Scattered Goddesses
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Scattered Goddesses
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Author : Padma Audrey Kaimal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Scattered Goddesses written by Padma Audrey Kaimal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Art and society categories.
Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis is a book about the lost home, the new homes, and the journeys in between of nineteen sculptures that now reside in at least twelve separate museums across North America, Western Europe, and South India. After piecing together what these goddesses and their former companions might have meant when they were together in tenth-century South India, Kaimal traces them into the hands of private collectors and public museums as these objects became more thoroughly separated from each other with each transaction. In the process of export and purchase, and in the hostile as well as loving receptions these sculptures received within South Asia, she fi nds that collecting and scattering were the same activity experienced from different points of view.
The Thief Who Stole My Heart
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Author : Vidya Dehejia
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-05-11
The Thief Who Stole My Heart written by Vidya Dehejia and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-11 with Art categories.
The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India’s Chola dynasty in social context From the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection was meant to reflect spiritual beauty and divine transcendence. During festivals, these bronze sculptures—including Shiva, referred to in a saintly vision as “the thief who stole my heart”—were adorned with jewels and flowers and paraded through towns as active participants in Chola worship. In this richly illustrated book, leading art historian Vidya Dehejia introduces the bronzes within the full context of Chola history, culture, and religion. In doing so, she brings the bronzes and Chola society to life before our very eyes. Dehejia presents the bronzes as material objects that interacted in meaningful ways with the people and practices of their era. Describing the role of the statues in everyday activities, she reveals not only the importance of the bronzes for the empire, but also little-known facets of Chola life. She considers the source of the copper and jewels used for the deities, proposing that the need for such resources may have influenced the Chola empire’s political engagement with Sri Lanka. She also investigates the role of women patrons in bronze commissions and discusses the vast public records, many appearing here in translation for the first time, inscribed on temple walls. From the Cholas’ religious customs to their agriculture, politics, and even food, The Thief Who Stole My Heart offers an expansive and complete immersion in a community still accessible to us through its exquisite sacred art. Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Opening Kailasanatha
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Author : Padma Kaimal
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2021-03-08
Opening Kailasanatha written by Padma Kaimal 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 2021-03-08 with History categories.
Stone figures hardened by ascetic discipline and heroic effort face north in deep shadow. There they meet the gazes of the same gods and goddesses but with gentler bodies enacting grace, warmth, seduction, and marriage, drenched in sunlight, facing south. These figures adorn the eighth-century Kailasanatha temple complex in southeastern India, built by rulers who were both warriors and ascetics, engaged in the work of this world and in spiritual quests. They designed their temple as an exuberant visual feast to sustain both modes of being. In Opening Kailasanatha, Padma Kaimal deciphers the intentions of the monument’s makers, reaching back across centuries to illuminate worldviews of the ancient Indic south. She reveals how circling the complex in a clockwise direction focuses the mind and spirit on worldly engagement; in a counterclockwise direction, on renunciation and ascetic practice. This pairing of highly charged, complementary pathways enabled devotees to grasp these counterpoised opportunities in their own listening, gazing, moving bodies. By focusing on the material form of the complex—the architecture, inscriptions, and sculptures, along with the spaces they carve out that guide light, shadow, sound, and footsteps—Kaimal offers insights that complement what surviving texts tell us about Shaiva Siddhanta ideas and practices, providing a rare opportunity to walk in the distant past.
Hindu Goddesses
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Author : Lynn Foulston
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-03
Hindu Goddesses written by Lynn Foulston and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-03 with Religion categories.
Explores the diversity of Hindu goddesses and the variety of ways in which they are worshipped. Although they undoubtedly have ancient origins, Hindu goddesses and their worship is still very much a part of the fabric of religious engagement in India today. This book offers an introduction to a complex and often baffling field of study.
Historia Religionum Volume 1 Religions Of The Past
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Author : Claas Jouco Bleeker
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1988
Historia Religionum Volume 1 Religions Of The Past written by Claas Jouco Bleeker and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Religion categories.
Yoga
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Author : Debra Diamond
language : en
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Release Date : 2013
Yoga written by Debra Diamond and has been published by Smithsonian Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Art categories.
"Published by the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition Yoga: The Art of Transformation, October 19, 2013 - January 26, 2014. Organized by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the exhibition travels to the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, February 22-May 18, 2014, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, June 22-September 7, 2014."
Yogini In South Asia
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Author : István Keul
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-07-18
Yogini In South Asia written by István Keul and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-18 with History categories.
