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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Hinduism

Transformational Embodiment in Asian Religions - Subtle Bodies, Spatial Bodies (Hardcover): George Pati, Katherine C Zubko Transformational Embodiment in Asian Religions - Subtle Bodies, Spatial Bodies (Hardcover)
George Pati, Katherine C Zubko
R4,772 Discovery Miles 47 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume examines several theoretical concerns of embodiment in the context of Asian religious practice. Looking at both subtle and spatial bodies, it explores how both types of embodiment are engaged as sites for transformation, transaction and transgression. Collectively bridging ancient and modern conceptualizations of embodiment in religious practice, the book offers a complex mapping of how body is defined. It revisits more traditional, mystical religious systems, including Hindu Tantra and Yoga, Tibetan Buddhism, Bon, Chinese Daoism and Persian Sufism and distinctively juxtaposes these inquiries alongside analyses of racial, gendered, and colonized bodies. Such a multifaceted subject requires a diverse approach, and so perspectives from phenomenology and neuroscience as well as critical race theory and feminist theology are utilised to create more precise analytical tools for the scholarly engagement of embodied religious epistemologies. This a nuanced and interdisciplinary exploration of the myriad issues around bodies within religion. As such it will be a key resource for any scholar of Religious Studies, Asian Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Philosophy, and Gender Studies.

The Routledge Handbook of Hindu Temples - Materiality, Social History and Practice (Hardcover): Himanshu Prabha Ray, Salila... The Routledge Handbook of Hindu Temples - Materiality, Social History and Practice (Hardcover)
Himanshu Prabha Ray, Salila Kulshreshtha, Uthara Suvrathan
R5,947 Discovery Miles 59 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This handbook is a comprehensive study of the archaeology, social history and the cultural landscape of the Hindu temple. Perhaps the most recognizable of the material forms of Hinduism, temples are lived, dynamic spaces. They are significant sites for the creation of cultural heritage, both in the past and in the present. Drawing on historiographical surveys and in-depth case studies, the volume centres the material form of the Hindu temple as an entry point to study its many adaptations and transformations from the early centuries CE to the 20th century. It highlights the vibrancy and dynamism of the shrine in different locales and studies the active participation of the community for its establishment, maintenance and survival. The illustrated handbook takes a unique approach by focusing on the social base of the temple rather than its aesthetics or chronological linear development. It fills a significant gap in the study of Hinduism and will be an indispensable resource for scholars of archaeology, Hinduism, Indian history, religious studies, museum studies, South Asian history and Southeast Asian history. Chapters 1, 4 and 5 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Hinduism: Traditions and Divinity (Hardcover): Jhonny Hill Hinduism: Traditions and Divinity (Hardcover)
Jhonny Hill
R3,215 R2,905 Discovery Miles 29 050 Save R310 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Dancing God - Staging Hindu Dance in Australia (Hardcover): Amit Sarwal The Dancing God - Staging Hindu Dance in Australia (Hardcover)
Amit Sarwal
R1,658 Discovery Miles 16 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Dancing God: Staging Hindu Dance in Australia charts the sensational and historic journey of de-provincialising and popularising Hindu dance in Australia. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, colonialism, orientalism and nationalism came together in various combinations to make traditional Hindu temple dance into a global art form. The intricately symbolic Hindu dance in its vital form was virtually unseen and unknown in Australia until an Australian impresario, Louise Lightfoot, brought it onto the stage. Her experimental changes, which modernised Kathakali dance through her pioneering collaboration with Indian dancer Ananda Shivaram, moved the Hindu dance from the sphere of ritualistic practice to formalised stage art. Amit Sarwal argues that this movement enabled both the authentic Hindu dance and dancer to gain recognition worldwide and created in his persona a cultural guru and ambassador on the global stage. Ideal for anyone with an interest in global dance, The Dancing God is an in-depth study of how a unique dance form evolved in the meeting of travellers and cultures.

