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Sacred Kerala

Author : Dominique-Sila Khan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780143104155
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Kerala written by Dominique-Sila Khan and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prime Minister To The Cochin Maharaja Had Built His Residence In The Centre Of A Square So That There Would Be A Shrine At Each Of Its Corners. Thus Would The Royal Power Assume Protection Of The Four Great Religions That Were Represented In Kerala. Kerala, Touted By The Tourism Industry As God S Own Country , Is Indeed A Corner Of India Where Religious Life Is Intense, Vibrant And Varied. Kerala S History Is Replete With Examples Of Rulers Patronizing Different Religious Communities. And In Spite Of Insidious Efforts By Some To Erect Sectarian Boundaries, Malayalis Have Stubbornly Held On To Many Of Their Old Traditions Of Shared Spaces. Devotees Of Different Communities Continue To Take Part In Each Other S Festivals On The First Day Of The Annual Chandanakudam Festival, For Instance, Devotees Of All Faiths Gather At A Catholic Church, Proceed To A Bhagavati Temple And Finally Congregate At A Mosque, Where The Festivities Officially Begin And There Are Numerous Occasions And Sacred Spaces Where Hindus, Muslims, Christians And Even A Handful Of Jews Keep Meeting. Embarking On A Kind Of Personal And Intellectual Pilgrimage To Discover Sacred Kerala, Dominique-Sila Khan Encounters On Her Way An Array Of Picturesque Characters And Many A Fascinating Shrine. These Encounters Often Challenge Our Usual Assumptions About What It Is To Be Hindu, Muslim, Christian Or Jew. The Author S General Mood Alternates Between Gravity And Humour, Her Descriptive Style Often Making Space For Colourful Anecdotes That Allow The Reader To Go Beyond The Sights, Sounds And Tastes Of Kerala And Experience The Spiritual Consciousness Of A Land.

Kerala

Author : I. H. Hacker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Kerala written by I. H. Hacker and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kerala Christian Sainthood

Author : Corinne G. Dempsey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198029918
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Kerala Christian Sainthood written by Corinne G. Dempsey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kerala Christian Sainthood is an ethnography-based study that celebrates the multi-vocal function of saints. Drawing on pilgrim anecdotes, shrine practices, official hagiographies, and regional lore, author Corinne Dempsey demonstrates how the business of saints routinely extends beyond their capacity as earthly conduits of miraculous power. Saintly characters described in this book, hailing from the religiously pluralistic south Indian state of Kerala, tend not only to the health and happiness of individual devotees but help craft and express the multiple identities and complex power relations of their devotional communities as well. Throughout the study, Dempsey highlights the traditions of Sr. Alphonsa of Bharananganam (1910-1946) and St. George the martyr, two figures who reflect the many preoccupations of Kerala sainthood. Sr. Alphonsa, native of Kerala and famous for her life of suffering and posthumous power, stands in line to be canonized by the Vatican. St. George, the caped dragon slayer imported to Kerala by Syrian merchants and later by Portuguese and British colonizers, is today partially debunked by Rome. These two figures, while differing dramatically in temperament, nationality, age of cult, and Vatican standing, boast a vast popular appeal in Kerala's Kottayam district. In examining Sr. Alphonsa and St. George, Dempsey shows how Kerala's saint traditions reflect devotees' hybrid identities in both colonial and postcolonial times. This ethnography of Christian sainthood within a Hindu cultural context, of "foreign" traditions adopted by native practice, and of female sanctity negotiated through patriarchal expectation is poised at a number of intersections. Dempsey provides not only a comparative study of cultures, religions, and worldviews, but also a unique grounding for contemporary ethnographic, post-colonial, and feminist concerns.

The Rough Guide to Kerala

Author : David Abram
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1405388064
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Rough Guide to Kerala written by David Abram and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Kerala will guide you through India's tropical southwest tip, with reliable information and clearly explained cultural background. Whether you're looking for great places to eat and drink, inspiring accommodation or the most exciting things to see and do, you'll find the solution. Discover Kerala with stunning photography and information on everything from the best beaches and lagoon resorts to treehouse hideaways on tea plantations in the hills. Plus, you'll find extensive coverage of attractions in the region, from the tranquil beaches, backwaters and rice barges to elephant processions, kathakali dance drama and temple festivals. Accurate maps, backed up by full-colour sections showcasing the state's vibrant theatre traditions, make The Rough Guide to Kerala your ultimate travelling companion. Make the most of your trip with The Rough Guide to Kerala.

Sacred Choices

Author : Daniel C. Maguire
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451405743
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Choices written by Daniel C. Maguire and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This call to rethink major religious traditions on key topics of family planning provides a fresh, underreported side of these traditions. Written in a lively, engaging, and skilled style by a leading ethicist, this guide brings expert insights of major scholars in a manageable format.

