Paul Younger

Biographic Data

ID254295
NAMEPaul Younger
GIVEN NAMESPaul
FAMILY NAMEYounger
SIGNATUREYOUNGER P
AFFILIATIONSMcMaster University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT27
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX2

  • East Africa: Caste Religion

    Paul Younger, Paul L YoungerCHAPTERNew homelands2009

    Indian traders had long been landing on the East African coast when the British Protectorate in the area decided that they needed Indian workers to build a railway into inland Uganda. They recruited primarily from the Punjab, and those workers soon joined with the Gujarati traders to establish a prosperous Indian community. Each of the Gujarati caste communities involved in the trade had built community centers for their people in the urban areas…

  • New Homelands: Hindu communities in post-indenture societies

    Paul Younger, Paul L YoungerBOOKNew homelands2009

    This book is the story of how in six different locations indentured workers from India were able to design Hindu communities for themselves, and how those communities continue to thrive in those postcolonial societies. In the colonial era, the recruitment of workers had many of the features of the earlier slave trade. As the late nineteenth century wore on, however, the colonial regimes in these places lost interest in governing and the workers w…

  • Singing the Tamiḻ Hymnbook: The Adhyayanōtsava Festival in Śrīraṅkam

    Paul Younger, Paul L YoungerCHAPTERPlaying host to deity2001

    The Adhyayantsava festival in the complex Srirankam temple is an old festival tradition now largely given over to the ritualized recitation of the 4,000 hymns in the Srivaisnava tradition. Because these hymns were composed by the alvars (saints) and interpreted by the acaryas (teachers), the images of these figures are included in the recitation along with the Brahmans who recite the hymns today. Each day after the requisite number of hymns is re…

  • The Goddess of Koṭuṅkaḷūr: A Festival of the Wild Goddess of Ancient Kerala

    Paul Younger, Paul L YoungerCHAPTERPlaying host to deity2001

    The festival of Kotunkalur, the ancient capital of Kerala, engages the worshipers with the Goddess of that region described in the Cilappatikaram epic as Kannaki. This Goddess is understood as temperamental, and demands erotic pleasure and blood sacrifices from her devotees. The priests close the temple during the festival because the devotees’ insistence on physical contact with the deity violates the restrictions of the priestly system. The man…

  • Playing Host to Deity: Festival Religion in the South Indian Tradition

    Paul Younger, Paul L YoungerBOOKPlaying host to deity2001Cited by: 4References: 11

    In the South Indian religious tradition, there are grand ten‐day festivals held each year in the streets around the temples, mosques, and churches. This tradition is found not only inTamil Nadu and Kerala but also in Sri Lanka and in a variety of diaspora settings as well. These festivities remind one in certain ways of the earthy, lower class ”carnival” activities of medieval Europe, around which the Soviet scholar, M.M. Bakhtin, built some of h…

  • The Home of Dancing Śivaṉ: The Traditions of the Hindu Temple in Citamparam

    Leslie C Orr, Paul Younger et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1997

  • The Home of the Dancing Sivan: The Traditions of the Hindu Temple in Citamparam

    Anne-Marie Gaston, Paul YoungerARTICLEPacific Affairs1996

    Younger describes the daily and festival worship of the only Hindu temple in India where Shiva in his dancing form is the primary object of worship. He analyses the history revealed in the architecture of the buildings and the 300 inscriptions on the temple walls, and in the process tries to understand the multifaceted role of the temple in Indian life. His study paints a vivid portrait of the living religion of South India

  • Book Notices

    Paul YoungerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1984

  • Gandhi: Moral Man in Immoral Society

    Open AccessPaul Younger, Paul L YoungerARTICLETheology Today1983

  • The family of Śiva in a South Indian grove

    Open AccessPaul Younger, Paul L YoungerARTICLEStudies in Religion/Sciences…1982Cited by: 1

  • Singing the Tamiḻ Hymnbook in the Tradition of Rāmānuja: The "Adyayanōtsava" Festival in Srīraṅkam

    Paul Younger, Paul L YoungerARTICLEHistory of Religions1982

  • Ten Days of Wandering and Romance with Lord Raṅkanāta;ṉ: The Pa;ṉkuṋi Festival in Śriraṅkam Temple, South India

