Sacred Spaces

Sacred Spaces
Author: Yoginder Sikand
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2003
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780143029311

Weaving together legend, history, ethnography & reminiscences with critical insights, 'Sacred Spaces' affords us a rare glimpse of religious traditions outside the mainstream. This rich legacy could well be invaluable in promoting alternate ways of understanding religion & the notion of community identity.

Encyclopedia of Sacred Places [2 volumes]

Encyclopedia of Sacred Places [2 volumes]
Author: Norbert C. Brockman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 724
Release: 2011-09-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1598846558

Now thoroughly revised and updated, this encyclopedia documents the diversity of shrines, temples, holy places, and pilgrimage sites sacred to the world's major religious traditions, and illustrates their elemental place in human culture. As interest increases in the role of world religions in history and international affairs, the new edition of Encyclopedia of Sacred Places—which arrives 15 years after the publication of the original edition—provides new and updated information on site-specific religious practice and spiritually significant locations around the globe. While many of the entries describe specific places, like the Erawan Shrine and the Rock of Cashel, others examine types of sacred sites, pilgrimages, and practices. With articles that describe both the places and their associated traditions and history, this reference book reveals the enormous diversity and cultural significance of religious practice worldwide. For students and teachers of classes ranging from high school geography to university-level courses in religious studies, geography, anthropology, and sociology, this book provides essential reference on places of great significance to the world's various faith traditions.

Male Homosexualities and World Religions

Male Homosexualities and World Religions
Author: P. Hurteau
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 537
Release: 2013-11-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137340533

The interest of this book lies at the very center of a recent deployment of homosexual liberation on a larger scale. The reader will be able to understand how each of the traditions studied articulates its own regulatory mechanisms of male sexuality in general, and homosexuality.

Women and Sabarimala

Women and Sabarimala
Author: Sinu Joseph
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2019-12-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1647336341

Women and Sabarimala is an answer to the question “why aren’t women of menstrual age allowed to enter Sabarimala?” This book presents a never-before discussed perspective on the science behind the restrictions on women in the Sabarimala temple. Women and Sabarimala is a rare book and is written from a woman’s perspective, explaining the nature of the temple through India’s traditional knowledge systems, such as Ayurveda, Chakras, Tantra and Agama Shastra. At the same time, the author’s personal experiences simplify the understanding of these deep sciences, providing a glimpse into how temples impact the human physiology and, in particular, women’s menstrual cycles. This book will change the way Hindu temples, especially Sabarimala, are perceived and experienced.

Power In Temples: A Modern Perspective

Power In Temples: A Modern Perspective
Author: Srikant
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2002
Genre: Hindu temples
ISBN: 9788186107034

Seeks To Promote A Modern Understanding Of Indian Explorers Evolved Temples Based On Deep Knowledge Rather Than Blind Faith - Temples Included In The Volume Are Mainly From South India - 9 Chapters - The Dilemma Of The Modern Man - Modern Science And India`S Ancient Knowledge - Temples And Creative Energy - Deity - Infusing Power In The Idol And Consecration - Revealing Experiments - Science Of Man`S Progress To Divinity - New Dimensions - Colour Plates 24 - Other Illustrations 39.

Sri Mookambika, the Radiant Grace

Sri Mookambika, the Radiant Grace
Author: Srikant
Publisher:
Total Pages: 86
Release: 1992
Genre: Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN:

On the Mookambika Temple, enshrining Mūkāmbikā, form of Durgā, Hindu deity, in Kollur, Karnataka; includes brief descriptions of some neighboring Hindu shrines and verses in praise of the deity from the Skandapurana.