Women s Lives Women s Rituals in the Hindu Tradition

• Author : Tracy Pintchman
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 29 March 2007

In this book, Tracy Pintchman has assembled ten leading scholars of Hinduism to explore the complex relationship between Hindu women's rituals and their lives beyond ritual. The book focuses particularly on the relationship of women's ritual practices to domesticity, exposing and exploring the nuances, complexities, and limits of this relationship. In many cultural and historical contexts, including contemporary India, women's everyday lives tend to revolve heavily around domestic and interpersonal concerns, especially care for children, the home, husbands, and other

• Author : Axel Michaels
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release : 10 August 2021

Hinduism is currently followed by one-fifth of humankind. Far from a monolithic theistic tradition, the religion comprises thousands of gods, a complex caste system, and hundreds of languages and dialects. Such internal plurality inspires vastly ranging rites and practices amongst Hinduism's hundreds of millions of adherents. It is therefore not surprising that scholars have been hesitant to define universal Hindu beliefs and practices. In this book, Axel Michaels breaks this trend. He examines the traditions, beliefs, and rituals Hindus hold

• Author : Paul Carus
• Publisher : Library of Alexandria
• Release : 27 January 1969

• Author : Don Bates,Donald George Bates
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 02 November 1995

However much the three great traditions of medicine - Galenic, Chinese and Ayurvedic - differed from each other, they had one thing in common: scholarship. The foundational knowledge of each could only be acquired by careful study under teachers relying on ancient texts. Such medical knowledge is special, operating as it does in the realm of the most fundamental human experiences - health, disease, suffering, birth and death - and the credibility of healers is of crucial importance. Because of

• Author : Gwilym Beckerlegge
• Publisher : Psychology Press
• Release : 27 January 2023

Gathers together material on six of the world's most influential faiths, with readings drawn from a broad range of historical and contemporary sources.

• Author : Suresh Chandra Agarwal
• Publisher : Partridge Publishing
• Release : 12 March 2018

After an existence of over 5000 years, the Hinduism the oldest religion on earth continues to brace the casteism in form of a monster.

• Author : Pratima Bowes
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 24 June 2021

Originally published in 1977, The Hindu Religious Tradition provides a detailed exploration into the different doctrines regarding the nature of Religious Reality and the many paths of search for this Reality within the Hindu religion. The book discusses these differing doctrines from the point of view of their philosophical significance and their use in man’s search for the divine in consideration of the traditional teaching that the divine is already in man and can be realised in direct experience. It

• Author : Francis Hamilton
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 27 January 1870

• Author : Edward Anderson,Arkotong Longkumer
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 30 June 2020

Neo-Hindutva explores the recent proliferation and evolution of Hindu nationalism – the assertive majoritarian, right-wing ideology that is transforming contemporary India. This volume develops and expands on the idea of ‘neo-Hindutva’ –– Hindu nationalist ideology which is evolving and shifting in new, surprising, and significant ways, requiring a reassessment and reframing of prevailing understandings. The contributors identify and explain the ways in which Hindu nationalism increasingly permeates into new spaces: organisational, territorial, conceptual, rhetorical. The scope of the chapters reflect the diversity

• Author : Carla Petievich
• Publisher : Manohar Publications
• Release : 27 January 1999

Contributed seminar papers.

• Author : Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
• Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
• Release : 27 January 2023

• Author : Sir Raymond West,Georg Bühler
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 27 January 1878

• Author : George W. Bible,Daniel P.. Bible
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 27 January 1896

• Author : Koushiki Dasgupta
• Publisher : SAGE Publishing India
• Release : 05 July 2021

Sadhus in Indian Politics: Dynamics of Hindutva maps the changing face of contemporary Hindu politics, evaluating the influence of sadhus (ascetics) on the course of politics in India. This book explores the anxieties around ascetic engagement with public affairs, understanding politics as janaseva and polities as rajniti, and the authority exercised by these sadhus. It investigates the spirit of ‘individualism’ reflected by the sadhus in the organized and unorganized domains of politics, and traces the dialectics of ‘Hindutva’ reflected through

• Author : Susan I. Hangen
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 04 December 2009

The relationship between ethnic politics and democracy presents a paradox for scholars and policy makers: ethnic politics frequently emerge in new democracies, and yet are often presumed to threaten these new democracies. As ethnic politics is becoming increasingly central to Nepali politics, this book argues it has the potential to strengthen rather than destabilize democracy. Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork, Susan Hangen focuses on the ethnic political party Mongol National Organization (MNO), which consists of multiple ethnic groups and