Connected Places examines the words and actions of people who live in regions in the state of Maharashtra in western India to illustrate the idea that regions are not only created by humans, but given meaning through religious practices. By exploring the people living in the area of Maharashtra, Feldhaus draws some very interesting conclusions about how people differentiate one region from others, and how we use stories, rituals, and ceremonies to recreate their importance. Feldhaus discovers that religious meanings attached to regions do not necessarily have a political teleology. According to Feldhaus, "There is also a chance, even now, that religious imagery can enrich the lives of individuals and small communities without engendering bloodshed and hatred."

Pastoralist traditions have long been extraordinarily important to the social, economic, political, and cultural life of the
region of western India called Maharashtra. The Marathi-language oral literature of the Dhangar shepherds of
Maharashtra is not only one of the most important elements of their own traditional cultural life, but also a treasure of
world literature. This volume presents two lively and well-crafted examples of the ovi, a genre typical of the oral literature of Dhangars. The two ovis in the volume narrate the stories of Biroba and Dhuloba, two of the most important gods of Dhangar shepherds. Each of the ovis tells an elaborate story of the birth of the god--a miraculous and complicated process in both cases--and of the struggles each one goes through in order to find and win his bride. The extensive introduction provides a literary analysis of the ovis and discusses what they reveal about the cosmology, geography, society, administrative structures, and economy of their performers' world, and about the performers views of pastoralistsand women.

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Trotz des offensichtlichen Unterschiedes zwischen Diagnose- und Befunder-hebungsfehler zeigen zahlreiche Erfahrungen, dass diese Abgrenzung in der Praxis alles andere als leicht zu treffen ist. Dieses Buch arbeitet detailliert die Unterschiede der beiden Fehler heraus, stellt verschiedene Meinungen zur Abgrenzung dar und bietet eine alltagstaugliche Loesung fur diese Problematik an. Hierbei wird Wert darauf gelegt, das Problem nicht allein in juristischer Denkweise zu loesen, sondern auch die Medizin als besondere Materie mit zahlreichen Unwagbarkeiten fur Patient und Behandler mit einzubeziehen.

Vitthal, also called Vithoba, is the most popular Hindu god in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, and the best-known god of that region outside India. His temple at Pandharpur is the goal of an annual pilgrimage that is one of the largest and most elaborate in the world. This book is the foremost study of the history of Vitthal, his worship, and his worshippers. First published in Marathi in 1984, the book remains the most thorough and insightful work on Vitthal and his cult in any language, and provides an exemplary model for understanding the history and morphology of lived Hinduism. The author, Ramachandra Chintaman Dhere, is the leading scholar of religious traditions in Maharashtra and throughout the Deccan, the plateau that covers most of central India. Vitthal exemplifies the synthesis of Vaisnava and Saiva elements that not only typifies Maharashtrian Hindu religious life but also marks Vitthal's resemblance to another prominent South Indian god, Venkates of Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh. Dhere's analysis highlights Vitthal's connection with pastoralist hero cults, and demonstrates the god's development from a god of shepherds to a god of the majority of the population, including Brahmans. In addition, Dhere also explores the connections of Vitthal with Buddhist and Jain traditions. In the book's final chapter, Dhere presents a culminating stage in the evolution of the worship of Vitthal: the interpretation in spiritual terms of the god, his temple, the town of Pandharpur, and the river that flows past the town. Dhere received India's highest literary award, the Sahitya Akademi prize, for this book.

This book examines the words and actions of people who live in regions in the state of Maharashtra in Western India to illustrate the idea that regions are not only created by humans, but given meaning through religious practices. By exploring the people living in the area of Maharashtra, Feldhaus draws some very interesting conclusions about how people differentiate one region from others, and how we use stories, rituals, and ceremonies to recreate their importance. Feldhaus discovers that religious meanings attached to regions do not necessarily have a political teleology. According to Feldhaus, 'There is also a chance, even now, that religious imagery can enrich the lives of individuals and small communities without engendering bloodshed and hatred'.

