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Rites of the God-King

Author : Marko Geslani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190862882
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Rites of the God-King written by Marko Geslani and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of Vedic religion have long recognized the centrality of ritual categories to Indian thought. There have been few successful attempts, however, to bring the same systematic rigor of Vedic Scholarship to bear on later "Hindu" ritual. Excavating the deep history of a prominent ritual category in "classical" Hindu texts, Geslani traces the emergence of a class of rituals known as santi, or appeasement. This ritual, intended to counteract ominous omens, developed from the intersection of the fourth Veda - the oft-neglected Atharvaveda - and the emergent tradition of astral science (Jyotisastra) sometime in the early first millennium, CE. Its development would come to have far-reaching consequences on the ideal ritual life of the king in early-medieval Brahmanical society. The mantric transformations involved in the history of santi led to the emergence of a politicized ritual culture that could encompass both traditional Vedic and newer Hindu performers and practices. From astrological appeasement to gift-giving, coronation, and image worship, Rites of the God-King chronicles the multiple lives and afterlives of a single ritual mode, unveiling the always-inventive work of the priesthood to imagine and enrich royal power. Along the way, Geslani reveals the surprising role of astrologers in Hindu history, elaborates conceptions of sin and misfortune, and forges new connections between medieval texts and modern practices. In a work that details ritual forms that were dispersed widely across Asia, he concludes with a reflection on the nature of orthopraxy, ritual change, and the problem of presence in the Hindu tradition.

Rites of the God-King

Author : Marko Geslani
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780190862916
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Rites of the God-King written by Marko Geslani and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rites of the God-King offers a critical revision of mainstream Hinduism from the perspective of the life of a single ritual from medieval India. Drawing theoretical connections to modern ethnographies, it raises questions about the nature of kingship and priesthood, image-worship, and ritual change.

Rites of the God-King

Author : Marko Geslani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190862904
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Rites of the God-King written by Marko Geslani and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of Vedic religion have long recognized the centrality of ritual categories to Indian thought. There have been few successful attempts, however, to bring the same systematic rigor of Vedic Scholarship to bear on later "Hindu" ritual. Excavating the deep history of a prominent ritual category in "classical" Hindu texts, Geslani traces the emergence of a class of rituals known as santi, or appeasement. This ritual, intended to counteract ominous omens, developed from the intersection of the fourth Veda - the oft-neglected Atharvaveda - and the emergent tradition of astral science (Jyotisastra) sometime in the early first millennium, CE. Its development would come to have far-reaching consequences on the ideal ritual life of the king in early-medieval Brahmanical society. The mantric transformations involved in the history of santi led to the emergence of a politicized ritual culture that could encompass both traditional Vedic and newer Hindu performers and practices. From astrological appeasement to gift-giving, coronation, and image worship, Rites of the God-King chronicles the multiple lives and afterlives of a single ritual mode, unveiling the always-inventive work of the priesthood to imagine and enrich royal power. Along the way, Geslani reveals the surprising role of astrologers in Hindu history, elaborates conceptions of sin and misfortune, and forges new connections between medieval texts and modern practices. In a work that details ritual forms that were dispersed widely across Asia, he concludes with a reflection on the nature of orthopraxy, ritual change, and the problem of presence in the Hindu tradition.

Wives of the God-King

Author : Frédérique Apffel-Marglin
Publisher : Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Wives of the God-King written by Frédérique Apffel-Marglin and published by Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the 1,500 devotees of the Hindu temple and cult of Jagannatha at Puri are a handful of women known as "devadasis" or, literally, "female servants of the deity," who are associated with both chastity and concubinage and prostitution. This book focuses on the tension between the purity and impurity of the devadasis, and examines ideas about kingship, power, sexual purity, the role and status of women, and other central concerns of Hindu religious and cultural life that are associated with such rituals.

King of Sacrifice

Author : Sarah Hitch
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King of Sacrifice written by Sarah Hitch and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descriptions of animal sacrifice in Homer offer detailed accounts of this attempt at communication between man and gods. Hitch explores the structural and thematic importance of animal sacrifice as an expression of the quarrel between Akhilleus and Agamemnon through the differing perspectives of the primary narrative and character speech.

