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Author : Selvam Kalyanasunderan
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Total Pages : 78 pages
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Download or read book A History of Kataragama and Theivanaiamman Thevasthanam written by Selvam Kalyanasunderan and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi
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Total Pages : 994 pages
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Download or read book Accessions List, South Asia written by Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records publications acquired from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, by the U.S. Library of Congress Offices in New Delhi, India, and Karachi, Pakistan.
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ISBN 13 : 9789558037355
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Final Report on Election-related Violence, General Election 2000 written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With reference to Sri Lanka.
Author : Fred W. Clothey
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110804107
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Many Faces of Murukan written by Fred W. Clothey and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems - both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.
Author : Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120802136
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Cult of the Goddess Pattini written by Gananath Obeyesekere and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pattini-goddess, virgin, wife and mother; folk deity of Sinhala Buddhists and Jains; and assimilated goddess of the Hindu pantheon-has been worshiped in Sri Lanks and South India for fifteen hundred years or more, as she still is today. This long-awaited book is the culmination of Gananath Obeyesekere's comprehensive study of the Pattini cult and its historical, sociological, and psychoanalytical role in the culture of South Asia. A well-known anthropologist and a native of Sri Lanka, Obeyesekere displays his impeccable scholarship and a stunning range of theoretical perspectives in this work, the most detailed analysis of a single religious complex in South Asian ethnography (and possibly in all of anthropology). Since 1955 Obeyesekere has observed and participated in modern performances of the rituals of worship, healing, and propitiation in the Pattini cult, particularly the postharvest ritual known as the gammaduva. He presents detailed texts of the gammaduva, placing them in their historical and mythic traditions. Using the texts, he formulates a cultural analysis of the Buddhist pantheon and a critique of empiricist notions of South Asian historiography. Obeyesekere shows that some seemingly historical figures of South India and Sri Lanka are mythic characters and that their historical significance can best be understood by an anthropological analysis of myth rather than through a reification of myth in history. The concurrent Hindu worship of Pattini with its myths and rituals is described in detail. Obeyesekere documents the Sanskritization of Pattini, the changing physical structures of the goddess's shrines from the 1930s to the present, the assumption by Brahman priests of ritual functions formerly carried out by folk priest, and the sociocultural causes of these changes. He traces, too, the origins and diffusion of the cult throughout its entire history, as well as its survival today. Of psychological interest is the problematic status of Pattini as virgin, wife, and mother and her relationship with her god-husband Palanga and his courtesan Madevi. Obeyesekere discusses the psychodynamics of this relationship in detail and explains its role in Hindu-Buddhist socialization and family structure. Further, he uses this analysis to account for local variations in the performance and structure of the ritual. The ritual of the killing and resurrection of Pattini's husband and her role as mater dolorosa will interest scholars of comparative religion.
Author : Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (Sri Lanka)
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Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Final Report on Election-related Violence written by Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (Sri Lanka) and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rosalie Littell Colie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400878403
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
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Author : Alain Daniélou
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620550237
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Gods of Love and Ecstasy written by Alain Daniélou and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1992-05-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shiva and Dionysus are the Hindu and Greek gods of magical power, intoxication, ecstatic sexuality, and transcendence who initiate us into communion with the creative forces of life. Revealing the earliest sources of the traditions of Shiva and Dionysus, Alain Danielou reconstructs the fabric of our ancient relationship with creation, vividly relating practices that were observed from the Indus Valley to the coasts of Portugal at least six thousand years ago.
Author : Proinsias Mac Cana
Publisher : Reed Mitchel Beazley
ISBN 13 : 9781851529308
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (293 download)
Download or read book Celtic Mythology written by Proinsias Mac Cana and published by Reed Mitchel Beazley. This book was released on 1997 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the gods, myths, and epic legends of the Celts, discussing their sources, their relationship with Celtic history, and the influence of the Romans.
Author : Alain Daniélou
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ISBN 13 : 9780892810574
Total Pages : 250 pages
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Author : Charles Segal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691015972
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (159 download)
Download or read book Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae written by Charles Segal and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-16 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes afterword (p. 349-393) by the author: Dionysus and the Bacchae in the light of Recent Scholarship.
Author : George Woodcock
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ISBN 13 : 9780608391281
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Kerala written by George Woodcock and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of economic development and social change in the kerala region of India, with particular reference to the political leadership role of the communist political party - covers historical and demographic aspects, the social structure, geographical aspects, customs and traditions, religion, intergroup relations, the government, accession to independence, trade unionism, unemployment, etc. Bibliography pp. 313 to 315 and maps.
Author : Kalaiñar Mu Karuṇāniti
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ISBN 13 : 9780230639348
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)
Download or read book The Flower-garden of Tolkāppiyam written by Kalaiñar Mu Karuṇāniti and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Flower-garden of Tolkãppiyam is the compilation of one hundred selected verses of Tolkappiyam, the pre-Christian TA work on linguistics and poetics, reinterpreted, explicated and illustrated in the idiom of contemporary TA. The work brings in a
Author : Kamil Zvelebil
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Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ānanda-tāṇḍava of Śiva-sadānṛttamūrti written by Kamil Zvelebil and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Indi-Dravidian concept of S̓iva, Hindu deity, as a divine dancer; in particular as performing the awesome dance of bliss (ānanda-tāṇḍava).
Author : K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar
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Total Pages : 692 pages
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Download or read book Saga of Seven Mothers written by K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative verse work on seven Hindu goddesses and mythological characters.
Author : Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya
Publisher : [Calcutta] : Manisha
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Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Indian Atheism written by Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya and published by [Calcutta] : Manisha. This book was released on 1969 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Press
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Total Pages : 282 pages
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