Taking its title from Karl Marx's description of religion as the world's 'logic in a popular form', this book explores the hidden logic behind popular religions in nineteenth-century Bengal. Sumanta Banerjee examines cross-religious cults and the construction of Bengali myths and beliefs about godlings and spirits, approaching them as popular inventions that attempt to make sense of human existence in the face of an overwhelming and often hostile environment. These religious manifestations of po...
Rituale und Magie in Ugarit (Orientalische Religionen in der Antike)
Rituale und magische Praktiken waren im Alten Orient zentraler Bestandteil des Alltags und durchzogen alle Lebensbereiche. Ausgebildete Spezialisten waren zustandig fur unterschiedlichste Rituale im Staatskult; aber auch bei einfachen Menschen wurden Leben und Tod von magischen und rituellen Handlungen begleitet. Dass diese Phanomene in Geschichte und Kultur der bronzezeitlichen Stadt Ugarit hohe Bedeutung hatten, ist durch textliche und materielle Funde belegt. Der vorliegende Sammelband nimmt...
mandalas adult coloring book with 55 Detailed Mandalas for Relaxation and Stress Relief
by Ray Kon
Drawing on both textual and archaeological evidence, this study offers an integrated approach to scholarly debates on monasteries and guru relics in South India between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. This study analyzes the role of the guru in the development of Hindu monastic orders, from centers of education to institutions of traditional authority. Focusing on the complex socio-religious context of the whole-body icon, the author analyzes the relic as a nexus of contradictions surr...
Global Hindu Diaspora
This book examines Hinduism from both a historical and contemporary perspective. It provides some interesting insights into factors that shaped and defined Hinduism in the diaspora. It also examines the challenges facing Hinduism in the twenty-first century. In recent years the growing conversions of Hindus to other religions, the complexities of caste, the impact of AIDS, and the need to reinvigorate the youth in Hindu teachings are just some of the issues that it faces. What shape and form wil...
Valmiki Ramayan Simplified Part 5 (Indian Mythology, #5)
by Krishnakumar T K
Studies in Early Indian Thought (Classic Reprint)
by Dorothea Jane Stephen
Sexual violence has been a regular feature of communal conflict in India since independence in 1947. The Partition riots, which saw the brutal victimization of thousands of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh women, have so far dominated academic discussions of communal violence. This book examines the specific conditions motivating sexual crimes against women based on three of the deadliest riots that occurred in Ahmedabad city, Gujarat, in 1969, 1985 and 2002. Using an in-depth, grassroots-level analysis,...
Routledge Revivals: The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita (1906) (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1909, this book presents an English translation of chapters 25-42 of the Bhishma Parva from the epic Sanskrit poem Mahabharata — better known as the Bhagavad-Gita, reckoned as one of the "Five Jewels" of Devanagari literature. The plot consists of a dialogue between Prince Arjuna and Krishna, the Supreme Deity, in a war-chariot prior to a great battle. The conversation that takes place unfolds a philosophical system which remains the prevailing Brahmanic belief, blending the d...
Dem Heiligen Geist kommt in den traditionellen Kirchen und Theologien eher eine Statistenrolle zu. Dagegen nimmt er in den pentekostalen und neopentekostalen Bewegungen und den von dort bis tief in die traditionellen Konfessionen hineinwirkenden charismatischen Neuaufbruchen des Globalen Sudens, wo das Christentum im Gegensatz zu unseren Breiten in stetigem Wachstum begriffen ist, die Rolle eines Hauptdarstellers ein. Dieser Spannung stellt sich die vorliegende Studie Reinhard Feldmeiers in der...
In this third installment of his comprehensive history of "India's religion" and reappraisal of Hindu identity, Professor Jyotirmaya Sharma offers an engaging portrait of Swami Vivekananda and his relationship with his guru, the legendary Ramakrishna. Sharma's work focuses on Vivekananda's reinterpretation and formulation of diverse Indian spiritual and mystical traditions and practices as "Hinduism" and how it served to create, distort, and justify a national self-image. The author examines que...
The Oxford History of Hinduism: The Goddess (The Oxford History Of Hinduism)
The Oxford History of Hinduism: The Goddess provides a critical exposition of the Hindu idea of the divine feminine, or Devī, conceived as a singularity expressed in many forms. With the theological principles examined in the opening chapters, the book proceeds to describe and expound historically how individual manifestations of Devī have been imagined in Hindu religious culture and their impact upon Hindu social life. In this quest the contributors draw upon the history and philosophy of major...
Food Taboos and Biblical Prohibitions (Archaeology and Bible, #2)
This volume presents contributions from "The Larger Context of the Biblical Food Prohibitions: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches" conference held in Lausanne in June, 2017. The biblical food prohibitions constitute an excellent object for comparative and interdisciplinary approaches given their materiality, their nature as comparative objects between cultures, and their nature as an anthropological object. This volume articulates these three aspects within an integrated and dynamic pe...
Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (Civitatum Orbis MEditerranei Studia, #4)
Together with Jerusalem and Rome, Athens stands today as a symbol of European culture. This image goes back a long way, having received a lasting imprint from the developments of Late Antiquity. The present volume focuses on this period, exploring the cultural and religious transformations of the city and the creation of symbolic images of Athens from the fourth to the sixth centuries AD from a variety of perspectives, including archaeology, ancient history, classical philology, Byzantine studie...
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
Routledge Revivals: The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita (1906) (Routledge Revivals)
by Edwin Arnold
First published in 1909, this book presents an English translation of chapters 25-42 of the Bhishma Parva from the epic Sanskrit poem Mahabharata — better known as the Bhagavad-Gita, reckoned as one of the "Five Jewels" of Devanagari literature. The plot consists of a dialogue between Prince Arjuna and Krishna, the Supreme Deity, in a war-chariot prior to a great battle. The conversation that takes place unfolds a philosophical system which remains the prevailing Brahmanic belief, blending the d...