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Dieses Nachschlagewerk aus dem Jahre 1904 listet akribisch und beginnend im 3. Jahrhundert vor der Geburt Jesu alle bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts gemachten bedeutenden Erfindungen auf dem Gebiet von Naturwissenschaften und Technik auf.

Dieses Nachschlagewerk aus dem Jahre 1904 listet akribisch und beginnend im 3. Jahrhundert vor der Geburt Jesu alle bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts gemachten bedeutenden Erfindungen auf dem Gebiet von Naturwissenschaften und Technik auf.

CUA Press is proud to announce the CUA Studies in Canon Law. In conjunction with the School of Canon Law of the Catholic University of America, we are making available, both digitally and in print, more than 400 canon law dissertations from the 1920s to 1960s, many of which have long been unavailable. These volumes are rich in historical content, yet remain relevant to canon lawyers today. Topics covered include such issues as abortion, excommunication, and infertility. Several studies are devoted to marriage and the annulment process; the acquiring and disposal of church property, including the union of parishes; the role and function of priests, vicars general, bishops, and cardinals; and juridical procedures within the church. For those who seek to understand current ecclesial practices in light of established canon law, these books will be an invaluable resource.

Dieses Nachschlagewerk aus dem Jahre 1904 listet akribisch und beginnend im 3. Jahrhundert vor der Geburt Jesu alle bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts gemachten bedeutenden Erfindungen auf dem Gebiet von Naturwissenschaften und Technik auf.

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Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich BWL - Controlling, Note: 1,0, Universitat Osnabruck, 116 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das offentliche Haushalts- und Rechnungswesen hat in den letzten Jahren eine rasante Entwicklung genommen. Ausgangspunkt dieser Entwicklung war die Entscheidung der Innenministerkonferenz am 11.06.1999 zu einer grundlegenden Reform des Gemeindehaushaltsrechts. Das geltende inputorientierte kameralistische Haushalts- und Rechnungswesen soll hiernach zu einem outputorientierten Ressourcenverbrauchskonzept weiterentwickelt bzw. umgestaltet werden. Nachdem einige Gemeinden im Rahmen von Experimentierklauseln erste Erfahrungen mit den verschieden Konzepten gemacht haben, steht nun die flachendeckende Einfuhrung des neuen Haushalts- und Rechnungswesens unmittelbar bevor. Jedes Bundesland hat bzw. wird eigenstandige Regelungen erlassen, so dass das bisherige einheitliche Gemeindehaushaltsrecht im Zuge der Reform aufgegeben wird. Das hier dargestellte neue niedersachsische Haushalts- und Rechnungswesen kann wahlweise ab dem 01.01.2005 von den Gemeinden eingefuhrt werden. Der Reformprozess muss jedoch spatestens am 31.12.2011 abgeschlossen sein. Diese Arbeit stellt als Einfuhrung das "Neue Steuererungsmodell" dar und untersucht welche Anforderungen an ein modernes Haushaltrecht aus der Principal-Agent-Theorie abgeleitet werden konnen. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird herkommliche, kameralistische und das neue doppische Haushaltsrecht dargestellt, analysiert und bewertet.

Rivers in India are commonly associated with certain worldly religious values: wealth, beauty, long life, good health, food, love, and the birth of children. However, these "domestic" values have been relatively neglected by Indologists, who have tended to view India and Hinduism through the prism of poverty, misery, asceticism, and themes of purity or pollution. Following recent scholarship by arguing that the earthly pursuits are equally vital to an understanding of popular Hinduism, Feldhaus examines the role of these ideals in the religious meanings of rivers in Maharashtra, a large region of western India. Drawing both on written religious texts and on a wide range of oral, iconographic, and ritual materials gathered in the course of field work in India, she shows that these values, which are usually associated with women or represented by goddesses, are an important motif in popular religious practices and oral traditions associated with the rivers of Maharashtra, and she presents the many different ways in which rivers are imagined, enshrined, worshipped, and feared.