Vishnu Hinduism's Blue-Skinned Savior (Hardcover): Joan Cummins Vishnu Hinduism's Blue-Skinned Savior (Hardcover)
Joan Cummins
R1,372 Discovery Miles 13 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
World of Wonders - The Work of Adbhutarasa in the Mahabharata and the Harivamsa (Hardcover): Alf Hiltebeitel World of Wonders - The Work of Adbhutarasa in the Mahabharata and the Harivamsa (Hardcover)
Alf Hiltebeitel
R2,892 Discovery Miles 28 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In World of Wonders, Alf Hiltebeitel addresses the Mahabharata and its supplement, the Harivamsa, as a single literary composition. Looking at the work through the critical lens of the Indian aesthetic theory of rasa, "juice, essence, or taste," he argues that the dominant rasa of these two texts is adbhutarasa, the "mood of wonder." While the Mahabharata signposts whole units of the text as "wondrous" in its table of contents, the Harivamsa foregrounds a stepped-up term for wonder (ascarya) that drives home the point that Vishnu and Krishna are one. Two scholars of the 9th and 10th centuries, Anandavardhana and Abhinavagupta, identified the Mahabharata's dominant rasa as santarasa, the "mood of peace." This has traditionally been received as the only serious contestant for a rasic interpretation of the epic. Hiltebeitel disputes both the positive claim that the santarasa interpretation is correct and the negative claim that adbhutarasa is a frivolous rasa that cannot sustain a major work. The heart of his argument is that the Mahabharata and Harivamsa both deploy the terms for "wonder" and "surprise" (vismaya) in significant numbers that extend into every facet of these heterogeneous texts, showing how adbhutarasa is at work in the rich and contrasting textual strategies which are integral to the structure of the two texts.

Religion, Power, and Society in Suriname and Guyana - Hindu, Muslim, and Christian Relations (Hardcover): R. Kirtie Algoe Religion, Power, and Society in Suriname and Guyana - Hindu, Muslim, and Christian Relations (Hardcover)
R. Kirtie Algoe
R4,499 Discovery Miles 44 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book surveys the development of the religious landscape in Suriname and Guyana, focusing on the interaction between Hindus, Muslims, and Christians and responses to Christian dominance. It reflects on how and why these religiously diverse Caribbean societies are characterized by relative harmony, whereas interreligious relationships in other parts of the world have been marked by extreme conflict and violence. The chapters explore ideological and institutional dimensions, including the role of government policies, religious demography, religious leadership, and private religious institutions. The author takes a critical stance towards a negative approach to power struggles and offers a perspective that does not necessarily consider religious diversity a hindrance for religious harmony. Making valuable data accessible to scholars in the English language, this volume provides a framework for the study of interreligious relations and for understanding the religious worlds of the Caribbean.

Whispers from Eternity (Hardcover): Paramahansa Yogananda Whispers from Eternity (Hardcover)
Paramahansa Yogananda
R483 Discovery Miles 4 830 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"Mystical Prayers of Poetic Beauty" - In the tradition of the great lyric mystics of all religions, Paramahansa Yogananda's "Whispers from Eternity" offers a window on the devotional experience of ecstasy. Sharing prayers and affirmations directly inspired by his high state of God-communion, this beloved spiritual master helps modern seekers achieve their own mystical relationship with the Divine. Now with a contemporary new look, these universal prayers and prose poems offer daily inspiration for seekers of all faiths. A uniquely devotional offering in the spirit of Yogananda's best-selling "Metaphysical Meditations," this popular collection will inspire a new legion of readers seeking a nonsectarian, experiential relationship with God.

Bhagavad-Gita Combined with Essays on the Gita (Hardcover): William Quan Judge Bhagavad-Gita Combined with Essays on the Gita (Hardcover)
William Quan Judge
R558 Discovery Miles 5 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Offering a summary of ancient Indian philosophy, "The Gita" places particular emphasis on the Supreme Spirit as both immanent and transcendent. In this translation and interpretation, the author bridges this ancient thought with a modern occidental approach.