    Open AccessPaul Younger, Paul L YoungerARTICLEModern Asian Studies1982Cited by: 2

    In the third century, a poet in the ancient Cōḻ capital of Uṟaiyūr, on the banks of the Kāvērī river opposite the island of Śrīraṅkam, looked into the sad face of his lover and said that her face reminded him of the bank of the Kāavērī strewn with stalks of banana plants after the celebration of the Paṅkuṇi festival on Śrīraṅkam island. Although this early reference to the Paṅkuṇi festival being celebrated on Śrīraṅkam island dates from a period …

  • Book Notices

    Paul Younger, Paul L YoungerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1981

    Book Notices Get access Tamil Temple Myths Sacrifice and Divine Marriage in the South Indian Śaiva Tradition. By David Dean Shulman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980, xiv+471 pages, illustrations, map, notes, appendix, indices, glossary, bibliography $30.00 ISBN 0-691-06415-6. Paul Younger Paul Younger McMaster University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religio…

  • A Temple Festival of Māriyamma n

    Paul Younger, Paul L YoungerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1980Cited by: 5

    A Temple Festival of Māriyamman Get access Paul Younger Paul Younger Paul Younger (Ph.D, Princeton) is Professor of Religious Studies at McMaster University. Among his previous publications are The Birth of the Indian Religious Tradition (1969) and Hinduism (1978). Research for the present article was made possible by a grant from the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal…

  • Hinduism: A Religion to Live By

    Paul Younger, Paul L Younger et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1980

    This book provides a description and interpretation of the religion of the Hindus, focusing on their religious psychology and behaviour. Rejecting familiar assumptions about early Hinduism, Nirad C. Chaudhuri makes a reassessment of its formative influences

  • Hinduism: New Essays in the History of Religions

    Paul Younger, Paul L Younger et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1978

  • Responses To Charles Davis

    Open AccessGregory Baum, Kenneth Hamilton et al.ARTICLEStudies in Religion/Sciences…1974

  • Introduction to Indian Religious Thought

    Wilhelm Halbfa, Wilhelm Halbfaß et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1974

  • A Critical Study of Hinduism

    Paul Younger, Paul L Younger et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1974

  • Introduction to Indian Religious Thought

    Robert F Olson, Paul Younger et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy East and West1973

  • Eastern Religions and History of Religions

    Paul Younger, Paul L YoungerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1971

    EASTERN RELIGIONS AND HISTORY OF RELIGIONS Get access Advaita Vedanta: A Philosophical Reconstruction. By ELIOT DEUTSCH. Honolulu: East-West Centre Press, 1969. 11 pages. $6.00. PAUL YOUNGER PAUL YOUNGER McMaster University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2, June 1971, Pages 221–223, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XXXIX.2.221 Published: 01 Ju…

  • Phlosophy of Religion and Theology

    Paul Younger, Paul L YoungerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1971

    PHLOSOPHY OF RELIGION AND THEOLOGY Get access Understanding Religious Man By FREDERICK J. STRENG. Belmont: Dickenson Publishing Company, 1969 132 pages. $2 25 PAUL YOUNGER PAUL YOUNGER McMaster University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3, September 1971, Pages 396–397, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XXXIX.3.396 Published: 01 September 1971

  • Asian Religions and History of Religion

    Paul Younger, Paul L YoungerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1970

    ASIAN RELIGIONS AND HISTORY OF RELIGION Get access Questions of Religious Truth. By WILFRED CANTWELL SMITH. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. 123 pages. $3.95. PAUL YOUNGER PAUL YOUNGER McMaster University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1, March 1970, Pages 79–80, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XXXVIII.1.79 Published: 01 March 1970

  • The Politics of Religious Conflict

    Paul Younger, Paul L Younger et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1970

  • The Concept of Duhkha and the Indian Religious Tradition

    Paul Younger, Paul L YoungerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1969

    Journal Article The Concept of Duhkha and the Indian Religious Tradition Get access PAUL YOUNGER PAUL YOUNGER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2, June 1969, Pages 141–152, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XXXVII.2.141 Published: 01 June 1969