Science of the Sacred

Author : David Osborn
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557277248
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Science of the Sacred written by David Osborn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Browse the ancient traditions of the Vedas: Vedic Mathematics, Vedic Science, Vastu Shastra, Sacred Dance, Ayurvedic Medicine, Transcendental Sound and much more.Science of the Sacred provides a foundation for expanding our awareness of the reality around us, beyond modern scientific theories, to those grounded in the ancient Vedic scriptures and their scientific presentations. Over the ages, innumerable luminaries, scientists, and intelligencia, recognized for their contributions to society, praise the accuracy of the Vedas.

The Spectrum of the Sacred

Author : Baidyanath Saraswati
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spectrum of the Sacred written by Baidyanath Saraswati and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1984 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sacred Natural Sites

Author : Bas Verschuuren
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136530746
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Natural Sites written by Bas Verschuuren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Natural Sites are the world's oldest protected places. This book focuses on a wide spread of both iconic and lesser known examples such as sacred groves of the Western Ghats (India), Sagarmatha /Chomolongma (Mt Everest, Nepal, Tibet - and China), the Golden Mountains of Altai (Russia), Holy Island of Lindisfarne (UK) and the sacred lakes of the Niger Delta (Nigeria). The book illustrates that sacred natural sites, although often under threat, exist within and outside formally recognised protected areas, heritage sites. Sacred natural sites may well be some of the last strongholds for building resilient networks of connected landscapes. They also form important nodes for maintaining a dynamic socio-cultural fabric in the face of global change. The diverse authors bridge the gap between approaches to the conservation of cultural and biological diversity by taking into account cultural and spiritual values together with the socio-economic interests of the custodian communities and other relevant stakeholders.

Revealing the Sacred in Asian and Pacific America

Author : Jane Iwamura
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136712801
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Revealing the Sacred in Asian and Pacific America written by Jane Iwamura and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian and Pacific Islander Americans constitute the fastest-growing racial group in the United States. They are also one of the most religiously diverse. Through them Asian traditions such as Hinduism, Sikhism, Confucianism, and Buddhism have been introduced into every major city and across a wide swath of Middle America. The contributors to this volume provide an essential inter-disciplinary resource for the study of Asian and Pacific Islander American religion.

Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth

Author : Corinne G. Dempsey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199860327
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth written by Corinne G. Dempsey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corinne Dempsey offers a study of Hindu and Christian, Indian and Euro/American earthbound religious expressions. She argues that official religious, political, and epistemological systems tend to deny sacred access and expression to the general populace.

Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 01 to 43

Author : Sri Sathya Sai Media Centre
Publisher : Sri Sathya Sai Media Centre
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8694 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 01 to 43 written by Sri Sathya Sai Media Centre and published by Sri Sathya Sai Media Centre . This book was released on with total page 8694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Volumes’ of Sri Sathya Sai Speaks are compiled and offered at Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba’s Lotus Feet on His 97th Birthday as a reminder to all Spiritual Aspirants of Baba’s Love & Message Compilation of Discourses from 1953 to 2010 (1614 Discourses) Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 01 | Year(s) : 1953 to 1960 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 02 | Year(s) : 1961 to 1962 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 03 | Year(s) : 1963 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 04 | Year(s) : 1964 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 05 | Year(s) : 1965 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 06 | Year(s) : 1966 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 07 | Year(s) : 1967 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 08 | Year(s) : 1968 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 09 | Year(s) : 1969 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 10 | Year(s) : 1970 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 11 | Year(s) : 1971 to 1972 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 12 | Year(s) : 1973 to 1974 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 13 | Year(s) : 1975 to 1977 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 14 | Year(s) : 1978 to 1980 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 15 | Year(s) : 1981 to 1982 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 16 | Year(s) : 1983 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 17 | Year(s) : 1984 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 18 | Year(s) : 1985 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 19 | Year(s) : 1986 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 20 | Year(s) : 1987 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 21 | Year(s) : 1988 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 22 | Year(s) : 1989 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 23 | Year(s) : 1990 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 24 | Year(s) : 1991 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 25 | Year(s) : 1992 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 26 | Year(s) : 1993 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 27 | Year(s) : 1994 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 28 | Year(s) : 1995 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 29 | Year(s) : 1996 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 30 | Year(s) : 1997 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 31 | Year(s) : 1998 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 32 | Part 1 | Year(s) : 1999 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 32 | Part 2 | Year(s) : 1999 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 33 | Year(s) : 2000 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 34 | Year(s) : 2001 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 35 | Year(s) : 2002 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 36 | Year(s) : 2003 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 37 | Year(s) : 2004 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 38 | Year(s) : 2005 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 39 | Year(s) : 2006 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 40 | Year(s) : 2007 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 41 | Year(s) : 2008 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 42 | Year(s) : 2009 Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 43 | Year(s) : 2010