????? ????? ( Shri Manache Shlok ) (Marathi, Hardcover): ????? ?? (Samarth Ramdas) मनाचे श्लोक ( Shri Manache Shlok ) (Marathi, Hardcover)
समर्थ रा (Samarth Ramdas)
R664 Discovery Miles 6 640 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The History of the Arthasastra - Sovereignty and Sacred Law in Ancient India (Paperback): Mark McClish The History of the Arthasastra - Sovereignty and Sacred Law in Ancient India (Paperback)
Mark McClish
R1,032 Discovery Miles 10 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Arthasastra is the foundational text of Indic political thought and ancient India's most important treatise on statecraft and governance. It is traditionally believed that politics in ancient India was ruled by religion; that kings strove to fulfil their sacred duty; and that sovereignty was circumscribed by the sacred law of dharma. Mark McClish's systematic and thorough evaluation of the Arthasastra's early history shows that these ideas only came to prominence in the statecraft tradition late in the classical period. With a thorough chronological exploration, he demonstrates that the text originally espoused a political philosophy characterized by empiricism and pragmatism, ignoring the mandate of dharma altogether. The political theology of dharma was incorporated when the text was redacted in the late classical period, which obscured the existence of an independent political tradition in ancient India altogether and reinforced the erroneous notion that ancient India was ruled by religion, not politics.

Hindu Monotheism (Paperback): Gavin Dennis Flood Hindu Monotheism (Paperback)
Gavin Dennis Flood
R584 Discovery Miles 5 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

If by monotheism we mean the idea of a single transcendent God who creates the universe out of nothing (creatio ex nihilo), as in the Abrahamic religions, then that is not found in the history of Hinduism. But if we mean a supreme, transcendent deity who impels the universe, sustains it and ultimately destroys it before causing it to emerge once again, who is the ultimate source of all other gods who are her or his emanations, then this idea does develop within that history. It is a Hindu monotheism and its nature that is the topic of this Element.

Shared Devotion, Shared Food - Equality and the Bhakti-Caste Question in Western India (Hardcover): Jon Keune Shared Devotion, Shared Food - Equality and the Bhakti-Caste Question in Western India (Hardcover)
Jon Keune
R2,893 Discovery Miles 28 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When Hindu devotional or bhakti traditions welcomed marginalized people-women, low castes, and Dalits-were they promoting social equality? In this book, Jon Keune deftly examines the root of this deceptively simple question. The modern formulation of the bhakti-caste question is what Dalit leader B. R. Ambedkar had in mind when he concluded that the saints promoted spiritual equality but did not transform society. While taking Ambedkar's judgment seriously, Jon Keune argues that, when viewed in the context of intellectual history and social practice, the bhakti-caste question is more complex. Shared Devotion, Shared Food explores how people in western India wrestled for centuries with two competing values: a theological vision that God welcomes all people, and the social hierarchy of the caste system. Keune examines the ways in which food and stories about food were important sites where this debate played out, particularly when people of high and low social status ate together. By studying Marathi manuscripts, nineteenth-century publications, plays, and films, Shared Devotion, Shared Food reveals how the question of caste, inclusivity, and equality was formulated in different ways over the course of three centuries, and it explores why social equality remains so elusive in practice.

Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age - Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937 (Hardcover): Ishita Pande Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age - Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937 (Hardcover)
Ishita Pande
R2,478 Discovery Miles 24 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ishita Pande's innovative study provides a dual biography of India's path-breaking Child Marriage Restraint Act (1929) and of 'age' itself as a key category of identity for upholding the rule of law, and for governing intimate life in late colonial India. Through a reading of legislative assembly debates, legal cases, government reports, propaganda literature, Hindi novels and sexological tracts, Pande tells a wide-ranging story about the importance of debates over child protection to India's coming of age. By tracing the history of age in colonial India she illuminates the role of law in sculpting modern subjects, demonstrating how seemingly natural age-based exclusions and understandings of legal minority became the alibi for other political exclusions and the minoritization of entire communities in colonial India. In doing so, Pande highlights how childhood as a political category was fundamental not just to ideas of sexual norms and domestic life, but also to the conceptualisation of citizenship and India as a nation in this formative period.

