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This book explores the rise of the Great Goddess by focusing on the
development of sakti (creative energy), maya (objective illusion),
and prakrti (materiality) from Vedic times to the late Puranic
period, clarifying how these principles became central to her
theology.
In recent decades there has been a rising interest among scholars
of Hinduism and Judaism in engaging in the comparative studies of
these ancient traditions. Academic interests have also been
inspired by the rise of interreligious dialogue by the respective
religious leaders. Dharma and Halacha: Comparative Studies in
Hindu-Jewish Philosophy and Religion represents a significant
contribution to this emerging field, offering an examination of a
wide range of topics and a rich diversity of perspectives and
methodologies within each tradition, and underscoring significant
affinities in textual practices, ritual purity, sacrifice, ethics
and theology. Dharma refers to a Hindu term indicating law, duty,
religion, morality, justice and order, and the collective body of
Dharma is called Dharma-shastra. Halacha is the Hebrew term
designating the Jewish spiritual path, comprising the collective
body of Jewish religious laws, ethics and rituals. Although there
are strong parallels between Hinduism and Judaism in topics such as
textual practices and mystical experience, the link between these
two religious systems, i.e. Dharma and Halacha, is especially
compelling and provides a framework for the comparative study of
these two traditions. The book begins with an introduction to
Hindu-Jewish comparative studies and recent interreligious
encounters. Part I of the book titled "Ritual and Sacrifice,"
encompasses the themes of sacrifice, holiness, and worship. Part II
titled "Ethics," is devoted to comparing ethical systems in both
traditions, highlighting the manifold ways in which the sacred is
embodied in the mundane. Part III of the book titled "Theology,"
addresses common themes and phenomena in spiritual leadership, as
well as textual metaphors for mystical and visionary experiences in
Hinduism and Judaism. The epilogue offers a retrospective on
Hindu-Jewish encounters, mapping historic as well as contemporary
academic initiatives and collaborations.
In recent decades there has been a rising interest among scholars
of Hinduism and Judaism in engaging in the comparative studies of
these ancient traditions. Academic interests have also been
inspired by the rise of interreligious dialogue by the respective
religious leaders. Dharma and Halacha: Comparative Studies in
Hindu-Jewish Philosophy and Religion represents a significant
contribution to this emerging field, offering an examination of a
wide range of topics and a rich diversity of perspectives and
methodologies within each tradition, and underscoring significant
affinities in textual practices, ritual purity, sacrifice, ethics
and theology. Dharma refers to a Hindu term indicating law, duty,
religion, morality, justice and order, and the collective body of
Dharma is called Dharma-shastra. Halacha is the Hebrew term
designating the Jewish spiritual path, comprising the collective
body of Jewish religious laws, ethics and rituals. Although there
are strong parallels between Hinduism and Judaism in topics such as
textual practices and mystical experience, the link between these
two religious systems, i.e. Dharma and Halacha, is especially
compelling and provides a framework for the comparative study of
these two traditions. The book begins with an introduction to
Hindu-Jewish comparative studies and recent interreligious
encounters. Part I of the book titled "Ritual and Sacrifice,"
encompasses the themes of sacrifice, holiness, and worship. Part II
titled "Ethics," is devoted to comparing ethical systems in both
traditions, highlighting the manifold ways in which the sacred is
embodied in the mundane. Part III of the book titled "Theology,"
addresses common themes and phenomena in spiritual leadership, as
well as textual metaphors for mystical and visionary experiences in
Hinduism and Judaism. The epilogue offers a retrospective on
Hindu-Jewish encounters, mapping historic as well as contemporary
academic initiatives and collaborations.
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
relatives. Hence, women's religiosity also tends to emphasize the
domestic realm and the relationships most central to women. But
women's religious concerns certainly extend beyond domesticity.
Furthermore, even the domestic religious activities that Hindu
women perform may not merely replicate or affirm traditionally
formulated domestic ideals but may function strategically to
reconfigure, reinterpret, criticize, or even reject such
ideals.
This volume takes a fresh look at issues of the relationship
between Hindu women's ritual practices and normative domesticity.
In so doing, it emphasizes female innovation and agency in
constituting and transforming both ritual and the domestic realm
and calls attention to the limitations of normative domesticity as
a category relevant to many forms of Hindu women's religious
practice.
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
relatives. Hence, women's religiosity also tends to emphasize the
domestic realm and the relationships most central to women. But
women's religious concerns certainly extend beyond domesticity.
Furthermore, even the domestic religious activities that Hindu
women perform may not merely replicate or affirm traditionally
formulated domestic ideals but may function strategically to
reconfigure, reinterpret, criticize, or even reject such
ideals.
This volume takes a fresh look at issues of the relationship
between Hindu women's ritual practices and normative domesticity.
In so doing, it emphasizes female innovation and agency in
constituting and transforming both ritual and the domestic realm
and calls attention to the limitations of normative domesticity as
a category relevant to many forms of Hindu women's religious
practice.
Hindu Ritual at the Margins explores Hindu forms of ritual activity
in a variety of "marginal" contexts. The contributors collectively
examine ritual practices in diaspora; across gender, ethnic,
social, and political groups; in film, text, and art; in settings
where ritual itself or direct discussion of ritual is absent; in
contexts that create new opportunities for traditionally
marginalized participants or challenge the received tradition; and
via theoretical perspectives that have been undervalued in the
academy.
In the first of three sections, contributors explore the ways in
which Hindu ritual performed in Indian contexts intersects with
historical, contextual, and social change. They examine the
changing significance and understanding of particular deities, the
identity and agency of ritual actors, and the instrumentality of
ritual in new media. Essays in the second section examine ritual
practices outside of India, focusing on evolving ritual claims to
authority in mixed cultures (such as Malaysia), the reshaping of
gender dynamics of ritual at an American temple, and the democratic
reshaping of ritual forms in Canadian Hindu communities. The final
section considers the implications for ritual studies of the
efficacy of bodily acts divorced from intention, contemporary
spiritual practice as opposed to religious-bound ritual, and the
notion of dharma.
Based on a conference on Hindu ritual held in 2006 at the
University of Pittsburgh, Hindu Ritual at the Margins seeks to
elucidate the ways ritual actors come to shape ritual practices or
conceptions pertaining to ritual and how studying ritual in
marginal contexts--at points of dynamic tension--requires scholars
to reshape their understanding of ritual activity.
This fascinating look at the sacred Hindu month of Kartik
(October-November) as it is celebrated in the city of Benares in
North India highlights Kartik-related practices, stories, songs,
and experiences particular to women. During Kartik, Hindu women
living in and around Benares meet daily to enact a form of ritual
worship, or pB; jā, in which they raise the playful Hindu deity
Krishna from childhood to adulthood throughout the month,
ultimately marrying him to the plant-goddess Tulsi (Basil) Tracy
Pintchman explores how women who perform Kartik pB; jā understand
and celebrate both Kartik and Krishna in ways that are linked to
the desires, hopes, fears, and social realities characteristic of
many Hindu women living in the rather conservative social milieu of
this region.
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