Hindu Places of Pilgrimage 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 Hindu Places of Pilgrimage in India write by Surinder M. Bhardwaj. This book was released on 1983-07-08. Hindu Places of Pilgrimage in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Dr. Bhardwaj's in-depth study of the various aspects of the institution of pilgrimage shows that instead of being a simple practice it has been a gigantic phenomenon affecting all aspects of Indian life. . . integrating diverse forces, various cults, and numerous traditions over the ages."--Asian Student "This is the best general survey of a major religion's total pilgrimage system and the best intensive investigation of one of its subsystems. . . . Dr. Bhardwaj's book is an important step towards the recognition of a social phenomenon which has for millennia played a crucial role in the integration of religions, nationalities, and international communities. And, not least importantly, it is highly readable."--Journal of the American Academy of Religion "Detailed, accurate, and generally informative; he has succeeded in tracing, for the first time, the relationship of the rank-order or 'level' of a sacred place. . . to its degree of sanctity, type of deity, and caste and motivation of the pilgrim. . . .The implications of Mr. Bhardwaj's study are profound and necessary to the understanding of Indian religion. . . it is fascinating."--Times Literary Supplement "Here is a fine example of what the geographic study of India needs: disciplined work that shows full awareness of Indian cultural meanings. . . .it sets a worth standard."--Professional Geographer
Hindu Pilgrimage
Hindu Pilgrimage - 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 Pilgrimage write by SUNITA PANT BANSAL. This book was released on 2012-11-15. Hindu Pilgrimage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book discusses in detail Chaar Dhaam, Himalayan Chaar Dhaam, Sapt Puri, Dwadash Jyotirlingam, Panch Sarovar, Sapt Sarita, Divya Desam, Shakti Peetha, Yatras and also some of the famous temples in India. Enhanced with vivid and exclusive pictures, the book brings the places alive and inspires one to make a pilgrimage to these holy shrines. #v&spublishers
Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition
Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition - 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 Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition write by Knut A. Jacobsen. This book was released on 2013-03-05. Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Salvific space is one of the central ideas in the Hindu traditions of pilgrimage, and concerns the ability of space, especially sites associated with bodies of water such as rivers and lakes, to grant salvific rewards. Focusing on religious, historical and sociological questions about the phenomenon, this book investigates the narratives, rituals, history and structures of salvific space, and looks at how it became a central feature of Hinduism. Arguing that salvific power of place became a major dimension of Hinduism through a development in several stages, the book analyses the historical process of how salvific space and pilgrimage in the Hindu tradition developed. It discusses how the traditions of salvific space exemplify the decentred polycentrism that defines Hinduism. The book uses original data from field research, as well as drawing on main textual sources such as Mahābhārata, the Purāṇas, the medieval digests on pilgrimage places (tīrthas), and a number of Sthalapurāṇas and Māhātmyas praising the salvific power of the place. By looking at some of the contradictions in and challenges to the tradition of Hindu salvific space in history and in contemporary India, the book is a useful study on Hinduism and South Asian Studies.
Hindu Places of Pilgrimage in INdia
Hindu Places of Pilgrimage 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 Hindu Places of Pilgrimage in INdia write by Surinder Mohan Bhardwaj. This book was released on 1973. Hindu Places of Pilgrimage in INdia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Hindu Places of Pilgrimage in India
Hindu Places of Pilgrimage 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 Hindu Places of Pilgrimage in India write by Surinder Mohan Bhardwaj. This book was released on 1999. Hindu Places of Pilgrimage in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Illustrations: 10 B/w Illustrations, Numerous Graphs And Maps Description: Combining historical analysis with his own fieldwork, Dr. Bhardwaj not only established the importance of the institution of pilgrimage in Indian history and the persistence of similar distribution patterns of sacred places over long periods, but also furnished the normative background for contemporary practices. He is concerned with the relationship of the rank-order of a shrine to its degree of sanctity, kind of deity, and caste and motivation of the pilgrim. Using both objective statistical surveys and the pilgrims' subjective perceptions (as reflected in a special questionnaire), he posits the existence of two models of religious circulation: a general pattern characteristic of the pilgrimages of the religiously-oriented upper castes to all India and supra-regional shrines in pursuit or religious merit, and a specific pattern more characteristic of lower caste visits to local and regional shrines for specific, practical purposes. Unlike earlier writers on the subject, Mr. Bhardwaj examines both the historical and the contemporary patterns of pilgrimage at various levels--pan-Hindu, supra-regional, sub-regional, and local.
