A Garland Of Forgotten Goddesses

Author : Michael Slouber
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520375758

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A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses by Michael Slouber Pdf

Imagining the divine as female is rare—even controversial—in most religions. Hinduism, by contrast, preserves a rich and continuous tradition of goddess worship. A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses conveys the diversity of this tradition by bringing together a fresh array of captivating and largely overlooked Hindu goddess tales from different regions. As the first such anthology of goddess narratives in translation, this collection highlights a range of sources from ancient myths to modern lore. The goddesses featured here battle demons, perform miracles, and grant rare Tantric visions to their devotees. Each translation is paired with a short essay that explains the goddess’s historical and social context, elucidating the ways religion adapts to changing times.

Author : Caleb Simmons
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438488677

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Singing the Goddess into Place by Caleb Simmons Pdf

Singing the Goddess into Place examines Chamundi of the Hill, a collection of songs that tells the stories of the gods and goddesses of the region around the city of Mysore in southern Karnataka. The ballad actively transforms the region into a land where gods and goddesses live, embedding these deities within the social worlds of their devotees and remapping southern Karnataka into sacred geography connected through networks of devotion and pilgrimage. In this in-depth study of the songs and their context, Caleb Simmons not only provides the first English-language translation of these songs but brings to light the unstudied folk perspectives on the foundational myth of Mysore and its urban history. Singing the Goddess into Place demonstrates how folk narratives reflect local context while also actively working to upend social inequities based on caste and ritual/devotional practices. By delving into this world, the book helps us understand how a landscape is transformed through people's relationship with it and how this relationship helps build meaning for the communities that call it home.

Author : Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1537307029

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Garland of the Goddess by Bibliotheca Alexandrina Pdf

Anat, Ereshkigal, Artemis, Juno, Venus, Bast, Seshat, Brigid, Arduinna, Freyja, Hel, Yemaya, Mawu, Pele, Ix Chel, Kuan Yin, Tara, Sarasvati, Kali. Goddesses were, and still are, widely worshipped. Not just in far off places, but close by, right here. People today sing to these Goddesses, pray to them, dance for them, make offerings - and write for them. The poetry and prose and art collected here celebrates Goddesses from all over the world. Like the Goddesses they honor, these tales and poems and works of art vary from the humorous to the horrific, from the deeply personal to the deeply transcendent, and everything in between. Some Goddesses will be familiar, others strange, still others completely new. It is our hope that you will find these words and works of art not just entertaining, but also inspiring: sing, pray, dance, set up an altar - pick up your pen. The Goddesses are here.

Author : Gavin Flood
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781119144861

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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Hinduism by Gavin Flood Pdf

An accessible and up-to-date survey of scholarly thinking about Hinduism, perfect for courses on Hinduism or world religions The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Hinduism examines the historical trajectories that have led to the modern religion of Hinduism. Covering main themes such as philosophy, practice, society, and science, this comprehensive volume brings together a variety of approaches and perspectives in Hindu Studies to help readers better appreciate the richness, complexity, and diversity of Hinduism. Essays by acknowledged experts in the field present historical accounts of all major traditions, analyze key texts, engage with Hindu theology and philosophy, address contemporary questions of colonialism and identity, and more. Throughout the text, the authors highlight the links, common threads, and issues that reoccur in the history of Hinduism. Fully revised and updated, the second edition of the Companion incorporates the most recent scholarship and reflects the trend away from essentialist understandings of Hinduism. New chapters examine the Goddess tradition, Hindu diaspora, Hinduism and inter-religious comparison, Hindu philosophy, and Indian astronomy, medicine, language, and mathematics. This edition places further emphasis on the importance of region-specific studies in analyzing Hinduism, discusses important theoretical issues, and offers fresh perspectives on current discourse in Hindu society and politics. Provides a thorough overview of major texts, their histories, and the traditions that preserve them Describes the major textual traditions in Sanskrit with examples in different Indian vernacular languages Addresses major issues and contemporary debates about the nature and study of Hinduism Discusses the importance of systematic, rational thinking in Indian sciences, philosophy, and theology Examines key socio-political themes in Hinduism that are of particular relevance to the modern world The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Hinduism, Second Edition is an excellent text for undergraduate courses on Hinduism in Religious Studies and Philosophy departments, and an invaluable resource for scholars and researchers in Hindu Studies.

