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Devotional Visualities

Author : Karen Pechilis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Studies in Material
ISBN 13 : 1350214183
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Devotional Visualities written by Karen Pechilis and published by Bloomsbury Studies in Material. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to focus on material visualities that shape, convey and expand paths of devotional participation (bhakti) from across India, in the past and present. The book argues that a central focus on visuality is both at the heart of bhakti expression, and as an academic focus, it changes our understanding of bhakti's development and impact through analysis of material religion. As theorized in recent scholarship,`visuality' is an imaged materiality that shapes reality and does not just reflect it. Bhakti visualities, in their overlapping diversity and use of accessible technologies, provide us with ways of thinking about new and alternative histories of bhakti as distinct from, yet related to, our understanding of bhakti based on the predominance of textual studies. Bhakti is one of the most-studied aspects of Hinduism on account of its expression through emotive poetry, song and vivid hagiographies of saints, and this book shows that examining bhakti's visualities is crucial for understanding its wide and enduring influence on the field of religion and beyond.

Devotional Visualities

Author : Karen Pechilis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350214205
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Devotional Visualities written by Karen Pechilis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to focus on material visualities of bhakti imagery that inspire, shape, convey, and expand both the visual practices of devotional communities, as well as possibilities for extending the reach of devotion in society in new and often unexpected ways. Communities of interpreters of bhakti images discussed in this book include not only a number of distinctive Hindu bhakti groups, but also artisans, diaspora women, South Asian Sufis, businessmen, dancers, and filmmakers. This book's identification of devotional practices of looking, such as materializing memory, mirroring and immaterializing portraits, and shaping the return look, connect material and visual cultures as well as illustrate modes of established and experimental image usage. Bhakti is one of the most-studied aspects of Indic devotionalism on account of its expression through emotive poetry, song, and vivid hagiographies of saints. The diverse devotional visualities analyzed in this book meaningfully circulate bhakti images in past and present, generating their renewed relationship to contemporary concerns.

Shared Devotion, Shared Food

Author : Jon Keune
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197574858
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Shared Devotion, Shared Food written by Jon Keune and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hindu devotional or bhakti traditions welcomed marginalized people-women, low castes, and Dalits-were they promoting social equality? In this book, Jon Keune deftly examines the root of this deceptively simple question. The modern formulation of the bhakti-caste question is what Dalit leader B. R. Ambedkar had in mind when he concluded that the saints promoted spiritual equality but did not transform society. While taking Ambedkar's judgment seriously, Jon Keune argues that, when viewed in the context of intellectual history and social practice, the bhakti-caste question is more complex. Shared Devotion, Shared Food explores how people in western India wrestled for centuries with two competing values: a theological vision that God welcomes all people, and the social hierarchy of the caste system. Keune examines the ways in which food and stories about food were important sites where this debate played out, particularly when people of high and low social status ate together. By studying Marathi manuscripts, nineteenth-century publications, plays, and films, Shared Devotion, Shared Food reveals how the question of caste, inclusivity, and equality was formulated in different ways over the course of three centuries, and it explores why social equality remains so elusive in practice.

Love Divine

Author : Karel Werner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136774688
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Love Divine written by Karel Werner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the nature and function of bhakti or devotional involvement in religious practice in India in areas where it is seldom sought or where its existence has been doubted or even denied.

Awakening the Soul

Author : John C. Morgan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498235867
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Awakening the Soul written by John C. Morgan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This devotional book is intended as a spiritual resource for nurturing your soul. What is truly personal is also truly universal. Where you touch the Holy, it reaches to touch you, and your life will be transformed. If enough of us begin with our own spiritual disciplines, a whole community may be transformed, or a neighborhood or city or nation. --from the Preface In the first daily devotional guide for Unitarian Universalists since the nineteenth-century Day Unto Day (American Unitarian Association), John Morgan has discerningly compiled a unique collection of 365 devotions on prayer, forgiveness, suffering, compassion, social justice, Unitarian Universalist heritage, and many other topics. Mirroring the pluralism in our congregations, the contributions to this book come from many roots--Christian, Buddhist, mystic, Jewish, pagan, humanist, and agnostic.

The Visual Devotional

Author : Marian Briscoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692742877
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book The Visual Devotional written by Marian Briscoe and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Visual Devotional is a new approach to the traditional devotional by being a workbook that is illustrated and fun to look at and work through. It also has a two-fold goal in that it is also aimed at taking the reader on a creative journey into discovering his/her personal devotional style. It is created to inspire the reader into a deeper and more intimate walk with God.

