Stonemill and Bhakti - 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 Stonemill and Bhakti write by Guy Poitevin. This book was released on 1996. Stonemill and Bhakti available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Book Is The First Attempt At A Systematic Cultural-Anthropological Study Of The Stonemill Tradition The Grinding Of The Peasant Women Who Singing For Ages On Their Hand-Mills Have Articulated Tradition In Their Work-Songs.
Sound and Communication
Sound and Communication - 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 Sound and Communication write by Annette Wilke. This book was released on 2011-01-28. Sound and Communication available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Hindu India both orality and sonality have enjoyed great cultural significance since earliest times. They have a distinct influence on how people approach texts. The importance of sound and its perception has led to rites, models of cosmic order, and abstract formulas. Sound serves both to stimulate religious feelings and to give them a sensory form. Starting from the perception and interpretation of sound, the authors chart an unorthodox cultural history of India, turning their attention to an important, but often neglected aspect of daily religious life. They provide a stimulating contribution to the study of cultural systems of perception that also adds new aspects to the debate on orality and literality.
The Journey of Advaita
The Journey of Advaita - 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 Journey of Advaita write by Priti Sinha. This book was released on 2019-06-25. The Journey of Advaita available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. About the Book The Journey of Advaita elucidates the richness, depth and profundity of Advaitic thought right from Vedas to Integral Advaitism of Sri Aurobindo and further how it is being incorporated in modern science. Advaita Philosophy is not a later development of thought as one of the six systems of Indian philosophy. Vedas are replete with suggestions about Unity. The earlier stage of naturalistic and anthropomorphic polytheism yielded to monistic belief. In the dictum, ekam sad viprā bahudhā vadanti we perceive an echo of Unity. Upaniṣadic seers picked up this Unity and tirelessly went in their search till they came to the highest conclusion, tat tvam asi. This concept of Unity gets its full bloom in Śaṅkara’s Kevalādvaita; later on it gave inspiration to different rivulets of Vedānta schools. Śaṅkara’s unqualified impersonal Brahman could not satisfy those who sought loving communion with God. Consequently different schools of Bhakti-Vedānta came into existence, namely, Viśiṣṭādvaita of Rāmānuja, Dvaita of Madhva, Dvaitādvaita of Nimbārka and Śuddhādvaita of Vallabha. For all of them the emphasis is on the liberation of individual soul only, which gave way to Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Advaitism where the emphasis is not only on spiritualization of man but of the whole cosmos. The journey continues further with modern physics. Consciousness is the building block of the Universe and the ground of all beings, which can’t be found in plural. About the Author Dr Priti Sinha retired as the Head, Department of Philosophy, Vasanta College, Banaras Hindu University after twenty-eight years of service. An alumnus of the university, she holds a doctorate and postgraduate degrees, both in Philosophy as well as Religion and Philosophy. She has been recognized for her work in several national and international seminars. An accomplished musician, Dr Sinha has the distinction of choreographing dance dramas, human puppetry and designing costumes for stage plays, especially historical dramas.
Gandhi's Tiger and Sita's Smile
Gandhi's Tiger and Sita's Smile - 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 Gandhi's Tiger and Sita's Smile write by Ruth Vanita. This book was released on 2005. Gandhi's Tiger and Sita's Smile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gandhi's Tiger and Sita's Smile presents a collection of compelling essays which interrogate a variety of Indian texts and contexts along intersecting axes of gender, nation, and desire. The primary theme that weaves these varied essays together, written at different points of time with varying focal points of interest, is intertextuality. Vanita examines the way in which medieval texts speak to each other and draw on earlier canonical works, rewriting and transforming narrative in a spirit of respectful conversation. She also looks at modern texts, such as nineteenth-century poetry and twentieth-century fiction and cinema, as they converse with each other and with older texts. In doing so, she tries to explore how such pre-modern and modern texts are received in later periods or by other cultures in the same period. These captivating and intensely thought-provoking writings demonstrate the author's superb ability to turn the norm, whether Right-wing or Left-Wing, on its head, and find a fresh way to appreciate diversity and change, and the valuable dialogue they give rise to.
The Book Review
The Book Review - 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 Book Review write by . This book was released on 1997. The Book Review available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
