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Author : Michael W. Meister
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book Discourses on Śiva written by Michael W. Meister and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seal on t.p.: South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
Author : Doris Meth Srinivasan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004644970
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book Many Heads, Arms and Eyes written by Doris Meth Srinivasan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first things that strike the Western viewer of Indian art is the multiplicity of heads, arms and eyes. This convention grows out of imagery conceived by Vedic sages to explain creation. This book for the first time investigates into the meaning of this convention. The author concentrates on its origins in Hindu art and on preceding textual references to the phenomenon of multiplicity. The first part establishes a general definition for the convention. Examination of all Brahmanical literature up to, and sometimes beyond, the 1st - 3rd century A.D., adds more information to this basic definition. The second part applies this literary information mainly to icons of the Yaksa, Śiva, Vāsudeva-Kṛsṇa and the Goddess, and indicates how Brahmanical cultural norms, exemplified in Mathurā, can transmit textual symbols. Both Part I and Part II provide iconic modules and a methodology to generate interpretations for icons with this remarkable feature through the Gupta age.
Author : Constance Jones
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0816075646
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Hinduism written by Constance Jones and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated A to Z reference containing more than 700 entries providing information on the theology, people, historical events, institutions and movements related to Hinduism.
Author : Kausiki Books
Publisher : Kausiki Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Siva Purana: Vidyeswara Samhitha: English Translation only without Slokas written by Kausiki Books and published by Kausiki Books. This book was released on 2021-10-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen Pechilis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136507043
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)
Download or read book Interpreting Devotion written by Karen Pechilis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devotion is a category of expression in many of the world’s religious traditions. This book looks at issues involved in academically interpreting religious devotion, as well as exploring the interpretations of religious devotion made by a sixth century poet, a twelfth century biographer, and present-day festival publics. The book focuses on the female poet-saint Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār, whose poetry is devotional in nature. It discusses the biography written on the poet six centuries after her lifetime, and suggests ways of interpreting Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār’s poetry without using the categories and events promoted by her biographer, in order to engage her own thoughts as they are communicated through the poetry attributed to her. In the same way that the biographer made the poet ‘speak’ to his present day, the book looks at how festivals held today make both the poetry and the biography relevant to the present day. By discussing how poetry, story and festival provide distinctive yet overlapping interpretations of the saint, this book reveals the selections and priorities of interpreters in the making of a living tradition. It is an accessible contribution to students and scholars of religion, Indian history and women’s studies.
Author : T. Richard Blurton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674391895
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hindu Art written by T. Richard Blurton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the linga of Shiva to ritual lamps, from a Vishnu temple to a heap of stones streaked with sacred vermilion, from illustrations of the epic adventures of Rama to a terracotta goddess figurine, the art Hinduism has inspired over the centuries is as rich and various as the religion itself - and, for most Westerners, as unknown. Hindu Art offers a key to this mystery. A splendid, richly illustrated introduction, the book opens to readers the manifold glories of the religious art of the Indian subcontinent. The narratives that Hindu artists illustrate, the gods they depict, and the forms they observe are the products of thousands of years of tradition and development. In a survey that stretches back to prehistory, T. Richard Blurton discusses religious, cultural and historical influences that figure in Hindu art, as well as those that Hinduism shares with Buddhism and Jainism. Tracing the development of Hindu art, he shows how it has come to embrace the widely varying styles of regions from Nepal to Afghanistan, from Sri Lanka to Bangladesh. Against this historical background, Blurton considers the use of images from the three major cults of Hinduism - the worship of Shiva, Vishnu and the Great Goddess - in painting, sculpture and temple architecture. As fascinating as it is informative, Hindu Art offers invaluable insight into one of the world's great and ancient cultures. It will prove an indispensable resource for anyone with an interest in the art of India.
Author : Heather Elgood
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0304707392
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hinduism and the Religious Arts written by Heather Elgood and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The roots between the Hindu religion and the wider culture are deep and uniquely complex. No study of either ancient or contemporary Indian culture can be undertaken without a clear understanding of Hindu visual arts and their sources in religious belief and practice. Defining what is meant by religion - no such term exists in Sanskrit - and what is understood by Hindu ideals of beauty, Heather Elgood provides the best synthesis and critical study of recent scholarship on the topic. In addition, this book offers critical background information for anyone interested in the social and anthropological roots of artistic creativity, as well as the rites, practices and beliefs of the hundreds of millions of Hindus in the world today.
Author : Ishwaran
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004670289
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book Religion and Society Among the Lingayats of South India written by Ishwaran and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1983-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ksenia Gerasimova
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131540348X
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)
Download or read book NGO Discourses in the Debate on Genetically Modified Crops written by Ksenia Gerasimova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development and use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has been a contentious topic for the last three decades. While there have been a number of social science analyses of the issues, this is the first book to assess the role of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the debate at such a wide geographic scale. The various positions, for and against GMOs, particularly with regard to transgenic crops, articulated by NGOs in the debate are dissected, classified and juxtaposed to corresponding campaigns. These are discussed in the context of key conceptual paradigms, including nature fundamentalism and the organic movement, post-colonialism, food sovereignty, anti-globalisation, sustainability and feminism. The book also analyses how NGOs interpret the debate and the persuasive communication tactics they use. This provides greater understanding of the complexity of negotiations in the debate and explains its specific features such as its global scope and difficulty in finding compromises. The author assesses the long-term interests of various participants and changes in perceptions of science and in public communication as a result. Examples of major NGOs such as Greenpeace, Oxfam and WWF are included, but the author also provides new research into the role of NGOs in Russia.
Author : Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa
Publisher : Bhakti Trust (GVS)
ISBN 13 : 9788186737743
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)
Download or read book S̓iva Tattva written by Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa and published by Bhakti Trust (GVS). This book was released on 2005 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