In different stages in the history of South Asian religions, the term yoginī has been used in various contexts to designate various things: a female adept of yoga, a female tantric practitioner, a sorceress, a woman dedicated to a deity, or a certain category of female deities. This book brings together recent interdisciplinary perspectives on the medieval South Asian cults of the Yoginis, such as textual-philological, historical, art historical, indological, anthropological, ritual and terminological. The book discusses the medieval yoginī cult, as illustrated in early Śaiva tantric texts, and their representations in South Asian temple iconography. It looks at the roles and hypostases of yoginīs in contemporary religious traditions, as well as the transformations of yoginī-related ritual practices. In addition, this book systematizes the multiple meanings, and proposes definitions of the concept and models for integrating the semantic fields of ‘yoginī.’ Highlighting the importance of research from complementary disciplines for the exploration of complex themes in South Asian studies, this book is of interest to scholars of South Asian Studies and Religious Studies.
The Routledge Dictionary Of Gods And Goddesses Devils And Demons
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Author : Manfred Lurker
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2004
The Routledge Dictionary Of Gods And Goddesses Devils And Demons written by Manfred Lurker and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Demonology categories.
Containing around 1,800 entries this dictionary covers, in one volume, all the important deities and demons from around the world. This will be an invaluable source of information for anyone interested in comparative religion.
God Pictures In Korean Contexts
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Author : Laurel Kendall
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2015-09-30
God Pictures In Korean Contexts written by Laurel Kendall and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-30 with Art categories.
Shamans walking on knives, fairies riding on clouds, kings with dragon mounts: They are gods and they are paper images. Some are repulsed and unsettled by shaman paintings, some cannot stop collecting them, and some use them as sites of veneration. Laurel Kendall, Jongsung Yang, and Yul Soo Yoon explore what it is that makes a Korean shaman painting magical or sacred. How does a picture carry the trace of a god and can it ever be “just a painting” again? How have shaman paintings been revalued as art? Do artfulness and magic ever intersect? Does it matter, as a matter of market value, that the painting was once a sacred thing? Navigating the journey shaman paintings make from painters’ studios to shaman shrines to private collections and museums, the three authors deftly traverse the borderland between scholarly interests in the material dimension of religious practice and the circulation of art. Illustrated with sixty images in color and black and white, the book offers a new vantage point on “the social life of things.” This is not a story of a collecting West and a disposing rest; the primary collectors and commentators on Korean shaman paintings are South Koreans re-imagining their own past in light of their own modernist sensibility. It is a tale told with an awareness of both recent South Korean history and the problematic question of how the paintings are understood by different South Korean actors, most particularly the shamans and collectors who share a common language and sometimes meet face-to-face.
The Underworld Saga Books 4 6
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Author : Eva Pohler
language : en
Publisher: Green Press/Eva Pohler
Release Date : 2019-02-18
The Underworld Saga Books 4 6 written by Eva Pohler and has been published by Green Press/Eva Pohler this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-18 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
The thrilling adventures continue for Therese, Than, Jen, and Hip in this next box set. Just when things were looking up for Than and Therese, everything crumbles. Eighteen-year-old Therese Mills has second thoughts about marrying Thanatos when she learns that no god has ever been faithful to his wife. But before she can move out of Than's rooms and into Hecate's, the Underworld is attacked, she and her friends are crushed, the souls are unleashed, and a malevolent goddess threatens to unhinge Mount Olympus. Hypnos has just made a deal with Hades to have his turn in the Upperworld, but before he can tempt Jen with a kiss, he's called back to rebind the souls and defend the House of Hades, and he unwittingly puts Jen and her family in harm's way. Can Hip, Than, and Therese save the living and the dead? *Formerly The Gatekeeper's Trilogy II "I caught myself holding my breath alot. These are highly addictive and full of surprises."--Southernmermaid85, Goodreads Reviewer ★★★★★ "If you were hooked in 1-3 then 4-6 will NOT disappoint!!"--Weirdpup 13 ★★★★★ "Awesome!! Love the continuation of Therese and Thans epic love story and how they overcome the obstacles that are before them. I love these books very much and recommend reading them all."--Sam, Goodreads Reviewer ★★★★★ Grab your copy to continue the exciting adventure today! Related authors: C. Gockel, Anthea Sharp, Susan Kaye Quinn, Cassandra Clare, Chanda Hahn, Quinn Loftis, Kim Richardson, S.T. Bende, Karen Lynch. Kimberly Loth, Richelle Mead, M. Lynn, Allie Burton, Ashley McLeo, Frost Kay, Cameo Renea, Elise Kova, Nicole Zoltack, A.L. Knorr, Kay L. Moody, Melissa Craven, Laura Thalassa, Rose Garcia, Holly Hook, Robin D. Mahle, Elle Madison, Raye Wagner, Elisa S. Amore, and Rick Riordan. Search terms: Greek mythology, Greek mythology romance, mythology, Greek gods and goddesses, paranormal romance, young adult fiction, teen fiction, clean young adult fiction, the Underworld, Hades and Persephone, teen fiction books, urban fantasy, myth retellings, fantasy, young adult fantasy, gods and monsters, mythological beasts, swords and sorcery, magic, adventure.