The Many Faces Of A Himalayan Goddess

Author : Ehud Halperin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190913588

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The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess by Ehud Halperin Pdf

"This book offers a portrait of Haḍimbā, a primary village goddess in the Kullu Valley of the West Indian Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, a rural area known as the Land of God. Drawing on diverse ethnographic and textual materials The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess is rich with myths and tales, accounts of dramatic rituals and festivals, and descriptions of everyday life in the celebrated but remote Kullu Valley. The book portrays the goddess in varying contexts that radiate outward from her temple to local, regional, national, and indeed global spheres. The result is an important contribution to the study of Indian village goddesses, lived Hinduism, Himalayan Hinduism, and the rapidly growing field of religion and ecology"--

Author : Ehud Halperin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190913595

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The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess by Ehud Halperin Pdf

Hadimba is a primary village goddess in the Kullu Valley of the West Indian Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, a rural area known as the Land of Gods. As the book shows, Hadimba is a goddess whose vitality reveals itself in her devotees' rapidly changing encounters with local and far from local players, powers, and ideas. These include invading royal forces, colonial forms of knowledge, and more recently the onslaught of modernity, capitalism, tourism, and ecological change. Hadimba has provided her worshipers with discursive, ritual, and ideological arenas within which they reflect on, debate, give meaning to, and sometimes resist these changing realities, and she herself has been transformed in the process. Drawing on diverse ethnographic and textual materials gathered in the region from 2009 to 2017, The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess is rich with myths and tales, accounts of dramatic rituals and festivals, and descriptions of everyday life in the celebrated but remote Kullu Valley. The book employs an interdisciplinary approach to tell the story of Hadimba from the ground up, or rather, from the center out, portraying the goddess in varying contexts that radiate outward from her temple to local, regional, national, and indeed global spheres. The result is an important contribution to the study of Indian village goddesses, lived Hinduism, Himalayan Hinduism, and the rapidly growing field of religion and ecology.

Author : Ehud Halperin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Himachal Pradesh (India)
ISBN : 0190913614

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The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess by Ehud Halperin Pdf

This text offers a portrait of Hadimba, a primary village goddess in the Kullu Valley of the West Indian Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh. Drawing on diverse ethnographic and textual materials 'The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess' is rich with myths and tales, accounts of dramatic rituals and festivals, and descriptions of everyday life in the celebrated but remote Kullu Valley. The result is an important contribution to the study of Indian village goddesses, lived Hinduism, Himalayan Hinduism, and the rapidly growing field of religion and ecology.

Author : William Sturman Sax
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0195064321

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Mountain Goddess by William Sturman Sax Pdf

Through the cold snows of the Central Himalayas, gods and goddesses are regularly taken on ritual processions from village to village. Nandadevi, one of the most popular goddesses, is worshipped by peasant Hindus in almost every village in the high-altitude districts where India, Nepal, and Tibet meet. This elegant study follows an arduous pilgrimage over the Himalayan ice fields to uncover the reasons for the popularity of this bloodthirsty goddess. Sax discovers that Nandadevi's appeal stems from that fact that her mythology parallels the life-courses of the local peasant women: her ritual procession imitates their annual journey to the village of their birth. Demonstrating that daughters' bonds with their natal homes are so significant that they thematically dominate their religious complex, Sax argues that the Garwhali religious culture actually nurtures the social antagonism that exists between wife-givers and wife-takers throughout North India.

Author : Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190844554

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Reciting the Goddess by Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz Pdf

Reciting the Goddess presents the first critical study of the Svasthanivratakatha (SVK), a sixteenth-century Hindu narrative textual tradition. The extensive SVK manuscript tradition offers a rare opportunity to observe the making of a specific, distinct Hindu religious tradition. Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz argues that the SVK serves as a lens through which we can observe the creation of modern 'Hinduism' in the Himalayas, as the text both mirrored and informed key moments in the self-conscious creation of Nepal as the 'world's only Hindu kingdom' in the late medieval and early modern period. Birkenholtz mines the literary historiography that is contained within the SVK text itself, chronicling the text's literary and narrative development as well as the development of the Svasthani goddess tradition. She outlines the process whereby the SVK gradually transformed into a Purana text, and became a critical source for Nepali Hindu belief and identity. She also examines the elusive character of the goddess Svasthani whose identity is tied to the pan-Hindu goddess tradition, and the representation of women in the SVK and the ways in which the text influenced local and regional debates on the ideal of Hindu womanhood. Reciting the Goddess presents Nepal's celebrated SVK as a micro-level illustration of the powerful ways in which people, place, and literature intersect to produce new ideas and concepts of identity and place, even in a historically non-literate culture.

Author : Daniel B. Haber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Goddesses
ISBN : 8173031258

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Himalayan Pantheon by Daniel B. Haber Pdf

Contents Covers- Chapter 1. Hindu Gods, 2. Hindu Goddesses, 3. Buddhist Deities, 4. Buddhist Goddesses, 5. Hybrid Hindu/ Buddhist And Tantrik Deities.

