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The Ramayana Revisited
14 leading 'Ramayana' scholars examine the epic in its myriad contexts throughout South and Southeast Asia. They explore the role the narrative plays in societies as varied as India Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia. The essays also expand the understanding of the 'text' to include non-verbal renditions of the epic.
Music and Dance as Everyday South Asia
This book offers an inclusive lens through which to study the music and dance of South Asia, its diasporas, and the people who produce and use these cultural expressions. Each chapter's central argument ties into a participatory exercise that provides active ways to understand and engage with cultural meaning.
The Illustrated Ramayana
Discover the Ramayana - one of India's most celebrated epics, and a story that transcends time itself. The tale of Rama, the exiled prince of Ayodhya who battles the evil Ravana, the king of Lanka, and rescues his abducted wife, Sita, is about much more than the eternal battle of good versus evil. It is a tale of love, friendship, loyalty, devotion, righteousness, and deliverance. Ramayana and Rama, whose journey is told in the epic, are embedded in India's cultural consciousness, but at the same time they transcend borders. Various versions of the Ramayana can be found across the Indian subcontinent and in parts of southeast Asia. Created in consultation with distinguished economist, scholar, and translator, Dr Bibek Debroy, The Illustrated Ramayana draws from one of its earliest composers, the celebrated sage and poet Valmiki. It uses a combination of text and stunning images drawn from a variety of sources - from historic and contemporary artefacts, paintings, photographs, and performances - to tell Rama's story, as he walks the path that destiny creates for him.
Contemporary Hinduism
An examination of the contemporary practices, beliefs, and issues of one of the world's oldest and most enduring religions, both within its Indian homeland and throughout the world. Contemporary Hinduism: Ritual, Culture, and Practice illuminates the modern-day ritual, range, and reach of this ancient and diverse religion. A brief historical overview is followed by discussions of the oral and written origins of Hinduism that give context for the main emphasis—contemporary thought, practice, and key issues. Unique to this work is the consistent attention given to the practice of Hinduism for both men and women. What roles do caste and gender play in modern Hinduism? How are issues like ethics and the environment approached? What are the differences between urban and rural Hinduism, fundamental and secular Hinduism? To what countries has this religion spread, and how do the beliefs and practices of their people compare and contrast? Essays written by Indian and Western scholars answer these and other intriguing questions, introducing readers to the whole world of "living Hinduism" rather than the perspectives and traditions of a small elite.
The Radheshyam Ramayan in Text and Performance
A new Ramayan for a new age. In the early twentieth century, the poet and singer-storyteller Pandit Radheshyam Kathavachak reimagined and published the classic story of the Ramayan with stunning success. Guided by Tulsidas's sixteenth-century Rāmcaritmānasin Avadhi, Kathavachak composed his religious epic, the Radheshyam Ramayan, in Hindi-Urdu to make it comprehensible to modern audiences and to be able to sing and explicate it in devotional concerts (kathā). Even so, the work was quickly incorporated into the scripts of annual Ramlila theatrical productions in the Rohilkhand region and beyond. Based on extensive literary, archival, and ethnographic research,The Radheshyam Ramayan in Text...
Comics and Sacred Texts
Contributions by Ofra Amihay, Madeline Backus, Samantha Baskind, Elizabeth Rae Coody, Scott S. Elliott, Assaf Gamzou, Susan Handelman, Leah Hochman, Leonard V. Kaplan, Ken Koltun-Fromm, Shiamin Kwa, Samantha Langsdale, A. David Lewis, Karline McLain, Ranen Omer-Sherman, Joshua Plencner, and Jeffrey L. Richey Comics and Sacred Texts explores how comics and notions of the sacred interweave new modes of seeing and understanding the sacral. Comics and graphic narratives help readers see religion in the everyday and in depictions of God, in transfigured, heroic selves as much as in the lives of saints and the meters of holy languages. Coeditors Assaf Gamzou and Ken Koltun-Fromm reveal the graphic...
A Buddhist Woman's Path to Enlightenment
"This volume of Historia Religionum 13 contains the proceedings of a workshop on a Tamil text called (the) Manimekalai. The workshop took place at Uppsala University, Department for the History of Religions, 18-22 May, 1995. Historical problems concerning the Manimekalai, problems regarding its authorship, genre, dating, historical setting and sectarian affiliation were of primary interest, and several of the 13 contributions (by 10 contributors) in this volume have presented valuable suggestions for a solution to these problems. To the aim of solving historical problems another was added, namely that of generating a number of interpretative themes based on the Manimekalai; themes on the Buddhist concept of causation in the Manimekalai, on the concepts of gods, the soul and the amuta curapi, "the bowl of immortality". The concept of "Reform Buddhism" was highlighted, rituals were classified and reconstructed, and of course a gender analysis was included."--ABSTRACT.
Playing for Real
This Book Investigates The Ways In Which Influential Figures And Types, Mythological And Contemporary, Have Functioned And Continue To Function As Role Models In Matters Of Gender, Authority, And Power In A Variety Of Hindu Contexts.
Crisis and Knowledge
This book offers fresh readings of several central Upanishadic texts, arguing that the lives and experiences of the heroes of these texts contain significant clues to our understanding of the more abstract messages of the Upanishads.
Syllables of Sky
This collection of essays by outstanding scholars of South India introduces the work of Velcheru Narayana Rao, who has revolutionized our understanding of classical literary theory and culture. The essays provide an overview of recent research in various fields--Telugu literature and religion, South Indian history, Indian folklore and mythology, Dravidian linguistics, temple architecture.
