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Author : Sir Alfred C. Lyall
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Asiatic Studies, Religious and Social written by Sir Alfred C. Lyall and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter van der Veer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520281225
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Religion and the Asian City written by Peter van der Veer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Handbook of Religion and the Asian City highlights the creative and innovative role of urban aspirations in Asian world cities. It points out that urban politics and governance are often about religious boundaries and processions--in short, that public religion is politics. The essays show how projects of secularism come up against projects and ambitions of a religious nature, a particular form of contestation that takes the city as its public arena. Asian cities are sites of speculation, not only for those who invest in real estate but also for those who look for housing, for employment, and for salvation. In its potential and actual mobility, the sacred creates social space in which they all can meet. Handbook of Religion and the Asian City makes the comparative case that one cannot study the historical patterns of urbanization in Asia without paying attention to the role of religion in urban aspirations"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Alfred Comyn Lyall
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484742467
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Asiatic Studies written by Alfred Comyn Lyall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social Tris book contains, in the form of chapters, eleven essays published by me during the past ten years; they were written in such intervals of leisure as could be spared by the constant and occasionally urgent preoccupations of official duties in India, 'and they have been thought to be worth the experiment of republication together. Ten of these essays relate to India, being mainly the outcome of personal observation in certain provinces and of intercourse with the people; one essay relates to China, with which country the writer has no direct acquaintance; and since they are all so far alike in their subject-matter that they deal with the actual character and complexion of religion and society in these countries at the present time, they may possibly be considered to have some useful bearing on the general study of Asiatic ideas and institu tions. For throughout Asia, wherever the state of society has not been distinctly transformed by European influences, there is a fundamental resemblance in the social condition of the people, in their intellectual level, and in their habits of thought. And although India is in many respects a peculiar country, isolated and fenced off from the rest of the continent by broad belts of high and often impassable mountain country, so that it cannot be classed either with Eastern or Western Asia, yet it possesses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Albert James Diaz
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Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Guide to Reprints written by Albert James Diaz and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carlo Caldarola
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110823535
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Religion and Societies written by Carlo Caldarola and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 697 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.
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Total Pages : 988 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Guide to Reprints written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas R. Metcalf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521589376
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (893 download)
Download or read book Ideologies of the Raj written by Thomas R. Metcalf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-02-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideologies of the Raj examines how the British sought to justify their rule over India. The author argues that two divergent strategies were devised to legitimate their authority: the one defined characteristics which the Indians shared with the British themselves, while the other emphasised qualities of enduring 'difference'. In the end, however, the differences predominated in the colonial view of India. Since the British constructed few explicit ideologies of empire, the author explores the workings of the Raj through the study of its underlying assumptions as revealed in policies and writings. Students of modern India and the British Empire will find Thomas Metcalf's book relevant and accessible.
Author : Abhijit Sirdesai
Publisher : Author
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Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Native Officialdom in Western India written by Abhijit Sirdesai and published by Author. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the landlords or the revenue officers of the administrative system recognized as the Watan System which was rampant for more than five centuries before India’s independence. With a focus on the Deshmukhi Watan or the Desgut, held by Deshmukhs or Desais, this volume presents the hierarchy of the chain of officers like the Patils, Deshpandes, Kulkarnis, etc., and attempts to reflect on the status accorded to them by the society and the treatment they received from the British in the 19th century. Topics explored in this volume relate to the administrative history, the judicial institutions, laws of inheritance, role of religion, commonness of superstition, customs and traditions, etc. We find ample citations of the authoritative sources backing the views expressed by the author at every turn as we proceed. The book has a foreword written by Dr. Teotonio R. de Souza, a historian and the founder of Xavier Center for Historical Research, Goa.
Author : Noriko Asato
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Handbook for Asian Studies Specialists written by Noriko Asato and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable tool for librarians who do reference or collection management, this work is a pioneering offering of expertly selected print and electronic reference tools for East Asian Studies (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). Handbook for Asian Studies Specialists: A Guide to Research Materials and Collection Building Tools is the first work to cover reference works for the main Asian area languages of China, Japan, and Korea. Several leading Asian Studies librarians have contributed their many decades of experience to create a resource that gathers major reference titles—both print and online—that would be useful to today's Asian Studies librarian. Organized by language group, it offers useful information on the many subscription-based and open-source electronic tools relevant to Asian Studies. This book will serve as an essential resource for reference collections at academic libraries. Previously published bibliographies on materials deal with China or Japan or Korea, but none have coalesced information on all three countries into one work, or are written in English. And unlike the other resources available, this work provides the insight needed for librarians to make informed collection management decisions and reference selections.
