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Deities and Devotees

Author : Uma Maheswari Bhrugubanda
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019909327X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Deities and Devotees written by Uma Maheswari Bhrugubanda and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have cinema and popular religion shaped each other? Is the display of devotion in a cinema hall the same as devotion in a temple? How do we understand cinema’s compelling power to mesmerize people? Unlike Hindi cinema, mythological and devotional films remained popular genres in Telugu (and Tamil too) until quite recently. The political success of film star N.T. Rama Rao, well-known for his portrayal of gods and kings, posed afresh the problem of cinema’s power to enthral. To what extent viewers were persuaded of his divinity became a matter of debate. In later decades, the figure of another kind of viewer haunted the discourses around cinema, that of the female viewer who got possessed during screenings of goddess films. Using questions around viewership as the focal point, this book studies the intersections between popular cinema, religion, and politics in South India. The first full-length study of Telugu mythological and devotional films, it combines an account of the history and politics of these genres with an anthropology of film-making and viewership practices. It argues that cinema and other audio-visual technologies lead to the re-orientation of sensibilities and the cultivation of new sensory modes.

Krishna Deities And Their Miracles

Author : Stephen Knapp
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 8184305052
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Krishna Deities And Their Miracles written by Stephen Knapp and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald J. Trump is an icon: the very definition of the American success story. Republican Presidential candidate, reality-television star, and developer of some of the planet's most prestigious real estate, he's also become one of the world's wealthiest men. Trump is a living example of how thinking BIG and knowing when to back up your opinions aggressively—regardless of what your critics or opponents might say—can help you maximize your personal and professional achievements. In his first political campaign, Trump defeated his opponents by rallying voters nationwide to "Make America Great Again."

Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees

Author : Alf Hiltebeitel
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887069826
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (698 download)

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Download or read book Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees written by Alf Hiltebeitel and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-09-21 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hindu sacred order is guarded by the very gods who violate it and the demons who oppose it. This book is a who's who of such transgressive figures, both familiar and unfamiliar, showing their place within the Hindu order that they violate. It is also a reflection of the serious scholarly debate over the nature and composition of this Hindu order. The chapters range from pan-Hindu deities such as Bhairava and Virabhadra to guardian gods of specific regions and lineages and of different goddess cults. Chapters cover violent themes in SAaivite hagiography, the position of Brahmans in relation to cultic carnivorism, guardian heroes in folk epic, the deified dead, the royal mythology of a "criminal caste," and a wide-ranging overview of transgressive sacrality.

Meeting God

Author :
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300089059
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Meeting God written by and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huyler provides an introduction to the scope of Hindu beliefs and practices, accompanied by his arresting photographs documenting the spirituality of common men and women in India. 200 color illustrations.

Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees

Author : Alf Hiltebeitel
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438406711
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees written by Alf Hiltebeitel and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1989-09-21 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hindu sacred order is guarded by the very gods who violate it and the demons who oppose it. This book is a who's who of such transgressive figures, both familiar and unfamiliar, showing their place within the Hindu order that they violate. It is also a reflection of the serious scholarly debate over the nature and composition of this Hindu order. The chapters range from pan-Hindu deities such as Bhairava and Virabhadra to guardian gods of specific regions and lineages and of different goddess cults. Chapters cover violent themes in SAaivite hagiography, the position of Brahmans in relation to cultic carnivorism, guardian heroes in folk epic, the deified dead, the royal mythology of a "criminal caste," and a wide-ranging overview of transgressive sacrality.

Ganeshpuri Days

Author : Swami Shankarananda
Publisher : Shaktipat Press
ISBN 13 : 9781646690824
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Ganeshpuri Days written by Swami Shankarananda and published by Shaktipat Press. This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1970, driven by a search for purpose and meaning, a young New Yorker leaves his promising academic career to travel to India seeking yogic wisdom. After many adventures, he arrives at the feet of the great Siddha master Baba Muktananda, in the holy village of Ganeshpuri. Here, he experiences the awakening of the kundalini energy. With enthusiasm, sincerity and candid self-reflection, Swami Shankarananda depicts his profound relationship with his Guru and the inner voyage of his transformation. He takes the reader on a mystical journey in which he does battle with his ego and his own negative tendencies and connects with the inner divine energy. Under Baba's guidance he emerges from a twelve-year apprenticeship as a knower of the Self and a Guru in his own right. 'Ganeshpuri Days' is a beautifully written account that will inspire readers to awaken to the true Self and fulfil their highest potential

Donors, Devotees, and Daughters of God

Author : Leslie C. Orr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195356721
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Donors, Devotees, and Daughters of God written by Leslie C. Orr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-09 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the use of epigraphical evidence, Leslie C. Orr brings into focus the activities and identities of the temple women (devadasis) of medieval South India. This book shows how temple women's initiative and economic autonomy involved them in medieval temple politics and allowed them to establish themselves in roles with particular social and religious meanings. This study suggests new ways of understanding the character of the temple woman and, more generally, of the roles of women in Indian religion and society.

Hekate

Author : Sorita D'Este
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781905297351
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book Hekate written by Sorita D'Este and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of devotional essays on working with Hekate.

