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Evolution of Mother Worship in India

Author : Prof. Sashi Bhusan Dasgupta
Publisher : Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)
ISBN 13 : 8175058862
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Evolution of Mother Worship in India written by Prof. Sashi Bhusan Dasgupta and published by Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math). This book was released on with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept and practice of ‘Worship of God as Mother’ in India dates to a hoary past. In the modern age new vistas of this type of divine worship have been opened up with the advent of Sri Ramakrishna whose life and spiritual practices have taught humankind not only to look upon God as Mother of the Universe but also to realize Her as residing in the hearts of all, especially women. His divine consort, Sri Sarada Devi, was looked upon as a special manifestation of that Mother of the Universe and is literally adored by countless devotees. She was the Mother of the virtuous and the wicked, humans and sub-humans. Evolution of Mother Worship in India traces the growth of this ideal as embodied in some of its well-known characters in Indian history and literature.

The Goddess and the Nation

Author : Sumathi Ramaswamy
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822391538
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Goddess and the Nation written by Sumathi Ramaswamy and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making the case for a new kind of visual history, The Goddess and the Nation charts the pictorial life and career of Bharat Mata, “Mother India,” the Indian nation imagined as mother/goddess, embodiment of national territory, and unifying symbol for the country’s diverse communities. Soon after Mother India’s emergence in the late nineteenth century, artists, both famous and amateur, began to picture her in various media, incorporating the map of India into her visual persona. The images they produced enabled patriotic men and women in a heterogeneous population to collectively visualize India, affectively identify with it, and even become willing to surrender their lives for it. Filled with illustrations, including 100 in color, The Goddess and the Nation draws on visual studies, gender studies, and the history of cartography to offer a rigorous analysis of Mother India’s appearance in painting, print, poster art, and pictures from the late nineteenth century to the present. By exploring the mutual entanglement of the scientifically mapped image of India and a (Hindu) mother/goddess, Sumathi Ramaswamy reveals Mother India as a figure who relies on the British colonial mapped image of her dominion to distinguish her from the other goddesses of India, and to guarantee her novel status as embodiment, sign, and symbol of national territory. Providing an exemplary critique of ideologies of gender and the science of cartography, Ramaswamy demonstrates that images do not merely reflect history; they actively make it. In The Goddess and the Nation, she teaches us about pictorial ways of learning the form of the nation, of how to live with it—and ultimately to die for it.

The Goddess in India

Author : Devdutt Pattanaik
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594775370
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book The Goddess in India written by Devdutt Pattanaik and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first exhaustive collection of goddess mythologies from India. • Explores the evolution of goddess worship in India over 4,000 years. • Stunning color photographs illustrate many stories of goddess lore never before available in one collection. In India it is said that there is a goddess in every village, a nymph in every lake. Demonesses stand guard on village frontiers, ogresses howl on crossroads, and untamed forests resound with the laughter of celestial virgins. It is a land of mysterious Apsaras and seductive Yakshinis, of terrifying Dakinis and wise Yoginis--each with a story to tell. In this wide-reaching exploration of ancient Hindu lore and legends, author Devdutt Pattanaik discovers how earth, women and goddesses have been perceived over 4,000 years. Some of the tales recounted are revered classics, others are common and folklorish, often held in disdain by priests. Until now, most have remained hidden, isolated in distant hamlets or languishing in forgotten libraries, overwhelmed by the din of masculine sagas. As the tales come to light through word and stunning color imagery, the author identifies the five faces given to the eternal feminine as man sought to unlock the mysteries of life: the female half of existence is at first identified with Nature, gradually deified and eventually objectified. She comes to be seen as the primal mother, fountainhead of life and nurturance. The all-giving mother then transforms into the dancing nymph, a seductress offering worldly pleasures that bind man in the cycle of life. As this nymph is domesticated, the dominant image of woman becomes the chaste wife with miraculous powers. Finally the submissive consort redefines herself as the wild and terrifying goddess who does battle, drinks blood, and demands appeasement. Exploring mysteries of gender and biology, and shedding light on the roots of taboos and traditions practiced in India today, the author shows how the image of the Mother Goddess can be both worshipped and feared when she carries the face of mortal woman.

Great Women of India

Author : Swami Madhavananda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Great Women of India written by Swami Madhavananda and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the ideals of Indian womanhood.

Motherhood in India

Author : Maithreyi Krishnaraj
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136517790
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Motherhood in India written by Maithreyi Krishnaraj and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an overview of the varied experiences and representations of motherhood in India from ancient to modern times. The thrust of the arguments made by the various contributors is that the centrality of motherhood as an ideology in a woman’s life is manufactured. This is demonstrated by analysing various institutional structures of society – language, religion, media, law and technology. The articles in this book are chronologically arranged, tracing the different stages that motherhood as a concept has traversed in India – from goddess worship to nationalism, to being a vehicle of reproduction of the sexual division of labour and the inheritance of property via the male-line. Underlying these stages are the dialectics between them that have been facilitated by agents such as the state – the ultimate controller of a woman’s reproductive powers. The feminist critique of ‘essentialising’ the role of a woman has been employed to deconstruct and humanise the experiences and lives of mothers. This anthology therefore attempts to initiate a meaningful and ‘sensitive’ engagement with issues pertaining to a woman’s autonomy over her body and her role also as a mother.

