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Book Synopsis Untouchable Saints by : Eleanor Zelliot
Download or read book Untouchable Saints written by Eleanor Zelliot and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Volume Brings To Light The Phenomenon Of Religious Voices From The Lowest Orders Of Indian Society: Nandanar And Tirupan Alvar In The South; Chokhamela And His Entire Family In Marathi Territory; And, Most Famous Of All, Ravidas In The North. Each Saint Was Born Untouchable And That Fact Is Essential Part Of His And Her Life And Song. The Mixture Of Bhakti Texts And Contemporary Comment Results In An Unusual And Lively Discussion Of An Important Facet Of Indian Religious Life.
Book Synopsis Untouchable Saints of India by : Shyamlal
Download or read book Untouchable Saints of India written by Shyamlal and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Presents A Composite Picture Of The Genesis And Development Of Various Untouchable Saints Of Rajasthan And Their Role In The Uplifting Of The Down Trodden.
Book Synopsis Untouchable Bodies, Resistance, and Liberation by : Joshua Samuel
Download or read book Untouchable Bodies, Resistance, and Liberation written by Joshua Samuel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Untouchable Bodies, Resistance, and Liberation Joshua Samuel engages in constructing an embodied comparative theology of liberation by comparing divine possessions among Hindu and Christian Dalits in South India.
Download or read book Siva's Saints written by Gil Ben-Herut and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising more than twelve million people and renowned for their resistance to Brahminical values, the Virasaivas are a vibrant and unorthodox religious community with a provocative socio-political voice. The Virasaiva tradition has produced a vast and original body of literature, composed mostly in Kannada, a Dravidian language from south India. Siva's Saints introduces a previously unexplored and central primary work produced in the early thirteenth century, the Ragalegalu. This was the first narrative text written about the incipient devotional tradition dedicated to the god Siva in the Kannada-speaking regions; through stories of the saints, it images the life of this new religious community. The Ragalegalu inaugurated a new era in the production of devotional narratives accessible to wide audiences. Gil Ben-Herut challenges common notions about this tradition in its nascent phases. By closely reading the saints' stories in this text, Siva's Saints takes a more nuanced historical view than commonly-held notions about the egalitarian and iconoclastic nature of the early tradition, arguing instead that early bhakti (devotionalism) in the Kannada-speaking region was less-radical and more accommodating toward traditional religious, social, and political institutions than thought of today. In contrast to the narrowly sectarian and exclusionary vision that shapes later accounts, the Ragalegalu is characterized by an opposite impulse of offering an open invitation to people from all walks of life, and their stories illustrate the richness of their devotional lives. Analysis of this seminal text yields important insights into the role of literary representation of the social and political development of a religious community in a pre-modern and non-Western milieu.
Book Synopsis An Untouchable Community in South India by : Michael Moffatt
Download or read book An Untouchable Community in South India written by Michael Moffatt and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many studies suggest that Indian Untouchables do not entirely share the hierarchical values characteristic of the caste system, Michael Moffatt argues that the most striking feature of the lowest castes is their pervasive cultural consensus with those higher in the system. Though rural Untouchables question their particular position in the system, they seldom question the system as a whole, and they maintain among themselves a set of hierarchical conceptions and institutions virtually identical to those of the dominant social order. Based on fourteen months of fieldwork with Untouchable castes in two villages in Tamil Nadu, south India, Professor Moffatt's analysis specifies ways in which the Untouchables are both excluded and included by the higher castes. Ethnographically, he pursues his structural analysis in two related domains: Untouchable social structure, and Untouchable religious belief and practice. The author finds that in those aspects of their lives where Untouchables are excluded from larger village life, they replicate in their own community nearly every institution, role, and ranked relation from which they have been excluded. Where the Untouchables are included by the higher castes, they complete the hierarchical whole by accepting their low position and playing their assigned roles. Thus the most oppressed members of Indian society are often among the truest believers in the system. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book The Theosophist written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis India'a Untouchable Saints by : B. A.* Ramaswamy
Download or read book India'a Untouchable Saints written by B. A.* Ramaswamy and published by . This book was released on 1940* with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From Stigma to Assertion by : Mikael Aktor
Download or read book From Stigma to Assertion written by Mikael Aktor and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles, written by distinguished scholars in the field, addresses these and other important pre-and post-independence developments impinging on the notion of Untouchability and the Hindu caste system. By putting these developments in a wider temporal perspective-covering pre-colonial textual material as well as recent debates over the rights and identity of the Untouchables - this volume can be seen as a significant contribution to an understanding of why caste continues to play an important role in contemporary India. --Book Jacket.
