Download or read book C R MONIES FUN RAIRES ET POSTFUN RAIRES EN INDE written by Marcelle Saindon and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les rituels des cérémonies funéraires en Inde sont ici exposés à la lumière des recherches les plus récentes. Tout l'intérêt réside dans l'exploration de la toile de fond ou du fond de scène, dans le regard posé derrière les gestes rituels, peut-être mécaniques, pour dégager les ficelles qui les relient à la tradition, à l'histoire de l'Inde. Scruter cette toile de fond à l'aide des textes sanscrits pour jeter la lumière sur un rituel toujours bien vivant, voilà le but de ce livre. Presses de l'Université Laval
Download or read book Kaly n a Shat anku Or written by J. F. Kearns and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together With A Description Of Karu-Mantharum, Or The Funeral Ceremonies.
Download or read book Hindu Death Rites written by Beena Ghimire Poudyal and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hindu Rite of Entry Into Heaven written by David M. Knipe and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book comprises a smorgasbord of essays on death, dying, funeral rituals, ancestor ceremonies, ghosts, and other subjects in the realm of Mrityu, the god of Death, and aparam, the Sanskrit and Telugu word for human End Time. The focus stretches from the Ṛg Veda to present-day Hinduism, textual and non-textual. The title of the book is that of the first essay, an ethnographic and Vedic/Classical Sanskrit textual study of the sapiṇḍa ritual that occurs on the twelfth day of a full-scale, textually accurate funeral. That field work was accomplished during a year-long study of funeral rituals in Varanasi, the ancient city of Kāśī where it is most auspicious for Hindus to die and be cremated in a final sacrifice of the body."--Back cover.
Download or read book Indo European Fire Rituals written by Anders Kaliff and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indo-European Fire Rituals is a comparative study of Indo-European fire rituals from modern folklore and ethnography in Scandinavia and archaeological material in Europe from the Bronze Age onwards to the Vedic origins of cosmos in India and today’s cremations on open pyres in Hinduism. Exploring Indo-European fire rituals and sacrifices throughout history and fire in its fundamental role in rites and religious practices, this book analyses fire rituals as the unifying structure in time and space in Indo-European cultures from the Bronze Age onwards. It asks the question how and why was fire the ultimate power in culture and cosmology? Fire as an agent and divinity was fundamental in all major sacrifices. In Europe, ritual fires in relation to agriculture and fertility may also explain the enigma of cremation. Cremated remains were ground and used in fertility rituals, and ancestral fires played an essential role in metallurgy and the creation of cosmos. Thus, the role of fire rituals in culture and cosmology enables a unique understanding of historic developmental processes. For students and academics studying Indo-European culture history from the Bronze Age onwards, this book has a broad interdisciplinary audience including archaeology, ethnography, folklore, religious and Indo-European studies.
Download or read book Exp rience sociale de la mort written by Jacek Jan Pawlik and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death and Changing Rituals written by J. Rasmus Brandt and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forms by which a deceased person may be brought to rest are as many as there are causes of death. In most societies the disposal of the corpse is accompanied by some form of celebration or ritual which may range from a simple act of deportment in solitude to the engagement of large masses of people in laborious and creative festivities. In a funerary context the term ritual may be taken to represent a process that incorporates all the actions performed and thoughts expressed in connection with a dying and dead person, from the preparatory pre-death stages to the final deposition of the corpse and the post-mortem stages of grief and commemoration. The contributions presented here are focused not on the examination of different funerary practices, their function and meaning, but on the changes of such rituals – how and when they occurred and how they may be explained. Based on case studies from a range of geographical regions and from different prehistoric and historical periods, a range of key themes are examined concerning belief and ritual, body and deposition, place, performance and commemoration, exploring a complex web of practices.
Download or read book End of life rituals written by Catherine Chambers and published by Cherrytree Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of the titles in this series introduces customs and traditions that are observed to mark special events in the lives of individuals and groups. Separate sections present the activities and beliefs around a particular event, season, or other special time typical of cultures all over the world.
Download or read book Celebrations of Death written by Peter Metcalf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-10-25 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction to the second edition -- 1. Preliminaries -- Part I. Universals and Culture: 2. Emotional reactions to death -- 3. Symbolic associations of death -- Part II. Death as Transition: 4. The living and the dead: a re-examination of Hertz -- 5. Death rituals and life values: rites of passage reconsidered -- Part III. The Royal Corpse and the Body Politic: 6. The dead king -- 7. The immortal kingship -- Part IV. Seeing Ourselves Anew: 8. American deathways -- Bibliography -- Index.
Download or read book The Funeral written by Subramaniam Packrisamy and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kalyan A Shatanku Or the Marriage Ceremonies of the Hindus of South Indi written by J. F. Kearns and published by . This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book The Hindu Book of Dead written by Trinath Mishra and published by Vitasta Publication. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare treatise on the dead & what happens next as per the Hindu belief None wants to face it though all know they cannot escape. This book may help understand death and realize the importance of life. 'Jatasya Hi Dhruvo Mrityuh'-All those who are born are bound to die. Despite this people fear death. The thought of leaving this planet and the failure of existence create fear. A person who understands the true nature of death realizes that it is only a stage in the life cycle and not a curse. To get this realization demands a different perspective. Unlike Hebraic faiths and bodycentric cultures that believe in the linear existence of life, Hinduism believes in the cyclic concept. The concept of the immortality of the lifeenergy or soul and the karmic cycle form the core of Hindu spiritualism. All Hindu scriptural texts, from the Vedas to Nibandha (treatises on rituals) discuss them at length. The focus is to liberate the soul from the body and overcome the cycle of birth and death. The Hindu Book of the Dead discusses all the concepts, beliefs and traditions found in these texts as well as the secular classical works about death and its meanings critically. The significance of various funeral rites and rituals and their relevance for the soul and for those who are alive have also been explained. What are those rituals and their meanings and how the soul tries to overcome the cycle of life and death? Where the journey ends? The body is dead but the soul still has to travel. The book tries to explain the What, Why, Where and How of what is described as death. It also presents a comparative picture of the beliefs and traditions held by other faiths and cultures.
Download or read book Rites fun raires et deuil dans l Islam fran ais written by Nadim Ghodbane and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2017 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un éclairage sur le déroulement de l'inhumation des défunts de confession musulmane et sur l'évolution des pratiques en France. L'auteur fait un rappel des pratiques des rituels, de leurs fondements et de l'importance qu'ils revêtent. Il propose des pistes de réflexion et des perspectives d'action pour bousculer la pensée unique. Electre 2018
Download or read book Bereavement and Final Samskara Antyeshti in Hindu Tradition Psychology of Bereavement Last Rites in Hinduism Religious Ceremonies During Mourning written by Sri Dhira Chaitanya and published by Sri Dhira Chaitanya. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bereavement and Final Rites in Hindu Tradition. Religious ceremonies during mourning period. Vedic insights into Life, death and God in Hinduism.
Download or read book The Deceased s Life Cycle Rituals in Nepal written by Terje Oestigaard and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study forms `an ethnoarchaeological analysis of the life cycle rituals from the funeral practice and its manifestation in the mortuary remains of Brahmans and Magars in Central Dhaulagiri zone of Nepal'. It is largely based on first-hand experience of funerals and explores the religious and cosmological ideas surrounding death and the afterlife, what death represents for the living and the rites and rituals performed to the deceased. In the final chapter, Oestigaard considers how this evidence can help us interpret the burials of the past and re-appraise our Christianised views of death.
Download or read book When a Goddess Dies written by Orianne Aymard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ma Anandamayi is generally regarded as the most important Hindu woman saint of the twentieth century. Venerated alternately as a guru and as an incarnation of God on earth, Ma had hundreds of thousands of devotees. Through the creation of a religious movement and a vast network of ashrams-unprecedented for a woman-Ma presented herself as an authority figure in a society where female gurus were not often recognized. Because of her widespread influence, Ma is one of the rare Hindu saints whose cult has outlived her. Today, her tomb is a place of veneration for those who knew her as well as new generations of her followers. By performing extensive fieldwork among Ma's current devotees, Orianne Aymard examines what happens to a cult after the death of its leader. Does it decline, stagnate, or grow? Or is it rather transformed into something else entirely? Aymard's work sheds new light not only on Hindu sainthood-and particularly female Hindu sainthood-but on the nature of charismatic religious leadership and devotion.
