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Vedic Origins of Karma
Cosmos as Man in Ancient Indian Myth and Ritual
Häftad, 1989
455 kr
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In this book, the author seeks access to Karma's origins by following several clues suggested by the doctrine's earliest formulation in the Upanistexts (circa 600-500 B.C.) These clues lead back to the mythical and ritual structures firmly established in the Brahmana texts, texts concerned with the …
Ritual of Battle
Krishna in the Mahābhārata
Häftad, 1990
391 kr
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This book is a study of India's great epic, the Mahābhārata, against the background of Indo-European myth, epic, and ritual. It builds upon the pioneering studies in these areas by Georges Dumezil and Stig Wikander to work toward the goal of understanding how this epic's Indo-European heritage is …
Āṇṭāḷ and Her Path of Love
Poems of a Woman Saint from South India
Häftad, 1990
523 kr
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This book is a translation and study of the poems of a ninth-century woman saint and mystic. The Introduction is designed to make the translations accessible to a non-specialist audience, while the Notes provide insights into the poems and useful explications of allusions and convention with which …
Encountering the Goddess
A Translation of the Devī-Māhātmya and a Study of Its Interpretation
Häftad, 1991
463 kr
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Coburn provides a fresh and careful translation from the Sanskrit of this fifteen-hundred-year-old text. Drawing on field work and literary evidence, he illuminates the process by which the Devī-Māhātmya has attracted a vast number of commentaries and has become the best known Goddess-text in …
Kabir Legends and Ananta-Das's Kabir Parachai
With a translation of the Kabir Parachai Prepared in Collaboration with Jagdish Kumar and Uma Thukral and with an Edition of the Niranjani Panthi Recension of this Work
Häftad, 1991
590 kr
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This book represents the first systematic collection and analysis of the principal legends about Kabir Das, a fifteenth-century poet-saint. It focuses on the ways in which the legends embody and reflect the often changing social and religious needs of those who created and listened to them. …
Eternal Food
Gastronomic Ideas and Experiences of Hindus and Buddhists
Av R. S. Khare
Häftad, 1992
371 kr
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The interdisciplinary approaches presented here investigate food in India and Sri Lanka for its wide ranging cultural meaning and uses. The authors examine food in religious and literary contexts, where saints, ritualists, poets, and the divine often provide grounds for a practically inexhaustible …
Living Banaras
Hindu Religion in Cultural Context
Av Bradley R. Hertel, Cynthia Ann Humes
Inbunden, 1993
1040 kr
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By focusing on contemporary popular religious traditions, the book represents a substantial contribution to the study of modern religious practices in Banaras, holy city of India. This book offers in-depth, ethnographic views of many contemporary popular religious practices that have, for the most …
Living Banaras
Hindu Religion in Cultural Context
Av Bradley R. Hertel, Cynthia Ann Humes
Häftad, 1993
487 kr
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By focusing on contemporary popular religious traditions, the book represents a substantial contribution to the study of modern religious practices in Banaras, holy city of India. This book offers in-depth, ethnographic views of many contemporary popular religious practices that have, for the most …
Language and Style of the Vedic Ṛṣis
Av Tatyana J. Elizarenkova, Wendy Doniger
Inbunden, 1994
1286 kr
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Elizarenkova, perhaps the greatest living scholar of the Rand certainly its greatest linguist, explains here the relationships between a very complicated grammatical system and the peculiarities of style of the archaic religious poetry. The laudatory hymn is treated as an act of verbal …
Language and Style of the Vedic Ṛṣis
Av Tatyana J. Elizarenkova, Wendy Doniger
Häftad, 1994
487 kr
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Elizarenkova, perhaps the greatest living scholar of the Rand certainly its greatest linguist, explains here the relationships between a very complicated grammatical system and the peculiarities of style of the archaic religious poetry. The laudatory hymn is treated as an act of verbal …
Authority, Anxiety, and Canon
Essays in Vedic Interpretation
Inbunden, 1994
1040 kr
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Authority, Anxiety, and Canon elucidates a principle fundamental to Hinduism's self-understanding-the Veda-while at the same time examining the methodological issues of the role of canon in religious tradition. Spanning the early periods of Indian religious history up to the twentieth century, the …
Authority, Anxiety, and Canon
Essays in Vedic Interpretation
Häftad, 1994
487 kr
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Authority, Anxiety, and Canon elucidates a principle fundamental to Hinduism's self-understanding-the Veda-while at the same time examining the methodological issues of the role of canon in religious tradition. Spanning the early periods of Indian religious history up to the twentieth century, the …
Artful Universe
An Introduction to the Vedic Religious Imagination
Häftad, 1997
487 kr
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Provides an accessible introduction to the Vedic religious world by focusing on the role of divine and human imagination in sacred texts.The Artful Universe introduces the Vedic religion, a rich and densely textured tradition that has influenced the religious sensibilities of India for 3500 years …
Untouchable Pasts
Religion, Identity, and Power among a Central Indian Community, 1780-1950
Av Saurabh Dube
Inbunden, 1998
1040 kr
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Constructs a history of an untouchable and heretical community, the Satnamis of Central India.Untouchable Pasts constructs a history of an untouchable and heretical community over the last two hundred years. The Satnamis of Central India have combined the features of a caste and a sect to question …
Open Boundaries
Jain Communities and Cultures in Indian History
Av John E. Cort
Häftad, 1998
371 kr
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Enlarges our understanding of Jainism, one of the oldest yet least-studied of the world's living religions, by challenging the standard scholarly portraits of both Jains and South Asian religion and culture.Open Boundaries provides a new perspective on Jainism, one of the oldest yet least-studied …