Author : D. B. Haber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0785575952

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Himalayan Pantheon by D. B. Haber Pdf

Author : Rameśa Pokhariyāla Niśaṅka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Chamoli District (India)
ISBN : 8177699857

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Himalayan Mahakumbh by Rameśa Pokhariyāla Niśaṅka Pdf

Author : Deepak Shimkhada,Phyllis K. Herman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Asia
ISBN : 1443811343

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The Constant and Changing Faces of the Goddess by Deepak Shimkhada,Phyllis K. Herman Pdf

The Constant and Changing Faces of the Goddess: Goddess Traditions of Asia contains essays written by established scholars in the field that trace the multiplicity of Asian goddesses: their continuities, discontinuities, and importance as symbols of wisdom, power, transformation, compassion, destruction, and creation. The essays demonstrate that while treatments of the goddess may vary regionally, culturally, and historically, it is possible to note some consistencies in the overall picture of the goddess in Asia. The book provides a comprehensive treatment of the goddess, culminating in the selections that draw from research on Indian, Nepali, Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese traditions, seldom found in other works of similar subject. The volume will be useful for students in religious studies, gender studies, Asian studies, and women's studies. With the intent of making the volume truly broad in scope, an effort has been made to include works written by art historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and religious studies scholars. Culture cannot be separated from religion; they are intertwined as an organic whole, and variations manifest themselves in the rituals and daily lives of the people. In this sense, all the essays are interconnected: the goddess manifests in many forms and appeals to differing aspects of a particular culture as a paradigm of the divine feminine.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11459303

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The Journal of Indian Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Art
ISBN : NYPL:33433115230132

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Journal of Indian Art and Industry by Anonim Pdf

Author : Deepak Shimkhada,Phyllis K. Herman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Asia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131696325

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The Constant and Changing Faces of the Goddess by Deepak Shimkhada,Phyllis K. Herman Pdf

The Constant and Changing Faces of the Goddess: Goddess Traditions of Asia contains essays written by established scholars in the field that trace the multiplicity of Asian goddesses: their continuities, discontinuities, and importance as symbols of wisdom, power, transformation, compassion, destruction, and creation. The essays demonstrate that while treatments of the goddess may vary regionally, culturally, and historically, it is possible to note some consistencies in the overall picture of the goddess in Asia. The book provides a comprehensive treatment of the goddess, culminating in the selections that draw from research on Indian, Nepali, Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese traditions, seldom found in other works of similar subject. The volume will be useful for students in religious studies, gender studies, Asian studies, and women's studies. With the intent of making the volume truly broad in scope, an effort has been made to include works written by art historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and religious studies scholars. Culture cannot be separated from religion; they are intertwined as an organic whole, and variations manifest themselves in the rituals and daily lives of the people. In this sense, all the essays are interconnected: the goddess manifests in many forms and appeals to differing aspects of a particular culture as a paradigm of the divine feminine.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015078435644

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Sainik Samachar by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat,Ian Mabbett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Goddesses, Indic
ISBN : 192537730X

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Conceiving the Goddess by Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat,Ian Mabbett Pdf

Conceiving the Goddess is an exploration of goddess cults in South Asia that embodies research on South Asian goddesses in various disciplines. The theme running through all the contributions, with their multiple approaches and points of view, is the concept of appropriation, whereby one religious group adopts a religious belief or practice not formerly its own. What is the motivation behind this? Are such actions attempts to dominate, or to resist the domination of others, or to adapt to changing social circumstances - or perhaps simply to enrich the religious experience of a group's members? In examining these questions, Conceiving the Goddess considers a range of settings: a Jain goddess lurking in a Brahminical temple, the fraught relationship between the humble Camār caste and the river goddess Gaṅgā, the mutual appropriation of disciple and goddess in the tantric exercises of Kashmiri Śaivism, and the alarming self-decapitation of the fierce goddess Chinnamastā

Author : Sree Padma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199325047

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Vicissitudes of the Goddess by Sree Padma Pdf

This book provides a detailed history of Hindu goddess traditions with a special focus on the local goddesses of Andhra Pradesh, past and present. The antiquity and the evolution of these goddess traditions are illustrated and documented with the help of archaeological reports, literary sources, inscriptions and art. Tracing the symbols and images of goddess into the brahmanical (Saiva and Vaisnava), Buddhist, and Jaina religious traditions, the book argues effectively how and with what motivations goddesses and their symbolizations were appropriated and transformed. The book also examines the evolution of popular Hindu goddesses such as Durga and Kali, discussing their tribal and agricultural backgrounds. It also deals extensively with how and in what circumstances women are deified and shows how these deified women cults share characteristics with the village goddesses.