Feeding a Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual, and Ecology in India- An Exploration of the Kolam

ISBN-13: 9780190858070 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 336 str.

Vijaya Nagarajan

Recenzje

Vijaya Nagarajan ... refers to the belief in Hindu mythology that Hindus have a "karmic obligation" to "feed a thousand souls," or offer food to those that live among us. By providing a meal of rice flour to bugs, ants, birds, and insects, she writes, the Hindu householder begins the day with "a ritual of generosity," with a dual offering to divinity and to nature.

O autorze

Vijaya Nagarajan is an associate professor in the Department of Theology/Religious Studies and in the Program of Environmental Studies at the University of San Francisco and writes about Hinduism, gender, and ecology. She is active in the American Academy of Religion and in the environmental movements in the United States.