Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia

2011-03-07 History

Author : Fabrizio Ferrari
Release : 2011-03-07
Genre : History
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Download or read book Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia written by Fabrizio Ferrari. This book was released on 2011-03-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on original fieldwork, this book develops a fresh methodological approach to the study of indigenous understandings of disease as possession, and looks at healing rituals in different South Asian cultural contexts. Contributors discuss the meaning of 'disease', 'possession' and 'healing' in relation to South Asian religions, including Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and Sikhism, and how South Asians deal with the divine in order to negotiate health and wellbeing. The book goes on to look at goddesses, gods and spirits as a cause and remedy of a variety of diseases, a study that has proved significant to the ethics and politics of responding to health issues. It contributes to a consolidation and promotion of indigenous ways as a method of understanding physical and mental imbalances through diverse conceptions of the divine. Chapters offer a fascinating overview of healing rituals in South Asia and provide a full-length, sustained discussion of the interface between religion, ritual, and folklore. The book presents a fresh insight into studies of Asian Religion and the History of Medicine.

Consecration Rituals in South Asia

2017-02-06 Religion

Author : István Keul
Release : 2017-02-06
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book Consecration Rituals in South Asia written by István Keul. This book was released on 2017-02-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in the volume Consecration Rituals in South Asia address the ritual procedures that accompany the installation of temple images in Shaiva, Vaishnava, Buddhist and Jain contexts, in various traditions and historical periods.

Words and Deeds

2005 Buddhism

Author : Jörg Gengnagel
Release : 2005
Genre : Buddhism
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Download or read book Words and Deeds written by Jörg Gengnagel. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words and Deeds is a collection of articles on rituals in South Asia with a special focus on their texts and context. The volume presupposes that a comprehensive definition of "ritual" does not exist. Instead, the papers in it avoid essentialist definitions, allowing for a possible polythetic definition of the concept to emerge. Papers in this volume include those on Initiation, Pre-Natal Rites, Religious Processions, Royal Consecration, Rituals which mark the commencement of ritual, Rituals of devotion and Vedic sacrifice as well as contributions which address the broader theoretical issues of engaging in the study of ritual texts and ritual practice, both from the etic and the emic perspective. These studies show that any study of the relationship between the text and the context of rituals must also allow for the possibility that different categories of performers can and do subjectively constitute the relationship between their ritual knowledge and ritual practice, between text and context in differing and nuanced ways.

Dealing with Deities

2012-02-01 Religion

Author : Selva J. Raj
Release : 2012-02-01
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book Dealing with Deities written by Selva J. Raj. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on original field research, Dealing with Deities explores the practice of taking ritual vows in the lives of ordinary religious practitioners in South Asia. The cornerstone of lay religious activity, vow rituals are adopted by Muslims, Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, Jains, and Sikhs who wish to commit themselves to ritually enacted relationships with sacred figures in order to gain earthly boons and spiritual merit. The contributors to this volume offer a fascinating look at the varieties and complexities of vows and also focus on a unique characteristic of this vow-taking culture, that of resorting to deities and shrines of other religions in defiance of institutional directives and religious boundaries. Richly illustrated, the book explores the creativity of South Asian devotees and their deeply felt convictions that what they require, they can achieve faithfully—and independently—by dealing directly with deities.

Religious Traditions in South Asia

1998 Religion

Author : Geoffrey A. Oddie
Release : 1998
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 217/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Religious Traditions in South Asia written by Geoffrey A. Oddie. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These studies focus on questions of religious interaction and change in India from the sixth century B.C. to the present day. They represent the work of scholars in a range of disciplines and who are resident mostly in Australia

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