Shyam Ranganathan

Projects filed under: Meaning of Life

  • Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Ethics Edited by Shyam Ranganathan

This is a volume that I edited, and I wrote an extended introduction to the volume too. From the publisher: “Featuring leading scholars from philosophy and religious studies, The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Ethics dispels the myth that Indian thinkers and...

Year

2025
  • Moral Philosophy and De-Colonialism by Shyam Ranganathan

The publisher imposed a strict 90,000-word limit on the book, which meant that I had to leave out much of the research history that led to it. I plan on writing a Substack on it and will link that here....

Year

2025
  • Life After Death is a book co-authored by Shyam Ranganathan

From the publisher: “This volume brings together renowned experts in the philosophy of religion, Graham Oppy, David Apolloni, Shyam Ranganathan, Joshua Farris and Steven B. Cowan, to present four key starting points in the life after death debate.” Steven Cown...

Year

2025

Providing a decolonial, action-focused account of Yoga philosophy, this practical work from Dr. Shyam Ranganathan, pioneering scholar in the field of Indian moral philosophy, focuses on the South Asian tradition to explore what Yoga was like prior to colonization. It...

Year

2025

Patañjali’s Yoga Sutra (second century CE) is the basic text of one of the nine canonical schools of Indian philosophy. In it the legendary author lays down the blueprint for success in yoga, now practiced the world over. Patañjali draws...

Year

2025