Author: Eyre Chatterton
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Category : Chota NÄgpur (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Story of Fifty Years' Mission Work in Chhota Nagpur
Report of the Year ... of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
Author: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 269
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Two Hundred Years of the S.P.G.
Author: Charles Frederick Pascoe
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Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls
Author: June McDaniel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195347137
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
The Indian state of West Bengal is home to one of the world's most vibrant traditions of goddess worship. The year's biggest holidays are devoted to the goddesses Durga and Kali, with lavish rituals, decorated statues, fireworks, and parades. In Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls, June McDaniel provides a broad, accessibly written overview of Bengali goddess worship. McDaniel identifies three major forms of goddess worship, and examines each through its myths, folklore, songs, rituals, sacred texts, and practitioners. In the folk/tribal strand, which is found in rural areas, local tribal goddesses are worshipped alongside Hindu goddesses, with an emphasis on possession, healing, and animism. The tantric/yogic strand focuses on ritual, meditation, and visualization as ways of experiencing the power of the goddess directly. The devotional or bhakti strand, which is the most popular form, involves the intense love and worship of a particular form of the goddess. McDaniel traces these strands through Bengali culture and explores how they are interwoven with each other as well as with other forms of Hinduism. She also discusses how these practices have been reinterpreted in the West, where goddess worship has gained the values of sexual freedom and psychological healing, but lost its emphases on devotion and asceticism. Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls takes the reader inside the lives of practicing Shaktas, including holy women, hymn singers, philosophers, visionaries, gurus, ascetics, healers, musicians, and businessmen, and offers vivid descriptions of their rituals, practices, and daily lives. Drawing on years of fieldwork and extensive research, McDaniel paints a rich, expansive portrait of this fascinating religious tradition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195347137
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
The Indian state of West Bengal is home to one of the world's most vibrant traditions of goddess worship. The year's biggest holidays are devoted to the goddesses Durga and Kali, with lavish rituals, decorated statues, fireworks, and parades. In Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls, June McDaniel provides a broad, accessibly written overview of Bengali goddess worship. McDaniel identifies three major forms of goddess worship, and examines each through its myths, folklore, songs, rituals, sacred texts, and practitioners. In the folk/tribal strand, which is found in rural areas, local tribal goddesses are worshipped alongside Hindu goddesses, with an emphasis on possession, healing, and animism. The tantric/yogic strand focuses on ritual, meditation, and visualization as ways of experiencing the power of the goddess directly. The devotional or bhakti strand, which is the most popular form, involves the intense love and worship of a particular form of the goddess. McDaniel traces these strands through Bengali culture and explores how they are interwoven with each other as well as with other forms of Hinduism. She also discusses how these practices have been reinterpreted in the West, where goddess worship has gained the values of sexual freedom and psychological healing, but lost its emphases on devotion and asceticism. Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls takes the reader inside the lives of practicing Shaktas, including holy women, hymn singers, philosophers, visionaries, gurus, ascetics, healers, musicians, and businessmen, and offers vivid descriptions of their rituals, practices, and daily lives. Drawing on years of fieldwork and extensive research, McDaniel paints a rich, expansive portrait of this fascinating religious tradition.
Empire Review
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 770
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 770
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The Church Quarterly Review
Author: Arthur Cayley Headlam
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Church Quarterly Review
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The Argosy
Author: Mrs. Henry Wood
Publisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
A magazine of tales, travels, essays, and poems.
Publisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
A magazine of tales, travels, essays, and poems.
Mission Field
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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