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Author : Sir John Campbell
Publisher : Mittal Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Human Sacrifices in India written by Sir John Campbell and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1986 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William E. Bear
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Sacrifice of India written by William E. Bear and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laurie L. Patton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520930886
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Bringing the Gods to Mind written by Laurie L. Patton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-06-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This elegantly written book introduces a new perspective on Indic religious history by rethinking the role of mantra in Vedic ritual. In Bringing the Gods to Mind, Laurie Patton takes a new look at mantra as "performed poetry" and in five case studies draws a portrait of early Indian sacrifice that moves beyond the well-worn categories of "magic" and "magico-religious" thought in Vedic sacrifice. Treating Vedic mantra as a sophisticated form of artistic composition, she develops the idea of metonymy, or associational thought, as a major motivator for the use of mantra in sacrificial performance. Filling a long-standing gap in our understanding, her book provides a history of the Indian interpretive imagination and a study of the mental creativity and hermeneutic sophistication of Vedic religion.
Author : India
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (561 download)
Download or read book The Sacrifice of India. (Silver Question.). written by India and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Collins
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628950129
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Download or read book The Head Beneath the Altar written by Brian Collins and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the beginning, says the ancient Hindu text the Rg Veda, was man. And from man’s sacrifice and dismemberment came the entire world, including the hierarchical ordering of human society. The Head Beneath the Altar is the first book to present a wide-ranging study of Hindu texts read through the lens of René Girard’s mimetic theory of the sacrificial origin of religion and culture. For those interested in Girard and comparative religion, the book also performs a careful reading of Girard’s work, drawing connections between his thought and the work of theorists like Georges Dumézil and Giorgio Agamben. Brian Collins examines the idea of sacrifice from the earliest recorded rituals through the flowering of classical mythology and the ancient Indian institutions of the duel, the oath, and the secret warrior society. He also uncovers implicit and explicit critiques in the tradition, confirming Girard’s intuition that Hinduism offers an alternative anti-sacrificial worldview to the one contained in the gospels.
Author : Rājendralāla Mitra (Raja)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book On Human Sacrifices in Ancient India written by Rājendralāla Mitra (Raja) and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Storm
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317325567
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Head and Heart written by Mary Storm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive study of self-sacrificial images in Indian art, this book examines concepts such as head-offering, human sacrifice, blood, suicide, valour, self-immolation, and self-giving in the context of religion and politics to explore why these images were produced and how they became paradigms of heroism.
Author : Trace A. DeMeyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615582153
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (821 download)
Download or read book One Small Sacrifice written by Trace A. DeMeyer and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's an unforgettable memoir" Award-winning journalist Trace A. DeMeyer's second edition has even more of her remarkable story and the disturbing history of closed adoption used to break up tribal families. ...What is known about the Indian Adoption Projects and the aftermath has been pretty much secret . . . Until now. A reader praised her book: The journey, the courage and openness of your work. It's very inspiring. The way 'Small Sacrifice' shares itself . . . it's as if the book were speaking . . . holding a talking stick with us all gathered in a circle . . . we come together through your sacrifice. Trace blogs at: www.splitfeathers.blogspot.com.
Author : Sir John Campbell
Publisher : London, Hurst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book A Personal Narrative of Thirteen Years Service Amongst the Wild Tribes of Khondistan for the Suppression of Human Sacrifice written by Sir John Campbell and published by London, Hurst. This book was released on 1864 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gautam Sharma
Publisher : Allied Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9788170231400
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Valour and Sacrifice written by Gautam Sharma and published by Allied Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Porter
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575066769
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Sacred Killing written by Anne Porter and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is sacrifice? How can we identify it in the archaeological record? And what does it tell us about the societies that practice it? Sacred Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East investigates these and other questions through the evidence for human and animal sacrifice in the Near East from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic periods. Drawing on sociocultural anthropology and history in addition to archaeology, the book also includes evidence from ancient China and a riveting eyewitness account and analysis of sacrifice in contemporary India, which engage some of the key issues at stake. Sacred Killing vividly presents a variety of methods and theories in the study of one of the most profound and disturbing ritual activities humans have ever practiced.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Silver Question written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. C. Heesterman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226922553
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book The Broken World of Sacrifice written by J. C. Heesterman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, J. C. Heesterman attempts to understand the origins and nature of Vedic sacrifice—the complex compound of ritual practices that stood at the center of ancient Indian religion. Paying close attention to anomalous elements within both the Vedic ritual texts, the brahmanas, and the ritual manuals, the srautasutras, Heesterman reconstructs the ideal sacrifice as consisting of four moments: killing, destruction, feasting, and contest. He shows that Vedic sacrifice all but exclusively stressed the offering in the fire—the element of destruction—at the expense of the other elements. Notably, the contest was radically eliminated. At the same time sacrifice was withdrawn from society to become the sole concern of the individual sacrificer. The ritual turns in on the individual as "self-sacrificer" who realizes through the internalized knowledge of the ritual the immortal Self. At this point the sacrificial cult of the fire recedes behind doctrine of the atman's transcendence and unity with the cosmic principle, the brahman. Based on his intensive analysis Heesterman argues that Vedic sacrifice was primarily concerned with the broken world of the warrior and sacrificer. This world, already broken in itself by the violence of the sacrificial contest, was definitively broken up and replaced with the ritrualism of the single, unopposed sacrificer. However, the basic problem of sacrifice—the riddle of life and death—keeps breaking too surface in the form of incongruities, contradictions, tensions, and oppositions that have perplexed both the ancient ritual theorists and the modern scholar.