Silence Unheard
Deathly Otherness in Pātañjala-Yoga
Häftad, 2001
455 kr
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Explores the experience of yoga in the Yogasutra of Patanjali.Silence Unheard maintains that the reality of Patañjali's Yogasūtra is a profound silence barely and variously audible to the scholars and interpreters who approach it. Even the Yogasūtra itself is an "approach," a voice articulating an …
Rapt in the Name
The Ramnamis, Ramnam, and Untouchable Religion in Central India
Av Ramdas Lamb
Häftad, 2002
463 kr
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An introduction to the Ram bhakti tradition and a fascinating account of its practice among a group of Central Indian Untouchables.In Rapt in the Name, Ramdas Lamb provides an intriguing account of the Ram bhakti tradition in India. Less well-known in the West than the tradition of devotion to …
Popular Christianity in India
Riting between the Lines
Av Selva J. Raj, Corinne G. Dempsey
Häftad, 2002
487 kr
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Explores the lived experience of Christianity in India.Popular Christianity in India explores Indian Christianity as crafted and expressed through lived experience, providing an important balance to currently available, typically theological, studies. Drawing from many disciplines, this volume …
Tales for the Dying
The Death Narrative of the Bhāgavata-Purāna
Inbunden, 2003
1040 kr
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Explores death and dying in the Bhagavata-Purana and in the Indian religious imagination using insights from myth, semiotics, and depth psychology as well as the Indian commentarial tradition.Tales for the Dying explores the centrality of death and dying in the narrative of the Bhāgavata-Purāna, …
Living and the Dead
Social Dimensions of Death in South Asian Religions
Av Liz Wilson
Inbunden, 2003
1040 kr
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Explores the social treatment of death in South Asian religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and other traditions. Includes material on women and marginalized groups.This collection examines the social dimensions of death in South Asian religions, exploring the ritualized exchanges between …
Female Ascetics in Hinduism
Inbunden, 2004
1018 kr
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Provides both a first-hand look at and an insightful analysis of a little-known world—that of female ascetics in India.Female Ascetics in Hinduism provides a vivid account of the lives of women renouncers-women who renounce the world to live ascetic spiritual lives-in India. The author approaches …
Female Ascetics in Hinduism
Häftad, 2004
463 kr
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Provides both a first-hand look at and an insightful analysis of a little-known world—that of female ascetics in India.Female Ascetics in Hinduism provides a vivid account of the lives of women renouncers-women who renounce the world to live ascetic spiritual lives-in India. The author approaches …
God of Desire
Tales of Kāmadeva in Sanskrit Story Literature
Inbunden, 2005
1018 kr
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Presents Kamadeva, the Hindu god of desire, in tales, art, and ritual. Also covers Kamadeva's appearance in Buddhist lore.God of Desire presents Sanskrit tales of the Indian deity Kāmadeva as he battles the ascetic god Śiva, assists the powerful goddess Devī, and incarnates as the charming son of …
Demon's Daughter
A Love Story from South India
Häftad, 2006
495 kr
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This sixteenth-century work has a modern sensibility, presenting characters' inner worlds and understanding love as the fullest realization of the individual.The Demon's Daughter (Prabhavati-pradyumnamu) is a sixteenth-century novel by the south Indian poet Pingali Suranna, originally written in …
Gender and Story in South India
Av Leela Prasad, Ruth B. Bottigheimer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
1018 kr
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Indian women scholars present and discuss tales about women, bringing new insights about gender and the moral universe of the folk narrative.Gender and Story in South India presents exciting ethnographic research by Indian women scholars on Hindu and Muslim women-centered oral narratives. The book …
Gender and Story in South India
Av Leela Prasad, Ruth B. Bottigheimer m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
410 kr
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Indian women scholars present and discuss tales about women, bringing new insights about gender and the moral universe of the folk narrative.Gender and Story in South India presents exciting ethnographic research by Indian women scholars on Hindu and Muslim women-centered oral narratives. The book …
Character of the Self in Ancient India
Priests, Kings, and Women in the Early Upaniṣads
Av Brian Black
Inbunden, 2007
1286 kr
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Explores the narratives and dialogues of the Upanisads and shows that these literary elements are central to an understanding of Upanishadic philosophy.This groundbreaking book is an elegant exploration of the Upanisads, often considered the fountainhead of the rich, varied philosophical tradition …
Encounter Never Ends
A Return to the Field of Tamil Rituals
Häftad, 2008
455 kr
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A reconsideration of the relationship between fieldwork and anthropological knowledge.The Encounter Never Ends offers a thoughtful meditation on the relationship between fieldwork and anthropological knowledge through the analysis of Tamil ritual practice in a South Indian village. Isabelle …
Tamil Geographies
Cultural Constructions of Space and Place in South India
Av Martha Ann Selby, Indira Viswanathan Peterson
Inbunden, 2008
1018 kr
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How perceptions of land and space influence social and aesthetic conditions in the Tamil region of India.This interdisciplinary work explores how people in the Tamil region of India think about space and land, and how this, in turn, influences the creation of the social and aesthetic world they …
Teachings of the Odd-Eyed One
A Study and Translation of the Virūpākṣapañcāśikā, with the Commentary of Vidyācakravartin
Inbunden, 2008
1018 kr
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A study and translation of a tantric contemplative manual and the commentary on it.This book offers the first published translation of the contemplative manual Virūpāksapañcasikā, written circa the twelfth century CE, and the commentary on it, Vivrti by Vidyācakravartin. These late works from the …
