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Author : Surajit Sinha,Baidyanath Saraswati
Publisher : Varanasi : N.K. Bose Memorial Foundation
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Asceticism
ISBN : UOM:39015013449692
Anthropological study of the Hindu ascetics of Varanasi.
Author : Lynn Teskey Denton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791484623
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 the study of female asceticism by focusing on features of two dharmas, two religiously defined ways of life: that of woman-as-householder and that of the ascetic, who, for various reasons, falls outside the realm of householdership. The result of fieldwork conducted in Varanasi (Benares), the book explores renouncers' social and personal backgrounds, their institutions, and their ways of life. Offering a first-hand look at and an insightful analysis of this little-known world, this highly readable book will be indispensable to those interested in female asceticism in the Hindu tradition and women's spiritual lives around the world. Lynn Teskey Denton (1949–1995) was Assistant Professor of Religion at Concordia University and also taught at McMaster University.
Author : Carl Olson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190225315
Throughout the history of Indian religions, the ascetic figure is most closely identified with power. A by-product of the ascetic path, power is displayed in the ability to fly, walk on water or through dense objects, read minds, discern the former lives of others, see into the future, harm others, or simply levitate one's body. These tales give rise to questions about how power and violence are related to the phenomenon of play. Indian Asceticism focuses on the powers exhibited by ascetics of India from ancient to modern time. Carl Olson discusses the erotic, the demonic, the comic, and the miraculous forms of play and their connections to power and violence. He focuses on Hinduism, but evidence is also presented from Buddhism and Jainism, suggesting that the subject matter of this book pervades India's major indigenous religious traditions. The book includes a look at the extent to which findings in cognitive science can add to our understanding of these various powers; Olson argues that violence is built into the practice of the ascetic. Indian Asceticism culminates with an attempt to rethink the nature of power in a way that does justice to the literary evidence from Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain sources.
Author : Lalita Prasad Vidyarthi,Makhan Jha,Baidyanath Saraswati
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Study of the importance of Varanasi as a centre for Hindu pilgrimage and the traditional priestcraft of the place.
Author : A. R. Momin
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : 8171548318
Comprises contributed articles on the life and thought of Govind Sadashiv Ghurye, b. 1893, and on Indian sociology and anthropology.
Author : Makhan Jha
Publisher : M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 8175330813
Based on empirical fieldworkes carried out in different parts of both india and Nepal,this volume throws light on the thread anthropological researches in both neighbouring countries.The chapters in this book range from tribal situation in india to the Muslim tribes of Lakshadeep island including complex societies,industrialization and urbanization and the various aspects of the Sacred Complex studies in india.Besides,the various aspects of religions of Kathmandu and Janakpur.
Author : Gert Melville,Carlos Ruta
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110459791
The central question of the book is as follows: To what extent does the community present a challenge in the life of the individual? Well-known international Philosophers, historians, anthropologists, political scientists, theologians and sociologists attempted to find explications by intercultural comparison.
Author : Hillary P. Rodrigues
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000888256
Introducing Hinduism, 2nd Edition is the ideal sourcebook for those seeking a comprehensive overview of the Hindu tradition. This second edition includes substantial treatments of Tantra, South India, and women, as well as expanded discussions of yoga, Vedanta and contemporary configurations of Hinduism in the West. Its lively presentation features: case studies, photographs, and scenarios that invite the reader into the lived world of Hinduism; introductory summaries, key points, discussion questions, and recommended reading lists at the end of each chapter; narrative summaries of the great epics and other renowned Hindu myths and lucid explanations of complex Indian philosophical teachings, including Sankhya and Kashmir Saivism; and a glossary, timeline, and pronunciation guide for an enhanced learning experience. This volume is an invaluable resource for students in need of an introduction to the key tenets and diverse practice of Hinduism, past and present.
Author : Maurice Bloch,Jonathan Parry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1982-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521270375
It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to produce a genuinely innovative theoretical approach to the study of the symbolism surrounding death, an outline of which is provided in an important introduction by the editors. The major concern of the volume is the way in which funerary rituals dramatically transform the image of life as a dialectic flux involving exchange and transaction, marriage and procreation, into an image of a still, transcendental order in which oppositions such as those between self and other, wife-giver and wife-taker, Brahmin and untouchable, birth and therefore death have been abolished. This transformation often involves a general devaluation of biology, and, particularly, of sexuality, which is contrasted with a more spiritual and controlled source of life. The role of women, who are frequently associated with biological processes, mourning and death pollution, is often predominant in funerary rituals, and in examining this book makes a further contribution to the understanding of the symbolism of gender. The death rituals and the symbolism of rebirth are also analysed in the context of the political processes of the different societies considered, and it is argued that social order and political organisation may be legitimated through an exploitation of the emotions and biology.
Author : Michael S. Dodson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000365641
The book presents a rich and surprising account of the recent history of the north Indian city of Banaras. Supplementing traditional accounts, which have focused upon the city’s religious imaginary, this volume brings together essays written by acknowledged experts in north Indian culture and history to examine the construction of diverse urban identities in, and after, the British colonial period. Drawing on fields such as archaeology, literature, history, and architecture, these accounts of Banaras understand the narratives which inscribe the city as having been forged substantially in the experiences of British rule. But while British rule transformed the city in many respects, the essays also emphasize the importance of Indian agency in these processes. The book also examines the essential ambiguity of modernization schemes in the city as well as the contingency of elements of religious narrative. The introduction, moreover, attempts to resituate Banaras into a wider tradition of urban studies in South Asia. The book will be of interest to not only scholars and students of north Indian culture and urban history, but also anyone looking to gain a deeper appreciation of this remarkable, and complex, city.
Author : Kama Maclean
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195338942
Kama Maclean covers the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India, which is not merely a major Hindu religious pilgrimage but the largest religious gathering in the world.
Author : Nita Kumar
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400886999
Nita Kumar offers an evocative and sensitive portrayal of rarely explored aspects of Hindu culture through her analysis of the way leisure time is used by Hindu and Muslim artisans of Banaras--the weavers, metalworkers, and woodworkers. Music, festivals, the place of physical culture, and the importance of going "to the outer side" all are examined as Kumar looks at changes that have occurred in leisure-time activities over the last century. The discussion raises questions of the cultural and conceptual aspects of working-class life, the role of fun and play in Indian thought, the importance of public activities in terms of personal identity, and the meaning of an Indian city to its residents. This analysis turns away from the usual models of Hindu-Muslim conflict by seeing divisions based on occupation, income level, education, and urban neighborhood as more relevant for the construction of identity than those based on religion or community. Kumar draws her information from police station records, Hindi newspapers and periodicals, publications of local individuals and organizations, oral history, and ethnographic data. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Ravi Nandan Singh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780192864284
The work is an anthropological analysis of death and the dead, which attempts a significant reworking of the idea of death that is prevalent in Hinduism.
Author : Matthew Clark
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047410027
This book provides an account of the organisation, practices and history of the Daśanāmī-Saṃnyāsīs, one of the largest sects of sādhu-s (‘holy men’) in South Asia, founded, according to tradtion, by the legendary philosopher Śaṅkarācārya.
Author : Baidyanath Saraswati
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Hindu shrines
ISBN : 8210379456XXX