Bhakti Yoga - La Via Della Devozione (Italian, Hardcover): Swami Vivekananda Bhakti Yoga - La Via Della Devozione (Italian, Hardcover)
Swami Vivekananda; Translated by Giulia Carratello; Edited by Giampaolo Scarpaci
R597 Discovery Miles 5 970 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Hinduism and Hindi Theater (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Diana Dimitrova Hinduism and Hindi Theater (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Diana Dimitrova
R2,818 R1,823 Discovery Miles 18 230 Save R995 (35%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the representation of Hinduism through myth and discourse in urban Hindi theatre in the period 1880-1960. It discusses representative works of seven influential playwrights and looks into the ways they have imagined and re-imagined Hindu traditions. Diana Dimitrova examines the intersections of Hinduism and Hindi theatre, emphasizing the important role that both myth and discourse play in the representation of Hindu traditions in the works of Bharatendu Harishcandra, Jayshankar Prasad, Lakshminarayan Mishra, Jagdishcandra Mathur, Bhuvaneshvar, Upendranath Ashk, and Mohan Rakesh. Dimitrova'a analysis suggests either a traditionalist or a more modernist stance toward religious issues. She emphasizes the absence of Hindi-speaking authors who deal with issues implicit to the Muslim or Sikh or Jain, etc. traditions. This prompts her to suggest that Hindi theatre of the period 1880-1960, as represented in the works of the seven dramatists discussed, should be seen as truly 'Hindu-Hindi' theatre.

Sovereign Self - Claim Your Inner Joy and Freedom with the Empowering Wisdom of the Vedas, Upanishads, and Bhagavad Gita... Sovereign Self - Claim Your Inner Joy and Freedom with the Empowering Wisdom of the Vedas, Upanishads, and Bhagavad Gita (Hardcover)
Acharya Shunya
R713 R647 Discovery Miles 6 470 Save R66 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

What would it be like to have complete sovereignty within your own life? To feel confidently aligned with the power of your true Self? The beloved texts at the heart of yoga offer us timeless pathways to this experience, yet without years of formal study, accessing the depths of their wisdom can seem overwhelming. In Sovereign Self, Acharya Shunya demystifies yoga's most influential texts: the Vedas, the Upanishads, and the Bhagavad Gita, making their profound teachings both accessible and immediately practical for modern seekers. The first female lineage holder in a 2,000-year-old line of Vedic spiritual teachers and the first to teach in the West, Shunya has a personal and authentic understanding of these classic scriptures. With Sovereign Self, she shares a comprehensive guide to their essential teachings, expertly adapting their wisdom and spiritual practices for Western students. Filled with hidden insights and engaging guidance, Sovereign Self will help you align with your greater Self - the Self that is always present, all-powerful, ever-joyful, and completely sovereign.

Bhakti Yoga - La Voie de la Devotion (French, Hardcover): Swami Vivekananda Bhakti Yoga - La Voie de la Devotion (French, Hardcover)
Swami Vivekananda; Translated by Mael Seigneur, Quentin Pacinella
R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sri Isopanisad (Paperback): A. C Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada Sri Isopanisad (Paperback)
A. C Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
R94 Discovery Miles 940 Ships in 4 - 6 working days
Bhakti Yoga - El Camino de la Devocion (Spanish, Hardcover): Swami Vivekananda Bhakti Yoga - El Camino de la Devocion (Spanish, Hardcover)
Swami Vivekananda; Translated by Florimar Aguilar, Begona Varea Kuhn
R594 Discovery Miles 5 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Middle-Class Dharma - Gender, Aspiration, and the Making of Modern Hinduism (Hardcover): Jennifer D. Ortegren Middle-Class Dharma - Gender, Aspiration, and the Making of Modern Hinduism (Hardcover)
Jennifer D. Ortegren
R2,235 Discovery Miles 22 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Middle-Class Dharma is a contemporary ethnography of class mobility among Hindus in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. Focusing on women in Pulan, an emerging middle-class neighborhood of Udaipur, Jennifer D. Ortegren argues that upward class mobility is not just a socio-economic process, but also a religious one. Central to Hindu women's upward class mobility is negotiating dharma, the moral and ethical groundings of Hindu worlds. As women experiment with middle-class consumer and lifestyle practices, they navigate tensions around what is possible and what is appropriate-that is, what is dharmic-as middle-class Hindu women. Ortegren shows how these women strategically align emerging middle-class desires with more traditional religious obligations in ways that enable them to generate new dharmic boundaries and religious selfhoods in the middle classes. Such transitions can be as joyful as they are difficult and disorienting. Middle-Class Dharma explores how contemporary Hindu women's everyday practices reimagine and reshape Hindu traditions. By developing dharma as an analytical category and class as a dharmic category, Ortegren pushes for expanding definitions of religion in academia, both within and beyond the study of Hinduism in South Asia.

