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| Author | : Karen Pechilis |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2023-09-21 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1350214191 |
This book is the first to focus on material visualities of bhakti imagery that inspire, shape, convey, and expand both the visual practices of devotional communities, as well as possibilities for extending the reach of devotion in society in new and often unexpected ways. Communities of interpreters of bhakti images discussed in this book include not only a number of distinctive Hindu bhakti groups, but also artisans, diaspora women, South Asian Sufis, businessmen, dancers, and filmmakers. This book's identification of devotional practices of looking, such as materializing memory, mirroring and immaterializing portraits, and shaping the return look, connect material and visual cultures as well as illustrate modes of established and experimental image usage. Bhakti is one of the most-studied aspects of Indic devotionalism on account of its expression through emotive poetry, song, and vivid hagiographies of saints. The diverse devotional visualities analyzed in this book meaningfully circulate bhakti images in past and present, generating their renewed relationship to contemporary concerns.
| Author | : Karen Pechilis |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Studies in Material |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-10-19 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1350214183 |
This book is the first to focus on material visualities that shape, convey and expand paths of devotional participation (bhakti) from across India, in the past and present. The book argues that a central focus on visuality is both at the heart of bhakti expression, and as an academic focus, it changes our understanding of bhakti's development and impact through analysis of material religion. As theorized in recent scholarship,`visuality' is an imaged materiality that shapes reality and does not just reflect it. Bhakti visualities, in their overlapping diversity and use of accessible technologies, provide us with ways of thinking about new and alternative histories of bhakti as distinct from, yet related to, our understanding of bhakti based on the predominance of textual studies. Bhakti is one of the most-studied aspects of Hinduism on account of its expression through emotive poetry, song and vivid hagiographies of saints, and this book shows that examining bhakti's visualities is crucial for understanding its wide and enduring influence on the field of religion and beyond.
| Author | : Navjivan Rastogi |
| Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 1979 |
| Genre | : Krama |
| ISBN | : 9788120813021 |
The Karma Tantricism of Kashmir is intended as a ground work of the Karma system, an almost neglected area of Kashmir Saivism. The author has very ably reconstructed the history and metaphysics of the system after rummaging through relevant literature, both in print and manuscript form. The krama philosophy, Sakta esotricism and the Tantric synoptic view are seen. In this first of the two volumes, the author has given a general and historical survey in seven chapters-Karma as a distinct system, mutual exchange from allied system, different traditions and sub-schools, sources and literature and karma`s place in Kashmir Saivism. Contains chronological table of Karma author`s classified Bibliography and indexes.
| Author | : Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2020-07-20 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9004437061 |
Japanese calligraphy had its international heyday—collaborating with and yet challenging abstract painting—in the early postwar years. This book explores a Kyoto-based calligraphy group Bokujinkai, and its contribution to the Japanese, American, and European postwar avant-gardes.
| Author | : Lavanya Vemsani |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2018-07-26 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1350045101 |
Modern Hinduism in Text and Context brings together textual and contextual approaches to provide a holistic understanding of modern Hinduism. It examines new sources - including regional Saiva texts, Odissi dance and biographies of Nationalists - and discusses topics such as yoga, dance, visual art and festivals in tandem with questions of spirituality and ritual. The book addresses themes and issues yet to receive in-depth attention in the study of Hinduism. It shows that Hinduism endures not only in texts, but also in the context of festivals and devotion, and that contemporary practice, devotional literature, creative traditions and ethics inform the intricacies of a religion in context. Lavanya Vemsani draws on social scientific methodologies as well as history, ethnography and textual analysis, demonstrating that they are all part of the toolkit for understanding the larger framework of religion in the context of emerging nationhood, transnational and transcultural interactions.
| Author | : Ithamar Theodor |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2016-01-22 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0857725742 |
The Bhagavata Purana is one of the most important, central and popular scriptures of Hinduism. A medieval Sanskrit text, its influence as a religious book has been comparable only to that of the great Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Ithamar Theodor here offers the first analysis for twenty years of the Bhagavata Purana (often called the Fifth Veda ) and its different layers of meaning. He addresses its lyrical meditations on the activities of Krishna (avatar of Lord Vishnu), the central place it affords to the doctrine of bhakti (religious devotion) and its treatment of older Vedic traditions of knowledge. At the same time he places this subtle, poetical book within the context of the wider Hindu scriptures and the other Puranas, including the similar but less grand and significant Vishnu Purana. The author argues that the Bhagavata Purana is a unique work which represents the meeting place of two great orthodox Hindu traditions, the Vedic-Upanishadic and the Aesthetic. As such, it is one of India s greatest theological treatises. This book illuminates its character and continuing significance."
| Author | : Elizabeth Sears |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
What is it that art historians do when they approach works of art? What kind of language do they use to descibe what they see? How do they construct arguments using visual evidence? What sorts of arguments do they make? In this unusual anthology, eighteen prominent art historians specializing in the medieval field (European, Byzantine, and Islamic) provide answers to these fundamental questions, not directly but by way of example. Each author, responding to invitation, has chosen for study a single image or object and has submitted it to sustained analysis. The collection of essays, accompanied by statements on methodology by the editors, offers an accessible introduction to current art-historical practice.Elizabeth L. Sears is Associate Professor of the History of Art, University of Michigan.Thelma K. Thomas is Associate Professor of the History of Art and Associate Curator of the Kelsey Museum, University of Michigan.
| Author | : Professor Centre of Asian and African Studies David N Lorenzen |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 1991-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780791404614 |
This book represents the first systematic collection and analysis of the principal legends about Kabir Das, a fifteenth-century poet-saint. It focuses on the ways in which the legends embody and reflect the often changing social and religious needs of those who created and listened to them. Particular attention is paid to the earliest known collection of legends, Ananta-das's Kabir Parachai. This book makes available for the first time an English translation of this text, with detailed notes on its variant readings, as well as a corrected Hindi edition based on a comparison of over a dozen manuscripts. The various historical synchronisms between Kabir and his leading contemporaries, including Ramananda and King Virasimhadev Baghel, are reevaluated, and a solution is proposed to the longstanding debate about Kabir's dates.
| Author | : Marcus Nordlund |
| Publisher | : ACTA Universitatis Gothoburgensis |
| Total Pages | : 552 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Roland Bleiker |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 795 |
| Release | : 2018-02-13 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1317930886 |
We live in a visual age. Images and visual artefacts shape international events and our understanding of them. Photographs, film and television influence how we view and approach phenomena as diverse as war, diplomacy, financial crises and election campaigns. Other visual fields, from art and cartoons to maps, monuments and videogames, frame how politics is perceived and enacted. Drones, satellites and surveillance cameras watch us around the clock and deliver images that are then put to political use. Add to this that new technologies now allow for a rapid distribution of still and moving images around the world. Digital media platforms, such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, play an important role across the political spectrum, from terrorist recruitment drives to social justice campaigns. This book offers the first comprehensive engagement with visual global politics. Written by leading experts in numerous scholarly disciplines and presented in accessible and engaging language, Visual Global Politics is a one-stop source for students, scholars and practitioners interested in understanding the crucial and persistent role of images in today’s world.
