Author: William Ward
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Category : Hindu mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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A View of the History, Literature, and Mythology of the Hindoos: Including a Minute Description of Their Manners and Customs, and Translations from Their Principal Works ...
Author: William Ward
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Category : Hindu mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Publisher:
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Category : Hindu mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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History, Literature, and Mythology of the Hindoos
Author: William Ward
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Category : Hindu mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Category : Hindu mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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A View of the History, Literature, and Religion of the Hindoos
Author: William Ward
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Languages : en
Pages : 410
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William Ward's account of the Hindu communities among whom he served as a Baptist missionary in Serampore in West Bengal was first published in 1811 and reprinted in this third edition in 1817. It was an extremely influential work that shaped British views of the newly defined entity of 'Hinduism' in the early nineteenth century. Ward and his fellow missionaries promoted social reforms and education, establishing the Serampore Mission Press in 1800 and Serampore College in 1818. Ward devoted twenty years to compiling his study of Hindu literature, history, mythology and religion, which was eventually published in four volumes. It provided richly detailed information, and was regarded as authoritative for the next fifty years. It is therefore still an important source for researchers in areas including Indian history, British colonialism, Orientalism and religious studies. Volume 1 describes and categorises Hindu deities and objects of worship, celestial, terrestrial, animate and inanimate.
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Languages : en
Pages : 410
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William Ward's account of the Hindu communities among whom he served as a Baptist missionary in Serampore in West Bengal was first published in 1811 and reprinted in this third edition in 1817. It was an extremely influential work that shaped British views of the newly defined entity of 'Hinduism' in the early nineteenth century. Ward and his fellow missionaries promoted social reforms and education, establishing the Serampore Mission Press in 1800 and Serampore College in 1818. Ward devoted twenty years to compiling his study of Hindu literature, history, mythology and religion, which was eventually published in four volumes. It provided richly detailed information, and was regarded as authoritative for the next fifty years. It is therefore still an important source for researchers in areas including Indian history, British colonialism, Orientalism and religious studies. Volume 1 describes and categorises Hindu deities and objects of worship, celestial, terrestrial, animate and inanimate.
Bibliotheca Orientalis
Author: Luzac &co
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Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Languages : en
Pages : 78
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“A” View of the History, Literature, and Religion of the Hindoos
Author: William Ward
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Category : Hindu mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Category : Hindu mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Catalogue
Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial library
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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The Anglo-hindoostanee handbook [in 2 pts.].
Author: Anglo-Hindustani handbook
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Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art Based Chiefly on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855)
Author: Charles Mills Gayley
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Category : Mythology, Classical
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Category : Mythology, Classical
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Loving Stones
Author: David L. Haberman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190086742
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Loving Stones is a study of devotees' conceptions of and worshipful interactions with Mount Govardhan, a sacred mountain located in the Braj region of north-central India that has for centuries been considered an embodied form of Krishna. It is often said that worship of Mount Govardhan "makes the impossible possible." In this book, David L. Haberman examines the perplexing paradox of an infinite god embodied in finite form, wherein each particular form is non-different from the unlimited. He takes on the task of interpreting the worship of a mountain and its stones for a culture in which this practice is quite alien. This challenge involves exploring the interpretive strategies that may explain what seems un-understandable, and calls for theoretical considerations of incongruity, inconceivability, and other realms of the impossible. This aspect of the book includes critical consideration of the place and history of the pejorative concept of idolatry (and its twin, anthropomorphism) in the comparative study of religions. Loving Stones uses the worship of Mount Govardhan as a site to explore ways in which scholars engaged in the difficult work of representing other cultures struggle to make "the impossible possible."
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190086742
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Loving Stones is a study of devotees' conceptions of and worshipful interactions with Mount Govardhan, a sacred mountain located in the Braj region of north-central India that has for centuries been considered an embodied form of Krishna. It is often said that worship of Mount Govardhan "makes the impossible possible." In this book, David L. Haberman examines the perplexing paradox of an infinite god embodied in finite form, wherein each particular form is non-different from the unlimited. He takes on the task of interpreting the worship of a mountain and its stones for a culture in which this practice is quite alien. This challenge involves exploring the interpretive strategies that may explain what seems un-understandable, and calls for theoretical considerations of incongruity, inconceivability, and other realms of the impossible. This aspect of the book includes critical consideration of the place and history of the pejorative concept of idolatry (and its twin, anthropomorphism) in the comparative study of religions. Loving Stones uses the worship of Mount Govardhan as a site to explore ways in which scholars engaged in the difficult work of representing other cultures struggle to make "the impossible possible."
Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society
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Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Languages : en
Pages : 256
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