Author: Henry Woodd NevinsonPublisher: London and New York, Harper & brothers
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The New Spirit in India
Author: Henry Woodd NevinsonPublisher: London and New York, Harper & brothers
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Modernity and Spirit Worship in India
Author: Miho IshiiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000740919
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
This book investigates the entangled relations between people’s daily worship practices and their umwelt in South India. Focusing on the practices of spirit (būta) worship in the coastal area of Karnataka, it examines the relationship between people and deities. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book links important anthropological theories on personhood, perspectives, transactions, and gift-exchanges together with the Gestaltkreis theory of Viktor von Weizsäcker. First, it examines the relations between būta worship and land tenure, matriliny, and hierarchy in the society. It then explores the reflexive relationship between modern law and current practices based on conventional law, before examining new developments in būta worship with the rise of mega-industries and environmental movements. Furthermore, this book sheds light on the struggles and endeavours of the people who create and recreate their relations with the realm of sacred wildness, as well as the formations and transformations of the umwelt in perpetual social-political transition. Modernity and Spirit Worship in India will be of interest to academics in the field of anthropology, religious studies and the dynamics of religion, and South Asian Culture and Society.
Spirit of India
Author: Gill DaviesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781445489070
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Indian Spirit
Author: Magandeep SinghPublisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9386815710
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Drinking has been as old as eating and it has been an important part of the Indian culture. The book is a treasure trove for those who have the palate to enjoy their drink and curiosity to know where it came from. Learn about – • What is the right way to order and enjoy your drink? • What are the earliest instances of drinking in India? • How was drinking mentioned in classical Indian literature and its place in our culture? • What were drinks that India gave to the world? Captured in the book are fascinating stories about alcohol, etiquettes of drinking, and tasting notes on different spirits and brews!
The New Spirit
Author: Havelock EllisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism
Author: Kathryn TannerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300241127
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
One of the world’s most celebrated theologians argues for a Protestant anti-work ethicIn his classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber famously showed how Christian beliefs and practices could shape persons in line with capitalism. In this significant reimagining of Weber’s work, Kathryn Tanner provocatively reverses this thesis, arguing that Christianity can offer a direct challenge to the largely uncontested growth of capitalism.Exploring the cultural forms typical of the current finance-dominated system of capitalism, Tanner shows how they can be countered by Christian beliefs and practices with a comparable person-shaping capacity. Addressing head-on the issues of economic inequality, structural under- and unemployment, and capitalism’s unstable boom/bust cycles, she draws deeply on the theological resources within Christianity to imagine anew a world of human flourishing. This book promises to be one of the most important theological books in recent years.
The Spirit of Indian Nationalism
Author: Bipin Chandra PalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The New Spirit in India
Author: Henry Woodd NevinsonPublisher: London and New York, Harper & brothers
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Global Economic Elites and the New Spirit of Capitalism
Author: Markus PohlmannPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3658426446
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
The Modern Spirit of Asia
Author: Peter van der VeerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691128154
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
A comparative look at religion and spirituality in postcolonial China and India The Modern Spirit of Asia challenges the notion that modernity in China and India are derivative imitations of the West, arguing that these societies have transformed their ancient traditions in unique and distinctive ways. Peter van der Veer begins with nineteenth-century imperial history, exploring how Western concepts of spirituality, secularity, religion, and magic were used to translate the traditions of India and China. He traces how modern Western notions of religion and magic were incorporated into the respective nation-building projects of Chinese and Indian nationalist intellectuals, yet how modernity in China and India is by no means uniform. While religion is a centerpiece of Indian nationalism, it is viewed in China as an obstacle to progress that must be marginalized and controlled. The Modern Spirit of Asia moves deftly from Kandinsky's understanding of spirituality in art to Indian yoga and Chinese qi gong, from modern theories of secularism to histories of Christian conversion, from Orientalist constructions of religion to Chinese campaigns against magic and superstition, and from Muslim Kashmir to Muslim Xinjiang. Van der Veer, an outspoken proponent of the importance of comparative studies of religion and society, eloquently makes his case in this groundbreaking examination of the spiritual and the secular in China and India.