Sacred Groves And Local Gods

Author : Eliza F. Kent
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199895465
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Groves and Local Gods written by Eliza F. Kent and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on fieldwork conducted in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu over seven years, Eliza F. Kent offers a compelling examination of the religious and social context in which south India's sacred groves take on meaning for the villagers who maintain them, and shows how they have become objects of fascination and hope for Indian environmentalists.

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ISBN 13 : 9780199985678
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Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Author : Eliza F. Kent
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199895473
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Groves and Local Gods written by Eliza F. Kent and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, India's "sacred groves," small forests or stands of trees set aside for a deity's exclusive use, have attracted the attention of NGOs, botanists, specialists in traditional medicine, and anthropologists. Environmentalists disillusioned by the failures of massive state-sponsored solutions to ecological problems have hailed them as an exemplary form of traditional community resource management. For in spite of pressures to utilize their trees for fodder, housing, and firewood, the religious taboos surrounding sacred groves have led to the conservation of pockets of abundant flora in areas otherwise denuded by deforestation. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu over seven years, Eliza F. Kent offers a compelling examination of the religious and social context in which sacred groves take on meaning for the villagers who maintain them, and shows how they have become objects of fascination and hope for Indian environmentalists. Sacred Groves and Local Gods traces a journey through Tamil Nadu, exploring how the localized meanings attached to forested shrines are changing under the impact of globalization and economic liberalization. Confounding simplistic representations of sacred groves as sites of a primitive form of nature worship, the book shows how local practices and beliefs regarding sacred groves are at once more imaginative, dynamic, and pragmatic than previously thought. Kent argues that rather than being ancient in origin, as has been asserted by other scholars, the religious beliefs, practices, and iconography found in sacred groves suggest origins in the politically de-centered eighteenth century, when the Tamil country was effectively ruled by local chieftains. She analyzes two projects undertaken by environmentalists that seek to harness the traditions surrounding sacred groves in the service of forest restoration and environmental education.

Author : Clement Dorm-Adzobu
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Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.2V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Beliefs and Environmental Protection written by Clement Dorm-Adzobu and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chris Coggins
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000577805
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Forests of Asia written by Chris Coggins and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a thorough examination of the sacred forests of Asia, this volume engages with dynamic new scholarly dialogues on the nature of sacred space, place, landscape, and ecology in the context of the sharply contested ideas of the Anthropocene. Given the vast geographic range of sacred groves in Asia, this volume discusses the diversity of associated cosmologies, ecologies, traditional local resource management practices, and environmental governance systems developed during the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial periods. Adopting theoretical perspectives from political ecology, the book views ecology and polity as constitutive elements interacting within local, regional, and global networks. Readers will find the very first systematic comparative analysis of sacred forests that include the karchall mabhuy of the Katu people of Central Vietnam, the leuweng kolot of the Baduy people of West Java, the fengshui forests of southern China, the groves to the goddess Sarna Mata worshiped by the Oraon people of Jharkhand India, the mauelsoop and bibosoop of Korea, and many more. Comprising in-depth, field-based case studies, each chapter shows how the forest’s sacrality must not be conceptually delinked from its roles in common property regimes, resource security, spiritual matters of ultimate concern, and cultural identity. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of indigenous studies, environmental anthropology, political ecology, geography, religion and heritage, nature conservation, environmental protection, and Asian studies.

Author : Dr.C.Ravinder Singh M.Sc., Ph.D.,
Publisher : DARSHAN PUBLISHERS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book SACRED GROVES OF NAMAKKAL DISTRICT WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THEIR MEDICINAL USES written by Dr.C.Ravinder Singh M.Sc., Ph.D., and published by DARSHAN PUBLISHERS. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Groves and their medicinal, commercial values known through the indigenious community and some of the medicinally valuable literature. In the conservation aspect we conducted awareness program for the local peoples, students of schools and colleges, teachers, pujari, traditional healers and land owners. Few groves were planted with water holding capable rich species and Oxygen producing species. These species were protected by local peoples and pujari of the concern grove.

Author : Lora Stone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Environmentalism written by Lora Stone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A foundational resource for readers investigating religiously motivated environmentalism, this book provides both a global overview of the subject and a detailed discussion of key figures, concepts, organizations, events, and documents. Beginning in the late 1960s, a growing number of activists, scholars, and scientists asserted that traditional religions had been major contributors to the environmental crisis. In response, theologians, religious organizations, and religiously motivated activists became increasingly involved in environmental issues. At the same time, emerging nature-based belief systems emphasized values and lifestyles based in environmentalism. More recently, religiously motivated environmentalism has become a powerful force in shaping environmental policy and human action globally and has joined with secular environmentalism to address related issues. This book explores the background and current state of religious environmentalism. The book begins with an overview essay examining the history and context of religious environmentalism and its significance today. A chronology then profiles the most important events related to religious environmentalism. A section of more than 50 alphabetically arranged reference entries follows, with each entry providing objective information about people, places, events, movements, works, and other topics. The entries include cross-references and suggestions for further reading, and the book closes with a selected, annotated bibliography of major works.

Author : MAITI, PRABODH K.
Publisher : PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9391818587
Total Pages : 654 pages
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Author : Malti Mallik, Anita Jain, SK Jha and Dinesh Bhatt
Publisher : New Saraswati House India Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9353623251
Total Pages : pages
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Author : Dr Malti Malik, Dinesh Bhatt, D R Khullar, Dr S K Jha, Anita Jain, Mala Aggarwal
Publisher : New Saraswati House India Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9351998819
Total Pages : pages
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