Invading The Sacred: An Analysis Of Hinduism Studies In America is a critical work published in 2007 by Rupa & Co. which discusses the perceived biased portrayal of Hinduism in the Western academy based religious studies and Hindu studies.[1][2][3] The editors of the book are Antonio de Nicolas, Krishnan Ramaswamy and Aditi Banerjee. [4] The book has contributions from Arvind Sharma of McGill University, S.N.Balagangadhara of Ghent University, Psychoanalyst Alan Roland, Yvette C. Rosser, Ramesh N. Rao, Pandita Indrani Rampersad, Yuvraj Krishnan and others. The book disputes the studies by Wendy Doniger, Jeffery Kripal and Paul Courtright. It also critiques the efficacy of the excessive use of Freudian psychoanalysis in hermeneutics which some of these studies rely on. [1]
An extensive scholarly analysis of this work has been published by Rahul Peter Das.[5]