Divinizing in South Asian Traditions - 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 Divinizing in South Asian Traditions write by Diana Dimitrova. This book was released on 2018-06-14. Divinizing in South Asian Traditions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The issue of divinizing in South Asian traditions has not been examined before as a process involving various methods to affect the socio-cultural cognition of the community. It is therefore essential to consider the context of "divinizing" and to analyse what groups, institutions or individuals define the discourse, what are the ideological positions that they represent, and who or what is being divinized. This book deals with the issue of divinizing in South Asian traditions. It aims at studying cultural questions related to the representations and the mythologizing of the divine. It also explores the human relations to the "divine other." It studies the interpretations of the divine in religious texts and the embodiment of the "divine other" in ritual practices. The focus is on studying the phenomenon of divinizing in its religious, cultural, and ideological implications. The book comprises eight chapters that explore the question of divinizing from the 2nd century CE up to present-day in North and South India. The chapters discuss the issue both from insider and outsider perspectives, within the framework of textual study as well as ideological and anthropological analysis. All articles explore various aspects of the cultural phenomenon of being in relation to the divine other, of the process of interpreting and embodying the divine, and of the representation of the divinizing process, as revealed in the literatures and cultures of South Asia. Applying theoretical models of religious and cultural studies to discuss texts written in South Asian languages and engage in critical dialogue with current scholarship, this book is an indispensable study of literary, religious and cultural production in South Asia. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of South Asian studies, Asian Studies, religious and cultural studies as well as comparative religion.
Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions
Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions - 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 Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions write by Diana Dimitrova. This book was released on 2020-12-14. Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyses cultural questions related to representations of the body in South Asian traditions, human perceptions and attitudes toward the body in religious and cultural contexts, as well as the processes of interpreting notions of the body in religious and literary texts. Utilising an interdisciplinary perspective by means of textual study and ideological analysis, anthropological analysis, and phenomenological analysis, the book explores both insider- and outsider perspectives and issues related to the body from the 2nd century CE up to the present-day. Chapters assess various aspects of the body including processes of embodiment and questions of mythologizing the divine body and othering the human body, as revealed in the literatures and cultures of South Asia. The book analyses notions of mythologizing and "othering" of the body as a powerful ideological discourse, which empowers or marginalizes at all levels of the human condition. Offering a deep insight into the study of religion and issues of the body in South Asian literature, religion and culture, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of South Asian studies, South Asian religions, South Asian literatures, cultural studies, philosophy and comparative literature.
Consecration Rituals in South Asia
Consecration Rituals in South Asia - 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 Consecration Rituals in South Asia write by István Keul. This book was released on 2017-02-06. Consecration Rituals in South Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essays in the volume Consecration Rituals in South Asia address the ritual procedures that accompany the installation of temple images in Shaiva, Vaishnava, Buddhist and Jain contexts, in various traditions and historical periods.
Religious Traditions in South Asia
Religious Traditions in South Asia - 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 Religious Traditions in South Asia write by Geoffrey A. Oddie. This book was released on 1998. Religious Traditions in South Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These studies focus on questions of religious interaction and change in India from the sixth century B.C. to the present day. They represent the work of scholars in a range of disciplines and who are resident mostly in Australia
Cultural Identity in Hindi Plays
Cultural Identity in Hindi Plays - 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 Cultural Identity in Hindi Plays write by Diana Dimitrova. This book was released on 2022-10-15. Cultural Identity in Hindi Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book deals with the interface between identity, culture and literature. It aims at studying questions of cultural identity and gender in Hindi plays of the 19th- and 20th- centuries and the interplay of poetics and politics, as revealed in the work of several influential playwrights. The book explores questions related to the ways in which seven representative playwrights imagine India and its identity and the ways, in which this concept is revealed in the "narratives of the nation", its postcolonial contentions and the politics of identity, as revealed in the production of various cultural discourses. The chapters explore various aspects of the ongoing process of constructing and narrating culture, gender, the nation and identity. There has been no monograph on the questions of cultural identity in Hindi drama. This is a pioneering project and a desideratum in the field of Hindi literature, South Asian Studies, and broadly, in the study of theatre of India and of South Asian cultures and literatures.