Accidental Gods

Author : Anna Della Subin
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1250296889
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Accidental Gods written by Anna Della Subin and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE, THE IRISH TIMES AND THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT A provocative history of men who were worshipped as gods that illuminates the connection between power and religion and the role of divinity in a secular age Ever since 1492, when Christopher Columbus made landfall in the New World and was hailed as a heavenly being, the accidental god has haunted the modern age. From Haile Selassie, acclaimed as the Living God in Jamaica, to Britain’s Prince Philip, who became the unlikely center of a new religion on a South Pacific island, men made divine—always men—have appeared on every continent. And because these deifications always emerge at moments of turbulence—civil wars, imperial conquest, revolutions—they have much to teach us. In a revelatory history spanning five centuries, a cast of surprising deities helps to shed light on the thorny questions of how our modern concept of “religion” was invented; why religion and politics are perpetually entangled in our supposedly secular age; and how the power to call someone divine has been used and abused by both oppressors and the oppressed. From nationalist uprisings in India to Nigerien spirit possession cults, Anna Della Subin explores how deification has been a means of defiance for colonized peoples. Conversely, we see how Columbus, Cortés, and other white explorers amplified stories of their godhood to justify their dominion over native peoples, setting into motion the currents of racism and exclusion that have plagued the New World ever since they touched its shores. At once deeply learned and delightfully antic, Accidental Gods offers an unusual keyhole through which to observe the creation of our modern world. It is that rare thing: a lyrical, entertaining work of ideas, one that marks the debut of a remarkable literary career.

The Splinter King

Author : Mike Brooks
Publisher : Rebellion Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1786185059
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Splinter King written by Mike Brooks and published by Rebellion Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world fractures as a dead god rises... Darel, dragon knight and the new leader of Black Keep, must travel to the palace of the God-King to beg for the lives of his people. But in the capital of Narida, Marin and his warrior husband will be drawn into a palace coup, and Princess Tila will resort to murder to keep her hold on power. In the far reaches of the kingdom an heir in exile is hunted by assassins, rumours of a rival God-King abound, and daemonic forces from across the seas draw ever nearer...

Gods, Heroes, & Kings

Author : Christopher R. Fee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198038788
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Gods, Heroes, & Kings written by Christopher R. Fee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the islands to Germanic tribes, a people themselves nearly overcome in time by an influx of Scandinavians. With each wave of invaders came a battle for the mythic mind of the Isles as the newcomer's belief system met with the existing systems of gods, legends, and myths. In Gods, Heroes, and Kings, medievalist Christopher Fee and veteran myth scholar David Leeming unearth the layers of the British Isles' unique folkloric tradition to discover how this body of seemingly disparate tales developed. The authors find a virtual battlefield of myths in which pagan and Judeo-Christian beliefs fought for dominance, and classical, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and Celtic narrative threads became tangled together. The resulting body of legends became a strange but coherent hybrid, so that by the time Chaucer wrote "The Wife of Bath's Tale" in the fourteenth century, a Christian theme of redemption fought for prominence with a tripartite Celtic goddess and the Arthurian legends of Sir Gawain-itself a hybrid mythology. Without a guide, the corpus of British mythology can seem impenetrable. Taking advantage of the latest research, Fee and Leeming employ a unique comparative approach to map the origins and development of one of the richest folkloric traditions. Copiously illustrated with excerpts in translation from the original sources,Gods, Heroes, and Kings provides a fascinating and accessible new perspective on the history of British mythology.

A Succinct Account, of the Rites, and Ceremonies of the Jews

Author : David Levi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book A Succinct Account, of the Rites, and Ceremonies of the Jews written by David Levi and published by . This book was released on 1783 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Explication of an Engraving Called The Origin of the Rites and Worship of the Hebrews

Author : D. Rosenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explication of an Engraving Called The Origin of the Rites and Worship of the Hebrews written by D. Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains kabbalistic concepts in English. Kabbalistic drawing on p.13.