Author : Andrea Acri,Paolo E. Rosati
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000686449

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Tantra, Magic, and Vernacular Religions in Monsoon Asia by Andrea Acri,Paolo E. Rosati Pdf

This book explores the cross- and trans-cultural dialectic between Tantra and intersecting ‘magical’ and ‘shamanic’ practices associated with vernacular religions across Monsoon Asia. With a chronological frame going from the mediaeval Indic period up to the present, a wide geographical framework, and through the dialogue between various disciplines, it presents a coherent enquiry shedding light on practices and practitioners that have been frequently alienated in the elitist discourse of mainstream Indic religions and equally overlooked by modern scholarship. The book addresses three desiderata in the field of Tantric Studies: it fills a gap in the historical modelling of Tantra; it extends the geographical parameters of Tantra to the vast, yet culturally interlinked, socio-geographical construct of Monsoon Asia; it explores Tantra as an interface between the Sanskritic elite and the folk, the vernacular, the magical, and the shamanic, thereby revisiting the intellectual and historically fallacious divide between cosmopolitan Sanskritic and vernacular local. The book offers a highly innovative contribution to the field of Tantric Studies and, more generally, South and Southeast Asian religions, by breaking traditional disciplinary boundaries. Its variety of disciplinary approaches makes it attractive to both the textual/diachronic and ethnographic/synchronic dimensions. It will be of interest to specialist and non-specialist academic readers, including scholars and students of South Asian religions, mainly Hinduism and Buddhism, Tantric traditions, and Southeast Asian religions, as well as Asian and global folk religion, shamanism, and magic.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004508446

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Buddhism in Central Asia II by Anonim Pdf

The ERC-funded research project BuddhistRoad aims to create a new framework to enable understanding of the complexities in the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer in pre-modern Eastern Central Asia. Buddhism was one major factor in this exchange: for the first time the multi-layered relationships between the trans-regional Buddhist traditions (Chinese, Indian, Tibetan) and those based on local Buddhist cultures (Khotanese, Uyghur, Tangut) will be explored in a systematic way. The second volume Buddhism in Central Asia II—Practice and Rituals, Visual and Materials Transfer based on the mid-project conference held on September 16th–18th, 2019, at CERES, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) focuses on two of the six thematic topics addressed by the project, namely on "practices and rituals", exploring material culture in religious context such as mandalas and talismans, as well as “visual and material transfer”, including shared iconographies and the spread of ‘Khotanese’ themes.

Author : Suzanne Newcombe,Karen O’Brien-Kop
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781351050739

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Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies by Suzanne Newcombe,Karen O’Brien-Kop Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques. The book analyses yoga and meditation studies in a variety of religious, historical and geographical settings. The chapters, authored by an international set of experts, are laid out across five sections: Introduction to yoga and meditation studies History of yoga and meditation in South Asia Doctrinal perspectives: technique and praxis Global and regional transmissions Disciplinary framings In addition to up-to-date explorations of the history of yoga and meditation in the Indian subcontinent, new contexts include a case study of yoga and meditation in the contemporary Tibetan diaspora, and unique summaries of historical developments in Japan and Latin America as well as an introduction to the growing academic study of yoga in Korea. Underpinned by critical and theoretical engagement, the volume provides an in-depth guide to the history of yoga and meditation studies and combines the best of established research with attention to emerging directions for future investigation. This handbook will be of interest to multidisciplinary academic audiences from across the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Chapters 1, 4, 9, 12, and 27 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Rebekah Sinclair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798988122500

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The Forgotten Goddess by Rebekah Sinclair Pdf

The Library of Alexandria has been lost. The truth of history has been hidden from us. The God of War rules the earth, and we desperately need a savior. Rhea has always known she was different but never imagined that her secrets would lead her down a path of danger and adventure. After a tragic accident that killed her family as a child, Rhea has kept her powers over the elements hidden, but when Ares, the God of War, begins hunting her, she realizes that her past is not quite as it seems. As she navigates a world filled with danger and betrayal, Rhea discovers that the Greek gods are not just myths but real and powerful beings. With her life in danger and the fate of the world at stake, Rhea must decide whether to run away or stay and fight. With the help of ancient mythology's most famous gods and goddesses, Rhea embarks on a journey to confront the God of War and protect those she loves. As she delves deeper into her powers and the truth about her past, Rhea must come to terms with her true nature and embrace her destiny. Will she be able to harness her powers to save the world from destruction, or will her powers consume her? Find out in this thrilling tale of magic and mythology.

