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

Rosen, Steven J.

Theology

Praeger

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

Religion & Spirituality

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.

Essential Hinduism

Hinduism

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

"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

Folk Books

“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

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Hinduism scholar Steven Rosen explores the world of the Hare Krishna movement, which has been instrumental in raising awareness of vegetarianism and the plight of animals in the United States. Holy Cow begins by introducing the Hare Krishna movement and of its colorful singing and dancing, its book distribution program, and especially its restaurants, sacred food distribution, and delicious vegetarian cuisine. Rosen returns to the early days of Indian culture, to a time when daily life was based on Vedic principles and scriptural wisdom, and shows how vegetarianism and animal rights were endorsed by the Vedic texts. Rosen reveals how a tension was created by a concomitant endorsement of animal sacrifices in ancient Indian culture, a tension that led in part to the beginnings of Jainism and Buddhism. Rosen then examines the rise of Vaishnavism―the worship of the god Vishnu, or Krishna―and how Vaishnavites were sympathetic to vegetarianism and animal rights, showing the link between the contemporary Hare Krishna movement (ISKCON), founded in the 1960s, and the ancient Vaishnavaites and all that they have accomplished in between. Rosen looks at the “Food for Life” program, the restaurants and cookbooks, and the various forms of writing about vegetarianism and animal rights. The book also includes recipes for those who wish to taste Krishna. In conclusion, Rosen illustrates how deeply Hare Krishna devotees have influenced the contemporary vegetarian movement and its call for ahimsa, or nonviolence, toward all living beings.

Holy Cow: The Hare Krishna Contribution to Vegetarianism and Animal Rights

Lantern Books

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Hidden Glory of India the

Motilal UK Books of India

Steven J. Rosen's latest work on Sri Chaitanya (1486-1534) follows in a line of publications that are dedicated to disseminating knowledge of the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition, commonly known in the West as the Hare Krishna movement. A collection of his own essays, written for scholar and practitioner alike, Chaitanyology allows entrance into an otherwise esoteric phenomenon, highlighting both its intellectual and mystical elements. In this volume, we find thoroughly researched accounts of Sri Chaitanya's life narrative as well as articles on key subjects that show why his life has special meaning for practitioners today. "Steven J. Rosen's latest contribution to the study of Chaitanya, follows in the wake of his lifelong and voluminous contribution to the field, appreciated by scholars and practitioners alike. Rosen, in his signature fashion, brings a scholarly voice to the life, philosophy and historical background of this consequential spiritual fi gure-a voice that contributes both to academic research in this fi eld, and to the intellectual fabric of practitioners' understanding of their own canonical tradition. "Drawing on obscure texts, original research, and the research of numerous scholars, Rosen presents an eminently readable and well researched volume of intriguing detail, documenting little known facts and important observations that are sure to not only allow readers entrance into Chaitanya and his world, but also help one in one's own spiritual quest. Essential reading for both scholars of Indian religion and devotees of all persuasions."- Edwin Bryant, Professor of Hindu Philosophy and Religion, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Chaitanyology: A Collection of Essays on Śrī Chaitanya (Stories of Vaishnava Acharyas)

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