Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Index India
Author: Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
MIDAMBLE.
Author: PETER. JAEGERPublisher:
ISBN: 9781999954703
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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An Introduction to the Study of Indian History
Author: Damodar Dharmanand KosambiPublisher: Popular Prakashan
ISBN: 9788171540389
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
This book is the culmination of patient research and mature reflection of a profoundly original mind and has earned universal recognition and honour over the last few decades.
How I Became a Hindu
Author: Sita Ram GoelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hindus
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Reminiscences of an Indian sociopolitical activist and former Marxist.
Yoga in Transformation
Author: Karl BaierPublisher: V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN: 3737008620
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 631
Book Description
This volume explores aspects of yoga over a period of about 2500 years. In its first part, it investigates facets of the South Asian and Tibetan traditions of yoga, such as the evolution of posture practice, the relationship between yoga and sex, yoga in the theistic context, the influence of Buddhism on early yoga, and the encounter of Islam with classical yoga. The second part addresses aspects of modern globalised yoga and its historical formation, as for example the emergence of yoga in Viennese occultism, the integration of yoga and nature cure in modern India, the eventisation of yoga in a global setting, and the development of Patañjali’s iconography. In keeping with the current trend in yoga studies, the emphasis of the volume is on the practice of yoga and its theoretical underpinnings.
Hagiography and Religious Truth
Author: Rico G. MongePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474235794
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The hagiographic materials from the world's religions can tell us much about the beliefs and practices of the people, yet the limited degree to which hagiography has been used as an instrument for understanding diverse religious traditions is surprising. Hagiography and Religious Truth provides a clearer understanding of the ways hagiography functions to disclose truth for practitioners and suggests various ways that these underexploited sources enrich our comprehension of broader issues in religious studies. This volume provides a much-needed cross-cultural and interreligious comparison of saints' lives, iconography, and devotional practices. The contributors show that hagiographic sources can in fact be “truths of manifestation,” which function as vehicles for prefiguring, configuring, and refiguring religious, social, and cultural life. The editors argue that some meanings simply cannot be communicated effectively through historical-critical methodologies. By exploring how hagiography functions throughout several of the world's religious traditions, this volume illustrates how various modes of hagiography articulate religious ideas and uniquely represent conceptions of sanctity.
Amritanubhava
Author: JñānadevaReligion and Public Memory
Author: Christian Lee NovetzkePublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231512562
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Namdev is a central figure in the cultural history of India, especially within the field of bhakti, a devotional practice that has created publics of memory for over eight centuries. Born in the Marathi-speaking region of the Deccan in the late thirteenth century, Namdev is remembered as a simple, low-caste Hindu tailor whose innovative performances of devotional songs spread his fame widely. He is central to many religious traditions within Hinduism, as well as to Sikhism, and he is a key early literary figure in Maharashtra, northern India, and Punjab. In the modern period, Namdev appears throughout the public spheres of Marathi and Hindi and in India at large, where his identity fluctuates between regional associations and a quiet, pan-Indian, nationalist-secularist profile that champions the poor, oppressed, marginalized, and low caste. Christian Lee Novetzke considers the way social memory coheres around the figure of Namdev from the sixteenth century to the present, examining the practices that situate Namdev's memory in multiple historical publics. Focusing primarily on Maharashtra and drawing on ethnographies of devotional performance, archival materials, scholarly historiography, and popular media, especially film, Novetzke vividly illustrates how religious communities in India preserve their pasts and, in turn, create their own historical narratives.
The Philosophy of Jnanadeva
Author: Bhalchandra Pandharinath BahiratPublisher: Popular Prakashan
ISBN: 9788171547371
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description