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Author : Monika Horstmann
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
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Download or read book Bhakti in Current Research, 1979-1982 written by Monika Horstmann and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Thiel-Horstmann
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Bhakti in Current Research 1979-82 written by M. Thiel-Horstmann and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mohan K. Gautam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788185500027
Total Pages : 374 pages
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Download or read book Bhakti in Current Research 1982-85 written by Mohan K. Gautam and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Guy L. Beck
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079148341X
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Alternative Krishnas written by Guy L. Beck and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Krishna—widely venerated and adored in the Hindu tradition—is a deity of many aspects. An ancient manifestation of the Supreme God Vishnu, or the Godhead itself, Krishna is the bringer of Yoga philosophy and the creator of the universe, the destroyer of evil tyrants, and the hero of the epic Mahabharata. He is also described in classical Sanskrit texts as having human characteristics and enjoying very human pursuits: Krishna is the butter thief, cowherd, philanderer, and flute player. Yet even these playful depictions are based upon descriptions found in the Sanskrit canon, and mostly reflect familiar, classical Pan-Indian images. In this book, contributors examine the alternative, or unconventional, Krishnas, offering examples from more localized Krishna traditions found in different regions among various ethnic groups, vernacular language traditions, and remote branches of Indian religions. These wide-ranging, alternative visions of Krishna include the Tantric Krishna of Bengal, Krishna in urban women's rituals, Krishna as monogamous husband and younger brother in Braj, Krishna in Jainism, Krishna in Marathi tradition, Krishna in South India, and the Krishna of nineteenth-century reformed Hinduism.
Author : M. Whitney Kelting
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198032110
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Singing to the Jinas written by M. Whitney Kelting and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Western Jain scholarship has focused on those texts and practices favoring male participation, the Jain community itself relies heavily on lay women's participation for religious education, the performance of key rituals, and the locus of religious knowledge. In this fieldwork-based study, Whitney Kelting attempts to reconcile these women's understanding of Jainism with the religion as presented in the existing scholarship. Jain women, she shows, both accept and rewrite the idealized roles received from religious texts, practices, and social expectation, according to which female religiosity is a symbol of Jain perfection. This volume describes these women's interpretations of their religion, not as folklore or popular religion, but as a theology that recreates Jainism in a form which honors their own participation.
Author : Hans Harder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136831886
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Sufism and Saint Veneration in Contemporary Bangladesh written by Hans Harder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the Maijbhandari movement in Chittagong, south-eastern Bangladesh, which claims the status of the only Sufi order originated in Bengal and which has gained immense popularity in recent years, this book provides a comprehensive picture of an important aspect of contemporary Bengali Islam in the South Asian context. Expertise in South Asian languages and literatures is combined with ethnographic field work and theoretical formulations from a range of disciplines, including cultural anthropology, Islamic studies and religious studies. Analysing the Maijbhandaris tradition of Bengali spiritual songs, one of the largest popular song traditions in Bengal, the book presents an in-depth study of Bengali Sufi theology, hagiography and Maijbhandari esoteric songs, as well as a discussion of what Bengali Islam is. It is a useful contribution to South Asia Studies, as well as Islamic Studies.
Author : Vasudha Dalmia
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438468075
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Hindu Pasts written by Vasudha Dalmia and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her introduction to Hindu Pasts—which showcases her work as a scholar of social, literary, and religious history—Vasudha Dalmia outlines the central ideas which thread her writings: first, to understand in greater historical depth the relationship between body language, religion, and society in India, as well as the ever-changing role of its religious and social institutions; second, to recognize that the Hindu tradition, which colonials and nationalists tend to see as monolithic, is in fact a multiplicity of distinct and semi-autonomous strands.
Author : Joanna Gottfried Williams
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520080652
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Two-headed Deer written by Joanna Gottfried Williams and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Williams breaks new ground in considering Indian pictures as sequences that tell a story in distinctive ways. Her narratological study considers many familiar genres of visual art - illustrated manuscripts, drawings on palm-leaf paper, wall paintings, shadow plays, temple sculpture, painted cloth patas, and other popular and fine art. Williams points out that we often treat images designed to be seen in sequence as separate pictures.
Author : Antonio Rigopoulos
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857284010
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)
Download or read book The Mahānubhāvs written by Antonio Rigopoulos and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ascetic, devotional sect known as the Mahanubhavs - 'Those of the Great Experience' - arose in 13th century Maharashtra. The Mahanubhavs initially experienced a fairly rapid expansion, particularly across the northern and eastern regions of Maharashtra; however, by the end of the 14th century their movement went underground as they sought a defensive isolation from the larger Hindu context. This volume offers an overview of the origins and main religious and doctrinal characteristics of the Mahanubhavs, with a particular focus on the aspects that reveal their difference and nonconformity.
Author : Denise Cush
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113518979X
Total Pages : 1129 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Hinduism written by Denise Cush and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 1129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering all aspects of Hinduism, this encyclopedia includes more ethnographic and contemporary material in contrast to the exclusively textual and historical approach of earlier works.
