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Author : Nandadeva Wijesekera
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Healing
ISBN : UOM:39015025210025
Beliefs and customs of Sri Lanka.
Author : Kenneth Macgowan,Herman Rosse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Demonology
ISBN : IND:30000007100401
Author : Theresa Bane
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780786488940
This exhaustive volume catalogs nearly three thousand demons in the mythologies and lore of virtually every ancient society and most religions. From Aamon, the demon of life and reproduction with the head of a serpent and the body of a wolf in Christian demonology, to Zu, the half-man, half-bird personification of the southern wind and thunder clouds in Sumero-Akkadian mythology, entries offer descriptions of each demon's origins, appearance and cultural significance. Also included are descriptions of the demonic and diabolical members making up the hierarchy of Hell and the numerous species of demons that, according to various folklores, mythologies, and religions, populate the earth and plague mankind. Very thoroughly indexed.
Author : Paul H. De Neui
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780878089383
Buddhism claims no god, yet spiritual realities abound in popular practice. What are these realities? What do they mean to the practitioners? How can understanding these realities inform Christ-followers seeking to communicate the good news of Jesus in ways that all can understand and relate to? In answer to these and other questions, SEANET proudly presents its twelfth volume, Seeking the Unseen: Spiritual Realities in the Buddhist World. Christian practitioners from thirteen different Buddhist cultures share insights gained from their wideranging experiences and perspectives. From Sri Lanka to Japan, from China to the Philippines, these women and men, Asian and Western, present on a topic that is often missing in mission literature today. And for readers seeking personal insight into the growing spiritual complexities of their own place in the postmodern world, lessons from these authors will guide you with practical principles from engaging, firsthand cultural encounters.
Author : Achala Gunasekara-Rockwell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000630862
This book examines the worship of devas and demons in Sri Lanka, illustrating how diverse influences interacted to create the Sinhala Buddhist cosmology. The work explains the processes by which apotheosis plays an important role in revitalizing that cosmology. The author offers an examination of holy sites associated with the worship of Hūniyam. These sacred spaces each have a unique background historically, and the ritualists associated with these sites have divergent understandings concerning Hūniyam. Building upon the examination of the temples, the book delves into the iconography of Hūniyam, illustrating his transformation from demon to deity in the manner that he is depicted in imagery associated with his worship. The book moves to a discussion of Aritṭ ạ Kivenḍu Perumāl, a South Indian adventurer, demonstrating the likelihood that he is the historical figure later apotheosized as Hūniyam. Sri Lankan society felt his impact so strongly that in death he became a demon in the Sinhala Buddhist cosmology. Finally, the book demonstrates that the same apotheosis processes are at work today. This book will be of interest to researchers and students engaged in the study of religion, anthropology, folklore, and history, specifically in the South Asian context.
Author : Liz Wilson
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791456773
Explores the social treatment of death in South Asian religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and other traditions. Includes material on women and marginalized groups.
Author : Joseph Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Mythology
ISBN : UCSC:32106014325366
Includes information on the Aranda peoples, attitude toward death, initiation, medicine men and women in ceremonies; Karara legend; bandicoot legend.
Author : Isabelle Nabokov
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195354362
This book provides a holistic description of Hinduism, showing how different types of Hinduism form a "total" or systematic cosmology and repeat crucial values through different symbols. Looking at Tamil religious practices, Isabelle Nabokov reveals that Tamil religion is primarily concerned with transformations of identity and subjectivity, both in this world and in the hereafter.
Author : Alison Arnold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1126 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351544382
In this volume, sixty-eight of the world's leading authorities explore and describe the wide range of musics of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Kashmir, Nepal and Afghanistan. Important information about history, religion, dance, theater, the visual arts and philosophy as well as their relationship to music is highlighted in seventy-six in-depth articles.
Author : Suman Fernando
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350313132
This powerful text offers a unique analysis of the impact of race and culture on contemporary issues in mental health. Drawing on extensive international experience, Fernando challenges the traditional ideas that inform practice in clinical psychology and psychiatry in order to promote new and alternative ways of thinking. Covering both theoretical perspectives and practical implications, this insightful text discusses perceptions of ethnicity and identity, compares practices around the world and looks at racism in mental health services. This fully revised, expanded and updated edition of a seminal text offers students and practitioners alike a comprehensive and reliable study of both western and non-western psychiatry and mental health practices. New to this Edition: - Covers trauma and psychosocial support - Looks at the new discourses in mental health of recovery, spirituality and well-being - Examines the mental health of refugees - Refers to specific developments in low-income countries, including Asia and Africa
Author : Thera Mahanama-sthavira
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Sri Lanka
ISBN : 9780895819062
Author : Nirekha De Silva
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781527531635
This book showcases the diverse range of healing cultures, and explores how government action can have an impact through determining, promoting, protecting or destroying traditional cultural aspects of healing and wellbeing, based on a case study of Sri Lanka. It argues that diverse forms of healing practices matter not only because of their value in the health and wellbeing of the community, but also because they strongly contribute towards the intangible cultural heritage of the country. Identifying the diverse forms of healing practices existing in the country and the role of the existing regulatory mechanisms determines the potential for protecting the diversity of healing. Despite Sri Lanka being historically rich in traditional knowledge and expression, very little, if anything, has been written on regulating traditional practices related to health and wellbeing in the country, a lacuna which this volume fills.
Author : Karel van der Toorn,Bob Becking,Pieter Willem van der Horst
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802824919
The Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (DDD) is the single major reference work on the gods, angels, demons, spirits, and semidivine heroes whose names occur in the biblical books. Book jacket.
Author : Nandadeva Wijesekera
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Sinhalese
ISBN : UOM:39015029747246
Author : Carolyn North
Publisher : Sentient Publications
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781591810520
Ecstatic Relations is a memoir of delicious love stories, a metaphor for the universal law of attraction, a way of discussing the relationship between science and spirit, a metaphor for the evolution of consciousness and a meditation on cosmic consciousness, wherein everything in the universe is interconnected, dynamic, and ultimately whole. Through the author s love for her wounded childhood dog, her passionate encounters with men and women, gay and straight, young and old, and her relationship to the husband with whom she has been bonded for decades, we get a glimpse into the Mystery of which we are all a part.