Author: Piyushkanti MahapatraPublisher: Calcutta : Indian Publications
ISBN:
Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Folk Cults of Bengal
Author: Piyushkanti MahapatraPublisher: Calcutta : Indian Publications
ISBN:
Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Folk Deities and Matrika Cult of South West Bengal
Author: Bina Kumari SarmaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : or
Pages : 292
Book Description
Books Closely At Folk Deities Of South Bengal, Particularly Manifestation Of Mother Goddess In The 2 Districts-Bankura And Purulia. Based On Field Work And A Review Of Exiting Literature. Has 7 Chapters, The Best Being On Conclusions.
Aspects of Folk Cults in South Bengal
Author: Tushar K. NiyogiPublisher: Calcutta : Anthropological Survey of India, Ministry of Human Resources Development, Department of Culture, Government of India
ISBN:
Category : Cults
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Comprises three papers, Sacred complex of Panchananda cult : a study of the myths and the ritual, Study of the ritual structure of the Siva- Gajan, and Expressive actions in cult rituals : a case study relating to tiger cult of the Sundarbans.
Hindu Castes and Sects
Author: Jogendra Nath BhattacharyaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Human Fertility Cults and Rituals of Bengal
Author: Pradyot Kumar MaityPublisher: Abhinav Publications
ISBN: 9788170172635
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
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Folklore, Religion and the Songs of a Bengali Madman
Author: Carola LoreaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004324712
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This book explores historical and cultural aspects of modern and contemporary Bengal through the performance-centred study of a particular repertoire: the songs of the saint-composer Bhaba Pagla (1902-1984), who is particularly revered among Baul and Fakir singers. The author shows how songs, if examined as 'sacred scriptures', represent multi-dimensional texts for the study of South Asian religions. Revealing how previous studies about Bauls mirror the history of folkloristics in Bengal, this book presents sacred songs as a precious symbolic capital for a marginalized community of dislocated and unorthodox Hindus, who consider the practice of singing in itself an integral part of the path towards self-realization.
Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls
Author: June McDanielPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190290560
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Indian state of West Bengal is home to one of the world's most vibrant traditions of goddess worship. The year's biggest holidays are devoted to the goddesses Durga and Kali, with lavish rituals, decorated statues, fireworks, and parades. In Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls, June McDaniel provides a broad, accessibly written overview of Bengali goddess worship. McDaniel identifies three major forms of goddess worship, and examines each through its myths, folklore, songs, rituals, sacred texts, and practitioners. In the folk/tribal strand, which is found in rural areas, local tribal goddesses are worshipped alongside Hindu goddesses, with an emphasis on possession, healing, and animism. The tantric/yogic strand focuses on ritual, meditation, and visualization as ways of experiencing the power of the goddess directly. The devotional or bhakti strand, which is the most popular form, involves the intense love and worship of a particular form of the goddess. McDaniel traces these strands through Bengali culture and explores how they are interwoven with each other as well as with other forms of Hinduism. She also discusses how these practices have been reinterpreted in the West, where goddess worship has gained the values of sexual freedom and psychological healing, but lost its emphases on devotion and asceticism. Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls takes the reader inside the lives of practicing Shaktas, including holy women, hymn singers, philosophers, visionaries, gurus, ascetics, healers, musicians, and businessmen, and offers vivid descriptions of their rituals, practices, and daily lives. Drawing on years of fieldwork and extensive research, McDaniel paints a rich, expansive portrait of this fascinating religious tradition.
Folk-lore
Author: Folk Deities and Matrika Cult of South West Bengal
Author: Bina Kumari SarmaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Books Closely At Folk Deities Of South Bengal, Particularly Manifestation Of Mother Goddess In The 2 Districts-Bankura And Purulia. Based On Field Work And A Review Of Exiting Literature. Has 7 Chapters, The Best Being On Conclusions.
The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760
Author: Richard M. EatonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520917774
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does such a religious conversion take place? Richard Eaton uses archaeological evidence, monuments, narrative histories, poetry, and Mughal administrative documents to trace the long historical encounter between Islamic and Indic civilizations. Moving from the year 1204, when Persianized Turks from North India annexed the former Hindu states of the lower Ganges delta, to 1760, when the British East India Company rose to political dominance there, Eaton explores these moving frontiers, focusing especially on agrarian growth and religious change.