Book Synopsis India's Untouchable Saints by : K. V. Ramaswamy
Download or read book India's Untouchable Saints written by K. V. Ramaswamy and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis India's Untouchable Saints by : K. V. Ramaswamy
Download or read book India's Untouchable Saints written by K. V. Ramaswamy and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disobedience written by Elena Loizidou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disobedience has been practiced and considered since time immemorial. The aim of this edited collection is to explore the concept and practice of disobedience through the prism of contemporary ideas and events. Past writings on disobedience represented it as a largely political practice that revealed the limits of government or law. It was not, for example, thought of as a subjective exigency and its discussion in relation to law and politics was tied to an unduly narrow conception of these terms. Disobedience: Concept and Practice reveals the multivalent, multidisciplinary and poly-local nature of disobedience. The essays in this volume demonstrate how disobedience operates in various terrains, and may be articulated in relation to textuality, aesthetics and subjectivity, as well as politics and law. A rich and useful guide to current legal, political and social possibilities, this book provides a fresh perspective on a subject that is of both historical importance and contemporary relevance.
Book Synopsis Annihilation of Caste by : B.R. Ambedkar
Download or read book Annihilation of Caste written by B.R. Ambedkar and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic analysis of the caste system with an extensive introduction by Arundhati Roy. “What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India.” —Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of Caste. B.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system. Ambedkar – a figure like W.E.B. Du Bois – offers a scholarly critique of Hindu scriptures, scriptures that sanction a rigidly hierarchical and iniquitous social system. The world’s best-known Hindu, Mahatma Gandhi, responded publicly to the provocation. The hatchet was never buried. Arundhati Roy introduces this extensively annotated edition of Annihilation of Caste in “The Doctor and the Saint,” examining the persistence of caste in modern India, and how the conflict between Ambedkar and Gandhi continues to resonate. Roy takes us to the beginning of Gandhi’s political career in South Africa, where his views on race, caste and imperialism were shaped. She tracks Ambedkar’s emergence as a major political figure in the national movement, and shows how his scholarship and intelligence illuminated a political struggle beset by sectarianism and obscurantism. Roy breathes new life into Ambedkar’s anti-caste utopia, and says that without a Dalit revolution, India will continue to be hobbled by systemic inequality.
Download or read book The Indian Review written by G.A. Natesan and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Studying Hinduism by : Sushil Mittal
Download or read book Studying Hinduism written by Sushil Mittal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-19 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an indispensable resource for students and researchers wishing to develop a deeper understanding of one of the world's oldest and most multifaceted religious traditions. Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby, leading scholars in the field, have brought together a rich variety of perspectives which reflect the current lively state of the field. Studying Hinduism is the result of cooperative work by accomplished specialists in several fields that include anthropology, art, comparative literature, history, philosophy, religious studies, and sociology. Through these complementary and exciting approaches, students will gain a greater understanding of India's culture and traditions, to which Hinduism is integral. The book uses key critical terms and topics as points of entry into the subject, revealing that although Hinduism can be interpreted in sharply contrasting ways and set in widely varying contexts, it is endlessly fascinating and intriguing.
Book Synopsis Staging Politics by : Julia C. Strauss
Download or read book Staging Politics written by Julia C. Strauss and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-04-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fresh and original study analyses how power presents itself in dramatic performance in these two increasingly economically and politically important continents. Emotion and politics play a hugely important role in the politics of Asia and Africa but, as this book sets out, too much of western political research into the subject concentrates on apparent deficiencies - on the weakness of institutions, defects in the bureaucracy or markets, poor management of elections, absent judicial autonomy. Viewing political performance through Western eyes in this way - where politics is primarily about the naked pursuit of power and interests - can lead to a misunderstanding of how politics actually works in Africa and Asia, where process plays a far more important role. Thus performance, drama and emotion are far more integral to political outcome there than in the West. By concentrating on this new perspective the authors, each a recognised specialist in one or more states in Asia and Africa, avoid this trap and offer a coherent picture of the impact political performance has on the culture and politics of these societies and how they function.
Book Synopsis Pilgrims and Priests by : Stefan Paas
Download or read book Pilgrims and Priests written by Stefan Paas and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does “missional” mean for small Christian communities in a deeply secular society? Leading missiologist Stefan Paas asks what missional spirituality could possibly mean for today’s local church. This fully revised new international edition will make this an important introduction to contemporary thinking on mission and the church.
Book Synopsis Kashinath Trimbak Telang, the Man and His Times by : Vasant Narayan Naik
Download or read book Kashinath Trimbak Telang, the Man and His Times written by Vasant Narayan Naik and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