Evolving Paradigms in Tourism and Hospitality in Developing Countries

Author : Bindi Varghese
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351593897
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Evolving Paradigms in Tourism and Hospitality in Developing Countries written by Bindi Varghese and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume highlights a broad selection of valuable research work by renowned professionals and scientists from academia and the travel industry, bridging academic perspectives and research with practical applications. It provides a wide-ranging vision of a multitude of trends in the global travel and tourism industry today and in the future. Adopting an integrated and interdisciplinary approach, the contributors examine a diverse selection of topics and share their research and exploratory investigations to frame their implications and outcomes. The volume reflects upon the wide-ranging conceptual approaches to the subject of tourism and includes varying paradigms and perspectives on the core elements of the tourism sector. The overall thrust of the book is to provide a required critical depth to tourism studies and to guide the reader through the fundamental themes of tourism, destination marketing, branding, and management.

The Jews of China

Author : Jonathan Goldstein
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765636317
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book The Jews of China written by Jonathan Goldstein and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1998-12-04 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impressive interdisciplinary effort by Chinese, Japanese, Middle Eastern, and Western Sinologists and Judaic Studies specialists, these books scrutinize patterns of migration, acculturation, assimilation, and economic activity of successive waves of Jewish arrivals in China from approximately A.D.1100 to 1949. While Jewish individuals and communities in China have been described in microhistorical, antiquarian, or nostalgic fashion, they have never been contrasted as a whole and in a scholarly way with other Jewish Diaspora communities.

Legacy of Kerala

Author : A. Sreedhara Menon
Publisher : D C Books
ISBN 13 : 9788126437986
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Legacy of Kerala written by A. Sreedhara Menon and published by D C Books. This book was released on 2010-07-12 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work attempts to give a broad idea of the diverse aspects of the socio- cultural life of the people of Kerala in a historical perspective. Old traditions and new values in every sphere of human thought and activity have synthesized, assimilated and fused to form the history of Kerala.

Conversations with the Animate Other

Author : Aloka Parasher-Sen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9356406901
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with the Animate Other written by Aloka Parasher-Sen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human interventions with living entities have had to be in a constant state of negotiating space necessary for co-habitation with animals, birds, trees, plants, grasslands, forests, hills, water bodies in the creation of villages and other settlements. The book argues that negotiating this space meant sharing, which impacted economic strategies, religious experiences, cultural interactions and oral performances that humans have strategized and preserved. This intersectional theme, through individual case studies, ultimately provides us the civilizational ethos of the Indian sub-continent on how human non-human relations informed it. The book provides a window on how this relationship was represented in a variety of material and literary texts, visual representations, archival records, folklore and oral testimonies. It brings to the fore these narratives over the longue durée to explicate the complex and delicate relationships in region specific ecological settings and thus give readers a perspective that crosses disciplinary and conceptual boundaries.

Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities

Author : Pankaj Jain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317151607
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities written by Pankaj Jain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Indic religious traditions, a number of rituals and myths exist in which the environment is revered. Despite this nature worship in India, its natural resources are under heavy pressure with its growing economy and exploding population. This has led several scholars to raise questions about the role religious communities can play in environmentalism. Does nature worship inspire Hindus to act in an environmentally conscious way? This book explores the above questions with three communities, the Swadhyaya movement, the Bishnoi, and the Bhil communities. Presenting the texts of Bishnois, their environmental history, and their contemporary activism; investigating the Swadhyaya movement from an ecological perspective; and exploring the Bhil communities and their Sacred Groves, this book applies a non-Western hermeneutical model to interpret the religious traditions of Indic communities. With a foreword by Roger S Gottlieb.

Rhizomatic Reflections

Author : Baiju Markose
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532630859
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Rhizomatic Reflections written by Baiju Markose and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fecund philosophical reflections on the conceptual metaphor "rhizome" invite us to reformulate the theological engagements today with a renewed spirit. Notably, the subaltern theological engagements make use of this new move in gleaning the fruits of heterogeneity, multiple origins, horizontality, interconnections, and intersectionality. This conscious rhizomatic move is exemplified as a constructive post-colonial move and a useful tool for meaningful subaltern resistance. This move takes us beyond the entrapment of western binary opposites to the challenging cultural and political spaces of hybridity and liminality. Uncovering the underrated cultural and political spaces of subaltern religious experience is an apocalyptic/eschatological activity. Such an apocalyptic activity demands deep theological meditation and committed attention toward the multiple and heterogeneous themes like Casteism, Vedic taxonomy, Dalit spatial discourses, sacred grove, ecological crisis, racism, globalization, neoliberalism, infinite debt, resistance, etc. Such trans-disciplinary reflections contribute to the larger body of subaltern theopoetics. As a rhizome connects any point to any other point, these themes are interconnected, and intertwined rhizomatically!