Eastern Light in Western Eyes

Author : Marty Glass
Publisher : Sophia Perennis
ISBN 13 : 9781597310123
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Eastern Light in Western Eyes written by Marty Glass and published by Sophia Perennis. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marty Glass lives with his wife Carol beyond the power and water lines in Humboldt County, California, relying on his 1965 pick-up truck "Old Brown" to take him the final two miles up a dirt road to his owner-built home. He has worked as a college English instructor, wharehouseman, and janitor. A devoted father of five children, loving husband and neighbor, he now teaches sixth grade in a rural elementary school, and plays jazz piano and cards. For the past thirty years, he has seriously practiced the religion of India, spending the long necessary hours meditating in "Marty's Cell," an old chicken coop reborn as an austere shrine. His spiritual practice is his real life. Marty's acclaimed book Yuga: An Anatomy of our Fate, was published by Sophia Perennis in 2001. He now gives us perhaps his most beautiful and thoughtful gift, reminding us that the world is woven of the infinite Love and Joy that is God, and showing us how, inspired by the Hindu tradition, that Love and Joy can be directly experienced as the heart of the universe and the heart of our hearts. We have it from Frithjof Schuon (The Transcendent Unity of Religions) and many others that the Vedanta appears among explicit doctrines as one of the most direct formulations possible of what makes the very essence of our spiritual reality. The work in hand can be read as a book-length unpacking of that accurate description. Reliable from beginning to end, it is distinctive among the innumerable renditions of the Vedanta in two ways. First, because its author is an accomplished wordsmith, he makes the Vedanta's profundities-which delve as deep as those of any philosophical theology-read like an open book; and second, because he has worked for thirty years to shape his life by those profundities, his vivid accounts of what he experienced along the way make his words jump off the page into the reader's heart. The book is inspiring. Huston Smith, author of Why Religion Matters, The World's Religions, etc.

Contemplative Studies and Hinduism

Author : Rita D. Sherma
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000195066
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Contemplative Studies and Hinduism written by Rita D. Sherma and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Hindu contemplative praxis. It explores diverse spiritual and religious practices within the Hindu traditions and Indic hermeneutical perspectives to understand the intricate culture of meditative communion and contemplation, devotion, spiritual formation, prayer, ritual, and worship. The volume extends and expands the conceptual reach of the fields of Contemplative Studies and Hindu Studies. The chapters in the volume cover themes in Hindu contemplative experience from various texts and traditions including classical Sāṃkhya and Patañjali Yoga, the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, the role of Sādhana in Advaita Vedānta, Śrīvidyā and the Śrīcakra, the body in Tantra, the semiotics and illocution of Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava sādhana, mantra in Mīmāṃsā, Vaiṣṇava liturgy, as well as cross-cultural reflections and interreligious comparative contemplative praxis. The volume presents indigenous vocabulary and frameworks to examine categories and concerns particular to the Hindu contemplative traditions. It traces patterns that cut across Hindu traditions and systems and discusses contrasting methods of different theological/philosophical schools evincing a strong plurality in Hindu religious thought and practice. The volume provides intra-religious comparisons that reveal internal complexity, nuances, and a variety of contemplative states and transformative practices that exist under the rubric of Hindu practices of interiority and reflection. With key insights on forms and functions of the contemplative experience along with their theologies and philosophies, the volume suggests new hermeneutical directions that will advance the field of contemplative studies. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of religious and theological studies, contemplative studies, Hindu studies, consciousness studies, yoga studies, Indian philosophy and religion, sociology of religion, philosophy of religion, comparative religion, and South Asian studies, as well as general readers interested in the topic.

The Century Dictionary

Author : William Dwight Whitney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1096 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Century Dictionary written by William Dwight Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Daily in His Presence

Author : Andrew Murray
Publisher : Multnomah
ISBN 13 : 0307563685
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Daily in His Presence written by Andrew Murray and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his time, Andrew Murray was alarmed by how few believers lived wholeheartedly for God and truly displayed to the world the abundant life promised by Jesus Christ. More than a century later, Christians are still living powerless, impoverished spiritual lives, and a media-savvy world dismisses the church as irrelevant. One of the most powerful voices of the nineteenth century, Murray speaks to today’s church from across the years, exhorting us to begin each day by seeking the living God, giving Him time every morning to reveal Himself anew. For this stunning new devotional, contemporary bestselling author Bruce Wilkinson presents 365 gems from the treasury of writings by Andrew Murray. Wilkinson introduces each month’s readings with an overview of the thematic approach for the coming devotions. Each month features the very best of Murray’s work centering on a different aspect of cultivating a deeper and richer spiritual life. Revive Your Spirit! Does the abundant Christian life you’re “supposed” to have feel more like a chore than reality? Impoverished and stale, is your spirit crying out for recharging? One of the most powerful voices of the last two hundred years, Andrew Murray wrote extensively about this age-old struggle. This treasury of 365 gems of biblical wisdom is presented here in contemporary English by bestselling author Bruce Wilkinson. Each day will lead you deeper into God’s presence. Your spirit is yearning for it. Don’t delay. Let these timeless secrets of a more meaningful spiritual life invigorate your soul.

