Religious Beliefs and Practices of North India During the Early Mediaeval Period
Author: Vibhūti Bhūṣaṇa Miśra
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9789004036109
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Religious Beliefs and Practices of North India during the Early Mediaeval Period
Author: V.B. Mishra
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-02-28
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 900449300X
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Author: Victor Babu
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rituals And Customs May Express Some Human Need Or Aspect Of Life. Medieval Andhra People Observed A Lot Of Rituals In Their Lives. A Variety Of Beliefs Underlies These Rituals And Practices. Some Deities Were Thought To Be
Al-Hind, Volume 1 Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam 7th-11th Centuries
Author: André Wink
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-25
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9004483004
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this volume, André Wink analyzes the beginning of the process of momentous and long-term change that came with the Islamization of the regions that the Arabs called al-Hind—India and large parts of its Indianized hinterland. In the seventh to eleventh centuries, the expansion of Islam had a largely commercial impact on al-Hind. In the peripheral states of the Indian subcontinent, fluid resources, intensive raiding and trading activity, as well as social and political fluidity and openness produced a dynamic impetus that was absent in the densely settled agricultural heartland. Shifts of power occurred, in combination with massive transfers of wealth across multiple centers along the periphery of al-Hind. These multiple centers mediated between the world of mobile wealth on the Islamic-Sino-Tibetan frontier (which extended into Southeast Asia) and the world of sedentary agriculture, epitomized by brahmanical temple Hinduism in and around Kanauj in the heartland. The growth and development of a world economy in and around the Indian Ocean—with India at its center and the Middle East and China as its two dynamic poles—was effected by continued economic, social, and cultural integration into ever wider and more complex patterns under the aegis of Islam. Please note that Early medieval India and the expansion of Islam 7th-11th centuries was previously published by Brill in hardback (ISBN 90 04 09249 8, still available).
Islam in the Indian Subcontinent
Author: Annemarie Schimmel
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9789004061170
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad
Author: Alexander Rocklin
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2019-02-07
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1469648725
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How can religious freedom be granted to people who do not have a religion? While Indian indentured workers in colonial Trinidad practiced cherished rituals, "Hinduism" was not a widespread category in India at the time. On this Caribbean island, people of South Asian descent and African descent came together—under the watchful eyes of the British rulers—to walk on hot coals for fierce goddesses, summon spirits of the dead, or honor Muslim martyrs, practices that challenged colonial norms for religion and race. Drawing deeply on colonial archives, Alexander Rocklin examines the role of the category of religion in the regulation of the lives of Indian laborers struggling for autonomy. Gradually, Indians learned to narrate the origins, similarities, and differences among their fellows' cosmological views, and to define Hindus, Muslims, and Christians as distinct groups. Their goal in doing this work of subaltern comparative religion, as Rocklin puts it, was to avoid criminalization and to have their rituals authorized as legitimate religion—they wanted nothing less than to gain access to the British promise of religious freedom. With the indenture system's end, the culmination of this politics of recognition was the gradual transformation of Hindus' rituals and the reorganization of their lives—they fabricated a "world religion" called Hinduism.
The Daśanāmī-Saṃnyāsīs
Author: Matthew Clark
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2006-06-01
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9047410025
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides an account of the organisation, practices and history of the Daśanāmī-Saṃnyāsīs, one of the largest sects of sādhu-s (‘holy men’) in South Asia, founded, according to tradtion, by the legendary philosopher Śaṅkarācārya.
Islamic and Comparative Religious Studies
Author: William A. Graham
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 585
ISBN-13: 1351925962
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →William A Graham, a leading international scholar in the field of Islamic Studies, gathers together his selected writings under three sections: 1.History and Interpretation of Islamic Religion; 2.The Qur'an as Scripture, and 3. Scripture in the History of Religion. Each section opens with a new introduction by Graham, and a bibliography of his works is included. Graham's work in Islamic studies focuses largely on the analysis and interpretation of the religious dimensions of ritual action, scriptural piety, textual authority/revelation, tradition, and major concepts, such as grace and transcendence. His work in the comparative history of religion has focused in particular on the 'problem' of scripture as a cross-cultural religious phenomenon that is more complex than simply 'sacred text'. This invaluable resource will be of primary interest to students of the Islamic tradition, especially as regards Qur'anic piety, Muslim 'ritual' practice, and fundamental structures of Islamic thought, and to students of the comparative history of religion, especially as regards the phenomenon of 'scripture' and its analogs.
World History
Author: Eugene Berger
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages:
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Annotation World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees in History, this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship. It covers such cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India's Classical Age, the Dynasties of China, Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval Africa, the Americas, and the Khanates of Central Asia. It includes 350 high-quality images and maps, chronologies, and learning questions to help guide student learning. Its digital nature allows students to follow links to applicable sources and videos, expanding their educational experience beyond the textbook. It provides a new and free alternative to traditional textbooks, making World History an invaluable resource in our modern age of technology and advancement.
Res
Author: Editor of Res and Associate of Middle American Ethnology Francesco Pellizzi
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2007-07-11
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0873657756
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, among others.
