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Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal: The Fortunes of Hindu Festivals
ISBN: 9780231129183 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Annually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor its most important goddesses: Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri. While each of these deities possesses a distinct iconography, myth, and character, they are all martial. Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri often demand blood sacrifice as part of their worship and offer material and spiritual benefits to their votaries. Richly represented in straw, clay, paint, and decoration, they are similarly displayed in elaborately festooned temples, thronged by thousands of admirers. The first book to recount the history of...
Annually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor its most important goddesses: Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri. Wh...
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481,40 zł |
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Encountering Kali: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West
ISBN: 9780520232402 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Encountering Kali explores one of the most remarkable divinities the world has seen--the Hindu goddess Kali. She is simultaneously understood as a blood-thirsty warrior, a goddess of ritual possession, a Tantric sexual partner, and an all-loving, compassionate Mother. Popular and scholarly interest in her has been on the rise in the West in recent years. Responding to this phenomenon, this volume focuses on the complexities involved in interpreting Kali in both her indigenous South Asian settings and her more recent Western incarnations. Using scriptural history, temple architecture,...
Encountering Kali explores one of the most remarkable divinities the world has seen--the Hindu goddess Kali. She is simultaneously understood a...
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164,12 zł |
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Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal: The Fortunes of Hindu Festivals
ISBN: 9780231129190 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Annually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor its most important goddesses: Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri. While each of these deities possesses a distinct iconography, myth, and character, they are all martial. Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri often demand blood sacrifice as part of their worship and offer material and spiritual benefits to their votaries. Richly represented in straw, clay, paint, and decoration, they are similarly displayed in elaborately festooned temples, thronged by thousands of admirers. The first book to recount the history of...
Annually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor its most important goddesses: Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri. Wh...
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153,17 zł |
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Mother of My Heart, Daughter of My Dreams: Kali and Uma in the Devotional Poetry of Bengal
ISBN: 9780195134353 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This text chronicles the rise and subsequent fortunes of goddess worship (Saktism) in the region of Bengal from the middle of the 18th century to the present. The primary documents are the lyrics directed to the goddess, beginning with those of the first of the Sakta lyricist-devotees, Ramprasad Sen (c.1718-1775), and continuing up through those of the gifted poet Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976). McDermott places the advent of the Sakta lyric in its historical context and charts the vicissitudes over time of this form of goddess worship, including the 19th-century resurgence of Saktism in the...
This text chronicles the rise and subsequent fortunes of goddess worship (Saktism) in the region of Bengal from the middle of the 18th century to the ...
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493,72 zł |
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Sources of Indian Traditions: Modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
ISBN: 9780231138307 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 1024 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. For more than fifty years, students and teachers have made the two-volume resource Sources of Indian Traditions their top pick for an accessible yet thorough introduction to Indian and South Asian civilizations. Volume 2 contains an essential selection of primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious history of India from the decline of Mughal rule in the eighteenth century to today. It details the advent of the East India Company, British colonization, the struggle for liberation, the partition of 1947, and the creation of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and contemporary India....
For more than fifty years, students and teachers have made the two-volume resource Sources of Indian Traditions their top pick for an accessibl...
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382,94 zł |
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Singing to the Goddess: Poems to Kali and Uma from Bengal
ISBN: 9780195134346 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This vibrant collection presents 145 brief Bengali lyric poems dedicated to the Hindu goddesses Kali and Uma. These poems--many of which are presented here for the first time in English translation--were written from the early eighteenth century up to the contemporary period. They represent the unique Bengali tradition of goddess worship (Saktism) as it developed over this period. Included are forty poems by the most famous of all Sakta poets, Ramprasad Sen (c.1718-1775) and ten lyrics by the renowned 20th-century poet Kaji Najrul Islam. McDermott's lucid introduction places these works in...
This vibrant collection presents 145 brief Bengali lyric poems dedicated to the Hindu goddesses Kali and Uma. These poems--many of which are presented...
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198,26 zł |
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Singing to the Goddess: Poems to Kali
ISBN: 9780195134339 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This vibrant collection presents 145 brief Bengali lyric poems dedicated to the Hindu goddesses Kali and Uma. These poems-many of which are presented here for the first time in English translation-were written from the early eighteenth century up to the contemporary period. They represent the unique Bengali tradition of goddess worship (Saktism) as it developed over this period. Included are forty poems by the most famous of all Sakta poets, Ramprasad Sen (c.1718-1775) and ten lyrics by the renowned 20th-century poet Kaji Najrul Islam. McDermott's lucid introduction places these works in...
This vibrant collection presents 145 brief Bengali lyric poems dedicated to the Hindu goddesses Kali and Uma. These poems-many of which are presented ...
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390,33 zł |
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Sources of Indian Traditions: Modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
ISBN: 9780231138314 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 1024 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. For more than fifty years, students and teachers have made the two-volume resource Sources of Indian Traditions their top pick for an accessible yet thorough introduction to Indian and South Asian civilizations. Volume 2 contains an essential selection of primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious history of India from the decline of Mughal rule in the eighteenth century to today. It details the advent of the East India Company, British colonization, the struggle for liberation, the partition of 1947, and the creation of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and contemporary India....
For more than fifty years, students and teachers have made the two-volume resource Sources of Indian Traditions their top pick for an accessibl...
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229,76 zł |
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