Hindu life and practice

This book presents an original and comprehensive reading of the contemporary Mauritian society where Hinduism is practised by more than half of the population.

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This book, first published in 1957, was the first in English to provide a full and clear introduction to one of the most significant of Indian gods, and stresses his supreme role in Indian religion and art.

Unfinished Gestures presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

How to Be a SuccessParamhansa YoganandaIs there a power that can reveal hidden veins of riches and uncover treasures of which we never dreamed?

This is the first book to address the social organisation of modern yoga practice as a primary focus of investigation and to undertake a comparative analysis to explore why certain styles of yoga have successfully transcended geographical boundaries and endured over time, whilst others have dwindled and failed.

Focusing on the idea of genealogical affiliation (sampradaya), Kiyokazu Okita explores the interactions between the royal power and the priestly authority in eighteenth-century north India.

How do text, performance, and rhetoric simultaneously reflect and challenge notions of distinct community and religious identities?

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.

This book, first published in 1962, is an analysis of the history of the philosophy of a country that has never distinguished philosophy from religion.

The Dancing God: Staging Hindu Dance in Australia charts the sensational and historic journey of de-provincialising and popularising Hindu dance in Australia.

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How do text, performance, and rhetoric simultaneously reflect and challenge notions of distinct community and religious identities?

Religious procession is a significant dimension of religion in South Asia.

This book explores the textual traditions that authorize the history, legitimacy, and authenticity of today's physical posture practice.

Recent scholarship has shown that modern postural yoga is the outcome of a complex process of transcultural exchange and syncretism.

The Samkhyayoga institution of Kapil Math is a religious organisation with a small tradition of followers which emerged in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century in Bengal in India around the renunciant and yogin Hariharananda Aranya.

This handbook is a comprehensive study of the archaeology, social history and the cultural landscape of the Hindu temple.

Today yoga is a thoroughly globalised phenomenon.

This book asks us to consider what is absent, rather than what is present, when studying religions.

Seeing a need for monastic values in busy London life, Richard Carter founded the Nazareth Community.

Loving Stones is a study of devotees' conceptions of and worshipful interactions with Mount Govardhan, a sacred mountain located in the Braj region of north-central India that has for centuries been considered an embodied form of Krishna.

Drei Generationen zweier Familien leben in der Kleinstadt im Süden, die eine hinduistisch, die andere muslimisch.

This book explores local cultural discourses and practices relating to manifestations and experiences of the demonic, the spectral and the uncanny, probing into their effects on people's domestic and intimate spheres of life.

This work, first published in 1968, presents the fabulous world of Hinduism in its entirety in two volumes.

'Hinduism' is a term often used to summarize the aspirations of the majority of the Indian people.

This open access book is the first to focus on material visualities of bhakti imagery that inspire, shape, convey, and expand both the visual practices of devotional communities, as well as possibilities for extending the reach of devotion in society in new and often unexpected ways.

At first sight the lives of hermits, living in solitude and committed to a life of prayer and contemplation seems to be a world apart of the active practice of interfaith dialogue.

This book addresses the recent transformations of popular Hinduism by focusing upon the religious cum artistic practice of Ramkatha, staged narratives of the Ramcharitmanas.

Traditions of asceticism, yoga, and devotion (bhakti), including dance and music, developed in Hinduism over long periods of time.

This work, first published in 1968, presents the fabulous world of Hinduism in its entirety in two volumes.

Digital Religion does not simply refer to religion as it is carried out online, but more broadly studies how digital media interrelate with religious practice and belief.

This book accounts for the origin and evolution of the nature and roles of women within the Hindu belief system.

Hindu Ritual at the Margins explores Hindu forms of ritual activity in a variety of "e;marginal"e; contexts.

DAS BUCH DREI behandelt Dreiheiten jeglicher Art, die Dreiteilung in der Anthroposophie, bei den hinduistischen Gottheiten, die Dreieinigkeit, dreizählige Pflanzen, dreimaliges Ansprechen, dreifache Affirmationen u.

A collection of classic essays by two highly regarded scholars on the development of yoga and its rapport with other religious traditions.

Inter-religious Practices and Saint Veneration in the Muslim World studies the immortal saint Khidr/Khizr, a mysterious prophet and popular multi-religious figure and Sufi master venerated across the Muslim world.

Julius Lipner's Hindus is widely recognised as essential reading for everyone wishing to understand one of the world's great religious traditions.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of the state of the field of the philosophy of meditation and engages primarily in the philosophical assessment of the merits of meditation practices.

Muthuraj Swamy provides a fresh perspective on the world religions paradigm and 'interreligious dialogue'.

Tauchen Sie ein in die spirituelle Tiefe und Weisheit der Bhagavad Gita – eines der bedeutendsten Werke der hinduistischen Literatur.

Goddess Durga and Sacred Female Power is an exploration of the many faces of the Goddess Durga in ancient and contemporary culture.

Hinduism and Christianity are different in structure and approach - but have a great deal in common in matters relating to ethics.

The Great Goddess, in her various puranic and tantric forms, is often figured as sitting on a corpse which is identified as Shiva-as-shava (God Shiva, the consort of the Devi and an iconic representation of the Absolute without attributes, the Nirguna Brahman).

Die Handlungen dieses Buches, sind die Gefühle und Worte, meines pubertierenden Bewusstseins.

Hinduism in the Modern World presents a new and unprecedented attempt to survey the nature, range, and significance of modern and contemporary Hinduism in South Asia and the global diaspora.

This book, first published in 1968, is a collection of twenty-five lectures by Swami Prabhavananda, the outstanding scholar and translator of Hindu scriptures.