Dealing with Deities - 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 Dealing with Deities write by Selva J. Raj. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Dealing with Deities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Dealing with Dieties
Dealing with Dieties - 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 Dealing with Dieties write by Raven Kaldera. This book was released on 2012. Dealing with Dieties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Hekate
Hekate - 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 Hekate write by Sorita D'Este. This book was released on 2010. Hekate available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of devotional essays on working with Hekate.
Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses
Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses - 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 Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses write by Michael Jordan. This book was released on 2014-05-14. Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents brief entries describing the gods and goddesses from the mythology and religion of a wide variety of cultures throughout history.
Religion of the Gods
Religion of the Gods - 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 Religion of the Gods write by Kimberley Christine Patton. This book was released on 2009-02-09. Religion of the Gods available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In many of the world's religions, both polytheistic and monotheistic, a seemingly enigmatic and paradoxical image is found--that of the god who worships. Various interpretations of this seeming paradox have been advanced. Some suggest that it represents sacrifice to a higher deity. Proponents of anthropomorphic projection say that the gods are just "big people" and that images of human religious action are simply projected onto the deities. However, such explanations do not do justice to the complexity and diversity of this phenomenon. In Religion of the Gods, Kimberley C. Patton uses a comparative approach to take up anew a longstanding challenge in ancient Greek religious iconography: why are the Olympian gods depicted on classical pottery making libations? The sacrificing gods in ancient Greece are compared to gods who perform rituals in six other religious traditions: the Vedic gods, the heterodox god Zurvan of early Zoroastrianism, the Old Norse god Odin, the Christian God and Christ, the God of Judaism, and Islam's Allah. Patton examines the comparative evidence from a cultural and historical perspective, uncovering deep structural resonances while also revealing crucial differences. Instead of looking for invisible recipients or lost myths, Patton proposes the new category of "divine reflexivity." Divinely performed ritual is a self-reflexive, self-expressive action that signals the origin of ritual in the divine and not the human realm. Above all, divine ritual is generative, both instigating and inspiring human religious activity. The religion practiced by the gods is both like and unlike human religious action. Seen from within the religious tradition, gods are not "big people," but other than human. Human ritual is directed outward to a divine being, but the gods practice ritual on their own behalf. "Cultic time," the symbiotic performance of ritual both in heaven and on earth, collapses the distinction between cult and theology each time ritual is performed. Offering the first comprehensive study and a new theory of this fascinating phenomenon, Religion of the Gods is a significant contribution to the fields of classics and comparative religion. Patton shows that the god who performs religious action is not an anomaly, but holds a meaningful place in the category of ritual and points to a phenomenologically universal structure within religion itself.
