Love in South Asia
Author: Francesca Orsini
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-05-25
Total Pages: 11
ISBN-13: 0521856787
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Love In South Asia
Author: Francesca Orsini
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9788175964334
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Making of Romantic Love
Author: William M. Reddy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012-07-09
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 0226706281
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. Seeking a refuge from the very serious condemnations of the Church and relying on a courtly culture that was already preoccupied with honor and secrecy, European poets, romance writers, and lovers devised a vision of love as something quite different from desire. Romantic love was thus born as a movement of covert resistance. In The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, William M. Reddy illuminates the birth of a cultural movement that managed to regulate selfish desire and render it innocent—or innocent enough. Reddy strikes out from this historical moment on an international exploration of love, contrasting the medieval development of romantic love in Europe with contemporaneous eastern traditions in Bengal and Orissa, and in Heian Japan from 900-1200 CE, where one finds no trace of an opposition between love and desire. In this comparative framework, Reddy tells an appealing tale about the rise and fall of various practices of longing, underscoring the uniqueness of the European concept of sexual desire.
Sufi Martyrs of Love
Author: C. Ernst
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1137095814
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sufism is a religion which emphasizes direct knowledge of the divine within each person, and meditation, music, song, and dance are seen as crucial spiritual strides toward attaining unity with God. Sufi paths of mysticism and devotion, motivated by Islamic ideals, are still chosen by men and women in countries from Morocco to China, and there are nearly one hundred orders around the world, eighty of which are present and thriving in the United States. The Chishti Sufi order has been the most widespread and popular of all Sufi traditions since the twelfth-century. Sufi Martyrs of Love offers a critical perspective on Western attitudes towards Islam and Sufism, clarifying its contemporary importance, both in the West and in traditional Sufi homelands. Finally, it provides access to the voices of Sufi authorities, through the translation of texts being offered in English for the first time.
Everyday Life in South Asia
Author: Diane P. Mines
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2010-07-16
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 0253013577
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Now updated: An “eminently readable, highly engaging” anthology about the lives of ordinary citizens in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka (Margaret Mills, Ohio State University). For the second edition of this popular textbook, readings have been updated and new essays added. The result is a timely collection that explores key themes in understanding the region, including gender, caste, class, religion, globalization, economic liberalization, nationalism, and emerging modernities. New readings focus attention on the experiences of the middle classes, migrant workers, and IT professionals, and on media, consumerism, and youth culture. Clear and engaging writing makes this text particularly valuable for general and student readers, while the range of new and classic scholarship provides a useful resource for specialists.
Marrying in South Asia
Author: Ravinder Kaur (Professor)
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9788125053552
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Dissent with Love
Author: Parul Bhandari
Publisher:
Published: 2024
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781032614403
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This book presents a unique rendering of love in South Asia by reading love through the specific lens of dissent. It presents multiple articulations of dissenting love in contemporary South Asia including negotiations with parents to assert choice of partner, migration, elopement, live-in relationships, singlehood, 'new' ideas of masculinities, and embracing diverse sexual identities. It studies these forms of dissent in the context of changing legal discourses, impact of media in everyday life, and transforming social attitudes. As such, this book is the first of its kind to analyse the myriad ways in which love and dissent constitute each other shaping the social, political, and cultural mores and movements of South Asia. The contributions are based on ethnographic research cutting across diverse religious, ethnic, and gender and sexual identities of South Asia. Part of the Social Movements and Transformative Dissent series, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of sociology, anthropology, history, geography, political science, gender studies, and media studies. It will also appeal to academics who study South Asia with a special focus on love, intimacy, sexuality, marriage, migration, history, politics and media"--
Everyday Life in South Asia
Author: Diane P. Mines
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 581
ISBN-13: 0253354730
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South Asia Bible Commentary
Author: Zondervan,
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 1904
ISBN-13: 0310559626
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A one-volume commentary, written and edited by South Asian Biblical scholars on all the books of the Bible.
South Asia and the Strategic Indian Ocean
