Author: Waduge Lionel FernandoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fasts and feasts
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Kataragama and Its Festivals, 1819-1939
Author: Waduge Lionel FernandoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fasts and feasts
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Pilgrimage [2 volumes]
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Author: Linda Kay DavidsonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1576075435
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
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.
Miracle as Modern Conundrum in South Asian Religious Traditions
Author: Corinne G. DempseyPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791476345
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Claims of the miraculous are foundational to faith and skepticism, making and breaking religious careers and movements in their wake. Drawing on a variety of South Asian religious traditions-Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity-this book revolves around the theme of conundrum, demonstrating how miracles offer divine proof, tenacious embarrassment, and, in many cases, both. The contributors explore not only how modern miracles are conundrums themselves but also how they make conundrums out of assumed divides between scientific and supernatural realms, modernity and tradition, the West and the rest, and ethnographer and native. Book jacket.
Dealing with Deities
Author: Selva J. RajPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791482006
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Drawing on original field research, Dealing with Deities explores the practice of taking ritual vows in the lives of ordinary religious practitioners in South Asia. The cornerstone of lay religious activity, vow rituals are adopted by Muslims, Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, Jains, and Sikhs who wish to commit themselves to ritually enacted relationships with sacred figures in order to gain earthly boons and spiritual merit. The contributors to this volume offer a fascinating look at the varieties and complexities of vows and also focus on a unique characteristic of this vow-taking culture, that of resorting to deities and shrines of other religions in defiance of institutional directives and religious boundaries. Richly illustrated, the book explores the creativity of South Asian devotees and their deeply felt convictions that what they require, they can achieve faithfully—and independently—by dealing directly with deities.
Everyday Ethnicity in Sri Lanka
Author: Daniel BassPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415526248
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Focusing on notions of diaspora, identity and agency, this book examines ethnicity in war-torn Sri Lanka. It highlights the historical development and negotiation of a new identification of Up-country Tamil amidst Sri Lanka's violent ethnic politics. Over the past thirty years, Up-country (Indian) Tamils generally have tried to secure their vision of living within a multi-ethnic Sri Lanka, not within Tamil Eelam, the separatist dream that ended with the civil war in 2009. Exploring Sri Lanka within the deep history of colonial-era South Asian plantation diasporas, the book argues Up-country Tamils form a "diaspora next-door" to their ancestral homeland. It moves beyond simplistic Sinhala-Tamil binaries and shows how Sri Lanka's ethnic troubles actually have more in common with similar battles that diasporic Indians have faced in Fiji and Trinidad than with Hindu-Muslim communalism in neighbouring India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Shedding new light on issues of agency, citizenship, displacement and re-placement within the formation of diasporic communities and identities, this book demonstrates the ways that culture workers, including politicians, trade union leaders, academics and NGO workers, have facilitated the development of a new identity as Up-country Tamil. It is of interest to academics working in the fields of modern South Asia, diaspora, violence, post-conflict nations, religion and ethnicity.
Kataragama, the Esala Festivals from the Government Agents Diaries, 1852-1939
Author: S. D. SaparamaduPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fasts and feasts
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Walking to Kataragama
Author: Sunil GoonasekeraPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Travel impressions of a Hindu pilgrimage centre, Kataragama, in southern Sri Lanka, venerated by people of all faiths ; also includes travel impressions of the author.
Ethnic Studies Report
Author: Bitter Berry Bondage
Author: Donovan MoldrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coffee industry
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Accessions List, South Asia
Author: Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New DelhiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
Book Description
Records publications acquired from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, by the U.S. Library of Congress Offices in New Delhi, India, and Karachi, Pakistan.