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Wendy Doniger is Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago and the author of The Hindus: An Alternative History, On Hinduism, and, most recently, the volume on Hinduism in The Norton Anthology of World Religions.
War and Peace in the Bhagavad Gita
The text has changed its meaning again and again over the centuries
The Bhagavad Gita: A Biography
by Richard H. Davis
December 4, 2014 issue
Unspeakable Sins
Idolatry
by Moshe Halbertal and Avishai Margalit, translated by Naomi Goldblum
April 21, 1994 issue
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