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Author : István Keul
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 28,76 MB
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004337180
The essays in the volume Consecration Rituals in South Asia address the ritual procedures that accompany the installation of temple images in Shaiva, Vaishnava, Buddhist and Jain contexts, in various traditions and historical periods.
Author : Jörg Gengnagel
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,19 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9783447051521
Words and Deeds is a collection of articles on rituals in South Asia with a special focus on their texts and context. The volume presupposes that a comprehensive definition of "ritual" does not exist. Instead, the papers in it avoid essentialist definitions, allowing for a possible polythetic definition of the concept to emerge. Papers in this volume include those on Initiation, Pre-Natal Rites, Religious Processions, Royal Consecration, Rituals which mark the commencement of ritual, Rituals of devotion and Vedic sacrifice as well as contributions which address the broader theoretical issues of engaging in the study of ritual texts and ritual practice, both from the etic and the emic perspective. These studies show that any study of the relationship between the text and the context of rituals must also allow for the possibility that different categories of performers can and do subjectively constitute the relationship between their ritual knowledge and ritual practice, between text and context in differing and nuanced ways.
Author : Selva J. Raj
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791482006
Drawing on original field research, Dealing with Deities explores the practice of taking ritual vows in the lives of ordinary religious practitioners in South Asia. The cornerstone of lay religious activity, vow rituals are adopted by Muslims, Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, Jains, and Sikhs who wish to commit themselves to ritually enacted relationships with sacred figures in order to gain earthly boons and spiritual merit. The contributors to this volume offer a fascinating look at the varieties and complexities of vows and also focus on a unique characteristic of this vow-taking culture, that of resorting to deities and shrines of other religions in defiance of institutional directives and religious boundaries. Richly illustrated, the book explores the creativity of South Asian devotees and their deeply felt convictions that what they require, they can achieve faithfully—and independently—by dealing directly with deities.
Author : Fabrizio Ferrari
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,21 MB
Release : 2011-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1136846298
Drawing on original fieldwork, this book develops a fresh methodological approach to the study of indigenous understandings of disease as possession, and looks at healing rituals in different South Asian cultural contexts. Contributors discuss the meaning of 'disease', 'possession' and 'healing' in relation to South Asian religions, including Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and Sikhism, and how South Asians deal with the divine in order to negotiate health and wellbeing. The book goes on to look at goddesses, gods and spirits as a cause and remedy of a variety of diseases, a study that has proved significant to the ethics and politics of responding to health issues. It contributes to a consolidation and promotion of indigenous ways as a method of understanding physical and mental imbalances through diverse conceptions of the divine. Chapters offer a fascinating overview of healing rituals in South Asia and provide a full-length, sustained discussion of the interface between religion, ritual, and folklore. The book presents a fresh insight into studies of Asian Religion and the History of Medicine.
Author : Anna Aleksandra Ślączka
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 16,98 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 900415843X
This book is a thorough study, based on both the textual and archaeological data, of the three important temple consecration rituals of the Hindu tradition.
Author : Shingo Einoo
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 28,12 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN :
This Collection Of Essays Based On The Study Of Vedic And Post-Vedic Texts, By Japanese Scholars Deals With The Subject Of Pratisha Ritual The Most Important Ritual In Hinduism Through Which An Image Changes From Material To A Deity.
Author : Tracy Pintchman
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1438459432
Explores how objects shape the worlds of religious participants across a range of South Asian traditions. Sacred Matters explores the lives of material objects in South Asian religions. Spanning a range of traditions including Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Buddhism, and Christianity, the book demonstrates how sacred items influence and enliven the worlds of religious participants across South Asia and into the diaspora. Contributors examine a variety of objects to describe the ways sacred materials derive and confer meaning and efficacy, emerging from and giving shape to religious and nonreligious realms alike. Material forms of deity and divine power are considered along with commonplace ritual items, including images, clay pots, and camphor. The work also attends to materialitys complex role within the materially suspicious contexts of Islam, Theravada Buddhism, and Roman Catholicism. This engaging collection presents new frameworks for contemplating the ways in which historical, social, and sacred processes intertwine and collectively shape human and divine activity.
Author : Geoffrey A. Oddie
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780700704217
These studies focus on questions of religious interaction and change in India from the sixth century B.C. to the present day. They represent the work of scholars in a range of disciplines and who are resident mostly in Australia
Author : Jörg Gengnagel
Publisher :
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,52 MB
Release : 2005
Category :
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Author : Pierre-Yves Manguin
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 47,39 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9814345105
This book takes stock of the results of some two decades of intensive archaeological research carried out on both sides of the Bay of Bengal, in combination with renewed approaches to textual sources and to art history. To improve our understanding of the trans-cultural process commonly referred to as Indianisation, it brings together specialists of both India and Southeast Asia, in a fertile inter-disciplinary confrontation. Most of the essays reappraise the millennium-long historiographic no-man's land during which exchanges between the two shores of the Bay of Bengal led, among other processes, to the Indianisation of those parts of the region that straddled the main routes of exchange. Some essays follow up these processes into better known "classical" times or even into modern times, showing that the localisation process of Indian themes has long remained at work, allowing local societies to produce their own social space and express their own ethos.