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- 1 2 3 4 5 David C. Scott, Israel Selvanayagam, eds., Re-Visioning India's Religious Traditions – Essays in honour of Eric J. Lott , UTC / ISPCK, Bengaluru, 1996.
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- Further reading
- Arvind Sharma, Jacques Waardenburg (2001). To the things themselves: essays on the discourse and practice of the phenomenology of religion. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-016956-0.
- Geoffrey Wainwright, Karen Beth Westerfield Tucker (2006). The Oxford history of Christian Worship. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-513886-3.
- Paul M. Collins (2007). Christian inculturation in India. Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7546-6076-7.
- Bryan S. Rennie (2007). The International Eliade. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-7087-9.
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