The Sacred Marriage of a Hindu Goddess
Author: William P. Harman
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9788120808102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKsupplemented by a commentary; both seek to emphasize how the teaching is
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The Sacred Marriage of a Hindu Goddess
Author: William P. Harman
Publisher:
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Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780783737119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen’s Authority and Leadership in a Hindu Goddess Tradition
Author: Nanette R. Spina
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-02-28
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 1137589094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates women’s ritual authority and the common boundaries between religion and notions of gender, ethnicity, and identity. Nanette R. Spina situates her study within the transnational Melmaruvathur Adhiparasakthi movement established by the Tamil Indian guru, Bangaru Adigalar. One of the most prominent, defining elements of this tradition is that women are privileged with positions of leadership and ritual authority. This represents an extraordinary shift from orthodox tradition in which religious authority has been the exclusive domain of male Brahmin priests. Presenting historical and contemporary perspectives on the transnational Adhiparasakthi organization, Spina analyzes women’s roles and means of expression within the tradition. The book takes a close look at the Adhiparasakthi society in Toronto, Canada (a Hindu community in both its transnational and diasporic dimensions), and how this Canadian temple has both shaped and demonstrated their own diasporic Hindu identity. The Toronto Adhiparasakthi society illustrates how Goddess theology, women's ritual authority, and “inclusivity” ethics have dynamically shaped the identity of this prominent movement overseas. Based on years of ethnographic fieldwork, the volume draws the reader into the rich textures of culture, community, and ritual life with the Goddess.
Sacred Marriages
Author: Martti Nissinen
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2008-06-23
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 157506572X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe title of this volume, Sacred Marriages, consciously plays with the traditional concept of sacred marriage, but the plural form, “sacred marriages,” gives the reader an idea that something more is at stake here than a monomaniacal idea of manifestations deriving from a single prototype. Following the guidelines of one of the contributors, Ruben Zimmermann, the editors tentatively define “sacred marriage” as a “real or symbolic union of two complementary entities, imagined as gendered, in a religious context.” “Sacred marriages” (plural), then, refers to various expressions of this kind of union in different cultures that seek to overcome, to cite Zimmermann again, “the great dualism of human and cosmic existence.” The subtitle indicates that the contributors are primarily interested in different aspects of the divine-human sexual metaphor—that is, the imagining and reenactment of a gendered relationship between the human and divine worlds. This metaphor, which is essentially about relationship rather than sexual acts, can find textual, ritual, mythical, and social expressions in different times and places. Indeed, the sacred marriage ritual itself should be considered not a manifestation of the “sacralized power of sexuality experienced in sexual intercourse” but one way of objectifying the divine-human sexual metaphor.
Hindu Goddesses
Author: Lynn Foulston
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2009-07-03
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1782847200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the diversity of Hindu goddesses and the variety of ways in which they are worshipped. Although they undoubtedly have ancient origins, Hindu goddesses and their worship is still very much a part of the fabric of religious engagement in India today. This book offers an introduction to a complex and often baffling field of study.
Hindu Goddesses
Author: David Kinsley
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9788120803947
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHindu Goddesses is a valuable sourcebook and reference work for students and scholars of Hindu goddesses and of Hinduism in general. Each goddess is dealt with as an independent deity with a coherent mythology, theology and, in some cases, cult of her own. Within the complex, diverse, and rich goddess traditions of Hinduism, one can find suggestions of nearly every important theme in the Hindu religion. In many ways, this book is as much a study of the Hindu tradition itself as it is a study of one aspect of that tradition. No other living religious tradition has displayed such an ancient, continuous, and diverse history of goddess worship.
The Divine Consort
Author: John Stratton Hawley
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780895814418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPapers presented at a conference held June 1978 at Harvard University, sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions.
MARRIAGE (PB)
Author: Devdutt Pattanaik
Publisher:
Published: 2021-05-05
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9789353338442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarriage, by mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik, brings together stories from Vedic, Puranic, Tamil, and Sanskrit literature, from regional, classical, folk and tribal lore, from oral and textual traditions, across 3000 years of history and 3 million square kilometres of geography, to reveal the diversity and fluidity of Indian customs and beliefs around marriage. 'Let all the gods and the waters anoint our two hearts.' -Rig Veda This is the first ever book which links the Indian wedding rituals with mythological stories. The book offers a modern and inclusive, also narrative interpreting stories about LGBTQ in mythology. The book reasons out the customs and the concept of Indian marriage in a logical, spiritual and practical manner. Each story is followed by take-away points at the end, making the reading experience wholesome.
The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition
Author: Tracy Pintchman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2015-04-15
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1438416180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the rise of the Great Goddess by focusing on the development of saakti (creative energy), maya (objective illusion), and prakr(materiality) from Vedic times to the late Puranic period, clarifying how these principles became central to her theology.
Hosea 2
Author: Brad E. Kelle
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1589831896
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