A succinct account of the Rites and Ceremonies of the Jews: in which their Religious Principles and Tenets are ... explained, particularly their doctrine of the Resurrection, Predestination, and Free Will, and the Opinion of Doctor Prideaux concerning those tenets ... confuted. Also an account of the Jewish Calendar: to which is added, a faithful ... account of the Mishna and the teachers thereof ... till the time of Rabbi Judah Hakkodosh, etc

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Author : David LEVI (of Mile End New Town.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book A succinct account of the Rites and Ceremonies of the Jews: in which their Religious Principles and Tenets are ... explained, particularly their doctrine of the Resurrection, Predestination, and Free Will, and the Opinion of Doctor Prideaux concerning those tenets ... confuted. Also an account of the Jewish Calendar: to which is added, a faithful ... account of the Mishna and the teachers thereof ... till the time of Rabbi Judah Hakkodosh, etc written by David LEVI (of Mile End New Town.) and published by . This book was released on 1782 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

God & King, the Devarāja Cult in South Asian Art and Architecture

Author : Grace Morley
Publisher : Daya Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book God & King, the Devarāja Cult in South Asian Art and Architecture written by Grace Morley and published by Daya Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed papers presented in the Seminar; held to commemorate the memory of Grace Morley, the first director of National Museum, India. With reference to South and South East Asia.

Kingship and Sacrifice

Author : Valerio Valeri
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226845605
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Kingship and Sacrifice written by Valerio Valeri and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1985-06-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valeri presents an overview of Hawaiian religious culture, in which hierarchies of social beings and their actions are mirrored by the cosmological hierarchy of the gods. As the sacrifice is performed, the worshipper is incorporated into the god of his class. Thus he draws on divine power to sustain the social order of which his action is a part, and in which his own place is determined by the degree of his resemblance to his god. The key to Hawaiian society—and a central focus for Valeri—is the complex and encompassing sacrificial ritual that is the responsibility of the king, for it displays in concrete actions all the concepts of pre-Western Hawaiian society. By interpreting and understanding this ritual cycle, Valeri contends, we can interpret all of Hawaiian religious culture.

The Black Coast

Author : Mike Brooks
Publisher : Rebellion Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1786183358
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Black Coast written by Mike Brooks and published by Rebellion Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War Dragons. Fearsome Raiders. A Daemonic Warlord on the Rise. When the citizens of Black Keep see ships on the horizon, terror takes them because they know who is coming: for generations, the keep has been raided by the fearsome clanspeople of Tjakorsha. Saddling their war dragons, Black Keep's warriors rush to defend their home only to discover that the clanspeople have not come to pillage at all. Driven from their own land by a daemonic despot who prophesises the end of the world, the raiders come in search of a new home . . . Meanwhile the wider continent of Narida is lurching toward war. Black Keep is about to be caught in the crossfire – if only its new mismatched society can survive. The start of an unmissable fantasy series.

Coronation Rites

Author : Reginald Maxwell Woolley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Coronation Rites written by Reginald Maxwell Woolley and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wedding Rites

Author : Michael P. Foley
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802848672
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Wedding Rites written by Michael P. Foley and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many engaged couples, no matter what their personal style, find themselves turning back to tradition for their wedding ceremony. Is there a way to follow tradition and still carve your own wedding path? Yes, there is - with this unique book in hand. Michael Foley presents meaningful wedding traditions so old that they're practically new again. Roman Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and Jewish wedding traditions fill this comprehensive guidebook, the only one of its kind. From music and flowers to vows and ceremonies to blessings, Foley's Wedding Rites contains a vast assortment of rich traditions very usable in weddings today. Best of all, it's easy to reference and easy to use! Wedding Rites includes concrete suggestions for each facet of your wedding, from engagement to reception; guidelines for designing your own distinctive wedding program; practical advice for interfaith weddings; forgotten wedding customs - carecloths, loving cups, coin blessings, and others.

Voices of the Ritual

Author : Nurit Stadler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019750132X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Voices of the Ritual written by Nurit Stadler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices of the Ritual analyzes the revival of rituals performed at female saint shrines in the Middle East. In the midst of turbulent political contention over land and borders, Nurit Stadler shows, religious minorities lay claim to space through rituals enacted at sacred spaces in the Holy Land. Using ethnographic analysis, Stadler explores the rise of these rituals, their focus on the body, female materiality, and their place in the Israeli-Palestinian landscape. Stadler examines the varied features of the practice and implications of the rituals, looking at themes of femininity and material experience. She considers the role of the body in rituals that represent the act of birth or the circle of life and that aim to foster an intimate connection between the female saint and her worshippers. Stadler underscores the political, cultural, and spatial elements of this practice, bringing attention to how religious minorities (Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Druze, among others) have utilized these rituals to assert their right to the land. Voices of the Ritual offers a valuable assessment of religious ritual practice that encrypts female themes into a landscape that has historically been defined by war and conflict.