Download or read book The Popular Religion and Folk Lore of Northern India Complete written by William Crooke and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among all the great religions of the world there is none more catholic, more assimilative than the mass of beliefs which go to make up what is popularly known as Hinduism. To what was probably its original form—a nature worship in a large degree introduced by the Aryan missionaries—has been added an enormous amount of demonolatry, fetishism and kindred forms of primitive religion, much of which has been adopted from races which it is convenient to describe as aboriginal or autochthonous. The same was the case in Western lands. As the Romans extended their Empire they brought with them and included in the national pantheon the deities of the conquered peoples. Greece and Syria, Egypt, Gallia and Germania were thus successively laid under contribution. This power of assimilation in the domain of religion had its advantages as well as its dangers. While on the one hand it tended to promote the unity of the empire, it degraded, on the other hand, the national character by the introduction of the impure cults which flourished along the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. But, besides these forms of religion which were directly imported from foreign lands, there remained a stratum of local beliefs which even after twenty centuries of Christianity still flourish, discredited though they may be by priests and placed under the ban of the official creed. Thus in Greece, while the high gods of the divine race of Achilles and Agamemnon are forgotten, the Nereids, the Cyclopes and the Lamia still live in the faith of the peasants of Thessaly. So in modern Tuscany there is actually as much heathenism as catholicism, and they still believe in La Vecchia Religione—“the old religion;”—and while on great occasions they have recourse to the priests, they use magic and witchcraft for all ordinary purposes. It is part of the object of the following pages to show that in India the history of religious belief has been developed on similar lines. Everywhere we find that the great primal gods of Hinduism have suffered grievous degradation. Throughout the length and breadth of the Indian peninsula Brahma, the Creator, has hardly more than a couple of shrines specially dedicated to him. Indra has, as we shall see, become a vague weather deity, who rules the choirs of fairies in his heaven Indra-loka: Varuna, as Barun, has also become a degraded weather godling, and sailors worship their boat as his fetish when they commence a voyage. The worship of Agni survives in the fire sacrifice which has been specialized by the Agnihotri Brâhmans. Of Pûshan and Ushas, Vâyu and the Maruts, hardly even the names survive, except among the small philosophical class of reformers who aim at restoring Vedism, a faith which is as dead as Jupiter or Aphrodite.
Download or read book An Introduction to the Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India written by William Crooke and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Popular Religion and Folk lore of Northern India written by William Crooke and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Religion and Folklore of Northern India written by William Crooke and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 1025 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2-volume study examines the reality of Hindu worship in northern India from the perspective of its popular manifestation. In rural areas, practical Hinduism differed dramatically from organized Vedic Hinduism and included cult worship of a multitude of local deities which were not formally recognized by the Vedas but exerted a greater influence on the rhythms, meanings and decisions of day-to-day life. Crooke's study may have been the first to look at the religion through eyes other than those of missionaries or the Hindu elite, seeking to fill a gap in European intellectual knowledge of India by documenting living traditions in a serious and accessible manner. Volume 1: The Godlings of Nature The Heroic and Village Godlings The Godlings of Disease The Worship of the Sainted Dead Worship of the Malevolent Dead Volume 2: The Evil Eye and the Scaring of Ghosts Tree and Serpent Worship Totemism and Fetishism Animal-Worship The Black Art Some Rural Festivals and Ceremonies
Download or read book The North Western Provinces of India written by William Crooke and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Popular Religion and Folk Lore of Northern India written by W. Crooke and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India by W. Crooke
Download or read book The Popular Religion and Folk lore of Northern India written by William Crooke and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Popular Religion and Folk Lore of Northern India written by W. Crooke and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India by W. Crooke
Download or read book An Introduction to the Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India written by William Crooke and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Religion Science and Empire written by Peter Gottschalk and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Gottschalk offers a compelling study of how, through the British implementation of scientific taxonomy in the subcontinent, Britons and Indians identified an inherent divide between mutually antagonistic religious communities. England's ascent to power coincided with the rise of empirical science as an authoritative way of knowing not only the natural world, but the human one as well. The British scientific passion for classification, combined with the Christian impulse to differentiate people according to religion, led to a designation of Indians as either Hindu or Muslim according to rigidly defined criteria that paralleled classification in botanical and zoological taxonomies. Through an historical and ethnographic study of the north Indian village of Chainpur, Gottschalk shows that the Britons' presumed categories did not necessarily reflect the Indians' concepts of their own identities, though many Indians came to embrace this scientism and gradually accepted the categories the British instituted through projects like the Census of India, the Archaeological Survey of India, and the India Museum. Today's propogators of Hindu-Muslim violence often cite scientistic formulations of difference that descend directly from the categories introduced by imperial Britain. Religion, Science, and Empire will be a valuable resource to anyone interested in the colonial and postcolonial history of religion in India.
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Download or read book The Popular Religion and Folk Lore of Northern India Vol II of 2 written by W. Crooke and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Folktales from Northern India written by William Crooke and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A folk and fairy folktales series which sheds light on the key anthologies of traditional tales from the golden age of folklore discovery.
Download or read book An Introduction to the Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India written by William Crooke and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crooke provides a comprehensive analysis of the popular religion and folklore of northern India, with a focus on the key beliefs and practices of the region's diverse communities. His research sheds light on the cultural and historical context within which these traditions developed and provides insights that are relevant to scholars of religion, anthropology, and sociology. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A New Handbook of Living Religions written by John R. Hinnells and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The sources and history of the world's religions, from Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism and Zoroastrianism, to regional studies in Africa, China and Japan; their teaching, practices and popular traditions; diaspora religions in the Western world, in the USA, Canada, Australia and Britain, including a new section on these religious migrations in a comparative international perspective; gender and spirituality and the Black African diaspora; developments that have taken place in the twentieth century; recent scholarship, including new material on China; and public festivals and private devotions." "With charts and diagrams to illustrate and clarify the text, The New Handbook of Living Religions is the definitive guide to understanding the belief systems of the world today."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
