On being Hindu. Hinduism by any other name ; Are Hindus monotheists or polytheists? ; Three (or more) forms of the three (or more)-fold path in Hinduism ; The concept of heresy in Hinduism ; Eating karma ; Medical and mythical constructions of the body in Sanskrit texts ; Death and rebirth in Hinduism ; Forgetting and re-awakening to incarnation ; Assume the position : the fight over the body of yoga ; The toleration of intolerance in Hinduism ; The politics of Hinduism tomorrow
Gods, humans, and anti-gods. Saguna and Nirguna images of the deity ; You can't get here from there : the logical paradox of Hindu creation myths ; Together apart : changing ethical implications of Hindu cosmologies ; God's body, or, the lingam made flesh : conflicts over the representation of Shiva ; Sacrifice and substitution : ritual mystification and mythical demystification in Hinduism ; The scrapbook of undeserved salvation : the Kedar Khanda of the Skanda Purana
Women and other genders. Why should a Brahmin tell you whom to marry? : a deconstruction of the Laws of Manu ; Saranyu/Samjna : the sun and the shadow ; The clever wife in Indian mythology ; Rings of rejection and recognition in ancient India ; The third nature : gender inversions in the Kamasutra ; Bisexuality and transsexuality among the Hindu gods ; Transsexual transformations of subjectivity and memory in Hindu mythology
Kama and other seductions. The control of addiction in ancient India ; Reading the Kamasutra : it isn't all about sex ; The mythology of the Kamasutra ; From kama to karma : the resurgence of Puritanism in contemporary India
Horses and other animals. The ambivalence of ahimsa ; Zoomorphism in ancient India : humans more bestial than the beasts ; The mythology of horses in India ; The submarine mare in the mythology of Shiva ; Indra as the stallion's wife ; Dogs as dalits in Indian literature ; Sacred cows and beefeaters
Illusion and reality in the Hindu epics. Impermanence and eternity in Hindu epic, art and performance ; Shadows of the Ramayana ; Women in the Mahabharata ; The history of Ekalavya
On not being Hindu. 'I have scinde' : Orientalism and guilt ; Doniger O'Flaherty on Doniger ; You can't make an omelette ; The forest-dweller.
Appendix I. Limericks on Hinduism
Appendix II. Essays on Hinduism by Wendy Doniger.