South Asian Sufis

Author : Clinton Bennett
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441135898
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book South Asian Sufis written by Clinton Bennett and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often described as the soul of Islam, Sufism is one of the most interesting yet least known facet of this global religion. Sufism is the softer more inclusive and mystical form of Islam. Although militant Islamists dominate the headlines, the Sufi ideal has captured the imagination of many. Nowhere in the world is the handprint of Sufism more observable than South Asia, which has the largest Muslim population of the world, but also the greatest concentration of Sufis. This book examines active Sufi communities in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh that shed light on the devotion, and deviation, and destiny of Sufism in South Asia. Drawn from extensive work by indigenous and international scholars, this ethnographical study explores the impact of Iran on the development of Sufi thought and practice further east, and also discusses Sufism in diaspora in such contexts as the UK and North America and Iran's influence on South Asian Sufism.

Developing Your Spiritual Eyesight

Author : Vickie J. Blair
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781481863926
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Developing Your Spiritual Eyesight written by Vickie J. Blair and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jesus lived on earth, He was a master in seeing spiritual truths in His earthly world. He used everyday life around Him as His visual aids. His physical world was His library of illustrations from which He gathered materials to teach spiritual truths. Is it possible for Christians today to see as Jesus saw? Dr. Vickie Blair answers with a resounding, "yes!" Join her as she takes you on a journey of discovery. Learn how to develop your spiritual eyesight. You will grow in the joy of the Lord and in maturity as you practice to see the truths of God in your everyday world.

Swami Vivekananda

Author : Rita D. Sherma
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498586058
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Swami Vivekananda written by Rita D. Sherma and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With historical-critical analysis and dialogical even-handedness, the essays of this book re-assess the life and legacy of Swami Vivekananda, forged at a time of colonial suppression, from the vantage point of socially-engaged religion at a time of global dislocations and international inequities. Due to the complexity of Vivekananda as a historical figure on the cusp of late modernity with its vast transformations, few works offer a contemporary, multi-vocal, nuanced, academic examination of his liberative vision and legacy in the way that this volume does. It brings together North American, European, British, and Indian scholars associated with a broad array of humanistic disciplines towards critical-constructive, contextually-sensitive reflections on one of the most important thinkers and theologians of the modern era.

Meeting God

Author : Stephen P. Huyler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300079838
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Meeting God written by Stephen P. Huyler and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the Hindu belief in the spiritual component of all human activity and looks at Hindu beliefs and practices, daily worship experiences, and ways of meeting God

A Few Devotional Helps For Each Day From Rogation To Trinity Sunday Inclusive

Author : Few Devotional Helps
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019650097
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A Few Devotional Helps For Each Day From Rogation To Trinity Sunday Inclusive written by Few Devotional Helps and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of devotional writings, Few Devotional Helps provides readers with a range of inspiring and thought-provoking reflections on faith and spirituality. From Rogation to Trinity Sunday, each day brings a new perspective on how to live a life of faith and purpose. This book is a must-read for anyone looking for inspiration and guidance on their spiritual journey. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Made in God's Image 31-Day Devotional - Volume 1

Author : C. Orville McLeish
Publisher : Hcp Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781949343205
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Made in God's Image 31-Day Devotional - Volume 1 written by C. Orville McLeish and published by Hcp Book Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 31 Day Devotional - Volume 1 is one of Twelve (12) Volumes that serve as an accompanying guide to the book "Made In God's Image." The thoughts and prayers embedded within it is guaranteed to challenge your present paradigm, and shift your perspective to consider your true identity in Christ, not just from a purely human perspective as we know it, but from a divine perspective that will bring to light what it truly means to be human. It is not a play on words, but a transcendent conversation based on selected Scriptural passages that seek to move us from stagnation, to divine motion in understanding that our journey as Christians was meant to be one of continuous transformation, and theological development as new revelation is released to move us from a babe in Christ, into maturity and prepare us for the Coming Age of Perfection.

Hinduism Today

Author : Stephen Jacobs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144113820X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Hinduism Today written by Stephen Jacobs and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Hinduism today requires an understanding of how it is practised in the contemporary world. Stephen Jacob's new introduction tackles these central issues, beginning with case studies of the grassroots practice of Hinduism in India and in diaspora communities. He covers issues of singular importance in the modern study of Hinduism, including the importance and role of mass media to this essentially orally transmitted religion. Other major areas covered include the concept of Hindu dharma, particularly in relation to caste, gender and Hindu nationalism, key and often controversial concepts in Hinduism.