wyszukanych pozycji: 9
Lost Ecstasy: Its Decline and Transformation in Religion
ISBN: 9783030065126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 325 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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423,10 zł |
Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal
ISBN: 9780195167917 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Indian state of West Bengal is home to one of the world's most vibrant traditions of goddess worship. The year's biggest holidays are devoted to the goddesses Durga and Kali, with lavish rituals, decorated statues, fireworks, and parades. In Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls, June McDaniel provides a broad, accessibly written overview of Bengali goddess worship. McDaniel identifies three major forms of goddess worship, and examines each through its myths, folklore, songs, rituals, sacred texts, and practitioners. In the folk/tribal strand, which is found in rural areas, local...
The Indian state of West Bengal is home to one of the world's most vibrant traditions of goddess worship. The year's biggest holidays are devoted to t...
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185,96 zł |
Making Virtuous Daughters and Wives
ISBN: 9780791455661 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Exploring the folk religion of India and the role of girls and women within it, author June McDaniel focuses on the brata (vrata) ritual in which moral lessons are taught and goddesses are revealed. Bratas are performed to gain such goals as a healthy family, a good husband, and a happy life. They are also performed so that the performers (bratinis) develop such virtues as devotion, humility, and compassion.This book presents data from fieldwork, along with brata stories, songs, poems, and ritual activities. It discusses Bengali folk religion, offers an example of ritual worship in folk...
Exploring the folk religion of India and the role of girls and women within it, author June McDaniel focuses on the brata (vrata) ritual in which mora...
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127,58 zł |
Lost Ecstasy: Its Decline and Transformation in Religion
ISBN: 9783319927701 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 325 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book is a study of religious ecstasy, and the ways that it has been suppressed in both the academic study of religion, and in much of the modern practice of religion. She argues that the loss of religious and mystical ecstasy, as both a religious goal and as a topic of academic study, has had wide-ranging negative effects.
This book is a study of religious ecstasy, and the ways that it has been suppressed in both the academic study of religion, and in much of the modern ...
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423,10 zł |
Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal
ISBN: 9780195167900 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls, June McDaniel provides an exhaustive, accessibly written overview of Bengali goddess worship or Shakti. McDaniel identifies three major forms of goddess worship, and examines each through its myths, folklore, songs, rituals, sacred texts, and practitioners. She traces these strands through Bengali culture and explores how they are interwoven with each other as well as with other forms of Hinduism and other forms of religion. McDaniel also discusses how Shakti practices have been reinterpreted in the West, where goddess worship has gained the...
In Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls, June McDaniel provides an exhaustive, accessibly written overview of Bengali goddess worship or Shakti. ...
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414,95 zł |
The Madness of the Saints: Ecstatic Religion in Bengal
ISBN: 9780226557236 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 343 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Although ecstasy has been explored in several Indian contexts, surprisingly little scholarship has been devoted to its central role in Bengali devotion. In "The Madness of the Saints," June McDaniel undertakes the first comprehensive study of religious ecstasy in Bengal, examining the texts that describe it, the people who experience it, and the traditions that support it.
Although ecstasy has been explored in several Indian contexts, surprisingly little scholarship has been devoted to its central role in Bengali devotio...
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175,06 zł |
Religious Experience in the Hindu Tradition
ISBN: 9783039210503 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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238,50 zł |
Gurus, Priestesses, Saints, Mediums and Yoginis: Holy Women as Influencers in Hindu Culture
ISBN: 9783725823932 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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416,94 zł |
Perceiving the Divine Through the Human Body: Mystical Sensuality
ISBN: 9781349298341 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Cattoi and McDaniel present a selection of articles on the role of the body and the spiritual senses - our transfigured channels of sensory perceptions - in the context of spiritual practice. The volume investigates this theme across a variety of different religious traditions within Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Daoism.
Cattoi and McDaniel present a selection of articles on the role of the body and the spiritual senses - our transfigured channels of sensory perception...
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423,10 zł |