Puja And Samskara
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| Author | : Musashi Tachikawa |
| Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
This book treats two representative Hindu rituals of contemporary India, Puja (offering service) and Samskara (initiation rituals at important occasions of life). Samskara rites are performed at significant junctures of an individual`s life, from birth to death, by the individual`s family. Puja rites, rather than being performed in relation to the life cycle of an individual in a family, are more deeply related to the annual rituals of the cult to which an individual or the person`s family belongs. Persons may go to a temple and request priests to perform puja rites, or they may perform them themselves at home. For people living in India, Puja and Samskara are not at all uncommon. Puja rites are performed everywhere-at temples, in private homes, on street corners-and although in recent times families observing all the traditional Samskara rites have declined in number, almost all Hindu families still perform the major Samskaras. it is difficult, however, for those living outside India to know how these rites are performed. Hence, this book presents a large number of photographs that enable readers to gain an accurate grasp of them and indicates the place of ritual in the total structure of religion.
| Author | : Steven M. Parish |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 358 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780231084390 |
Explores the interrelationship of mind, self, emotion and the development of moral consciousness in the Nepalese city of Bhaktapur. The author investigates how the citizens have developed moral awareness in the context of cultural life.
| Author | : Bhaiyārām Śarmā |
| Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 9788120811324 |
Ceremonial rites and rituals occupy a place of utmost importance in the life of a devout Hindu. In fact, there are no vital actions- brith, initiation, marriage, death etc- which can be allowed to be performed without its appropriate rite or samskara. The number of samskaras has been fluctuating but was finally fixed at sixteen. Marriage is the most important and elaborate out of these sixteen samskaras. Manu enjoins that rituals should be performed in the case of virgin for legalizing the marriage, legitimatizing children and avoiding public scandal. The mantras used in the nuptial rites being in Sanskrit are beyond the comprehension of not only the average Hindu but even the common priests entrusted with the duty of conducting the rituals. To overcome this difficulty the present book was originally prepared in Hindu and is now translated into English with the mantras etc. Romanized for the benefit of those who do not have adequate knowledge of Hindi, for example especially those whose forefathers had migrated to remote countries during the last one hundred years or so.
| Author | : Rajbali Pandey |
| Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9788120803961 |
The Hindu Samskaras give expression to aspirations and ideals of the Hindus. They aim at securing the welfare of the performer and developing his personality.
| Author | : Laksmi Sinha |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Sri Dhira Chaitanya |
| Publisher | : Sri Dhira Chaitanya |
| Total Pages | : 124 |
| Release | : 2011-05-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780977700813 |
Bereavement and Final Rites in Hindu Tradition. Religious ceremonies during mourning period. Vedic insights into Life, death and God in Hinduism.
| Author | : Martha Moore-Keish |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 585 |
| Release | : 2022-12-29 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0567687651 |
Introducing readers to the contemporary field of sacramental theology, this volume covers the biblical and historical foundations, a survey of the state of the discipline, and a collection of constructive essays representing major themes, practices and approaches to sacraments and sacramentality in the contemporary world. The volume starts with a set of foundational essays that offer broad introduction to the field of sacramental theology from contemporary scholars, analysing a number of historical figures in order to illumine and inform contemporary sacramental theology. The second part of the volume is dedicated to a series of essays on sacramentality, and includes attention to elements of space, time, ritual action, music, and word, all as aspects of what Christians have termed “sacramental” reality. The third set of essays includes attention to each of the seven practices that have most commonly been termed “sacraments” in Christian traditions: baptism; eucharist/Lord's Supper; confirmation; confession, forgiveness and reconciliation; marriage; ordination; and anointing. The final part of this volume features scholars who are working on sacraments in conversation with contemporary academic disciplines: critical race theory, queer theory, comparative theology, and disability studies.
| Author | : Subramuniya (Master.) |
| Publisher | : Himalayan Academy Publications |
| Total Pages | : 411 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0945497822 |
"A history-making manual,interreligious study and names list, with stories by Westerners who entered Hinduism and Hindus who deepened their faith"--Cove
| Author | : Steven Vertovec |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2013-10-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1136367055 |
Hinduism outside the Indian subcontinent represents a contrasting and scattered community. From Britain to the Caribbean, diasporic Hindus have substantially reformed their beliefs and practices in accordance with their historical and social circumstances. In this theoretically innovative analysis Steven Vertovec examines: * the historical construction of the category 'Hinduism in India' * the formation of a distinctive Caribbean Hindu culture during the nineteenth century * the role of youth groups in forging new identities during Trinidad's Hindu Renaissance * the reproduction of regionally based identities and frictions in Britain's Hindu communities * the differences in temple use across the diaspora. This book provides a rich and fascinating view of the Hindu diaspora in the past, present and its possible futures.
| Author | : U. R. Anantha Murthy |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780195610796 |
Made into a powerful, award-winning film in 1970, this important Kannada novel of the sixties has received widespread acclaim from both critics and general readers since its first publication in 1965. As a religious novel about a decaying brahmin colony in the south Indian village of Karnataka, Samskara serves as an allegory rich in realistic detail, a contemporary reworking of ancient Hindu themes and myths, and a serious, poetic study of a religious man living in a community of priests gone to seed. A death which stands as the central event in the plot brings in its wake a plague, many more deaths, live questions with only dead answers, moral chaos, and the rebirth of one man. The volume provides a useful glossary of Hindu myths, customs, Indian names, flora, and other terms. Notes and an afterword enhance the self-contained, faithful, and yet readable translation.