Mother Goddesses in Early Indian Religion

Author : Savitri Dhawan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Mother Goddesses in Early Indian Religion written by Savitri Dhawan and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Indian Mother Goddess

Author : Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya
Publisher : South Asia Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Indian Mother Goddess written by Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya and published by South Asia Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Evolution of Mother Worship in India

Author : Sashi Bhusan Dasgupta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788175052604
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book Evolution of Mother Worship in India written by Sashi Bhusan Dasgupta and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Great Women of India

Author : Swami Madhavananda
Publisher : Advaita Ashrama (A Publication House of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Women of India written by Swami Madhavananda and published by Advaita Ashrama (A Publication House of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math). This book was released on 1953 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent volume, containing twenty-four valuable articles from the pen of eminent writers and a scholarly introduction by Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, is an attempt, the first of its kind, to survey the position and prospect of women in Indian society during the last five thousand years through an illustrative study of the lives and achievements of the more outstanding among them. A study of this book will surely lead to a proper understanding of the subject and a correct assessment of Indian culture. Published by Advaita Ashrama, a publication house of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, India.

Mother-worship, a Gynaecratic Study of Civilization & Culture

Author : ʼAnanda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Mother-worship, a Gynaecratic Study of Civilization & Culture written by ʼAnanda and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hinduism

Author : Kim Knott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198745540
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Hinduism written by Kim Knott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hinduism is practised by about 80% of India's population, and by about 30,000,000 people outside India. But how is Hinduism defined, and what basis does the religion have? This work gives concise insights into the central preoccupations of Hinduism.

The Village Gods of South India

Author : Henry Whitehead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Village Gods of South India written by Henry Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aspects of Indian Religious Thought

Author : Shashi Bhushan Dasgupta
Publisher : Calcutta : Firma KLM
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Aspects of Indian Religious Thought written by Shashi Bhushan Dasgupta and published by Calcutta : Firma KLM. This book was released on 1977 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Myth, Cult and Symbols in Śākta Hinduism

Author : Wendell Charles Beane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Myth, Cult and Symbols in Śākta Hinduism written by Wendell Charles Beane and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kali

Author : Elizabeth U. Harding
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120814509
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Kali written by Elizabeth U. Harding and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Never before in print have I seen Her brought to life with such passion and truth. Harding brings Mother Kali to everyone who sees her path".

Devī-Māhātmya

Author : Thomas B. Coburn
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120805576
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Devī-Māhātmya written by Thomas B. Coburn and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1988 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devi-Mahatmya is well-known to both devotees and scholars of the Indian Great Goddess. It is the first comprehensive account of the Goddess in Sanskrit, and it has maintained its centrality in the Goddess (Sakta) tradition to the present day. Like so much in that tradition, however, the text has until now resisted careful study from an historical perspective. It is this study that the present volume accomplishes.The central task here is to explore how an anonymous Sanskrit text articulates a view of ultimate reality as feminine when there is virtually no precedent in the Sanskrit tradition for such a view. To accomplish this task, an appropriate method of scriptural analysis is developed. This involves an examination of Hindu understanding of the Puranas in general, and of the Devi-Mahatmya in particular, along with consideration of several recent scholarly discussions, in India and elsewhere. Subsequently, a comprehensive inquiry into the Goddess's epithets in this text is undertaken, followed by examination of the earlier history of the myths that the Devi-Mahatmya associates with her. The study culminates in translations of the text's hymns, which are annotated so as to indicate the synthesis that is here being accomplished. The resulting illumination of Sanskritized form of Goddess worship is what Daniel H.H. Ingalls calls in his Foreword a notable scholarly achievement.

Fostering an Ecological Shift Through Effective Environmental Education

Author : Kochetkova, Tatjana
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (693 download)

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Download or read book Fostering an Ecological Shift Through Effective Environmental Education written by Kochetkova, Tatjana and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of our planet's escalating environmental crisis and climate change, humanity stands at a crossroads, urgently requiring a transformative response. The task of averting environmental destruction necessitates not only a shift in our economy and technology but, more fundamentally, a profound cultural transformation. This imperative transformation involves a collective move from the self-centered "Ego" to an ecologically conscious "Eco." To unravel the complexities of this metamorphosis, scholars are turning to the potent tool of environmental education, recognized for its capacity to foster personal and social growth while promoting environmental conservation. Enter Fostering an Ecological Shift Through Effective Environmental Education, a groundbreaking exploration into the transformative power of education in the pursuit of sustainable change. As readers embark on this scholarly journey, the book reveals the profound psychological connection to nature achievable through environmental education. It scrutinizes the connection between heightened nature awareness and the adoption of sustainable practices, providing valuable insights for educators at various levels. The chapters traverse diverse topics, from the historical roots of environmental education to the role of indigenous knowledge, yoga, and eco-spirituality within nature education. The book's comprehensive approach extends to eco-therapy, forest school programs, and the influence of parents in environmental education. By scrutinizing case studies and global movements, this work illuminates the achievements and challenges of environmental education on both national and global scales.