Author : Rupert Snell
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780728601758
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Hindi Classical Tradition written by Rupert Snell and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Lalita du Perron
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134159919
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre written by Lalita du Perron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian classical music has long been fascinating to Western audiences, most prominently since the Beatles' sessions with Ravi Shankar in the 1960s. This fascination with the musical genre still prevails in the twenty-first century. Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre examines Thumri Lyrics, a major genre of Hindustani music, from a primarily linguistic perspective. On a cultural level, it discusses the interface between devotional and secular poetry. Furthermore, it explains the impact of social and political change on the musical life on North India. Well-written and thoroughly researched, this book is a valuable contribution to the field of South Asian studies. It will be interesting to academics across the discipline, including linguistics, politics, sociology, cultural and gender studies.
Author : David N. Lorenzen
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791420263
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Bhakti Religion in North India written by David N. Lorenzen and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-11-09 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In India, religion continues to be an absolutely vital source for social as well as personal identity. All manner of groups--political, occupational, and social--remain grounded in specific religious communities. This book analyzes the development of the modern Hindu and Sikh communities in North India starting from about the fifteenth century, when the dominant bhakti tradition of Hinduism became divided into two currents: the sagun and the nirgun. The sagun current, led mostly by Brahmins, has remained dominant in most of North India and has served as the ideological base of the development of modern Hindu nationalism. Several chapters explore the rise of this religious and political movement, paying particular attention to the role played by devotion to Ram. Alternative trends do exist in sagun tradition, however, and are represented here by chapters on the low-caste saint Chokhamel and the tantric sect founded by Kina Ram. The nirgun current, led mostly by persons of Ksand artisan castes, formed the base of both the Sikh community, founded by Guru Nanak, and of various non-Brahmin sectarian movements derived from such saints as Kabir, Raidas, Dadu, and Shiv Dayal Singh. Two chapters discuss the formation of a distinctive Sikh theology and a Sikh community identity separate from that of the Hindus. Other chapters discuss the validity of the sagun-nirgun distinction within Hindu tradition and the interplay of social and religious ideas in nirgun hagiographic texts and in sectarian movements such as the Adi Dharma Mission and the Radhasoami Satsang.
Author : Harjot Oberoi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226615936
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book The Construction of Religious Boundaries written by Harjot Oberoi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-12-15 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the process by which a pluralistic religious world view is replaced by a monolithic one, this book questions basic assumptions about the efficacy of fundamentalist claims and the construction of all social and religious identities.
Author : Neelima Shukla-Bhatt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199976422
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Narasinha Mehta of Gujarat written by Neelima Shukla-Bhatt and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neelima Shukla-Bhatt offers an illuminating study of Narsinha Mehta, one of the most renowned saint-poets of medieval India and the most celebrated bhakti (devotion) poet from Gujarat, and shows how the songs and sacred narratives associated with the saint-poet have been sculpted into a popular source of moral inspiration by performers and audiences.
Author : Nancy M. Martin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197694942
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Mirabai written by Nancy M. Martin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mirabai, an iconic sixteenth-century Indian poet-saint, is renowned for her unwavering love of God, her disregard for social hierarchies and gendered notions of honor and shame, and her challenge to familial, feudal, and religious authorities. Defying attempts to constrain and even kill her, she could not be silenced. Though verifiable facts regarding her life are few, her fame spread across social, linguistic, and religious boundaries, and stories about her multiplied across the subcontinent and the centuries. In Mirabai, Nancy M. Martin traces the story of this immensely popular Indian saint from the earliest manuscript references to her through colonial and nationalist developments to scholarly and popular portrayals in the decades leading up to Indian independence. This book examines Mirabai's place as both insider and outsider to the developing strands of devotional Hinduism and her role in contested terrain of debates around the education and independence of women and the crafting of Indian and Hindu identities. Mirabai offers a comprehensive and multi-layered portrait of this remarkable and still controversial woman, who continues to be a source of inspiration and catalyst for self-actualization for spiritual seekers, artists, activists, and so many others in India and around the world today.
Author : Martin Clayton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195339681
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Time in Indian Music written by Martin Clayton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time in Indian Music is the first major study of rhythm, metre, and form in North Indian rag , or classical, music. Martin Clayton presents a theoretical model for the organization of time in this repertory, a model which is related explicitly to other spheres of Indian thought and culture as well as to current ideas on musical time in alternative repertoriesnullincluding that of Western music. This theoretical model is elucidated and illustrated with reference to many musical examples drawn from authentic recorded performances. These examples clarify key Indian musicological concepts such as tal (metre), lay (tempo or rhythm), and laykari (rhythmic variation). More generally, the volume addresses the implications of performance practice for the organization of rhythm and metre. Written in a clear and accessible style and illustrated with 102 music examples and diagrams, it will appeal to anyone interested in Indian aesthetic forms and the study of musical time.
