Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees write by Alf Hiltebeitel. This book was released on 1989-09-21. Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Hindu sacred order is guarded by the very gods who violate it and the demons who oppose it. This book is a who's who of such transgressive figures, both familiar and unfamiliar, showing their place within the Hindu order that they violate. It is also a reflection of the serious scholarly debate over the nature and composition of this Hindu order. The chapters range from pan-Hindu deities such as Bhairava and Virabhadra to guardian gods of specific regions and lineages and of different goddess cults. Chapters cover violent themes in SAaivite hagiography, the position of Brahmans in relation to cultic carnivorism, guardian heroes in folk epic, the deified dead, the royal mythology of a "criminal caste," and a wide-ranging overview of transgressive sacrality.
Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees
Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees write by Alf Hiltebeitel. This book was released on 1989-01-01. Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Hindu sacred order is guarded by the very gods who violate it and the demons who oppose it. This book is a who's who of such transgressive figures, both familiar and unfamiliar, showing their place within the Hindu order that they violate. It is also a reflection of the serious scholarly debate over the nature and composition of this Hindu order. The chapters range from pan-Hindu deities such as Bhairava and Virabhadra to guardian gods of specific regions and lineages and of different goddess cults. Chapters cover violent themes in SAaivite hagiography, the position of Brahmans in relation to cultic carnivorism, guardian heroes in folk epic, the deified dead, the royal mythology of a "criminal caste," and a wide-ranging overview of transgressive sacrality.
Thaipusam in Malaysia
Thaipusam in Malaysia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thaipusam in Malaysia write by Carl Vadivella Belle. This book was released on 2018-02-14. Thaipusam in Malaysia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the festival of Thaipusam in terms of its own inner dynamics - the traditions and belief structures which ensure the festival's continuing relevance to Malaysian Hindus. It argues that Thaipusam reflects a growing sense of Hindu identity in Malaysia and an as yet inchoate unity. It contends that while the kavadi ritual provides profound meaning at the individual and group level, Thaipusam furnishes a public arena for and gives expression to a powerful Hindu resurgence, largely, though not exclusively, fuelled by Dravidian assertiveness. In situating the festival within the context of a Malaysia dominated by Malay and Islamic power brokers, a society in which both the Indian community and Hinduism are relegated to the margins, the book explores the festival of Thaipusam as a vehicle for mobilization of religious symbols and values which not only simultaneously articulate ethnicity and thus resist the forces which threaten cultural and religious integrity, but which also ultimately signal wider allegiances to the broader politico-cultural world of an imagined, immeasurably rich, and enduring Indo-Hindu civilization.
Śiva's Demon Devotee
Śiva's Demon Devotee - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Śiva's Demon Devotee write by Elaine Craddock. This book was released on 2010-04-20. Śiva's Demon Devotee available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An exploration and translation of the work of Hindu poet-saint Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār.
A New God in the Diaspora?
A New God in the Diaspora? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A New God in the Diaspora? write by Vineeta Sinha. This book was released on 2005. A New God in the Diaspora? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New God examines the worship of a Hindu deity known as Muneeswaran in contemporary Singapore. Sinha's exploration provides an ethnographic documentation of urban-based Hindu religiosity in contemporary Singapore and makes an important contribution to the global study of religion in the diasporas.
