Author: Eyre ChattertonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chota Nāgpur (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Story of Fifty Years' Mission Work in Chhota Nagpur
Author: Eyre ChattertonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chota Nāgpur (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Report of the Year ... of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
Author: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign PartsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Hundred Years of Christian Missions in Chotanagpur Since 1845
Author: S. MahtoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chota Nāgpur (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
Author: Johann Jakob HerzogPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Two Hundred Years of the S.P.G.
Author: Charles Frederick PascoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
The Academy
Author: Academy and Literature
Author: Charles Edward Cutts Birch AppletonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Mission Field
Author: 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.
The gospel of the kingdom, mission sermons
Author: Henry BaileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description