Author : Hiranya Borah
Publisher : Sristhi Publishers & Distributors
ISBN 13 : 9395192607
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The Fearless Revolutionary: The true account of Kanaklata Barua's sacrifice for India's freedom ǀ True story of one of the greatest freedom fighters from Assam written by Hiranya Borah and published by Sristhi Publishers & Distributors. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1942, India The Quit India movement was at its peak, and people from various parts of the country came together to fight for freedom. Several great leaders inspired thousands to join the movement, and Pushpalata Das was at the forefront of the struggle in Assam. Her call to rise against suppression led to numerous common men and women to stand up and turn their dream of an independent India into reality. Kanaklata Barua led one of the biggest peaceful processions towards the Gohpur Police Station in Assam, to hoist the Indian tricolor to mark the symbolic end of the British Raj in India. She was instrumental in mobilizing a large number of people into joining the freedom struggle. The seventeen-year-old tigress of Assam was shot dead from point blank range on 20th September 1942 by British Police. The Fearless Revolutionary is the hitherto unheard story of this braveheart who conquered fear at a very young age. Giving wings to her desire to see India as a free country, she made the supreme sacrifice at the altar of freedom.
Author : Felix Padel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Sacrifice of Human Being written by Felix Padel and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felix Padel sets out to analyse the structures of power and authority which British rule imposed over a tribal people of Central India.
Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042918436
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (184 download)
Download or read book The Strange World of Human Sacrifice written by Jan N. Bremmer and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Strange World of Human Sacrifice is the first modern collection of studies on one of the most gruesome and intriguing aspects of religion. The volume starts with a brief introduction, which is followed by studies of Aztec human sacrifice and the literary motif of human sacrifice in medieval Irish literature. Turning to ancient Greece, three cases of human sacrifice are analysed: a ritual example, a mythical case, and one in which myth and ritual are interrelated. The early Christians were the victims of accusations of human sacrifice, but in turn imputed the crime to heterodox Christians, just as the Jews imputed the crime to their neighbours. The ancient Egyptians rarely seem to have practised human sacrifice, but buried the pharaoh's servants with him in order to serve him in the afterlife, albeit only for a brief period at the very beginning of pharaonic civilization. In ancient India we can follow the traditions of human sacrifice from the earliest texts up to modern times, where especially in eastern India goddesses, such as Kali, were long worshipped with human victims. In Japanese tales human sacrifice often takes the form of self-sacrifice, and there may well be a line from these early sacrifices to modern kamikaze. The last study throws a surprising light on human sacrifice in China. The volume is concluded with a detailed index
Author : Aditi Mitra
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739138537
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Voices of Privilege and Sacrifice from Women Volunteers in India written by Aditi Mitra and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New updated version now available! This book is the outcome of a study conducted in the eastern city of Kolkata in India in the mid-2000s. It is an ethnographic study that looks closely at women from the upper and middle classes who work with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that help empower women from all classes of society. Unlike many studies that focus on grassroots women who are the beneficiaries of NGO and developmental projects, this book looks at those women who, as volunteers and activists, help carry out these projects to the best of their abilities. These women are often overlooked from mainstream studies on women in developing nations. But their role is invaluable and crucial in defining the agendas and strategies used to enhance feminist consciousness and developing organizational structures. This book is significant because it offers awareness and alternative views to the challenges (and motivations) faced by middle and upper-class women volunteers and activists in building a career in the non-profit sector of NGOs in Kolkata. Through the testimonies of these women, it examines alternative processes of agency and change in order to define these challenges and motivations. Also revealed by the analysis, is useful information about the oppression and subordination of these women in contemporary gender-stratified civil society in India. But more importantly, this book examines the various ways urban, educated Indian women construct a feminist praxis in terms of their everyday lived experiences as volunteers and activists. In terms of their lived experiences, the women in this study reflect on the social challenges they encounter and motivations they experience as volunteers and activists, while also discussing their understanding of feminism and views on the image of a “feminist” in the postcolonial context. The results demonstrate the power of feminist standpoint theorizing and how it raises consciousness, empowers women and stimulates resistance to patriarchal oppression and injustices. Finally, this book produces new knowledge and research on the conception of feminism among women volunteers and activists in a non-western setting and how they construct the image of a feminist.
