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Author : Surajit Sinha
Publisher : Varanasi : N.K. Bose Memorial Foundation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ascetics of Kashi written by Surajit Sinha and published by Varanasi : N.K. Bose Memorial Foundation. This book was released on 1978 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropological study of the Hindu ascetics of Varanasi.
Author : Lynn Teskey Denton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791484629
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book Female Ascetics in Hinduism written by Lynn Teskey Denton and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Female Ascetics in Hinduism provides a vivid account of the lives of women renouncers—women who renounce the world to live ascetic spiritual lives—in India. The author approaches the study of female asceticism by focusing on features of two dharmas, two religiously defined ways of life: that of woman-as-householder and that of the ascetic, who, for various reasons, falls outside the realm of householdership. The result of fieldwork conducted in Varanasi (Benares), the book explores renouncers' social and personal backgrounds, their institutions, and their ways of life. Offering a first-hand look at and an insightful analysis of this little-known world, this highly readable book will be indispensable to those interested in female asceticism in the Hindu tradition and women's spiritual lives around the world.
Author : Carl Olson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190225319
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)
Download or read book Indian Asceticism written by Carl Olson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the history of Indian religions, the ascetic figure is most closely identified with power. A by-product of the ascetic path, power is displayed in the ability to fly, walk on water or through dense objects, read minds, discern the former lives of others, see into the future, harm others, or simply levitate one's body. These tales give rise to questions about how power and violence are related to the phenomenon of play. Indian Asceticism focuses on the powers exhibited by ascetics of India from ancient to modern time. Carl Olson discusses the erotic, the demonic, the comic, and the miraculous forms of play and their connections to power and violence. He focuses on Hinduism, but evidence is also presented from Buddhism and Jainism, suggesting that the subject matter of this book pervades India's major indigenous religious traditions. The book includes a look at the extent to which findings in cognitive science can add to our understanding of these various powers; Olson argues that violence is built into the practice of the ascetic. Indian Asceticism culminates with an attempt to rethink the nature of power in a way that does justice to the literary evidence from Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain sources.
Author : Lalita Prasad Vidyarthi
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Sacred Complex of Kashi written by Lalita Prasad Vidyarthi and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1979 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the importance of Varanasi as a centre for Hindu pilgrimage and the traditional priestcraft of the place.
Author : A. R. Momin
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 9788171548316
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Legacy of G.S. Ghurye written by A. R. Momin and published by Popular Prakashan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises contributed articles on the life and thought of Govind Sadashiv Ghurye, b. 1893, and on Indian sociology and anthropology.
Author : Makhan Jha
Publisher : M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9788175330818
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book India and Nepal written by Makhan Jha and published by M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on empirical fieldworkes carried out in different parts of both india and Nepal,this volume throws light on the thread anthropological researches in both neighbouring countries.The chapters in this book range from tribal situation in india to the Muslim tribes of Lakshadeep island including complex societies,industrialization and urbanization and the various aspects of the Sacred Complex studies in india.Besides,the various aspects of religions of Kathmandu and Janakpur.
Author : Gert Melville
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110459795
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)
Download or read book Potency of the Common written by Gert Melville and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central question of the book is as follows: To what extent does the community present a challenge in the life of the individual? Well-known international Philosophers, historians, anthropologists, political scientists, theologians and sociologists attempted to find explications by intercultural comparison.
Author : Hillary P. Rodrigues
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000888258
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)
Download or read book Introducing Hinduism written by Hillary P. Rodrigues and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-01-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing Hinduism, 2nd Edition is the ideal sourcebook for those seeking a comprehensive overview of the Hindu tradition. This second edition includes substantial treatments of Tantra, South India, and women, as well as expanded discussions of yoga, Vedanta and contemporary configurations of Hinduism in the West. Its lively presentation features: case studies, photographs, and scenarios that invite the reader into the lived world of Hinduism; introductory summaries, key points, discussion questions, and recommended reading lists at the end of each chapter; narrative summaries of the great epics and other renowned Hindu myths and lucid explanations of complex Indian philosophical teachings, including Sankhya and Kashmir Saivism; and a glossary, timeline, and pronunciation guide for an enhanced learning experience. This volume is an invaluable resource for students in need of an introduction to the key tenets and diverse practice of Hinduism, past and present.
Author : Maurice Bloch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521270373
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book Death and the Regeneration of Life written by Maurice Bloch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-12-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to produce a genuinely innovative theoretical approach to the study of the symbolism surrounding death, an outline of which is provided in an important introduction by the editors. The major concern of the volume is the way in which funerary rituals dramatically transform the image of life as a dialectic flux involving exchange and transaction, marriage and procreation, into an image of a still, transcendental order in which oppositions such as those between self and other, wife-giver and wife-taker, Brahmin and untouchable, birth and therefore death have been abolished. This transformation often involves a general devaluation of biology, and, particularly, of sexuality, which is contrasted with a more spiritual and controlled source of life. The role of women, who are frequently associated with biological processes, mourning and death pollution, is often predominant in funerary rituals, and in examining this book makes a further contribution to the understanding of the symbolism of gender. The death rituals and the symbolism of rebirth are also analysed in the context of the political processes of the different societies considered, and it is argued that social order and political organisation may be legitimated through an exploitation of the emotions and biology.
Author : Ravi Nandan Singh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192864289
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dead in Banaras written by Ravi Nandan Singh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work is an anthropological analysis of death and the dead, which attempts a significant reworking of the idea of death that is prevalent in Hinduism.
