Myths, Rituals, and Beliefs in Himachal Pradesh

Myths, Rituals, and Beliefs in Himachal Pradesh
Author: Molu Ram Thakur
Publisher: Indus Publishing
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1997
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9788173870712

The Western Himalaya Is The Home Of Vedic Saints, Gods And Goddesses And Of God-Fearing And Honest People Who Have Respect For All Religions. This Book Deals With Their Folklore, Beliefs And Superstitions And Traditions.

Naga Cults and Traditions in the Western Himalaya

Naga Cults and Traditions in the Western Himalaya
Author: Omacanda Hāṇḍā
Publisher: Indus Publishing
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2004
Genre: Himalaya Mountains Region
ISBN: 9788173871610

A Detailed And Comprehensive Study On Snake Cults And Traditions In Western Himalayas-Traces The Genesis Of Snake Cults Among Pre-Historic Committies Of North Indian Mainland-How It Spread To Western Himalayas. 8 Chapters-4 Appendices-Bibliography-Index-75 Illustrations Mainly In Colour With Some In Black And White.

Social, Cultural, and Economic History of Himachal Pradesh

Social, Cultural, and Economic History of Himachal Pradesh
Author: Manjit Singh Ahluwalia
Publisher: Indus Publishing
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9788173870897

There Is A General Impression Among Many That Before Its Formation (1948) Himachal Pradesh Had No Social Or Cultural Unity. The Present Work Clears Up These Misconceptions And Examines From Facts Of History The Constant, Rich And Fruitful Socio-Cultural History Of The State.

The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess

The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess
Author: Ehud Halperin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0190913592

Hadimba is a primary village goddess in the Kullu Valley of the West Indian Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, a rural area known as the Land of Gods. As the book shows, Hadimba is a goddess whose vitality reveals itself in her devotees' rapidly changing encounters with local and far from local players, powers, and ideas. These include invading royal forces, colonial forms of knowledge, and more recently the onslaught of modernity, capitalism, tourism, and ecological change. Hadimba has provided her worshipers with discursive, ritual, and ideological arenas within which they reflect on, debate, give meaning to, and sometimes resist these changing realities, and she herself has been transformed in the process. Drawing on diverse ethnographic and textual materials gathered in the region from 2009 to 2017, The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess is rich with myths and tales, accounts of dramatic rituals and festivals, and descriptions of everyday life in the celebrated but remote Kullu Valley. The book employs an interdisciplinary approach to tell the story of Hadimba from the ground up, or rather, from the center out, portraying the goddess in varying contexts that radiate outward from her temple to local, regional, national, and indeed global spheres. The result is an important contribution to the study of Indian village goddesses, lived Hinduism, Himalayan Hinduism, and the rapidly growing field of religion and ecology.

Wooden Temples of Himachal Pradesh

Wooden Temples of Himachal Pradesh
Author: Mian Goverdhan Singh
Publisher: Indus Publishing
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1999
Genre: Architecture, Hindu
ISBN: 9788173870941

The Temple Architecture In The Himalayas Has Been Wholly Of Wood As Extensive Forests Of Deodar Have Been In Existence Here Since Times Immemorial. The Wooden Shrines, Richly Carved, Are Very Large, Look Picturesque, And Evocative Than The Secular Buildings.

Secularism and Religion-Making

Secularism and Religion-Making
Author: Markus Dressler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2011-10-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199783020

This book conceives of "religion-making" broadly as the multiple ways in which social and cultural phenomena are configured and reconfigured within the matrix of a world-religion discourse that is historically and semantically rooted in particular Western and predominantly Christian experiences, knowledges, and institutions. It investigates how religion is universalized and certain ideas, social formations, and practices rendered "religious" are thus integrated in and subordinated to very particular - mostly liberal-secular - assumptions about the relationship between history, politics, and religion. The individual contributions, written by a new generation of scholars with decisively interdisciplinary approaches, examine the processes of translation and globalization of historically specific concepts and practices of religion - and its dialectical counterpart, the secular - into new contexts. This volume contributes to the relatively new field of thought that aspires to unravel the thoroughly intertwined relationships between religion and secularism as modern concepts.

Becoming Religious in a Secular Age

Becoming Religious in a Secular Age
Author: Mark Elmore
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2016-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520290542

"Religion is commonly imagined as a timeless component of human inheritance, but in the Western Himalayas the community of Himachal Pradesh discovered their religion only after India became an independent secular state. Based on extensive ethnographic and archival work, Becoming Religious in a Secular Age narrates their discovery and the ways it transformed their relations to their pasts, to themselves, and to others. And as Mark Elmore demonstrates, Himachali religion offers a unique opportunity to reimagine relations between religion and secularity more generally. Tracing the emergence of religion as a widely accepted category, Elmore shows that modern secularity is not so much the eradication of religion as the very condition for its emergence. To become modern ethical subjects is to become religious, and this book creatively augments our understanding of both religion and modernity"--Provided by publisher.