First Published in 1971, The Festivals of Nepal describes the most important festivals from the country, which have been arranged according to the ancient Nepalese calendar, beginning with the New Year in mid-April....Lasīt vairāk
This book analyses the heterogeneous modes of meditation, prayer, initiation, beliefs and practices, codes of conduct, ethics and life-style of the contemporary Sikh Sants, Babas, Gurus and Satgurus in Punjab. Please...Lasīt vairāk
This volume seeks to explore pilgrimage studies as a distinctive sub-field of research, and to define its key methodological approaches and problems...Lasīt vairāk
The Routledge Handbook of Religious and Spiritual Tourism provides a robust and comprehensive state-of-the-art review of the literature in this growing sub-field of tourism....Lasīt vairāk
This book deals with the issue of divinizing in South Asian traditions. It aims at studying cultural questions related to the representations and the mythologizing of the divine. It also explores the human relations to the divine other....Lasīt vairāk
This volume traces the development of the veneration of relics in Europe and how these objects were often catalysts for the establishment of major pilgrimage sites that are still in use today....Lasīt vairāk
This book shows how the imaginaries and ideals of western travellers, especially those of sublime nature and spiritual enlightenment, are consistent with media representations of the Himalayan region and the wider discourse of modernity....Lasīt vairāk
The volume investigates the historic accounts of the religious contestations over the status of the Mahbodhi Temple complex in Bodhgay (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) & argues that sacredness goes beyond scriptural texts & archaeological remains. * T...Lasīt vairāk
In this study of the Ndembu of Zambia, ritual is examined under two aspects: as a regulator of social relations over time and as a system of symbols. Social life is thereby given direction and meaning....Lasīt vairāk
Mark Porter examines the relationship between individuals musical lives away from a Contemporary Worship Music environment and their diverse experiences of music within it, presenting important insights into the complex and sometimes contradictory r...Lasīt vairāk
This book addresses the central role of religious tourism and interrelationships with other aspects of pilgrimage management. It provides practical applications, models and illustrations and looks at secular and sacred spaces on a global stage....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Sep-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199359653)
Jacob Kinnard offers an in-depth examination of the complex dynamics of religiously charged places. He argues that places are sacred because we make them sacred, and that they remain in perpetual motion, transforming themselves from moment to moment...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jan-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199969357)
In Making Things Better, A. David Napier demonstrates how anthropological description of non-Western exchange practices and beliefs can be a tonic for contemporary economic systems in which our impersonal relationship to things transforms the an...Lasīt vairāk
