Author: Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's sons. 1895.
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Category : Aryans
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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Author: Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin
Publisher:
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Category : Hindu mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Author: Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN:
Category : Gods, Vedic
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Author: Karen Pechilis Prentiss
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195351908
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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This book offers an interpretive history of bhakti, an influential religious perspective in Hinduism. Prentiss argues that although bhakti is mentioned in every contemporary sourcebook on Indian religions, it still lacks an agreed-upon definition. "Devotion" is found to be the most commonly used synonym. Prentiss seeks a new perspective on this elusive concept. Her analysis of Tamil (south Indian) materials leads her to suggest that bhakti be understood as a doctrine of embodiment. Bhakti, she says, urges people towards active engagement in the worship of God. She proposes that the term "devotion" be replaced by "participation," emphasizing bhakti's call for engagement in worship and the necessity of embodiment to fulfill that obligation.

Author: Karen Pechilis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195128133
Category : Bakhti in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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In this interpretive history of bhakti, both chronicle and comparison are used to identify and analyze bhakti as understood by various Tamil Siva-bhakti authors and authorities."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Barbara A. Holdrege
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131766910X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 489

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The historical shift from Vedic traditions to post-Vedic bhakti (devotional) traditions is accompanied by a shift from abstract, translocal notions of divinity to particularized, localized notions of divinity and a corresponding shift from aniconic to iconic traditions and from temporary sacrificial arenas to established temple sites. In Bhakti and Embodiment Barbara Holdrege argues that the various transformations that characterize this historical shift are a direct consequence of newly emerging discourses of the body in bhakti traditions in which constructions of divine embodiment proliferate, celebrating the notion that a deity, while remaining translocal, can appear in manifold corporeal forms in different times and different localities on different planes of existence. Holdrege suggests that an exploration of the connections between bhakti and embodiment is critical not only to illuminating the distinctive transformations that characterize the emergence of bhakti traditions but also to understanding the myriad forms that bhakti has historically assumed up to the present time. This study is concerned more specifically with the multileveled models of embodiment and systems of bodily practices through which divine bodies and devotional bodies are fashioned in Krsna bhakti traditions and focuses in particular on two case studies: the Bhagavata Purana, the consummate textual monument to Vaisnava bhakti, which expresses a distinctive form of passionate and ecstatic bhakti that is distinguished by its embodied nature; and the Gaudiya Vaisnava tradition, an important bhakti tradition inspired by the Bengali leader Caitanya in the sixteenth century, which articulates a robust discourse of embodiment pertaining to the divine bodies of Krsna and the devotional bodies of Krsna bhaktas that is grounded in the canonical authority of the Bhagavata Purana.

Author: Ian Copland
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136459502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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Offering the first long-duration analysis of the relationship between the state and religion in South Asia, this book looks at the nature and origins of Indian secularism. It interrogates the proposition that communalism in India is wholly a product of colonial policy and modernisation, questions whether the Indian state has generally been a benign, or disruptive, influence on public religious life, and evaluates the claim that the region has spawned a culture of practical toleration. The book is structured around six key arenas of interaction between state and religion: cow worship and sacrifice, control of temples and shrines, religious festivals and processions, proselytising and conversion, communal riots, and religious teaching/doctrine and family law. It offers a challenging argument about the role of the state in religious life in a historical continuum, and identifies points of similarity and contrast between periods and regimes. The book makes a significant contribution to the literature on South Asian History and Religion.

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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: Princeton Forum on Asian Indian Ministries (U.S.). Consultation (2009 : Princeton)
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0981987826
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 221

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Author: Gaile Walker
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1846948401
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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What exactly is enlightenment and how can this state of awareness be achieved without struggle? These are the most important questions that members of the New-Age movement currently face and this is the book which answers them. As the mind-body-spirit consciousness that has emerged from the New-Age movement begins to permeate mainstream awareness, it sends out a plea: that this movement examines, and accepts, the limitations of its present practices. This book is a calling, written to stir the reader from slumber and to invite them ‘home’ in the fastest way possible. It teaches how healing and meditation practices will be made more spiritually expanding - and so more safe and effective - by adopting a ‘consciousness-first’ approach. ,