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Author : Nirmal Trikha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Faith in literature
ISBN : UCAL:B3897411
Comprehensive survey of faiths and beliefs in the Kathāsaritsāgara, work of Indic tales, by Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, 11th century Sanskrit poet.
Author : Christi A. Merrill
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780823229574
Can the subaltern joke? Christi A. Merrill answers by invoking riddling, oral-based fictions from Hindi, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, and Urdu that dare to laugh at what traditions often keep hidden-whether spouse abuse, ethnic violence, or the uncertain legacies of a divinely wrought sex change. Herself a skilled translator, Merrill uses these examples to investigate the expectation that translated work should allow the non-English-speaking subaltern to speak directly to the English-speaking reader. She plays with the trope of speaking to argue against treating a translated text as property, as a singular material object to be "carried across" (as trans-latus implies.) She refigures translation as a performative "telling in turn," from the Hindi word anuvad, to explain how a text might be multiply possessed. She thereby challenges the distinction between "original" and "derivative," fundamental to nationalist and literary discourse, humoring our melancholic fixation on what is lost. Instead, she offers strategies for playing along with the subversive wit found in translated texts. Sly jokes and spirited double entendres, she suggests, require equally spirited double hearings. The playful lessons offered by these narratives provide insight into the networks of transnational relations connecting us across a sea of differences. Generations of multilingual audiences in India have been navigating this "Ocean of the Stream of Stories" since before the 11th century, arriving at a fluid sense of commonality across languages. Salman Rushdie is not the first to pose crucial questions of belonging by telling a version of this narrative: the work of non-English-language writers like Vijay Dan Detha, whose tales are at the core of this book, asks what responsibilities we have to make the rights and wrongs of these fictions come alive "age after age."
Author : Somadeva Bhaṭṭa
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Folk literature, Indic
ISBN : 0140247211
The Vast Ocean Of Stories That Influenced Storytelling The World Over The Kathasaritasagara Is Said To Have Been Compiled By A Kashmiri Saivite Brahmin Called Somadeva In Ad 1070, Although The Date Has Not Been Conclusively Established. Legend Has It That Somadeva Composed The Kathasaritasagara For Queen Suryavati, Wife Of King Anantadeva Who Ruled Kashmir In The Eleventh Century. The Stories In This Book Are Retold From Ten Of The Eighteen Books Of The Original Kathasaritasagara. The Most Remarkable Feature Of The Kathasaritasagara Is That Unlike Other Texts Of The Time, It Offers No Moral Conclusions, No Principles To Live By And Is Throughout A Celebration Of Earthly Life. The Tale Of Naravahanadatta, The Prince Of The Vidyadharas, The Sky-Dwellers With Magical Powers, Comprises The Main Narrative And Is Used As An Outer Frame To Introduce The Stories In The Text. Promiscuous Married Women And Clever Courtesans, Imbecile Brahmins, Incompetent Kings And Wise Ministers, Wicked Mendicants And Holy Ascetics, Cursed Men And Men Who Are Granted Boons, Evil Non-Human Creatures And Friendly Magical Beings, All Jostle For Attention In Arshia Sattar S Masterful Translation Of This Timeless Collection Of Tales.
Author : Yudit Kornberg Greenberg,George Pati
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000834666
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body is the first comprehensive volume to feature multireligious cross-cultural perspectives on the body and embodiment. Featuring multidisciplinary approaches and methodologies from the humanities and the social sciences, it addresses the body and embodied religiosity in theological, ethical, and cultural contexts. Comprised of 30 chapters by a team of international contributors, the handbook is divided into four parts: Theology and Embodied Religiosity Gender, Sexuality, and Body Regulations Ritual and Performance Religion, Healing, and the Future of the Body Each part examines central issues, debates, and problems in relation to global belief systems, including embodiments of love, transfiguration, the secular body, disability, body language, maternal bodies, embodied emotions, celibacy, ecology and the body, reshaping the corporal body, initiation rites, physiology, Tantra, Reiki practice, religious experience, technological body modifications, and ethics and the body. Providing a breadth of rich and innovative research, it is a must-read for students and scholars in religious studies, theology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and cultural and gender studies. Chapter 7 of this book is 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 : Muzhou Pu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004171527
The central theme of this volume is to re-examine the received concepts and images of ghosts in various religious cultures ranging from the Ancient Near East and Egypt to the Old Testament, the Classical Era, Early Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Early India, and Medieval China. As a religious phenomenon, the realm of ghosts has been less studied than the realm of the divine. Through a collaborative effort by scholars from different disciplines, this volume proposes a multi-cultural approach to construct a wider and complicated picture of the phenomenon of ghosts and spirits in human societies and to have a grasp of the various problems involved in understanding the phenomenon of ghost.
Author : Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1550 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : South Asia
ISBN : IND:30000114652062
Author : K. Venkateswara Sarma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : UCBK:C100667680
Author : Jan Assmann,Albert I. Baumgartner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004379121
The role of representation in religion is complex. While often perceived as essential, it is also associated in many traditions with the liability of idolatry and provokes iconoclasm. The essays in this volume examine the nuances of representation in religion and the debate concerning its place across a variety of traditions from the three Abrahamic faiths, to those of antiquity and the East. This volume consists of presentations made at an international conference held in honor of Moshe Barasch, art historian and cultural critic, who has done much to elucidate the light which representation and religion shed on each other. It pays tribute to Barasch by expanding the base of understanding and insight he has erected. It should be of interest to students of religion and of art history.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Asia
ISBN : NWU:35556038353322
Author : Manohar Laxman Varadpande
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0391027948
It Is An Indepth Study Of The Unique Multi-Dimensional Relationship That Exists Between Theatre And Religion. It Examines Evidence Seen In Ancient Cave Paintings, Folk And Tribal Rituals, Inscriptions, Religious Scriptures And Theatrical Forms Themselves.
Author : Jean Filliozat
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 8120807189
Author : John R. Hinnells,Roy Porter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136175787
First Published in 1999. The interaction between religion and medicine is universal throughout recorded history. They meet at the great turning points of life: at birth, at moments of acute suffering and at death. Not only are priest and doctor often needed at the same time and place, the two roles have also been combined in ancient and modem societies. This volume looks at whether healers and religions have worked in harmony or been in conflict, as well as their frequent and substantive interaction. An International Workshop lies behind this volume and one of the distinctive features of this project is that it brought together scholars of religion, historians of medicine, anthropologists and medical practitioners.
Author : Bolle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004377998
Preliminary Material /Kees W. Bolle and Mircea Eliade -- Preface /Mircea Eliade -- Foreword /Kees W. Bolle -- Introduction: Tantrism Within the Perspective of the History of Religions /Kees W. Bolle and Mircea Eliade -- The “Orthodox” Praehistory /Kees W. Bolle and Mircea Eliade -- The “Unorthodox” Praehistory /Kees W. Bolle and Mircea Eliade -- Tantra and Tantrism /Kees W. Bolle and Mircea Eliade -- Śrī Aurobindo /Kees W. Bolle and Mircea Eliade -- The Persistence of Religion /Kees W. Bolle and Mircea Eliade -- Bibliography /Kees W. Bolle and Mircea Eliade.
Author : Gonda
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004645042
Author : Andrea Acri,Paolo E. Rosati
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000686449
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.