Author: David R. Kinsley
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520224766
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Vivid sketches and interpretations of two Hindu deities: the amorous, irresistibly beautiful Krishna and the black, fearsome goddess Kali. The book traces the history and describes the mythology of both deities.
The Sword and the Flute Kali and Krsna
Author: David R. Kinsley
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520224766
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Vivid sketches and interpretations of two Hindu deities: the amorous, irresistibly beautiful Krishna and the black, fearsome goddess Kali. The book traces the history and describes the mythology of both deities.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520224766
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Vivid sketches and interpretations of two Hindu deities: the amorous, irresistibly beautiful Krishna and the black, fearsome goddess Kali. The book traces the history and describes the mythology of both deities.
The Sword and the Flute
Author: David R. Kinsley
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120813151
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
FOR SALE IN SOUTH ASIA ONLY
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120813151
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
FOR SALE IN SOUTH ASIA ONLY
The Sword and the Flute
The Sword and the Flute
Hindu Goddesses
Author: David Kinsley
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120803947
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Hindu Goddesses is a valuable sourcebook and reference work for students and scholars of Hindu goddesses and of Hinduism in general. Each goddess is dealt with as an independent deity with a coherent mythology, theology and, in some cases, cult of her own. Within the complex, diverse, and rich goddess traditions of Hinduism, one can find suggestions of nearly every important theme in the Hindu religion. In many ways, this book is as much a study of the Hindu tradition itself as it is a study of one aspect of that tradition. No other living religious tradition has displayed such an ancient, continuous, and diverse history of goddess worship.
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120803947
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Hindu Goddesses is a valuable sourcebook and reference work for students and scholars of Hindu goddesses and of Hinduism in general. Each goddess is dealt with as an independent deity with a coherent mythology, theology and, in some cases, cult of her own. Within the complex, diverse, and rich goddess traditions of Hinduism, one can find suggestions of nearly every important theme in the Hindu religion. In many ways, this book is as much a study of the Hindu tradition itself as it is a study of one aspect of that tradition. No other living religious tradition has displayed such an ancient, continuous, and diverse history of goddess worship.
The sword and the flute
Author: David R. Kinsley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780700903993
Category : Hindu gods
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780700903993
Category : Hindu gods
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Goddesses' Mirror
Author: David Kinsley
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780887068362
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Discusses the cultural background and meaning of ten goddesses, including Aphrodite, Isis, Athena, Durga, Laksmi, and Sita
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780887068362
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Discusses the cultural background and meaning of ten goddesses, including Aphrodite, Isis, Athena, Durga, Laksmi, and Sita
Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine
Author: David R. Kinsley
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120815230
Category : Hindu goddesses
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
What is one to make of a group of goddesses that includes a goddess who cuts her own head off, a goddess who sits on a corpse while pulling the tongue of a demon, or a goddess who prefers sex with corpses? Tantra visions of the Divine Faminine deals with
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120815230
Category : Hindu goddesses
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
What is one to make of a group of goddesses that includes a goddess who cuts her own head off, a goddess who sits on a corpse while pulling the tongue of a demon, or a goddess who prefers sex with corpses? Tantra visions of the Divine Faminine deals with
Translating Kali's Feast
Author: Stephanos Stephanides
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004486216
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Translating Kali's Feast is an interdisciplinary study of the Goddess Kali bringing together ethnography and literature within the theoretical framework of translation studies. The idea for the book grew out of the experience and fieldwork of the authors, who lived with Indo-Caribbean devotees of the Hindu Goddess in Guyana. Using a variety of discursive forms including oral history and testimony, field notes, songs, stories, poems, literary essays, photographic illustrations, and personal and theoretical reflections, it explores the cultural, aesthetic and spiritual aspects of the Goddess in a diasporic and cross-cultural context. With reference to critical and cultural theorists including Walter Benjamin and Julia Kristeva, the possibilities offered by Kali (and other manifestations of the Goddess) as the site of translation are discussed in the works of such writers as Wilson Harris, V.S. Naipaul and R.K. Narayan. The book articulates perspectives on the experience of living through displacement and change while probing the processes of translation involved in literature and ethnography and postulating links between ‘rite' and ‘write,' Hindu ‘leela' and creole ‘play.' The author wrote the description of the Big Puja (namely chapter 9, 10, 11, and 13) and the Guyana Kali Puja Lexicon (chapter 17) in collaboration with Guyanese scholar Karna Singh.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004486216
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Translating Kali's Feast is an interdisciplinary study of the Goddess Kali bringing together ethnography and literature within the theoretical framework of translation studies. The idea for the book grew out of the experience and fieldwork of the authors, who lived with Indo-Caribbean devotees of the Hindu Goddess in Guyana. Using a variety of discursive forms including oral history and testimony, field notes, songs, stories, poems, literary essays, photographic illustrations, and personal and theoretical reflections, it explores the cultural, aesthetic and spiritual aspects of the Goddess in a diasporic and cross-cultural context. With reference to critical and cultural theorists including Walter Benjamin and Julia Kristeva, the possibilities offered by Kali (and other manifestations of the Goddess) as the site of translation are discussed in the works of such writers as Wilson Harris, V.S. Naipaul and R.K. Narayan. The book articulates perspectives on the experience of living through displacement and change while probing the processes of translation involved in literature and ethnography and postulating links between ‘rite' and ‘write,' Hindu ‘leela' and creole ‘play.' The author wrote the description of the Big Puja (namely chapter 9, 10, 11, and 13) and the Guyana Kali Puja Lexicon (chapter 17) in collaboration with Guyanese scholar Karna Singh.
Kali's Child
Author: Jeffrey J. Kripal
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226453774
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Scholar Jeffrey J. Kripal explores the life and teachings of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, a 19th-century Bengali saint who played a major role in the creation of modern Hinduism. The work is now marked by both critical acclaim and cross-cultural controversy. In a substantial new Preface to this second edition, Kripal answers his critics and addresses the controversy.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226453774
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Scholar Jeffrey J. Kripal explores the life and teachings of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, a 19th-century Bengali saint who played a major role in the creation of modern Hinduism. The work is now marked by both critical acclaim and cross-cultural controversy. In a substantial new Preface to this second edition, Kripal answers his critics and addresses the controversy.