In The Land Of Temples Notes From A South Indian Pilgrimage

Author : Michael Steinberg
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105703703
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the land of temples: Notes from a South Indian pilgrimage written by Michael Steinberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The land of temples is South India, the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent. It's been called the last surviving classical civilization, a land where there is room for temples large and small and time for rituals passed down for millennia. In four brief essays and two dozen evocative black-and-white photographs scholar and devotee Michael Steinberg takes readers into the inner sanctuaries of ancient temples and out again into the teeming streets of contemporary Chennai. A big book in a little package, his deeply personal story also sheds light on the enduring importance of a way of life that has its roots in the dawn of civilization itself.

Author : Michael Steinberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Biology of Religion written by Michael Steinberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a fresh look at the debate between science and religion that documents how the experiences produced by spiritual practice are surprisingly consistent with the findings of modern biology, despite the difficulty in reconciling scientific theories and religious dogma. This book is unique in its focus on bodily experience as an independent source of knowledge and insight, an important aspect of recent discoveries in neurology and psychology. By rethinking what it is to be human and what role self-consciousness plays, it finds striking points of intersection between science and religion and challenges readers to rediscover their spiritual connections to the physical world. Combining scientific rigor with the spiritual quest, A New Biology of Religion: Spiritual Practice and the Life of the Body reframes the science-religion debate. This profound work examines how all things are connected—both scientifically and spiritually—and shows how religious practices mirror the biological processes of life.

Author : Michael Steinberg
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782790136
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enlightenment Interrupted written by Michael Steinberg and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of the eighteenth century the best minds in Europe took up the task of providing a foundation for human life and human society in which individual fulfillment was to be achieved within a rational public order. When it became apparent that this task was based on an illusion—the separation of self and world—and was thus doomed to failure, however, that insight and the consequent crisis were forgotten and repressed. After 1815 all parties, reactionary and liberal, chose to proceed as if we had achieved what we knew, somewhere, we could not carry off. To secure that false confidence the challenges of the late Enlightenment had to be silenced and its doubts swept under the carpet. This book concerns a founding act of bad faith and of willed blindness, the self-forgetting of the rootlessness and the falsity of the basic presuppositions of the modern world, that have haunted that world from its birth. Enlightenment Interrupted takes the metaphysical arguments of the idealists seriously. Its methodological foundation is the belief that in every era there are deep structures of thought and experience that define the range of theoretical and political possibilities available. The great achievement of the post-Kantian generation was to critique and ultimately to move beyond the self-world dichotomy at the heart of Western thought. This can be seen as a continuation of the Enlightenment project of subjecting everything to the test of reason, but it was also part of a larger cultural movement that found expression in Romanticism, in an openness to Indian and other non-Western thought, and in the political and social experimentation of the French Revolution. What followed in the post-Revolutionary years was not a development of those tendencies to openness and egalitarian, common process but a retreat to the opposition of self and world and a drastic reduction in intellectual and social possibilities. This is one source of the collective impotence that sees the twenty-first century in a lockstep march to disaster.

Author : C. Aruljothi
Publisher : MJP Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pilgrimage Tourism written by C. Aruljothi and published by MJP Publisher. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People in general and pilgrims in particular go on pilgrimages to temples, mosques, churches, gurudwaras for worshipping their religious gods and goddesses. But, tourism and pilgrimage are intertwined with little differences. Religious tourism is based on time involved and distance travelled namely short- and long-term religious tourism. The short-term type involves travel to nearby pilgrimage centres or religious conferences, or religious discourses while the long-term religious tourism involves travel to religious sites and religious conferences around the world. Pilgrimage is “the result of a vow”. India is a land of temples, mosques and churches. They play significant role in the development of any economy. Temples in India, particularly in Tamil Nadu play different roles such as redistributors of income, producer, consumer, land-owner, employer, trustee, tourist centre, religious, cultural, social and economic institution. Pilgrimage is aimed to attain moksha - the ultimate aim of individual. Moreover, pilgrimage tourism is considered as an instrument of stress relief, and it is one of the most understudied and least researched areas in tourism and leisure economics. With this backdrop, the book “Pilgrimage Tourism in India” is initiated with the following objectives viz: to examine socio-economic, cultural and environmental profiles of pilgrim tourists and local residents of Palani town and temple environs; to identify factors determining pilgrimage tourism and to examine perceptions of pilgrims on the socio-economic overheads, facilities and services exist at Palani town and temple environs; to gauge the perceptions of local residents on social, economic, cultural and environmental impacts of pilgrimage tourism to Palani town and temple environs; and to identify problems emerging from pilgrimage tourism and economic changes to local residents and to make suggestions for policy for pilgrimage tourism, benefiting both the pilgrims and the local residents of Palani town and temple environs.Contents : Introduction, Role of Tourism in Economic Development, Realities of Pilgrimage Tourism, Pilgrimage Tourism in Tamil Nadu—A Case Study, Socio-Economic Analysis of Pilgrimage Tourism, Conclusion.

Author : Kuthur Ramakrishna Srinivasan
Publisher : New Delhi : National Book Trust, India; [chief stockists in India: India Book House, Bombay
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Temples of South India written by Kuthur Ramakrishna Srinivasan and published by New Delhi : National Book Trust, India; [chief stockists in India: India Book House, Bombay. This book was released on 1972 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book prsents a comprehensive picture of the temples of south india, their architecture , the many subtitle variations in style, their evolution over the years and contributions to indian culture.

Author : Linda Kay Davidson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576075435
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pilgrimage [2 volumes] written by Linda Kay Davidson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-11-17 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationalistic meccas, shrines to popular culture, and sacred traditions for the world's religions from Animism to Zoroastrianism are all examined in two accessible and comprehensive volumes. Pilgrimage is a comprehensive compendium of the basic facts on Pilgrimage from ancient times to the 21st century. Illustrated with maps and photographs that enrich the reader's journey, this authoritative volume explores sites, people, activities, rites, terminology, and other matters related to pilgrimage such as economics, tourism, and disease. Encompassing all major and minor world religions, from ancient cults to modern faiths, this work covers both religious and secular pilgrimage sites. Compiled by experts who have authored numerous books on pilgrimage and are pilgrims in their own right, the entries will appeal to students, scholars, and general readers.

Author : Corinne G. Dempsey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199884862
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York written by Corinne G. Dempsey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York is a profile of a flourishing Hindu temple in the town of Rush, New York. The temple, established by a charismatic nonbrahman Sri Lankan Tamil known as Aiya, stands out for its combination of orthodox ritual meticulousness and socioreligious iconoclasm. The vitality with which devotees participate in ritual themselves and their ready access to the deities contrasts sharply with ritual activities at most North American Hindu temples, where (following the usual Indian custom) ritual is performed only by priests and access to the highly sanctified divine images is closely guarded. Drawing on several years of fieldwork, Dempsey weaves traditional South Asian tales, temple miracle accounts, and devotional testimonials into an analysis of the distinctive dynamics of diaspora Hinduism. She explores the ways in which the goddess, the guru, and temple members reside at cultural and religious intersections, noting how distinctions between miraculous and mundane, convention and non-convention, and domestic and foreign are more often intertwined and interdependent than in tidy opposition. This lively and accessible work is a unique and important contribution to diaspora Hindu Studies.

Author : Ambujam Anantharaman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Temples of South India written by Ambujam Anantharaman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kuthur Ramakrishna Srinivasan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Temples of South India written by Kuthur Ramakrishna Srinivasan and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : P. V. Jagadisa Ayyar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788120601512
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Indian Shrines written by P. V. Jagadisa Ayyar and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: