Folk Religion of Bengal
Author : Sudhir Ranjan Das
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Page : pages
File Size : 28,25 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Bengal (India)
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Author : Sudhir Ranjan Das
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Page : pages
File Size : 28,25 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Bengal (India)
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Author : Gouri Sankar Bandyopadhyay
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Page : 188 pages
File Size : 32,30 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Folk religion
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With reference to Rāḍha, India.
Author : June McDaniel
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 49,62 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791487652
Exploring the folk religion of India and the role of girls and women within it, author June McDaniel focuses on the brata (vrata) ritual in which moral lessons are taught and goddesses are revealed. Bratas are performed to gain such goals as a healthy family, a good husband, and a happy life. They are also performed so that the performers (bratinis) develop such virtues as devotion, humility, and compassion.This book presents data from fieldwork, along with brata stories, songs, poems, and ritual activities. It discusses Bengali folk religion, offers an example of ritual worship in folk Hinduism, and surveys a variety of bratas. The author analyzes the similarities and differences among these rituals in low-caste village life and in high-caste Hindu tradition, and notes that the development of these rituals involves a form of continuing divine revelation with women as the primary transmitters. Bratas act to maintain traditional Hindu values, but also emphasize the power of women, whose virtues can save their husbands from hell worlds and their families from disasters.
Author : Bina Kumari Sarma
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
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Books Closely At Folk Deities Of South Bengal, Particularly Manifestation Of Mother Goddess In The 2 Districts-Bankura And Purulia. Based On Field Work And A Review Of Exiting Literature. Has 7 Chapters, The Best Being On Conclusions.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,57 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Bengal (India)
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Author : Sudhir Ranjan Das
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Page : pages
File Size : 48,53 MB
Release : 1953
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Author : June McDaniel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 22,10 MB
Release : 2004-08-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0190290560
The Indian state of West Bengal is home to one of the world's most vibrant traditions of goddess worship. The year's biggest holidays are devoted to the goddesses Durga and Kali, with lavish rituals, decorated statues, fireworks, and parades. In Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls, June McDaniel provides a broad, accessibly written overview of Bengali goddess worship. McDaniel identifies three major forms of goddess worship, and examines each through its myths, folklore, songs, rituals, sacred texts, and practitioners. In the folk/tribal strand, which is found in rural areas, local tribal goddesses are worshipped alongside Hindu goddesses, with an emphasis on possession, healing, and animism. The tantric/yogic strand focuses on ritual, meditation, and visualization as ways of experiencing the power of the goddess directly. The devotional or bhakti strand, which is the most popular form, involves the intense love and worship of a particular form of the goddess. McDaniel traces these strands through Bengali culture and explores how they are interwoven with each other as well as with other forms of Hinduism. She also discusses how these practices have been reinterpreted in the West, where goddess worship has gained the values of sexual freedom and psychological healing, but lost its emphases on devotion and asceticism. Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls takes the reader inside the lives of practicing Shaktas, including holy women, hymn singers, philosophers, visionaries, gurus, ascetics, healers, musicians, and businessmen, and offers vivid descriptions of their rituals, practices, and daily lives. Drawing on years of fieldwork and extensive research, McDaniel paints a rich, expansive portrait of this fascinating religious tradition.
Author : Sudhir Ranjan Das
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Page : 49 pages
File Size : 26,25 MB
Release : 1953
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Author : Carola Lorea
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004324712
This book explores historical and cultural aspects of modern and contemporary Bengal through the performance-centred study of a particular repertoire: the songs of the saint-composer Bhaba Pagla (1902-1984), who is particularly revered among Baul and Fakir singers. The author shows how songs, if examined as 'sacred scriptures', represent multi-dimensional texts for the study of South Asian religions. Revealing how previous studies about Bauls mirror the history of folkloristics in Bengal, this book presents sacred songs as a precious symbolic capital for a marginalized community of dislocated and unorthodox Hindus, who consider the practice of singing in itself an integral part of the path towards self-realization.
Author : Jogendra Nath Bhattacharya
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Page : 708 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Caste
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