Author : Mago Books
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1976331021

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Goddesses in Myth, History and Culture (Color) by Mago Books Pdf

This book fills the very real need for an affordable, accessible, academic textbook featuring Goddesses from a wide range of world religious, cultural and mythological traditions. As a textbook, its primary audience is professors and students in university and college courses in Goddess Studies, Religious Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies. It will also be of interest to students and instructors in the many Goddess-themed courses outside the academy. The contributors to the textbook were selected for their scholarly expertise and qualifications in their respective areas of study, both established and emerging scholars from Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Scandinavia, and Australia. The Goddess traditions surveyed in the 23 chapters include the Female Divine in the major world religions-not only Hinduism and Buddhism, but also in the "Western Religions" of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, popularly regarded as impervious to the Goddess. The coverage ranges from ancient to contemporary, Mago to Mary Magdalene. As such, it is a unique and much-needed resource for students and faculty, as well as a treasury of Goddess scholarship. [Editorial Note: Regarding the Artworks by Sudie Rakusin and Deborah Jane Milton in Appendix, only e-book and the color print book include them. In order to save space for the book, the list of References is made available in the Mago Books website. (Free PDF download available in a page entitled Goddesses in Myth, History and Culture under the menu of Textbooks in http: //www.magobooks.com). In any case, all chapters are formatted so that full bibliographical information can be found in the footnotes.]

Author : Swami Pavitrananda,Advaita Ashrama (A Publication House of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)
Publisher : Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9788175059092

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Hymns and Prayers to Gods and Goddesses by Swami Pavitrananda,Advaita Ashrama (A Publication House of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math) Pdf

Although all that is best in Hindu culture is embedded in Sanskrit, it is a pity that scant attention is paid to its study. Hymns too, not withstanding their power for spiritual upliftment, are consigned to oblivion. For those who are not conversant with Sanskrit and yet consider the hymns a great help in their spiritual life, this book published by Advaita Ashrama, a publication house of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, provides the English translation of fifty representative hymns, which is sure to go a long way in helping the readers attune themselves to the divine.

Author : F. Lanier Graham
Publisher : Artabras Publishers
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015042141989

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Goddesses in Art by F. Lanier Graham Pdf

An extraordinary range of images, from prehistory to the 1990s, represents female deities of all types and temperaments from a worldwide array of cultures. "Goddesses in Art" offers an abundance of images of the goddess as the ultimate creator and destroyer of life, as fertility figure, and as ruler of love and war. 170 illustrations, 165 in full color.

Author : Olivier Delaye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1530959578

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The Forgotten Goddess by Olivier Delaye Pdf

Sebasten Oryas is the key to the survival of Atlantis. He just doesn't know it. How could he, when all around him regard him as cursed and ungifted? So when his great-aunt invites him to spend the holidays away from home, he sees it as a godsend. But not all the Gods have his best interests at heart. And for the Forgotten One, he is a danger who must be stopped. As the summer wears on, Sebasten finds himself drawn into a series of events that will test his survival skills to the limit and open his eyes on a world whose fate is inextricably tied to his own.

Author : Joseph Campbell
Publisher : Joseph Campbell Foundation
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1608681823

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Goddesses by Joseph Campbell Pdf

"Previously uncollected lectures and writings that trace the evolution of the Goddess, from Neolithic Old Europe to the Renaissance, and interpret classical motifs. Offers insight into self-actualization for women. Edited and introduced by the executive director of the Opus Archives and Research Center"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Elizabeth M. Hallam
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Reference
ISBN : IND:30000057621298

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Gods and Goddesses by Elizabeth M. Hallam Pdf

Provides information on the gods and goddesses of a wide range of cultures, from the ancient Sumerian to the modern Haitian.

Author : Manuela Dunn Mascetti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Goddesses
ISBN : 0760707812

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Goddesses by Manuela Dunn Mascetti Pdf