Mobilizing Krishna S World
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Mobilizing Krishna S World
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Author : Heidi Pauwels
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2017-11-01
Mobilizing Krishna S World written by Heidi Pauwels and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Savant Singh (1694–1764), the Rajput prince of Kishangarh-Rupnagar, is famous for commissioning beautiful works of miniature painting and composing devotional (bhakti) poetry to Krishna under the nom de plume Nagaridas. After his throne was usurped by his younger brother, while Savant Singh was on the road seeking military alliances to regain his kingdom, he composed an autobiographical pilgrimage account, “The Pilgrim’s Bliss” (Tirthananda); a hagiographic anthology, “Garland of Anecdotes about Songs” (Pad-Prasang-mala); and a reworking of the story of Rama, “Garland of Rama’s Story” (Ram-Carit-Mala). Through an examination of Savant Singh’s life and works, Heidi Pauwels explores the circulation of ideas and culture in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries in north India, revealing how Singh mobilized soldiers but also used myths, songs, and stories about saints in order to cope with his personal and political crisis. Mobilizing Krishna’s World allows us a peek behind the dreamlike paintings and refined poetry to glimpse a world of intrigue involving political and religious reform movements.
Mobilizing Krishna S World
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Author : Heidi Rika Maria Pauwels
language : en
Publisher: Global South Asia
Release Date : 2017
Mobilizing Krishna S World written by Heidi Rika Maria Pauwels and has been published by Global South Asia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Savant Singh (1694-1764), the Rajput prince of Kishangarh-Rupnagar, commissioned beautiful miniature paintings and composed devotional (bhakti) poetry to Krishna under the nom de plume Nagaridas. After his throne was usurped, while Savant Singh was on the road seeking military alliances to regain his kingdom, he composed a pilgrimage account, The Pilgrim's Bliss (Tirthanand); an anthology, Garland of Stories and Songs (Pad-prasang-mala); and a reworking of the story of Rama, Garland of Rama's Romance (Ram-carit-mala). Through an examination of Savant Singh's life and works, Heidi Pauwels explores the circulation of ideas and culture in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries in north India, revealing how Singh mobilized soldiers but also used myths, songs, and stories about saints to cope with his personal and political crises. Mobilizing Krishna's World allows us a peek behind the dreamlike paintings and refined poetry into a world of intrigue Book jacket.
Mirabai
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Author : Nancy M. Martin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-07-11
Mirabai written by Nancy M. Martin and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-11 with Religion categories.
Mirabai, an iconic sixteenth-century Indian poet-saint, is renowned for her unwavering love of God, her disregard for social hierarchies and gendered notions of honor and shame, and her challenge to familial, feudal, and religious authorities. Defying attempts to constrain and even kill her, she could not be silenced. Though verifiable facts regarding her life are few, her fame spread across social, linguistic, and religious boundaries, and stories about her multiplied across the subcontinent and the centuries. In Mirabai, Nancy M. Martin traces the story of this immensely popular Indian saint from the earliest manuscript references to her through colonial and nationalist developments to scholarly and popular portrayals in the decades leading up to Indian independence. This book examines Mirabai's place as both insider and outsider to the developing strands of devotional Hinduism and her role in contested terrain of debates around the education and independence of women and the crafting of Indian and Hindu identities. Mirabai offers a comprehensive and multi-layered portrait of this remarkable and still controversial woman, who continues to be a source of inspiration and catalyst for self-actualization for spiritual seekers, artists, activists, and so many others in India and around the world today.
Devotional Visualities
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Author : Karen Pechilis
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-09-21
Devotional Visualities written by Karen Pechilis and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-21 with Religion categories.
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.
Climate Change And The Art Of Devotion
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Author : Sugata Ray
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2019-07-31
Climate Change And The Art Of Devotion written by Sugata Ray and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-31 with Art categories.