Jnana Yoga - La Voie de la Connaissance (French, Hardcover): Swami Vivekananda Jnana Yoga - La Voie de la Connaissance (French, Hardcover)
Swami Vivekananda; Translated by Estelle Lasnet, Aurelie Luis
R689 Discovery Miles 6 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition): Raymond Brady Williams An Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition)
Raymond Brady Williams
R2,387 Discovery Miles 23 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism, third edition, offers a comprehensive study of a contemporary form of Hinduism. Begun as a revival and reform movement in India 200 years ago, it has now become one of the fastest growing and most prominent forms of Hinduism. The Swaminarayan Hindu transnational network of temples and institutions is expanding in India, East Africa, the UK, USA, Australasia, and in other African and Asian cities. The devotion, rituals, and discipline taught by its founder, Sahajanand Swami (1781-1830) and elaborated by current leaders in major festivals, diverse media, and over the Internet, help preserve ethnic and religious identity in many modern cultural and political contexts. Swaminarayan Hinduism, here described through its history, divisions, leaders, theology and practices, provides valuable case studies of contemporary Hinduism, religion, migrants, and transnationalism. This new edition includes up-to-date information about growth, geographic expansion, leadership transitions, and impact of Swaminarayan institutions in India and abroad.

An Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition): Raymond Brady Williams An Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
Raymond Brady Williams
R905 Discovery Miles 9 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism, third edition, offers a comprehensive study of a contemporary form of Hinduism. Begun as a revival and reform movement in India 200 years ago, it has now become one of the fastest growing and most prominent forms of Hinduism. The Swaminarayan Hindu transnational network of temples and institutions is expanding in India, East Africa, the UK, USA, Australasia, and in other African and Asian cities. The devotion, rituals, and discipline taught by its founder, Sahajanand Swami (1781-1830) and elaborated by current leaders in major festivals, diverse media, and over the Internet, help preserve ethnic and religious identity in many modern cultural and political contexts. Swaminarayan Hinduism, here described through its history, divisions, leaders, theology and practices, provides valuable case studies of contemporary Hinduism, religion, migrants, and transnationalism. This new edition includes up-to-date information about growth, geographic expansion, leadership transitions, and impact of Swaminarayan institutions in India and abroad.

Herrschergenealogie und religioeses Patronat - Die Inschriftenkultur der Rastrakutas, Silaharas und Yadavas (8. bis 13.... Herrschergenealogie und religioeses Patronat - Die Inschriftenkultur der Rastrakutas, Silaharas und Yadavas (8. bis 13. Jahrhundert) (German, Hardcover)
Annette Schmiedchen
R5,918 Discovery Miles 59 180 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In Herrschergenealogie und religioeses Patronat, Annette Schmiedchen analyses some 250 inscriptions from the time of the early medieval royal dynasties of the Rastrakutas, Silaharas, and Yadavas, who reigned in central India from the 8th to the 13th centuries. The information derived from copper-plate charters and stone inscriptions primarily consists of genealogies of the ruling kings as well as of data regarding their religious foundations and endowments and the donations of other members of society. Annette Schmiedchen shows how genealogical accounts were modified to legitimize individual claims to power, and she convincingly proves that the 10th and 11th centuries were a period of religious change, which witnessed a shift in patronage patterns and a closer link between Vedic Brahmanism and Hindu temple worship.

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