Richard H Davis

Biographic Data

ID3681037
NAMERichard H Davis
GIVEN NAMESRichard H
FAMILY NAMEDavis
SIGNATUREDAVIS R H
AFFILIATIONSBard College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS29
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX3

  • Religions of India in Practice

    Ali Asani, Guy Leon Beck et al.BOOKReligions of India in Practice2020

  • Lives of Indian Images

    Richard H DavisBOOKLives of Indian Images2020

  • Two Female Artists Of Post-colonial India: Y. G. Srimati And Mrinalini Mukherjee

    Richard H DavisARTICLEMaterial Religion2020

    Two special exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the past few years have provided wonderful opportunities to view exemplary female artists from post-colonial India. In 2016–2017, the pa

  • Henry David Thoreau, Yogi

    Richard H DavisARTICLECommon Knowledge2018Cited by: 1

    Thoreau was likely the first American to entertain seriously the possibility of identifying himself as a yogi. “Depend upon it that rude and careless as I am, I would fain practice the yoga faithfully,” he wrote to his friend Harrison Blake in 1849: “To some extent, and at rare intervals, even I am a yogin.” But what did he mean in saying so? Thoreau’s understanding of the term yoga derived entirely from ancient Indian texts. In the 1840s, he rea…

  • What's the Use of Art?: Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context

    Cynthea J Bogel, Robert De Caroli et al.BOOKWhat's the Use of Art?2017

    Post-Enlightenment notions of culture, which have been naturalized in the West for centuries, require that art be autonomously beautiful, universal, and devoid of any practical purpose. The authors of this multidisciplinary volume seek to complicate this understanding of art by examining art objects from across Asia with attention to their functional, ritual, and everyday contexts. From tea bowls used in the Japanese tea ceremony to television br…

  • Śiva's multiplicity of presence in aniconic and iconic form

    Richard H DavisARTICLEReligion2017Cited by: 2References: 6

    The early medieval Śaiva Siddhānta school, a theistic school of Hinduism, positively embraced material forms as means for worshipers to approach the god Śiva. Theistic schools of thought like the Śaiva Siddhānta and their iconophilic ritual practices are responsible for the profusion of religious images we see in Hinduism. This essay examines how priests and worshipers addressed these issues in early medieval South India. There are two primary th…

  • Wilkins, Kasinatha, Hastings, and the First English Bhagavad Gītā

    Open AccessRichard H DavisARTICLEInternational Journal of Hindu…2015Cited by: 1References: 5

  • The "Bhagavad Gita": A Biography

    Richard H DavisBOOKBhagavad Gita2014

    The life and times of India's most famous spiritual and literary masterpiece The Bhagavad Gita , perhaps the most famous of all Indian scriptures, is universally regarded as one of the world's spiritual and literary masterpieces. Richard Davis tells the story of this venerable and enduring book, from its origins in ancient India to its reception today as a spiritual classic that has been translated into more than seventy-five languages. The Gita …

  • The Bhagavad Gita: A Biography

    Richard H DavisBOOKBhagavad Gita2014

  • Bhagavad Gita: A Biography

    Richard H Davis, Stanley LombardoBOOKBhagavad Gita2014

  • Ritual in an Oscillating Universe: Worshipping Siva in Medieval India

    Richard H DavisBOOKRitual in an Oscillating Universe2014

  • Material and visual in south asia

    Richard H DavisARTICLEMaterial Religion2009Cited by: 2References: 6

  • Ajanta: History and development volume 1: the end of the golden age handbook of oriental studies, section 2 18 (1) Spink, Walter M

    Richard H DavisARTICLEMaterial Religion2008

    (2008). Ajanta: history and development volume 1: the end of the golden age handbook of oriental studies, section 2 18 (1) Spink, Walter M. Material Religion: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 110-112

  • Iconoclasm in the era of strong religion

    Richard H DavisARTICLEMaterial Religion2005Cited by: 1References: 2

  • A muslim princess in the temples of Viṣṇu

    Open AccessRichard H DavisARTICLEInternational Journal of Hindu…2004Cited by: 5References: 6

  • The Origin of Linga Worship

    Richard H DavisCHAPTERReligions of Asia in Practice2002

  • Indian Image-Worship and its Discontents

    Richard H DavisCHAPTERRepresentation in Religion2001

  • Lives of Indian Images

    R H C Davis, Richard H DavisARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2001

  • Conclusion: Identities and Manifestations

    Open AccessRichard H DavisCHAPTERLives of Indian Images1997

  • The Raja's Magic Clothes: Re-Visioning Kingship and Divinity in England's India. Joanne Punzo Waghorne

    Richard H DavisARTICLEHistory of Religions1997

  • The Origin of Liṅga Worship

    Richard H DavisCHAPTERReligions of India in Practice1995

  • The Aphorisms of Śiva: The Śivasūtra with Bhāskara's Commentary, the Vārttika

    Richard H Davis, Bhāskara Bhāskara et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1994

  • Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700-1900

    Richard H DavisREVIEWJournal of the American Oriental…1994

    Preface List of maps Note on transliteration Abbreviations Glossary Introduction 1. South Indian religion and society 2. The development of Muslim society in Tamilnad 3. The Muslim religious tradition in south India 4. The south Indian state and the creation of Muslim community 5. Warrior martyr pirs in the eighteenth century 6. The final period of nawabi rule in the Carnatic 7. South Indian Christians in the pre-colonial period 8. The collapse o…

  • Three styles in looting India

    Richard H DavisARTICLEHistory and Anthropology1994Cited by: 7References: 10

  • Indian Art Objects as Loot

    Open AccessRichard H DavisARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies1993Cited by: 6References: 2

    Let us imagine a graceful bronze image of Dancing Śiva before us. It was perhaps created by a Cola artist in eleventh-century Tamilnad to be installed in a temple to receive offerings of worship, and to parade around the town in a ceremonial palanquin on festival days. From there, this image might have followed any of several paths to stand before us now in a North American museum. Perhaps it was buried under a banyan tree in the fourteenth centu…