Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Hinduism - Ritual & Practices

The hagiographic materials from the world's religions can tell us much about the beliefs and practices of the people, yet the limited degree to which hagiography has been used as an instrument for understanding diverse religious traditions is surprising. Hagiography and Religious Truth provides a clearer understanding of the ways hagiography functions to disclose truth for practitioners and suggests various ways that these underexploited sources enrich our comprehension of broader issues in religious studies.

This volume provides a much-needed cross-cultural and...

Do you want to learn about Hinduism but didn't know where to start? Do you have Hindu friends but were afraid to ask them about their Hindu faith and culture? Do you want to teach your children about Hinduism? Are you doing a project on Hinduism? Do you want to expand your knowledge about the Hindu religion and culture? If yes, then here's a book you would like

This book is all about Hinduism, its culture and beliefs and what Hindus do in their daily lives. This book takes...

Behind the stereotype of a solitary meditator closing his eyes to the world, meditation always takes place in close interaction with the surrounding culture. Meditation and Culture: The Interplay of Practice and Context explores cases in which the relation between meditative practice and cultural context is particularly complex.

The internationally-renowned contributors discuss practices that travel from one culture to another, or are surrounded by competing cultures. They explore cultures that bring together competing practices, or that are themselves mosaics of elements of...

The new musical Stories of Shri-Satya-Narayan Vrat are composed by Ratnakar and presented along with the divine stories narrated by Bhagavan Vyas Muni, in the Reva Khand of the Skand Puran.

Keeping Vyasa Muni's writing as the ultimate truth, the new stories are narrated to answer the readers' questions and remove their doubts, confusion and misunderstanding. While reading these stories, the readers who have already known the stories from other sources, will notice the positive difference. In the present stories, there is no...

Because the Yogoda program does not rely on recognizable postures and poses, it has remained under the...

Because the Yogoda program does not rely on recognizable postures and poses, it has remained under the...