by Dr. Charles S. J. White of American University that contextualizes the work and explains its value

Krishna's Other Song: A New Look at the Uddhava Gita

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

This revealing compilation of essays by prominent practitioners and well-informed scholars lays to bear one simple truth: One must be a vegetarian to properly practice Yoga.
Bringing together the work of nine distinguished scholars and practitioners of Yoga and Eastern thought, Food for the Soul: Vegetarianism and Yoga Traditions is organized around the fact that, although vegetarianism is a natural and inescapable part of the Yogic tradition, many Yogis and Yoginis today remain blissfully unaware of that fact. 
The essays gathered here explore the important and much-debated subject of vegetarianism in the major Yoga traditions, looking at what diet has to do with the practice of Yoga and whether ahimsa (harmlessness) is a prerequisite for achieving Yoga's goals. The contributors draw on history, philosophy, ancient Yoga texts, Hindu scriptures, comparative religion, contemporary practitioners, the words of sages, and the teachings of Yogic masters to forge illuminating insights into the subject. Readers, whether students of Hinduism, practitioners of Yoga, vegetarian or animal rights advocates, or simply people with an interest, will find both the questions and the answers provocative―and edifying.

Food for the Soul: Vegetarianism and Yoga Traditions

Testing Theories of Economic Imperialism

Business & Money

Lexington Books

With its complex nature and many forms and practices, Hinduism is one of the world's most elusive religions for outsiders to understand. In Essential Hinduism, expert Steven Rosen aims to make the facets of this faith clear. Essential Hinduism explores this rich tradition through its history, literature, arts, and people.This straightforward overview focuses primarily on monotheistic Vaishnavism, the most common form of Hinduism. Beginning with chapters about the foundations of Hinduism, Steven Rosen clearly lays out the religion's otherwise complicated history. Providing Hindu terms alongside English translations, he illuminates the basics of the faith for readers unacquainted with its varieties and tenets and examines commonly held misconceptions. Chapters about practices, including festivals, teachings, chanting, eating habits, and more, bring Hinduism to life in vivid detail.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

**Use copy in Blurb1Deep in India's past, Lord Krishna revealed the 700 verse Bhagavad-Gita, a spiritual poem containing universal, nonsectarian truths. In 1995, Steven Pressfield decided to introduce the Bhagavad-Gita to a contemporary audience, so he restructured the Gita in terms of a golf novel, The Legend of Bagger Vance. As he says, "In the Gita the troubled warrior Arjuna receives instruction from Krishna, Supreme Lord of the Universe, who has assumed human form as Arjuna's charioteer. Instead of a troubled warrior, it's a troubled golf champion (Ranulph Junah); instead of his charioteer, it's his caddie Bagger Vance." Now a major motion picture directed by Robert Redford and starring Matt Damon and Will Smith, The Legend of Bagger Vance is loosely based on the ancient Hindu epic. Steven Rosen, in Gita on the Green: The Mystical Tradition Behind Bagger Vance, draws the story out further using some thirty years of Gita scholarship and a writing style that is both eloquent and thorough. Rosen takes us on a colorful journey into the golf world of Bagger Vance, as well as into the spiritual realm of Bhagavan Sri Krishna. By the end of the journey, one realizes that one has just read a commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita while hitting a hole in one.

Gita on the Green

Continuum

This volume adds well-documented material in English, sometimes from Indian-language sources, on important saints of the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition - Shrinivas Archarya, Narottam Das Thakur, and Shyamananda Pundit. Mr. Rosen's work emphasizes his own devotional attitude toward the subject- matter and is written in the 'bhakta' style rather than in a strictly scholarly manner. The adjustment of the reader to this point-of-view enhances his appreciation of the experience of devotion in this sampradaya 's tradition. The book, also, has value for students of Hinduism generally and bhakti in particular because of Mr. Rosen's reporting and documentation of the historical development of Gaudiya Vaishnavism in its formative period." —- Charles S. J. White, Chairman and Professor of Philosophy and Religion, The American University, Washington, D.C. ... - A large body of India's mystical literature remains inaccessible to the Western world despite that literature's invaluable content. This inaccessibility is largely a result of untranslated Sanskrit and Bengali texts. Chipping away at this wall of stone, 'The Lives of the Vaishnava Saints' reveals for the ﬁrst time in the English language the uncommon activities of three oi sixteenth-century lndia's greatest mystics. Steven Rosen's thoroughly researched book recounts the varied sojourns of this transcendental triumvirate: their extensive travels throughout the Indian subcontinent; their profound. spiritual journeys within; and their sojourn; into the hearts of millions. The compelling stories of Shrinivas, Narottam and Shyamananda may indeed enter the readers’ hearts as well.

Lives of the Vaisnava Saints

Folk Books

"Steven Rosen continues to provide English readers with well written portrayals of the saints, devotees & avataras of Krishna in the tradition of Caitanya Mahāprabhu.\nHis Śrī Paῆca The Five Features of God vividly depicts the group of five - Caitanya and his four most essential Nītyānanda, Advaita, Gadādhara & Śrīvāsa- held to be expansions of one divine presence in human form. This book is a welcome addition to the growing body of sacred biographical and hagiographical literature of this fascinating Caitanya Vaiṣṇava movement." 
- Joseph T. O'Connell, St. Michael's College, University of Toronto.\nSteven J. Rosen (Satyarāja Dāsa) is a freelance writer and author of ten books, including the popular India's Spiritual The Life & Times of Lord Chaitanya.\nHe's an initiated disciple of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, the founder & spiritual master of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.\nMr. Rosen's writing and scholarship have developed for him a reputation as an important voice in the Indian religious community. Currently, he is editor of the Journal of Vaiṣṇava studies, an academic quarterly that is esteemed and supported by scholars throughout the world.\nLibrarian's an alternate cover edition 
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Sri Panca Tattva

“This book is a long-overdue addition to the early history of ISKCON, and fills in many details that only an insider would know. Certainly nobody apart  from Bhaktivedanta himself was more of an insider in the first few years of the movement than Brahmananda. He was one of Bhaktivedanta’s first disciples in the temple at 26 Second Avenue in New York, and, as ISKCON’s first president, was involved in almost all of the activities that Bhaktivedanta set in motion: dancing and chanting in City parks, producing the first editions of Back  to Godhead magazine, arranging meetings and talks, overseeing ISKCON’s first book publications, and—as one of the few disciples with a salaried job— providing a small but steady flow of cash for the operation of the temple. . . .   In Swamiji, Steven Rosen has given us a glimpse into Brahmananda’s intimate relationship with Bhaktivedanta, and for that, we owe him a debt of gratitude.”  —Thomas J. Hopkins, Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Swamiji: An Early Disciple, Brahmananda Dasa, Remembers His Guru

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

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Essential Hinduism

Krishna's Song: A New Look at the Bhagavad Gita

Krishna's Other Song: A New Look at the Uddhava Gita

Food for the Soul: Vegetarianism and Yoga Traditions

Testing Theories of Economic Imperialism

Essential Hinduism

Gita on the Green

Lives of the Vaisnava Saints

Sri Panca Tattva

Swamiji: An Early Disciple, Brahmananda Dasa, Remembers His Guru