Modernity and Spirit Worship in India

Author : Miho Ishii
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000740919
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Modernity and Spirit Worship in India written by Miho Ishii and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the entangled relations between people’s daily worship practices and their umwelt in South India. Focusing on the practices of spirit (būta) worship in the coastal area of Karnataka, it examines the relationship between people and deities. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book links important anthropological theories on personhood, perspectives, transactions, and gift-exchanges together with the Gestaltkreis theory of Viktor von Weizsäcker. First, it examines the relations between būta worship and land tenure, matriliny, and hierarchy in the society. It then explores the reflexive relationship between modern law and current practices based on conventional law, before examining new developments in būta worship with the rise of mega-industries and environmental movements. Furthermore, this book sheds light on the struggles and endeavours of the people who create and recreate their relations with the realm of sacred wildness, as well as the formations and transformations of the umwelt in perpetual social-political transition. Modernity and Spirit Worship in India will be of interest to academics in the field of anthropology, religious studies and the dynamics of religion, and South Asian Culture and Society.

The Sacred Marriage of a Hindu Goddess

Author : William P. Harman
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120808102
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Marriage of a Hindu Goddess written by William P. Harman and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: supplemented by a commentary; both seek to emphasize how the teaching is

The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess

Author : Ehud Halperin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190913584
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Book Synopsis The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess by : Ehud Halperin

Download or read book The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess written by Ehud Halperin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers a portrait of Haḍimbā, a primary village goddess in the Kullu Valley of the West Indian Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, a rural area known as the Land of God. Drawing on diverse ethnographic and textual materials The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess is rich with myths and tales, accounts of dramatic rituals and festivals, and descriptions of everyday life in the celebrated but remote Kullu Valley. The book portrays the goddess in varying contexts that radiate outward from her temple to local, regional, national, and indeed global spheres. The result is an important contribution to the study of Indian village goddesses, lived Hinduism, Himalayan Hinduism, and the rapidly growing field of religion and ecology"--

Neti Neti Answers To Devotees In Seach Of God

Author : Har Prem Pal Singh And Arvind Moladia
Publisher : BFC Publications
ISBN 13 : 9356327092
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Neti Neti Answers To Devotees In Seach Of God written by Har Prem Pal Singh And Arvind Moladia and published by BFC Publications. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dauntless

Author : Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781546777571
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (775 download)

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Download or read book Dauntless written by Bibliotheca Alexandrina and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father of War. Father of Peace. Father of Fear. Father of Courage. Father of Discord and Harmony. Ares and Mars. Though the two Gods are often conflated in popular culture, they manifest to their devotees today as distinct entities. Similar, yes, but not the same - usually. In their respective pantheons, they are Gods of war, violence, virility, and raw passion, but also duty, loyalty, devotion, and fatherhood. They are numinous, yes, but also physical, earthy, tangibly here Deities. They are Gods of the body, who revel in and celebrate all that our physical selves can do. Labor, forcing ourselves to move (martial arts, exercise, the tilling of a field, the planting of crops, the carrying of weapons and shedding of blood in defense of another), is an offering perhaps best suited to these Gods more than any other. Hopefully, the words contained in this devotional - the prayers and poems and new myths and rites and essays - will please them just as much. And hopefully they will inspire you, the reader, to get up and move and celebrate these two Gods, the undaunted, eternal Masters of War and Fathers of Peace.

A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses

Author : Michael Slouber
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520976215
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses written by Michael Slouber and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining the divine as female is rare—even controversial—in most religions. Hinduism, by contrast, preserves a rich and continuous tradition of goddess worship. A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses conveys the diversity of this tradition by bringing together a fresh array of captivating and largely overlooked Hindu goddess tales from different regions. As the first such anthology of goddess narratives in translation, this collection highlights a range of sources from ancient myths to modern lore. The goddesses featured here battle demons, perform miracles, and grant rare Tantric visions to their devotees. Each translation is paired with a short essay that explains the goddess’s historical and social context, elucidating the ways religion adapts to changing times.

Goddess on the Rise

Author : Philip Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Goddess on the Rise written by Philip Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2004-03-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative and multidimensional account of translocal religious practice, this sophisticated study, the first of its kind for Vietnam, blurs disciplinary boundaries and disrupts preconceived images of Vietnamese society.

The Art of Loving Krishna

Author : Cynthia Packert
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253221986
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Loving Krishna written by Cynthia Packert and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vibrant tradition of Temple decoration in India.

Indigenous People and the Christian Faith: A New Way Forward

Author : William H. U. Anderson
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622738810
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Book Synopsis Indigenous People and the Christian Faith: A New Way Forward by : William H. U. Anderson

Download or read book Indigenous People and the Christian Faith: A New Way Forward written by William H. U. Anderson and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous People and the Christian Faith: A New Way Forward provides detailed historical, cultural and theological background and analysis to a very delicate and pressing subject facing many people around the world. The book is “glocal”: both local and global, as represented by international scholars. Every continent is represented by both Indigenous and non-indigenous people who desire to make a difference with the delicate problematics and relationships. The history of Indigenous people around the world is inextricably linked with Christianity and Colonialism. The book is completely interdisciplinary by employing historians, literary critics, biblical scholars and theologians, sociologists, philosophers and ordained engineers. The Literary Intent of the book, without presuming nor claiming too much for itself, is to provide practical thinking that will help all people move past the pain and dysfunction of the past, toward mutual understanding, communication, and practical actions in the present and future.