Hindu Images and Their Worship with Special Reference to Vaisnavism - 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 Hindu Images and Their Worship with Special Reference to Vaisnavism write by Julius Lipner. This book was released on 2017-04-21. Hindu Images and Their Worship with Special Reference to Vaisnavism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on Hindu images and their worship with special reference to Vaiṣṇavism, a major strand of Hinduism. Concentrating largely, but not exclusively, on Sanskritic source material, the author shows in the course of the book that Hindu image-worship may be understood via three levels of interpretation: the metaphysical/theological, the narratival or mythic, and the performative or ritual.
Imagination in Religion
Imagination in Religion - 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 Imagination in Religion write by Espen Dahl. This book was released on . Imagination in Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Religion would be impossible without imagination. Imagination provides content that otherwise escapes discourse and perception. Thus, it opens up a productive realm for creative involvement that keeps religion from sinking into trivialities or abstractions. The contributions in the present volume explore in various ways potentialities and problems linked to imaginations role in the context of religion. The book challenges readers to think again and think differently about imagination in religion which, in itself, involves the power of imagination. The book opens up fresh perspectives on the interactive dynamics between imagination and various faculties or dimensions of life. Imagination might be involved in thinking, perceiving, contemplation, and in practices. The contributors to the volume are all members of the Nordic Society for the Philosophy of Religion.
River and Goddess Worship in India
River and Goddess Worship in India - 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 River and Goddess Worship in India write by R.U.S. Prasad. This book was released on 2017-08-09. River and Goddess Worship in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book examines Sarasvati’s origin, the course of her flow and the place of her disappearance in a holistic manner. Based on a close analysis of texts from the early Rig-Veda to the Brahmanas and the Puranas, it discusses different view-points in a balanced perspective and attempts to drive the discussions towards the emergence of a consensus view. The author delineates the various phases of Sarasvati’s evolution to establish her unique status and emphasise her continued relevance in the Hindu tradition. The book argues that the practice of pilgrimage further evolved after its association with the river Sarasvati who was perceived as divinity personified in Hindu tradition.
Clothing as Devotion in Contemporary Hinduism
Clothing as Devotion in Contemporary Hinduism - 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 Clothing as Devotion in Contemporary Hinduism write by Urmila Mohan. This book was released on 2019-09-02. Clothing as Devotion in Contemporary Hinduism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Urmila Mohan draws on her ethnography of Hindu devotional practices in Iskcon, India, to explore cloth and clothing as “efficacious intimacy”, that is, embodied processes that shape practitioners as devotees, connecting them with the divine and the larger community.
The Future of Hindu–Christian Studies
The Future of Hindu–Christian Studies - 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 The Future of Hindu–Christian Studies write by Francis Clooney. This book was released on 2017-07-14. The Future of Hindu–Christian Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on the Westcott–Teape Lectures given in India and at the University of Cambridge, this book explores the possibilities and problems attendant upon the field of Hindu–Christian Studies, the reasons for occasional flourishing and decline in such studies, and the fragile conditions under which the field can flourish in the 21st century. The chapters examine key instances of Christian–Hindu learning, highlighting the Jesuit engagement with Hinduism, the modern Hindu reception of Western thought, and certain advances in the study of religion that enhance intellectual cooperation.