Author : Louis Dumont
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A South Indian Subcaste written by Louis Dumont and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first English translation of the classic work by Louis Dumont, one of the premier anthropologists and social theorists of his generation. Dumont traces the history and distribution of the Pramalai Kallars of south India: their culture, agricultural practices, economic and political organization, and the collective representations embedded in their social organization and religion. This work is particularly noteworthy as a structuralist ethnography and as the first step in Dumont's construction of a comprehensive structuralist theory of traditional Indian society.
Author : A. Wainwright
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526121417
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book 'The better class' of Indians written by A. Wainwright and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study to focus primarily on the role of class in the encounter between South Asians and British institutions in the United Kingdom at the height of British imperialism. In a departure from previous scholarship on the South Asian presence in Britain, ‘The better class’ of Indians emphasizes the importance of class as the register through which British polite society interpreted other social distinctions such as race, gender, and religion. Drawing mainly on unpublished material from the India Office Records, the National Archives, and private collections of charitable organizations, this book examines not only the attitudes of British officials towards South Asians in their midst, but also the actual application of these attitudes in decisions pertaining to them. This fascinating book will be of particular interest to scholars and general readers of imperialism, immigration as well as British and Indian social history.
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Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Literary World written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Lagerwey
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004168354
Total Pages : 1281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Early Chinese Religion: Part One: Shang Through Han (1250 BC-220 AD) (2 Vols) written by John Lagerwey and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 1281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together, and for the first time in any language, the 24 essays gathered in these volumes provide a composite picture of the history of religion in ancient China from the emergence of writing ca. 1250 BC to the collapse of the first major imperial dynasty in 220 AD. It is a multi-faceted tale of changing gods and rituals that includes the emergence of a form of “secular humanism” that doubts the existence of the gods and the efficacy of ritual and of an imperial orthodoxy that founds its legitimacy on a distinction between licit and illicit sacrifices. Written by specialists in a variety of disciplines, the essays cover such subjects as divination and cosmology, exorcism and medicine, ethics and self-cultivation, mythology, taboos, sacrifice, shamanism, burial practices, iconography, and political philosophy. Produced under the aegis of the Centre de recherche sur les civilisations chinoise, japonaise et tibétaine (UMR 8155) and the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris).
Author : Ugo Bianchi
Publisher : L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
ISBN 13 : 9788870628524
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (285 download)
Download or read book The Notion of "religion" in Comparative Research written by Ugo Bianchi and published by L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER. This book was released on 1994 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nel 1990 si tenne a Roma il XVI Congresso del I.A.H.R. che ebbe come tema la nozione di "religione". Venne particolarmente analizzato l'uso di tale termine da parte degli studiosi di lingua europea nei rapporti con le culture non europee e viceversa.
Author : M. G. Chitkara
Publisher : APH Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788170247982
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (479 download)
Download or read book Hindutva written by M. G. Chitkara and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bardwell L. Smith
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004084711
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (847 download)
Download or read book The City As a Sacred Center written by Bardwell L. Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P. Sangren
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804766606
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book History and Magical Power in a Chinese Community written by P. Sangren and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1987-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a case study of history and culture in the Taiwanese town of Ta-ch'i and the group of rural villages that constitute its standard marketing community. However, its scope exceeds that of most community studies. The author attempts to construct a holistic view of Chinese culture from an analysis of the relationship between history and ritual in a particular locality. The author argues that social institutions and collective representations are dialectically connected in the process of social and cultural reproduction. He describes this dialectical process through an analysis of the key cultural concept of ling, the magical power attributed to ghosts, gods, and ancestors. In analyzing the symbolic logic of ling, he asserts that it can be fully understood only as a product of the reproduction of social institutions and as a manifestation of a native historical consciousness. Structuralist and Marxist insights are combined to explain how ling is best understood as both a cultural logic of symbolic relations and a material logic of social relations. The book is in three parts. Part I is a social and economic history that outlines what one might call an objectivist or positivist view of Ta-ch'i's history, describing events as they were, regardless of the perceptions of local participants. This material is a background to the synchronic sociological analysis of local territorial cults that constitutes Part II. In Part III, the author unsettles the objectivist assumptions of Part I by showing how the idiom of ling underlies Taiwanese constructions of history and identity and how the cultural construction of history dialectically reproduces society and creates history. The book is illustrated with 8 pages of photographs, 17 line drawings, and 9 maps.
