Indian Religions

Many of the papers discuss interesting and important topics. As with other such eclectic anthologies, one is likely to pick up this volume based on the desire to read one of its essays in particular and subsequently to discover the worth of some of its other contents. Jack C. Laughlin, University of Sudbury, Studies in Religion

Anna S. King is Convenor of the Spalding Symposium and Senior Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Winchester. She trained as a social anthropologist at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology in Oxford and studied Hindi at the Oriental Faculty, Cambridge University. After initial research on Mircea Eliade, she carried out her first period of fieldwork on the pilgrimage priests of Hardwar, North India. She has since published research on the Dalits of India and on ISKCON’s Caitanya Vaisnava tradition. She is editor with John Brockington (2005) of The Intimate Other: Love Divine in Indic Religions (Orient Longman).