In the enchanted world of Braj, the primary pilgrimage center in north India for worshippers of Krishna, each stone, river, and tree is considered sacred. In Climate Change and the Art of Devotion, Sugata Ray shows how this place-centered theology emerged in the wake of the Little Ice Age (ca. 1550–1850), an epoch marked by climatic catastrophes across the globe. Using the frame of geoaesthetics, he compares early modern conceptions of the environment and current assumptions about nature and culture. A groundbreaking contribution to the emerging field of eco–art history, the book examines architecture, paintings, photography, and prints created in Braj alongside theological treatises and devotional poetry to foreground seepages between the natural ecosystem and cultural production. The paintings of deified rivers, temples that emulate fragrant groves, and talismanic bleeding rocks that Ray discusses will captivate readers interested in environmental humanities and South Asian art history. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/climate-change-and-the-art-of-devotion
Betrayal Of The Spirit
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Author : Nori J. Muster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Betrayal Of The Spirit written by Nori J. Muster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Combining behind-the-scenes views of an often besieged religious group with a personal account of the author's struggle to find meaning in it, Betrayal of the Spirit takes the reader closer than any other source so far to the reality of life in the Hare Krishna movement. Nori J. Muster, a California native, joined the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKON) - the Hare Krishnas - in 1977, shortly after the death of the movement's spiritual master, Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. She lived in the Krishnas' western world headquarters in Los Angeles and worked for ten years as a public relations secretary and editor of the organization's newspaper, the ISKON World Review. Her story of the Hare Krishnas' decline is a gripping presentation of facts gleaned from personal reminiscences, published articles, and internal documents. Betrayal of the Spirit details drug dealing, weapons stockpiling, deceptive fund-raising, child abuse, and murder within ISKON, as well as the dynamics of schisms that forced some 95 percent of the group's original members to leave. Although the movement fell into disarray after the death of its founder, the author's story is one of a continual search for truth and religious meaning as an ISKON member. Muster's account of the scandal-plagued decade following Swami Prabhupada's death ends in 1988 when, disillusioned over the continuing internal strife and scandals, she left her job and the movement.
Merchants Of Virtue
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Author : Divya Cherian
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2022-12-27
Merchants Of Virtue written by Divya Cherian and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-27 with History categories.
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences Merchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century western India to uncover how merchants enforced their caste ideals of vegetarianism and bodily austerity as universal markers of Hindu identity. Using legal strategies and alliances with elites, these merchants successfully remade the category of “Hindu,” setting it in contrast to “Untouchable” in a process that reconfigured Hinduism in caste terms. In a history pertinent to understanding India today, Cherian establishes the centrality of caste to the early-modern Hindu self and to its imagination of inadmissible others.
Rule The World As Krishna Did
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Author : Vikrant Singh Tomar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-03-20
Rule The World As Krishna Did written by Vikrant Singh Tomar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-20 with Bhagavadgītā categories.
The objective of this book, Rule the World as Krishna Did, is to put forward the age-old wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita in a simple way that enables readers to understand and comprehend its message. Research has shown that the youth of today have more complex problems in life and work than ever before and need more sophisticated treatment for these issues. A common person takes the Gita as a spiritual text that talks about the divine song of Lord Krishna addressing a confused and shattered Arjuna. This book focuses on the relevance of Gita's selected verses in our day-to-day life. It explores the following questions: How can a person lead his or her life the Bhagavad Gita way? How can a leader assure triumph the Bhagavad Gita way? How can a student choose his or her career the Bhagavad Gita way? How can a human become a super human the Bhagavad Gita way? How can a businessman manage his business the Bhagavad Gita way? How can anyone achieve self-realization the Bhagavad Gita way? How can an individual remain self-motivated the Bhagavad Gita way? The book also establishes some elementary models of knowledge, action, self, personality, perception, motivation, and decision making, which can help scholars venture into virgin areas of research and discussion.
Religious Authority In South Asia
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Author : István Keul
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-09-30
Religious Authority In South Asia written by István Keul and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-30 with Social Science categories.
This book focuses on genealogies of religious authority in South Asia, examining the figure of the guru in narrative texts, polemical tracts, hagiographies, histories, in contemporary devotional communities, New Age spiritual movements and global guru organizations. Experts in the field present reflections on historically specific contexts in which a guru comes into being, becomes part of a community, is venerated, challenged or repudiated, generates a new canon, remains unique with no clear succession or establishes a succession in which charisma is routinized. The guru emerges and is sustained and routinized from the nexus of guruship, narratives, performances and community. The contributors to the book examine this nexus at specific historical moments with all their elements of change and contingency. The book will be of interest to scholars in the field of South Asian studies, the study of religions and cultural studies.
Engineering
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Author : Unesco
language : en
Publisher: UNESCO
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Engineering written by Unesco and has been published by UNESCO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This report reviews engineering's importance to human, economic, social and cultural development and in addressing the UN Millennium Development Goals. Engineering tends to be viewed as a national issue, but engineering knowledge, companies, conferences and journals, all demonstrate that it is as international as science. The report reviews the role of engineering in development, and covers issues including poverty reduction, sustainable development, climate change mitigation and adaptation. It presents the various fields of engineering around the world and is intended to identify issues and challenges facing engineering, promote better understanding of engineering and its role, and highlight ways of making engineering more attractive to young people, especially women.--Publisher's description.