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Vernacular Practice, Gendered Tensions, and Interpretive Ambivalence in Hindu Death, Deification, and Domestication Narratives† 印度死亡、神化和驯化叙事中的白话实践、性别紧张关系和解释矛盾心理

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Journal of Hindu Studies Pub Date : 2020-08-01 DOI: 10.1093/jhs/hiaa007

A. Allocco

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Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism and Modernity 高ḍīya Vaiṣṇ航空主义与现代性

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Journal of Hindu Studies Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1093/jhs/hiaa005

Lucian Wong

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Bengali Vaishnavism in Court: the Gaudiya Math’s Crisis of Succession 法庭上的孟加拉毗湿奴主义:高迪雅数学的继承危机

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Journal of Hindu Studies Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1093/jhs/hiaa002

F. Sardella

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The Psychic Chaitanya: Global Occult and Vaishnavism in Fin de Siècle Bengal 精神Chaitanya：孟加拉湾的全球神秘主义和毗湿奴主义

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Journal of Hindu Studies Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1093/jhs/hiaa004

Varuni Bhatia

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Noblemen, Spies, and a Hindu Monk Going to War: Notes on Swami B. H. Bon in New York, 1940–41 贵族、间谍和一个印度僧侣走向战争：关于Swami B.H.Bon在纽约的笔记，1940–41

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Journal of Hindu Studies Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1093/jhs/hiaa001

Måns Broo

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Piety in Print: The Vaishnava Periodicals of Colonial Bengal 印刷中的虔诚：孟加拉殖民地的毗湿奴派期刊

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Journal of Hindu Studies Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1093/jhs/hiaa003

S. Dey

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‘Out-of-the-Box’ Hinduism: Double Diaspora and the Guyanese Hindus of Queens, NY “跳出框框”的印度教:双重侨民和纽约皇后区的圭亚那印度教徒