Paul L Younger

Biographic Data

ID4690189
NAMEPaul L Younger
GIVEN NAMESPaul L
FAMILY NAMEYounger
SIGNATUREYOUNGER P L
AFFILIATIONSMcMaster University
ORCID0000-0002-7321-8479
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS16
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX2

  • The Daoist Tradition: An Introduction, by Louis Komjathy and Daoism: A Guide for the Perplexed, by Louis Komjathy

    Paul L YoungerARTICLEReligions of South Asia2016

    The Daoist Tradition: An Introduction, by Louis Komjathy. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. 375 pp., £70 (hb), £20.29 (pb, epub). ISBN 978-1-4411-1669-7 (hb), 978-1-4411-6873-3 (pb), 978-1-4411-9645-3 (epub). Daoism: A Guide for the Perplexed, by Louis Komjathy. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. 272 pp., £45.50 (hb), £15.39 (pb, epub). ISBN 978-1-44115-795-9 (hb), 978-1-44114-815-5 (pb), 978-1-44113-468-4 (epub)

  • Brahman and Dao: Comparative Studies of Indian and Chinese Philosophy and Religion, edited by Ithamar Theodor and Zhihua Yao

    Paul L YoungerARTICLEReligions of South Asia2016

    Brahman and Dao: Comparative Studies of Indian and Chinese Philosophy and Religion, edited by Ithamar Theodor and Zhihua Yao. Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion; Lanham, MD, USA and Plymouth, UK: Lexington Books, 2014. 308 pp., £65 (hb), £32.95 (pb, epub). ISBN 978-0-7391-7172-1 (hb), 978-1-4985-2591-6 (pb), 978-0-7391-8814-9 (epub)

  • 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…

  • Ground-Coupled Heating-Cooling Systems in Urban Areas: How Sustainable Are They

    Open AccessPaul L YoungerARTICLEBulletin of Science Technology &…2008

    Ground-coupled heating-cooling systems (GCHCSs) exchange heat between the built environment and the subsurface using pipework buried in trenches or boreholes. If heat pumps in GCHCSs are powered by “green electricity,” they offer genuine carbon-free heating-cooling; for this reason, there has been a surge in the technology in recent years. Interference between adjoining installations is being reported, raising issues of sustainability in terms of…

  • Pro-poor water technologies working both ways: Lessons from a two-way, south–north interchange

    Open AccessPaul L YoungerARTICLEGeoforum2007Cited by: 2References: 4

  • ‘Making water’: The hydrogeological adventures of Britain’s early mining engineers

    Open AccessPaul L YoungerARTICLEGeological Society London Special…2004

    The earliest detailed technical descriptions of British mining practices still in existence (which date from the late 17th and early 18th centuries) dedicate many paragraphs to the problems posed by the unwanted ingress of ground water into underground workings. Excessive water in working areas seriously hinders production. More importantly, sudden inrushes of ground water to underground workings are a significant mortal hazard. In view of the pr…

  • Expanding the hydrogeological base in mining EIA studies

    Open AccessJerry S Kuma, Paul L Younger et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Impact Assessment…2002References: 8

  • 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…

  • Broadening the scope of mine water environmental impact assessment

    Open AccessAdam P Jarvis, Paul L YoungerARTICLEEnvironmental Impact Assessment…2000Cited by: 2References: 18

  • 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

  • Peat development, sand cones and palaeohydrogeology of a spring-fed mire in East Yorkshire, UK

    Open AccessPaul L Younger, Molly McHughARTICLEThe Holocene1995

    An archaeological dig near Beverley, East Yorkshire, UK, revealed humified peat enclosing conical and cylindrical sand bodies ('sand cones'), which contained Romano-British greyware. Such sand cones have not been previously described in the literature. Below the peat, upper and lower diamict units (previously classified as Holocene alluvium) were reclassified as late Devensian lodgement till and pre-late Devensian chalky head (gelifluction deposi…

  • 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